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Two levels to our creative
endeavors
Two ways to create
A
masculine way to create
A
feminine way to create
Two views of the same process
Two
theaters for creating
This topic address the fact that
in looking at the
creative/creation process
there are actually two ways to create and two theaters of
creation/Creation in which to create.
Two
ways to create (Top)
The essential idea of creativity
or creation is to bring something into existence that did not exist
before or that is significantly different than what came previously.
If we look at all the different ways there are to bring something
into existence, we will come to see there are two ways in which this
can be done. These two ways can be perceived as two level to
creation process.
A masculine way to create
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One way to create is to use
existing materials to create something new and not previously
experienced. In many ways it is the
masculine way to create.
It is to thrust out and take and use what is. It is to construct or
build using existing materials to create something new and not
previously experienced. This is the way most of us create and it the
easiest and fastest way to create anything. Building anything using
ready made and prefabricated material is much easier and quicker
than having to start from raw materials and make everything you use.
This is the way most of us create and it the easiest and fastest way
to create anything. It is the way most frequently and normally used
by nature. The Creation we experience as human uses ready made and
prefabricated materials. We use the existing building blocks of
Physical Creation to create what we desire to experience.
For example, an architect takes existing materials and designs a new
building or structure never seen before. Or, or an artist takes
paint and creates a painting of a landscape. In both these cases,
the individual can be seen as taking something that already exist -
the building materials and paint, and rearranging them into a new
form that did not previously exist and is significantly different
than what came before it. Both are creations but they came from
readily existing starting materials.
In this type of creativity, there may exist a creative idea, an
original idea not previously manifested. But to manifest the idea in
physical form or to execute the idea, one only rearranges existing
materials to conform to the shape of the idea. It should be noted
that Physical Creation uses this method. The cycles we find in
nature are of this type. It is most evident in the reproduction of
life which unfolds from a seed whether it be animal life or plant
life.
When we look at the physical world, it appears rearranging existing
materials into a new, previously unseen arrangement, seems to be the
predominate way that Creation keeps changing itself to give us the
experiences we have. Through the motion and change that are
continually present within the physical world, such as the rising
and setting of the sun, the movement through the seasons and the
like, we keep having new and different experiences. Hence we
continually experience new creations.
How much different any particular moment is from the next such that
one would call each moment a new creation is really up to the
observer. We tend to like to not see things change and try and hold
a constancy in our life. Yet, that is not way of nature. As the old
adage says, “The only to things that are certain in life are change
and death,” and death is no more than a change.
If you observe the world around you carefully, it can be said that
there are enough things that can change and do change each instant
in time that can allow each moment to be a new creation if we are
willing to experience the change that does exist and is occurring.
What is obvious but we rarely really pay attention to the fact that
the types of superimposed cyclical motions inherent in Creation are
the guarantees our world keeps changing such that Creation is always
creating a new and different environment for us to experience.
In rearranging existing materials into something new, one may ask,
if the original idea, the manifestation of that idea or is the
material form that actually comes into physical existence a result
of that idea is the creation. We can ask if all three, the idea, its
manifestation, and the physical form are separate creations since
the creation process can be stopped at any point along the way or
are they the same creation since the are integrally linked?
These question then takes us to the second way of bringing something
into existence that did not exist before. It also raises a questions
about original thoughts which seem to be something that arises out
of a nothingness.
A feminine way to create
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The second way to create is
to create something from nothing. It is
to literally get something from nothing. In this view of creation,
we literally bring into existence something never previously
existing and we did not rearrange any existing materials - or so it
seems. That is, in addition to the creation itself, we need to
create the materials to create what we desire. We may use existing
materials to create the new materials but the materials we use in
the creation do not exist in the form we use. In many ways this is
the
feminine way
to create. Here we must nurture the creation in that we must
give of ourselves to create each piece.
In nature we rarely seen something literally being created from
nothing. Yet, there are two puzzling examples of getting something
from nothing that we all comprehend. One is to try and answer how
Creation originally got started and came into existence. The second
is how life seemingly arose form nothing.
Whatever Creation story you believe, the Big Bang or God Creating
the World, and whether you believe life started by a few amino acids
forming the first DNA sequence in some primordial ooze or God
infused life into a material form, both Creation and life seem to
have started from nothing. From our human perspective, there was a
some starting point to both Creation and life. The seemingly
unanswerable nature of these two questions is probably the main
reason why we say Creation is a mystery. It is a mystery because it
seems to have formed from nothing into something.
It is the opinion and premise of the
creativity perspective and
energy consciousness model that something appears to be created out
of a “no-thing-ness” only because of
how we are choosing to observe.We are observing both Creation and
life within Creation from within Creation and within life. We are
viewing the creation process from within the process. The issue is
we need to figure out some other view point to view these two
processes.
When we do change our perspective, creating something from a
seemingly “no-thing-ness” only means in addition to the creation
itself, we need to create the materials to create what we desire. We
may use existing materials to create the new materials but the
materials we use in the creation do not exist in the form we use.
The extreme case here would be that before an instant in time there
was nothing and after a given instant there was a form and substance
with mass. An example of this is your hands are empty and all of a
sudden “seemingly out of thin air,” you create a rock or some
obscure new material in the palm of you hand. That would literally
be creating something from nothing. It really wouldn’t matter if the
material you materialized did not exist before or is only a copy of
existing material. The fact you created something from nothing would
be a creation.
For most of us, creating something physical out of nothing is a form
of creation not directly experienced by us in the physical world.
Most of us have never seen a material object materialized out of
nothing. Creating something physical out of nothing is only
something we read about in the esoteric literature and possible by
great Masters or Teachers or miracles performed by God.
Yet, creating something from nothing is exactly what happens in the
pair production phenomenon where energy is converted directly into
mass. In one moment there is energy and in the next moment there is
a particle with mass and its anti particle. Here mass seems to be
created out of nothing - except that energy is converted to mass.
But you don’t have to go to the physic lab to see the phenomenon for
creating something from nothing. Every note of music is creating
something (music) from nothing (silence). A cloud forming in the sky
seemed to be something appearing out of nothing. Ice forming in
water seems be to something (a solid) forming out of nothing - no
solid (a liquid). It is all a matter of perspective.
The bottom line here is this kind of creativity seems to be opposed
or significantly different from creating something from rearranging
existing materials as the architect or painter. Getting something
from nothing as described here is the type of creation one would
normally associate with magic and mystery. It is a mystery as to
where the material came from since you did not start with any
starting materials. But the mystery and magic exist only because you
have an inadequate perspective to understand all that occurs.
Two views of the same
process (Top)
What needs to be understood is
both ways of creating follow the same basic process. In the first
way, we use existing materials. We start from which has already
been created out of the
raw materials of creation. In the second way, we use
the raw material of creation out of which all creation arises -
that is, energy and the
desire of consciousness. There is a way of looking at the
Universe where both of these types of creation (creating something
out of nothing and rearranging existing forms) are in fact the same
process and we are fully capable of doing both. It is only a matter
of where we are observing the process that causes the creative
process to look different. We can and will observe one or the other
or both under the correct conditions. All that one needs to
understand is the environmental conditions that are needed to allow
each form of creation to occur.
In any case, few choose to create where one must also create the
materials they need for their creation. As stated above, rearranging
existing materials into a new creation is the easiest way to create.
However, creations where both the creation and the materials for the
creation are created tend to revolutionize the world in which we
live.
Usually when we create we actually use a combination of the two ways
and lean more to the first way than the second. That is, in any
given creative endeavor, there may be a few materials that are
created and the remaining items we use are from what is readily
available. As a minimum all our creations start with a thought and
our thoughts do appear to arise out of a “no-thing-ness.” Initially
there was no thought then the thought appears and we choose to act
or not act on the thought we have to manifest that thought. If is
something new and not previously seen and experienced, then we are
creating. If it is something previously seen and experienced, we are
just repeating the past.
One question that does arise is, “How do we find or create those
original thoughts - those things not previously seen or experienced
by humanity?” The answer to this question is addressed by what gives
rise to the
origins of our thoughts
and is addressed in the topics “Origins of
Our Thoughts.”
Two theaters for creating
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In addition to the two ways to
create above, there are two arenas or theaters to preform our creativity. One arena or theater is creation
outside of the existence of another creation. It would be to create
a world unto ourselves. In many ways what we create within our being
can be this type of arena or theater of performance. When we create
a world unto ourselves, there are no rule but the rule we create.
Here we do not have to abide by the opinion and desires of any
other. We are totally free to create what we desire. However, most
in their internal world still follow the guidance provided by the
external world.
The other is were we
create within a creation. Physical Creation is
such an arena. In some ways creation in the Physical World it is
like being in a sandbox. In a sandbox we choose to create with sand
rather than wood, mud, ice or some other material. Being in the
sandbox, we have to build what we desire using the rules that govern
sand. The rules of wood, mud and ice are not applicable to sand.
Although we may not like sand as a building material and it is
difficult with which to work, we nevertheless need to follow the
rule of sand if we are going to build out of sand. If we are going
to use something other than sand in the sandbox, we are changing the
rules and the way that we will be able to build in the sandbox.
Although we can introduce new materials into the sand box, we may
need to get all the other people in the sandbox to agree with what
we do. Otherwise, disagreements could arise. What those
disagreements mean and what they look like depends on the situation
at hand.
When we create with an existing creation there are agreements we
make about what we can and can’t create and there are rules to
follow. Most of us are not consciously aware, or even subconsciously
aware, of the rules and agreements but they nevertheless exist and
we follow them. Many of the agreements we make about being human, as
is the
intention for our life, and that limit our creativity lie in
our unconscious, well below the subconscious. One reason for
this is
creation is about forgetting. To have an experience of creation
there is
the need to become lost.
From a
creativity perspective and getting some idea as to how
consciousness translates its desires into a physical experience is
seen as a combination of creativity in these two arenas. The “game”
we play is a
dance between mind and what is symbolized in the heart. The
mind can creatie independent of the world it inhabits and then
tries to manifest what it thinks into that reality. On the other
hand is the heart. What is symbolized in the heart asks us to
surrender to what is, as it is, and to use mind to figure out how to
live what the heart desires and have the experiences we incarnated
to live. It is these two arenas of our creative activities that come
together into physical Creation and make physical Creation so
interesting.
From a physics perspective, it is important to understand what lies
within our own being and in
internally influencing what we desire to create. There are
concepts and ideas which we embrace and which provide the governing
criteria for many of our actions. Similarly, there an many
external influences pushing us to act one way or another. Some
times the inner and outer agree and other times they do. This, in
turn, give rise the
outer dance between the creative spirit’s desire to express
itself, true to itself, in the external world and the demands of the
outer world in which it finds itself.
The physics of
creative/creation process is focused on some physical processes
that can help to understanding how all of these influences comes
together and how we create our experiences and the reality of those
experiences. It also provides a way to see how it is possible to
create something from a perceived “no-thing-ness.”
These concepts, in turn, can help us to understand how energy can
mold itself in response to what consciousness desires.
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