Truth in labeling
Stepping into the journey of exploring
the depth and breadth of our creativity

 

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Truth in labeling -
Stepping into the journey of exploring the depth and breadth of our creativity

Background
The three issues we face
A death
A denial
Standing between two worlds

Lessons learned in the three issues
Traditional compensatory measures
Suggested compensatory measures
Facing the “dark” side
Reevaluating misfortune
Learning to flow
Ending summary

It is stated under the Truth in Labeling Topic “Nothing Really Different” and “The True Hazard - If There Is One” the creative principles discussed and introduced within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity technology and utilized in its approach and applications will cause us to experience nothing different from what we already experience someway in our life. The reason for this statement is that we are already using these creativity principles in a nonconscious way. In using the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity technology, we are not facing anything new or a new hazard. Rather we are just experiencing what is already in our life in a different way, a conscious way. The question really is, “What lies within our own being that we already experience to some degree that will surface in a more conscious way that could be perceived as hazardous and/or frightening?”

Background (Top)

It needs to be understood, at the most fundamental levels, Creation does not work the way our mind perceives reality. Yet, we keep trying to force reality to be what we want it to be. The struggle between what is and what mind wants and perceives gives rise to much of ths pain we face in life. Whether we realize it or not, our  inner world reflects the outer.

Any true creative endeavor requires us to recreate some aspect of our inner world and outer world. To some extent, any creative endeavor requires us to become the phoenix in some way. It requires us to destroy ourselves and rise from our own ashes in the new creation. It requires the annihilation of a part of ourselves to return to the source/Source of our being to free the energy for the new creation. In doing so it will require us to face the creative life energy that gives rise to our life in the nakedness of truth unfiltered by the past.

The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material and understanding seeks to make the journey into the exploration of our creativity, or to create what we desire, as safe and as gentle as possible. However, depending on what we desire to create and the energy that awakens within our being and/or as we explore deeper into the depth and breadth of our creative power, in particular to face the thinking addiction of our own mind, there will be three aspects to our being that will inevitably arise. Some may have already faced facets of these three aspects arising in their life.

How we deal with them is our choice. But how we deal with them will determine if our creative spirit remains bound or becomes free to create what it desires and whether or not we access our truth. Here again what we will face is not about facing anything new or a new hazard. Rather, we will be experiencing what is already in our life in a different, more conscious way. It is about making aspects of the nonconscious mind conscious.

Making aspects of the nonconscious mind conscious can be frightening for our mind will not have the requisite minimum set of experience to be able to deal with what arises. In essence we have suppressed experiences of life simply because we had no adequate way of addressing them. If our mind had this minimum set of experiences, we would not be facing what we now face. We would have created different experience in life than what we now experience that brings us to reading this material.

It is here in making aspect of the nonconscious mind conscious we will probably need to be prepared to seek counsel from someone with whom we can trust. But it is recommended whomever is used, they are someone who will also seek to hold our creativity sacred and respects the needs for our creative spirit to express itself in the unique way it needs to express itself. To find such counselors, it is recommended we allow our intuitive guidance to lead us to the counselors who can best advise us in these areas if they arise. Following our mind will only reinforce the past and the cage that currently binds our creative spirit. Remember, the goal is to let our creative spirit out and not keep it bound.

The three issues we face (Top)

There is a proverbial story of five men and some guidance that has been used in some mystical traditions concerning these three issue we face that may help to better understand as to how these issue have been discussed and addressed in the past.

The story as traditionally told about four men who attempted to enter and study the world of the mystic. However, based on what has been experienced and observed, there is also a fifth man not discussed in the traditional story. To consciously enter the world of the mystic is to consciously attempt to journey to the Source of Creation to access reported untold powers of Creation. To consciously engage the journey is what gives rise to the story for mind and ego are at play. Stumbling into the Source as in the Ultimate Accident causes different phenomenon to arise with different results. This alternative way is the option provided within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material.

In taking the journey to consciously enter the Source of Creation, that the traditional story reports one man died, one went crazy, one became an atheist and the fourth become a mystic. Having danced with the mystical side of Creation there is the need for a fifth man. The fifth man became blinded by what he saw and experienced.

Yet this is not a story about five individuals. Rather this story is about what will happen to each individual who fully embraces their creative spirt and allows themselves to dance with this spirit. If we choose to explore the depth and breadth of our creative powers and dance with the creative spirit that is released in the process we will find we will have an experience of what all five men experienced in some way in our life. What we actually experience depends on what level of power and ability we seek to access and why we seek what we do. But to dance what the Source and return, we will experience all five.

A death
(Top): In undertaking such a journey, the most important thing we will find is that a part of us will die. It is inevitable. Namely, all that we think and believe about ourselves and how Creation works will die. In particular our past will die. That does not mean we give up all our past and the knowledge and understanding we have. We cannot really leave our past. It is always with us. Rather it is we become a scarab - the dung beetle and ancient sacred symbol of Egypt. We take from what is left after we have had our experience of the Source to use and recycle what is of benefit to our new understanding about Creation and what we desire to create and we let the rest go. We do not hold onto what does not serve us. We die to our past and continually die to the past of each experience we have.

For a brief moment, we become like the wind and experience true freedom. As the wind we come with nothing (no attachments) and leaving with nothing (no attachements). What we do pick up and retain is what allows us to form the new creation and a new life based on the experience of the Source. Our problem, as discussed in the topic, “The problem of mind and the experience of the Source of Creation - the trap of mind,” is as long as we are in a human body, our mind and the body holds us to the physical experience based on the past we have experienced and what we collectively believe as to what it means to be human.

A denial
(Top): A part of us will deny what we see and experience. Mnd is a product of Creation and of the Source and cannot comprehend and truly fathom an conscious experience of the Source. We will become that atheist denying the true inner and outer Creative Powers of Creation and how they work for they are too much to be believed. Once we have experienced even a glimmer as to the true depth and breadth of our creativity we will deny it. But we will struggle with denying it because we know we can’t deny it for we will have felt it and we have the feeling imprinted throughout our whole being. We have seen it and experienced it. The struggle has the possibility of driving us crazy. We are torn between two worlds. We are pulled to our past and what our past demands us to believe and the truth of what we have accessed is calling you to believe. To stand on one side we deny what we have found. To stand on the other side you become a mystic. We find yourself living in a world of infinite possibility such that We find ourselves denying the way the world is living.

Standing between two worlds
(Top): To try and stand between both worlds only drives us crazy in the eyes of the world and maybe in our own mind. To survive we find you need to become blind and/or are blinded. We can no longer see the world as we did. In doing so, we also become very vulnerable for we no longer respond to the world the way we once did with the protective response patters we developed early in life. We are blinded to the illusion of mind and no longer see the mask and facade that our mind or the mind of others puts over the events that occur in front of us. We can see through events and beyond events. In this blindness we can see through time and space. We can no longer live in the world as we once did for we no longer see it the same way. We are in it but not of it. To survive we need to learn to dance and build a bridge that allows us to freely travel between the two world.

Lessons learned in the three issues (Top)

Here again, any creative endeavor will cause us to experience each of these five conditions to one degree or another. We need not be afraid of them. We only need to become aware of the process and why these conditions arise. The easiest way to do is to realize that we are a creative living process continually recreating ourselves consciously and nonconsciously . Only now we do so more consciously than what we have done nonconsciously in the past.

We only need to realize that a part of us is always dying. A part of us is always denying the truth of what is. A part of us is always a little bit crazy when our mind tells us one thing and our heart another. A part of us is always blinded by what we desire to see and what we want to create. And finally, a part of us is that mystic in touch with the source of our creative power and the Source of Creation.

Traditional compensatory measures (Top)

There was a way in the past that was recommended to more or less guarantee sanity and address the vulnerability we experience when we attempt to access the mystical realm that is reflected in holding our creativity sacred and exploring the depth and breadth of our own creative powers. The approach was that before the individual was allowed to undertake such a journey, since it would be done under the tutelage of one who was initiated, they were over forty years old, they were happily married and they were well versed and schooled in the tradition that was going to guide them into the mystical realm. The reason for these requirements were to address the issue of the five men above and the three aspects of one’s being discussed below.

When one is over forty, they have usually “burned off” the energetic youthfulness and somewhat naive approach to life. They are a little more realistic as to what really makes one happen and what life is all about. They have already worked through many of the disillusionments about life and have faced the mortality of those around them. They are a little wiser and more settled as to how to use the energy and understanding that they access.

Being happily married may or may not be obvious. The creative life energy that one accesses in exploring the depth and breadth of their creative power will enthuse our entire being and our body. Most probably that infusion of energy will cause us to feel sexual arousal. Having a compatible spouse would allow us to act on the energy we feel sexually even when that particular path and expression of the energy may not be the proper way to align with the flow of energy.

It needs to be noted here that sexual energy is the energy of creation/Creation. Sexual energy permeates all of creation/Creation for it is the creative tension between the masculine and feminine aspects of being which allow for the generation of a flow of energy. Energy flows as a result of the separation of opposite polarities as in a battery which generates an electric current. The opposite polarities must be plugged together to generate the current or flow of energy. Without the connection there is no flow of energy. The which is plugged into the other is referred to as the masculine aspect. The act of plugging into opposite polarity is the masculine thrust into creation to cause the generation of energy for creation. That which is plugged into or receives the connection is traditionally called the feminine aspect. The feminine act is to nurture and sustain the creation and is the flow of energy that animates and gives life to the creation/Creation. The masculine act is to cause creation/Creation. The feminine act is to nurture the Creation.

To choose to create is to plug into the Source is a the conscious act and masculine thrust. Feeling the energy that is released when the Source is tapped and feeling it enthuse our entire being and body is the feminine. It is something to which we must surrender or we destroy the connection to the Source. In this process both the masculine and feminine are annihilated for the separation between them disappears as the energy contained in their separation is dissipated in animating the creation that is produced by the joining. Hence a death of some form will always accompany the joining of the masculine and feminine and the creation of a new creation.

From a creativity perspective and holding our creativity sacred the mental choice of choosing celibacy because of the sexual feelings that arise can become damaging to what we wish to create. To access the depth and breadth of our creative powers and creative abilities requires is to flow with the energy or otherwise we break the connection with the Source. We cannot deny it unless we wish to change what it is flowing to manifestation. If the energy flowing within our being causes us to become sexual, denying the sexuality denies the flow of energy. Rather, we will have to go to our intuitive guidance and see how we need to act on the energy.

An important comment needs to be made here. We cannot fool the energy. If we want to experience the sexuality and do not go to and/or do not follow the guidance of our intuition we will be denying the flow of energy just as much as if we did not act on the energy. We will change the outcome and what is manifested. If the universe wants us to be celibate for a certain reason, then celibacy will enter our life and there is nothing we can do about it. For one reason or another a partner will be unavailable to us no matter what we do to try and do to get one. And, if we do get one, it will not work out for we will be satisfying a want of the mind and surrendering to what is required.

It needs to be clearly understood that what we do sexually is integral to our creative power and creative ability. It is not about whether or not we are sexual with an individual. Rather it is about why we are sexual and what we are creating in the sexuality. More discussion on this topic is found under the web site “Sexuality and Creativity” at http://sexuality.andcreativity.info.

The third item of being well schooled and versed in the tradition is also related to being happily married. Being well schooled and versed in a given tradition helps to ensure the energy that is releases is controlled and channeled in a way the tradition is what controlled. By following the tradition, the tradition uses the energy as the tradition desires and not the individual or the individual’s creative spirit. Although what is possible with the energy is greatly reduced, the tradition maintains control and does offer the individual some control over feeling crazy and/or feeling they are without support. It is very difficult to do the journey alone. The tradition offers a way to take the journey and be supported.

Suggested compensatory measures (Top)

The problem with the traditional approach is that it the tradition captures and controls the creative spirit and the energy that is released. It directs that energy and spirit into its purpose rather than what the Universe had in mind when it created that creative spirit or the flow of energy that the creative spirit is now experiencing. No matter how noble the tradition claims to be it imposes itself between the Source and Its creation as manifested in the creative spirit tapping the Source. One implication of this is an individual will never fully be able to access the depth and breadth of their creativity if they function within a tradition, any tradition. Accessing and releasing our unlimited creativity is a solo journey and we must live true to the flow of energy and how it needs to be expressed.

It needs to be realized there is a wisdom within the creative spirit and it does know what it is doing. However, mind needs to learn to listen to it can it can’t when it is too busy listening to others. This wisdom is not age dependent, relationship dependent or tradition dependent. It knows what it needs to experience. Mind thinks it is wiser but it is not. Mind only knows the past. This creative spirit knows past, present and future and is simultaneously aware of all of them. It knows why it exists and what it is here to do transformed into a body. It is only a matter of how this creative spirit is focused as to what it creates. A creativity perspective will help mind to step outside itself and not interfere with the journey. A creativity perspective can also provide the type and kind of support we will find within any given tradition. All we really need to do is ask the Universe in whatever way we wish to lead us to someone or have someone enter our life who can support our journey in whatever way it is needed yet not hold us bound in any way. We need to ask the Universe to provide us with dream midwife and dream nanny although the individual who provides such assistance may not realize the role they play.

The creative spirit within our being is more than capable of guiding us no matter what our age. The recommendation and approach taken within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material is to direct us to our own inner wisdom and allow it to guide our life as to how to use the energy that we access. We already experience and use this energy some way in our life for it is what sustains our being and all that us do. All we are doing is accessing more of it in a more conscious way. We are only now making conscious what we have been using nonconsciously. The recommendation is we face the three aspects below in a conscious way and follow our intuitive guidance to as to how to use the energy that we access.

Facing the “dark” side (Top)

The first aspect will be our “dark” side. That is, those aspects of our being that have never been fully brought to the light of our awareness. They are not evil or bad and should not be judged as such. They just need to be understood as the inevitable opposite of the duality of Creation. The understanding that is needed here is that any judgement we hold about anything has an opposite. Whatever we hold as good has its opposite that we judge as evil or bad. We cannot hold any judgement about anything without creating its opposite. To hold a judgement of good, means that within our being is the opposite, just unexpressed.

It needs to be realized that given a different set of life circumstances we could be the full expression of the opposite we hold. Otherwise, we could not hold the judgments that we do. It is very sobering to understand that whatever we hold as the most despicable action lies inside of us and that we are fully capable of being that which we hold as despicable. This is the real reason why Christ said, “Love your enemy” for our enemy lies inside us and we have to learn to love that “dark” side and work with the creative power it holds bound in the tension of the opposites. To become a conscious creator, we need to be a ware of, and able to work with both sides of the duality. Until we are willing to face this fact, our creative spirit will remain bound and captive by our own beliefs and judgements.

Rather than being able to dance with the opposite and move freely, we will force the opposite to remain fixed for we do not face it. It is like being tied to a stake with a chain that goes around our neck. If we hold the stake in our hand, we are free to go wherever we wish even though were tied to it by a chain that goes around our neck. However, if we fix that stake into the ground and refuse to face its existence, we are limited by the length of the chain. We are no longer free to go where we wish and do what we want. The more we pull on the chain rather than embrace the duality the more we strangle our life.. This is what we do with our creative spirit by holding the dualistic judgements that we do. The more you hold to our judgements, the more we strangle the free flow of this creative spirit that gives us life. When we are not willing to face the opposite of our judgement, we are binding our creative spirit and limiting our own creative power.

Reevaluating misfortune (Top)

The second accident will be reevaluating accident, illness, disease and misfortune in our life. There is an energy or energies that bind our creative spirit and hold it within its present form. As we begin to free this spirit, the energy will flow and must be dissipated. It will flow the path of least resistance. Unless we are willing to work with the energy and use our intuitive guidance to create a way to direct the energy in the safest and gentlest way, it can manifest as an accident, illness or disease or misfortune. Here again, if we are faced with one or more of these painful conditions, we should look at the pain that arises around these life events to see what is being communicated by the pain and where the root of the pain originates. We need to ask our intuitive guidance, “Why this pain and what where does it come from?” We should also pull the string on any answer or insight we get to see how and why we create the that cause.

Learning to flow (Top)

The third aspect is related to the free flow of our creative spirit either when a significant blockage is removed or this creative spirit has been called to come out to come into the world by an inner or outer calling. An inner calling is when something inside us pulls you to act. An outer calling is when something external to us calls us to act. When an inner calling and outer calling exist simultaneously we can expect our world as we know it will be destroyed by the flow of energy generated for both sides of the duality that created our existing world are being released. Each is moving to meet the other.

When our creative life energy begins to flow freely within our being, it will enthuses our entire being with a life giving energy and a desire for life. We will be enthused by the same life giving energy that brought us into the world. It will most probably feel sexual even if our sexual organs are not necessarily functional for the feeling arises from a flow of the incredible life giving creative energy within our being.

In many ways the kundalini rising in the Eastern mystical literature is a description of the release of this creative spirit and subsequent flow of energy. But creatively it is much more than what is described in this mystical literature and what people experience and call the kundalini rising. If the creative and life giving aspect of the kundalini rising were understood there would be no attempt to direct and attempt to control the energy as the literature describes and/or as directed by a guru or teacher. Rather we would allow, and/or be advised to allow, the energy to flow freely into what the creative spirit desires to experience. We would be advised to surrender to the energy and allow our intuitive guidance to guide our action knowing full well the direction our intuitive guidance provides as to the direction we need to move is correct but the thought or image mind present as that intuitive guidance is not necessarily correct.

This seeming inaccuracy in the intuitive guidance received would appear to lead to mistakes and can cause individuals to often go after the incorrect aspect of the intuitive guidance. That is, to go after the image as opposed to the direction of the image. However, it needs to be remembered there are no mistakes in a truly creative endeavor. A truly creative endeavor takes you into the unknown. There are only learning experience. We learn what does and does not work to create what we desire as we gain that minimum set of requisite experience as to what needs to be done. Mistakes can only be made against known information and what is know is always of the past. Mistakes cannot be made in a truly creative endeavor.

This energy needs to be allowed to pursue its own path and not be controlled by mind. If it comes out sexually, it must not be controlled or held captive by our mind or the mind of another about what sexuality represents and/or how it needs to be acted upon. We will need to go to our intuitive guidance to see how to work with this energy. As discussed under the topic of the “Metaphoric Nature of Creation,” the fact mind interprets the sexual feelings as the need to have sex may or may not be correct. Additionally the individual with whom you think we need to engage may only be the best image our mind has as to who that individual may be. Often the person that mind presents is not who we think it is and/or the image of the person we have is only calling forth that aspect of our own being for us to embrace. It is not uncommon that image of the ideal mate mind presents, whether this person is real or not, is only the suppressed aspect of our own being that you need to embrace. If we study the creative process, we will come to see our ideal mate as is presented in the “A Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective” lies within our being and if there is one in front of us, it is all of it - the entire world we see. A way to understand this phenomenon is provided by the topic, “Origins of Creation” and “The observer - observed pair and the nature of duality.”

The flow of energy mind is characterizing will not necessarily be carrying us towards sex although it may appear to be so. Rather the flow of energy is about creating a new life within, and for, us. Exactly how that new life needs to be created and how to act on the feelings we has, can be properly understood by accessing and using our intuitive guidance. In fact, this is why we have the ability to have intuitive guidance - to guide our actions into and through the energy we sense. To do this of course requires us to know how to access our intuitive guidance let alone know how to follow its advice. The recommendation is to develop confidence in our intuitive guidance before we attempt to access the depth and breadth of our creativity.

Two generic statements can be made here about the sexual feelings that may arise relative to the release of this creative spirit. If the flow of energy that is creating a new life within us actually leads us to sexual relationships with another individual, we can be assured it is the offspring between us and the other individual that is important. It does not matter if the offspring is a physical child, some other type of physical creation or a spiritual, mental or emotional offspring. There will be an offspring and it is the offspring that is important. It is that offspring that will give the new life within us. If we deny the offspring that is created in any way and/or somehow refuse it, we will cause the creative spirit that created that offspring to wither and die. That is, we will essentially kill that creative life within our being and it will seem to leave us requiring that part of us to be reawakened at some point in the future.

The reason for this is quite simply. In denying the offspring we deny the creator/Creator and the wisdom that creator/Creator had in creating the offspring. Hence we cause the creative spirit within our own being to withdraw for we deny its wisdom. The other generic statement is that if our mind thinks that having sex will satisfy the desire of this creative spirit which gives rise to sexual feeling and those feeling can be satisfied by sexuality, we will be very disappointed.

Sexuality is a creative tool and/or a way to go back to the Source of Creation to create a new life at each and ever level of being. Seeking sexuality for the pleasure it provides and/or as a distraction from the pain of life will only result in an addiction. It will bind and hold our creative spirit captive. Only in embracing the life, the offspring that is created at and whatever level of being that life is created that comes as a result of the sexuality, will the creative spirit remain free. Paradoxical as it may sound that the burden of an offspring for which we need to care would give freedom to the creative spirit but it is nevertheless true. The phenomenon of the burden of an offspring not binding our creative spirit arises from holding our creative and our creative spirit sacred, including what it desires and does create.

How freedom is provided to the creative spirit in nurturing an offspring is that the offspring allows the feminine nurturing aspect of the creative spirit to be fulfilled and fully expressed in its role. The masculine aspect of the creative spirit is achieved in thrusting out into the world true to itself. The feminine aspect is fulfilled when it is allowed to nurture its desired creation, not the creation of another or others. That is, the creation that comes from the marriage of the inner masculine aspect thrusting true to itself and the inner feminine aspects being true to itself to nurture the offspring of the inner masculine and inner feminine. This offspring then becomes our gift to the world. This offspring is the embodiment of the dream of our heart, the heart’s desire, and is one if not the reason for our incarnation and purpose for being here. As with any birth, often a midwife or its equivalent is necessary and someone like a nanny to help and protect that offspring until it is strong enough to stand on its own feet in the world.

The energy must be allowed to flow into what the creative spirit desires to create. This creative energy needs to be directed back into supporting the desires of the creative spirit and not be use for other purposes no matter how honorable we think these other purposes may be. It also needs to be noted, the flow of this creative life energy toward a specific end that our creative spirit desires which gives rise to sexual feelings to create can happen more than once in one’s life. In fact, it is this aspect of the creative spirit that gives rise to many of the issues individuals face around sexuality and their existing relationship(s). This creative energy giving rise to sexual feelings can happen almost as often as we desire but we will need to surrender to its flow and not what mind wants or otherwise the creative spirit will become bound and slowly wither and die. Individuals become puzzled as to why their interest in a mate evaporates. It is only because mind steps in and does not embrace the reason why the two individuals are brought together and allow the energy to flow in the way it needs to flow to address what originally give rise to the flow of energy.

Ending summary (Top)

The way we need to deal with these areas will be unique to our own being and the nature of our mind and what it thinks and believes. It has been observed there are three things that can make our journey easiest and gentler. One is to develop a creativity perspective that addresses understanding the creative process and the addictive nature of the mind to hold our creative spirit bound to the past. Understanding the addictive nature of mind will require us to explore why we are being pulled to any one experience we have and be willing to explore its metaphoric nature. For any experience we have, whether it be an experience of our dark side, an accident or illness, a resurrected unexplainable sexual passion or a pleasurable/euphoric experience, we need to pull the string on why this experience as opposed to any other. The second is to hold our creativity sacred. The third is to understand and learn to use and trust our intuitive guidance to guide us in the exploration of the depth and breadth of our creativity.

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