A view of enlightenment from the creativity perspective

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2008 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

A view of enlightenment from the creativity perspective about inner satisfaction and the external world Inner satisfaction and the need for others
The issue of creative power and inner satisfaction
The observation of an individual seeking inner satisfaction
Why we create characters in our life who do not serve us
Addressing the top and bottom of the box
The bottom of the box - learning how to use sexuality - plugging into Creation
The issue the masculine faces
What the feminine faces
Some thoughts to consider on sexuality and creative power

One aspect of enlightenment is ultimately about understanding that finding an inner satisfaction come from within and not in the external world. Creation/creation is not done alone and we do need others can give us the experiences we need to have to find this truth. Other can give us experiences which allows us to enjoy life. However, the inner satisfaction come from within and is ultimately not dependent on anything externally.

The question that then arises is that although one can have an inner satisfaction that never runs dry no matter what is happening in the external world, how or why do we create individuals that do not allow us to have experiences externally that our mind will judge as pleasant experiences. Of course it can be said that if we have a true inner satisfaction, the external world doesn’t matter to us. It can be said, to expects pleasant experiences externally is just a judgment and expectation of our mind and we have not yet reached a true inner satisfaction. However, it can also be said, if it is true that our inner world is reflected in the outer, when we access an inner satisfaction then it should be reflected externally.

Although this is true, it is only in part true. It needs to be remembered that Physical Creation is a shared creation and for whatever reason, we elected to have an experience of Physical Creation - in particular the physical experience as a human being. We may create an inner satisfaction but we still share creation with others and we play a role for others and others play a role for us. In this regard, although we create an inner satisfaction and that inner satisfaction is reflected externally, the world we experience externally will not necessarily be internally satisfying for it is shared.

Here we face the most challenging issue. Either we can "buy into" the external world and make ourselves internally unhappy because the external world is not working the way we wish, or we can go within and see what is within us that allows the external world to make us unsatisfied. That is, there are things we agree to experience collectively to have the physical experience as a human being. When the external world does not give us an external satisfaction we need to go within to see what we have "bought into" that does not allows us to remain in an inner satisfaction.

It needs to be realized Creation is magical enough to form is such a way that we are free to live our truth at each and every level of being and every other is free to live their truth at each and every level of being or to live whatever they choose to believe. When we are not free to live our truth and find an inner satisfaction at every level of our being as result of what is happening in our external world, we only need to go within. We need to go within to see what lies at the root of not being able to live our truth and be in our inner satisfaction. Few are willing to face the fact that one of the reasons for some of us incarnating is specifically to change the human collective and what it means to be a human being in Physical Creation.

The most significant issue we face in finding an inner satisfaction is to release our creative spirit from the cage of our own making. The most significant factor in creating the cage of our own making is our belief structure and, in particular, where our concept of creative power/Creative Power of creation/Creation places the creative power/Creative Power of creation/Creation. This issues can be seen as facing the top and bottom of the box or the cage in which we have bound our creative spirit. The top of the box or cage is reflected in our concepts and understanding of the unseen world and our concept of God. The bottom of the box is reflect in how we "plug" into Physical Creation and is dominated by our concepts and understanding about sexuality. That is, that creative power the brings life into a human being.

To be enlightened about our creativity and our creative ability and creative power is about understanding how we create our experiences and create of the reality of those experiences. The question can be asked, "What exactly what does this means?" and "How does our concept of God and sex related to how we create our experiences and the reality of those experiences?"

A good overview of the answer to this question is addressed in the response to an observation made by an individual on the journey to release their creative spirit and reconstitute their creative power and a general question which arises in response to their observation. The actual discussion has been changed to be more generically applicable. The essence is unchanged and true for all of us.　

The observation of an individual seeking inner satisfaction (Top)

The observation from the individual: "One meaning I have been able to conjure up about this [trying personal] experience is that I just put myself through 3 years in the underworld learning the lessons of the two major desires - demons of life, the desire for love and desire for abundance. Both must be found within oneself. The source is not elsewhere."

"So, if so many characters in my life try to suck my energy, stifle or destroy my creative energy, what is within me that keeps calling that forth?" [An alternative way of phrasing this could be - "how is it I am creating the experience of these types and kind of people?"]

The general question: The question we face is, "If inner satisfaction comes from within and not found in the external world, an we are the creators of our experiences, why does one continually call forth people and experiences which make life unpleasant and/or trying. Why don’t we all forth people and experiences which makes life a more enjoyable."

The reply: Understanding the comment above was in response to an earlier dialog, the answer provided as to why we keep calling forth such people was as follows.

"In the initial comments on what causes you to keep calling forth such characters three things were stated. .

"One was fear. It was suggested that you feared your own power and if you lived it, your life would change more than your mind would like. That is your mind is comfortable with what it knows even if it does not give you the inner satisfaction you desire and does not particular what to face what it doesn’t know. There is no judgment here. This is just a part of the human experience

"The second thing which was said was that others like your energy. They would rather take it from you that find it themselves. If they did seek what was desired from within themselves rather than take it from another, they, of course, would find that if they found in themselves what they want from you, their life would radically change. Their mind too is comfortable with what it knows rather than face what it doesn’t know.

"The third was that you, as we all do, have a very deep programming that provides us a way of thinking that allows us to step into victim roles. That is, we have come to believe the power we need to get what we seek in life in some way lies outside of ourselves.

You, as all of us, are on the path to the awareness we need to understand what is within us that is calling froth the characters in our life who try to suck our energy, stifle or destroy our creative energy. The first step in the awareness is to realize the desire for love and desire for abundance, the desire for anything, must be found, or rather answered, within oneself. The problem we face is that CREATION IS NOT DONE ALONE AND WE WILL NEED ANOTHER, OTHERS OR CREATION ITSELF TO GIVE US THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE, ABUNDANCE OR WHATEVER. This latter piece is the piece that has been trapping you, and, actually, all of humanity. We fail to realize what that "stuff" that lies outside our self and experience as reality is really within and reflective of what we do within.

The human experience is designed to mask how  our inner world is reflected in the outer. This "trick" if you wish to all it that, is that our creative life energy is split. Part of it remains totally under our control and part is shared with the creation we experience. The other part of it is shared with Physical Creation collectively. That is, part of our energy is under the control of Physical Creation and the human collective. This shared part of energy is further split. Part of that energy is what gives us the experience of being in Physical Creation. Then a part is what gives us the experience of being a human being in Physical Creation as opposed to any other life form in Physical Creation. .

Consequently, the very fact that we are a human being and we have give up control of our energy for the sake of an human experience, makes us feel we are held captive by the external world. This in turn, gives rise to the perception that we are some how a victim and our life and our experiences are controlled by external forces well beyond our control. This is true and will be experienced as true as long as we think we are a human being or a spirit having a human experience.

However, if we adopt the perspective that we are the creator of our experiences and we choose to have a physical experience for one reason or another or agreed to participate in the physical experience, everything changes. We are still subject to the rules of Physical Creation and we still live as a normal human being. But, if we focus our attention and awareness in the proper fashion, we can go back to the bridge point where we split our energy to create our human physical experience. Here we access the power to change the world we experience. But this also means we need to creatively grow up and take responsibility for what we experience.

We need to remember, as an individuated points of consciousness of the consciousness within, or behind, Creation, we have a free will and we are free to do with our energy what we wish. However, for whatever reason, we have chosen to have a physical experience as a human. We have either created the experiences we have and/or have agreed to participate in the experience. As a creator, we need to take responsibility for that choice.

The issue we face is that to access a different level of power to change what we experience, we become different. There is an illusion that we can somehow access a greater creative power yet remain the same and live in the world we now have. To access a different level of power, we and our world will become different. Often to the outside world it looks as though we only make a few life changes or personality changes when in reality, we are experiencing and entirely different world.

This is rather difficult to explain and understand unless you have done it. The bottom line on this point is we need to access a different level of creative ability and creative power where we no longer see ourselves as victim and held captive by Creation. Rather, we are different. Our perceptions are different, our desires are different. As a result the world is experienced differently.

Analogously it is like going to the amusement part as a very young child. To the young child the scenery, the characters and the like is seen as real. However, as an adult, we are perfectly aware of what we experience is only scenery created to represent a particular time period or motif and the characters are simply actors playing a part. The external world of the amusement part has not changed. But how we view the experience in that amusement part become entirely different. It is here we find we can dress up as any character we wish and play that role. Or we can simply remain detached, as a detached witness, and watch the performance as it unfolds even when we become part of that performance and the butt of the jokes are on us. To become the butt of the joke and think its real, we become mad. To become the butt of the joke and know it is a performance for the amusement of others is to be able to laugh at what occurs.

How we view the Creation we experience is ultimately made at the bridge point where our energy is split. It is where we choose whether or not we are experience the Creation we choose to experience as real, totally believing as that young child, or simply as performance, as an adult. The key to becoming .a conscious creator is to creatively grow up.

Within this understanding, the two issue we face to answer the question "Why do we create characters who try to suck our energy, stifle or destroy our creative energy? are addressed in the following two statements reflective of the top and bottom of the cage in which we have place our creative spirit. Additionally, relative to accessing the depth and breadth of our creative power to be able function at that bridge point described above, it has been observed that individuals need to both understand and address these two statements.

1. We have not yet found a way to understand the creative force of the Universe in a way that fits our uniqueness based on the experiences we have had in life. Rather than doing what we need to do and do our own experiments as to how this creative force works in our life at each and every level of our being and to face what it looks like to us, we have been listening to, and using, the experience of others at the expense of our own creative power. We have yet to fully develop an intimate relationship with our creative spirit and follow its lead to the source of our creative power regardless of what our mind thinks and believes about where it leads. To do so would turn our life upside down. That is terrifying to mind. So too others. They would rather suck our energy than go to the source of their creative power to create what they see in us and desire from us. That too is terrifying to them. So in the end, we look outside ourselves and try and suck from another what we refuse to create within our own being.

2. We have not yet learned how to use sexuality, and in particular our sexuality as the creative force that it is. That is, the creative power of sexuality is about creative life, creating life in us, in another and in the world. Rather than looking to explore and observe what really lies behind sexuality, we have again listened to others and their experiences at the expense of our own creative power. In particular, What we have failed to do is to do what we need to do for ourselves. Some of this goes to very deep programming obtained from the earliest days of our current life. Rather than observing how this creative force works in our life and the lives of others, and as lead by our creative spirit to do our own experiments, (that does not mean we need to engage with someone sexually - there are other ways to experiment with sexuality and never become sexual with someone), we have not learned to understand how this force works in our life as the creative force that it is in our life and the lives of others.

The response back:

"Blam! I felt this paragraph "1" between the eyes! (Yeah, finally I’m getting it.). Paragraph two, I gotta chew on a bit more.

Relative to addressing these two points, it has been observed that we cannot, and will not, get the answers we need by reading the works of others, talking to others no matter who that other is, or in any way thinking the ultimate answer lies outside ourselves. We must do our own experiments to see what really allows the creative power to flow in our life in a way that truly serves us and creates a life worth living and what takes that creative power away.

We each will have to consciously experiment and challenge the understanding our mind has about God, the creative powers/Creative Powers of creation/Creation, and sexuality, including our own sexuality. How we do our experiments and challenge our understanding of God, the creative powers/Creative Powers and sexuality are our choice. We have been given a free will and are free to do what we want. There are no judgments on what we choose by creation/Creation or the consciousness within, or behind, Creation. We only need to realize and accept that there are consequences to choices for the time and place in which we resided We need to be willing to access those consequences and not blame another for what we ourselves create. In essence, we must creatively grow up.

It needs to be noted, the most significant consequence we face in addressing these two points are the judgments, opinions, and pressure of being accepted by the individuals currently in our life. Here again, we each must decide how we will address these issues and the pressures put us to be accepted by those in our life. However it needs to be realized, Creation is magical enough to provide a way such that we and every other can live true to the free expression of our creative spirit and every other live free to there. But we have to be willing to find that way and live our life accordingly.

If we establish an intimate relationship with our creative spirit it can lead us in a safe way to explore our creative power (including sexuality) at each and every level of our being in a way that will protect our life at each of those levels. Our creative sprit is what gives us our life and seeks life. It will look to find a safe way for us to explore what we need to explore so that we can have life more fully and more abundantly especially to be able to have the experience it incarnated to have.

The creative force and power is a flow of energy within our being. It must flow freely and it flow from what is symbolized in our heart and flows from the Source of Creation. What blocks the flow is determined by how we plug into the unseen realms and how we plug into the physical realm. The goal is to get rid of all the reasons why we can not live fully in flow with what arises from within our being for that is what is arising from the Source of Creation.

We are not separate from the Source of Creation. What flows through us and sustains us flows directly from the Source and is the expression of the desire of the Source. What is in our heart flows from the Source and is a desire of the Source. We can never be removed from the Source or what it desires to create. However, we can insert our transcendental mind and current mind to direct this energy into any experience we desire within the environment in which we find ourselves by how we focus our attention and awareness. It is just that some environments are more supportive of certain types and kinds of experiences that other environments. The northern most realms of Canada do not support growing orange trees as well as the central Florida. Similarly, coasting down al large high hill is poorly supported in Florida given the highest point in the whole state is only a few hundred feet.

We each need an understanding and/or a perspective that will make it safe to do what is raised in the two statements above and establish an intimate relationship with our creative spirit. Such an understanding is where we take a creative perspective about life and look to see what we need to do to hold our creativity and creative power sacred in the way we need to do unique to our own being such that our creative spirit flows freely. Most copy others for permission has not been given to them to do their own exploration. But the permission does not come from an external authority. Rather it comes from our own mind. The topic, "Giving permission for the creative spirit to come out" the issue of giving ourselves permission to do what needs to be done.

Relative to learning how to use sexuality, there is something we need to face and consider about sexuality and its creative power. Sexuality really has nothing to do about loving another person. But is has everything to do with loving the life created and/or what occurs because of sexuality. That is the life the sexuality brings forth within us, within the other and within the world. Sexuality is about creative life. It is about creative life at each and every level of our being in ourselves and in another. It is the life that we create and bring forth that we can or cannot love.

The masculine creative energy is a thrusting energy and want to insert itself into Creation in one way or another to create. The feminine energy is a nurturing energy and gives itself to its creation. The two go together. The trick is to get them to agree to support the same creation. That is, the feminine aspect of our being desires to support what the masculine desires to thrust into Creation and the masculine desires to thrust into creation what the feminine desires to nurture. This cannot be done unless we learn to nurture and thrust our own truth.

However this can only be done if our inner masculine and inner feminine are both allowed to come to maturity. They come to maturity in nurturing our truth and thrusting out in our truth and not the truth of any other whomever that other may be. That is, we must create the space within ourselves such that our inner masculine and inner feminine both come to maturity and then create an offspring that we desire to thrust into the world. That inner world then become reflected externally. In being reflected externally, we will find that we can fully support the life that sexuality creates in ourselves, in the other, and between each that goes into the world as the offspring, physical or otherwise, of the relationship.

The masculine creative energy, in both males and females, is the thrusting energy to create. It is what drives creation. But it wants things the way it wants things and is very mentally orientated. It is domineering and controlling. It will thrust itself in whatever way it thinks will get what it wants.

In a male, the masculine creative energy will do many things only to keep a way open for it to insert itself into a female. If the male does not insert itself sexuality into a female, it will do so mentally, and emotionally. In many ways male energy wants a captive/kept female. To move past sexuality, the biggest issue a male will have to face to access the depth and breadth of their creative power is to access the feminine aspect of their being and learning to nurture a creation true to the needs of that creation..

The male nurturing a creation is not about creating a safe space for a female to nurture her offspring. Rather, for most males, it will be to create a spaced to nurture a female where she is safe for her to step out into her power where she is totally free to do whatever she wants including dropping the male that gave her the space to find freedom. If she is not free to exercise that options, then she is not free.

What needs to be understood here is the inner is reflected in the outer. For the inner feminine to mature, she needs to be given the space by the inner masculine to be free to flows. This requires the surrender of the mind to the heart. Until that surrender is fully manifested externally, the inner feminine will not fully mature. What occurs externally is only a reflection of what needs to occur internally. A male cannot think he is surrendering to the needs of a female. The proof as to whether or not the male is giving to the female from his mind or his heart is whether or not the female is totally free to do what she wants, including dropping the male that give her the space to find her freedom, and he still fully supports her as she needs. This is extremely difficult for most males to do.

The question of course arises, "Does she have to exercise the option and drop the male that made her free?" The answer is, it depends. She will have to look inside herself and the equivalent of the following questions: "Do I really want an offspring (not necessarily a physical offspring for there will be an energetic offspring) with this male? Do I want the life that goes with us being together in some way? Will it allow me to move in a greater personal creative power and freedom or will this individual stifle my creative power causing me to shrink and withdrawal? Will the offspring we create together give me a long term satisfaction in life and a life worth living? If I died and had to spend eternity with only this particular individual would I be happy with the life we create together?" Her heart will tell her the answer and know if she is compromising her creative power in any way or being free to grow and expand that power.

The feminine energy is also in both males and female. It seeks to nurture and finds fulfillment in nurturing a creation. Males tend to suppress this energy for it requires surrender and goes against what mind wants. The feminine does not find fulfillment in being sucked dry, used and abused for what she has to offer whether that sucking comes from an external source, such as an external lover or obligation including a child, or from living to an internal obligation that does not serve one’s creative spirit to be free.

In a female, the feminine creative energy will do many things to keep a male around to give her safety and security. Physically/biologically, it is about giving her the safety and security to raise her offspring. But it goes will beyond that in most females. At other levels of being, she looks to the male to make it safe for her to experience the unknown of life and that she is protected in life. There is a fear in the feminine that her energy will be taken, used and abused and sucked dry. This fear is both in males and females. Males just tend to creatively castrated so as to direct this inner feminine to nurture the desires and wants of another.

The feminine tends to seek safety to nurture her creation and looks to the masculine to help create, if not create, the space. Most females, because of their role in life is usually modeled as being a mother, do not learn how to step into her own masculinity to create a world that is safe for her to unfold true to her nature. She is expected to nurture the offspring she creates with a spouse or from that spouse rather than stepping into her own creative power. See looks to a male to make in safe and in doing so compromises her own creative power. Rather than knowing that she can find a male who will allow her to become free and live true to who and what she is in the way that she is lead by her creative spirit, she looks for protection in one way or another to be protected..

Without realize it, most males and females help keep their creative power bound and then they wonder why they can’t create what will truly makes them happy. There is a dance each of us must learn. It is a dance between our own inner masculine and inner feminine that must be mirrored externally. Rather than creating the space within ourselves to allow both our masculine and feminine aspects to grow to maturity, we keep them bound like little children because of the hurt and pain we suffered as a child. We become hesitant and reluctant to step out in our own truth and suffer as we did when we innocently and spontaneously stepped out as that young child. Yet to be in the source of our creative power and simultaneously at the Source of Creation is to be in a state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration of ourselves and our world simultaneously at each and every level of their being. As a child, before mind steps in, we do that naturally. As an adult, it is extremely difficult.

Most of us will need to learn to creatively play and regain that childlike play. The key to this is actually our perception. It is to come to the awareness that we truly are consciousness at play with itself. How we do this is, of course, another issue. We all lost our ability to creative play in our own unique way. Additionally, we each are a unique individual aspect of the consciousness within, or behind, Creation. How we learn we are consciousness at play and regain our ability to creatively play will be a journey unique unto ourselves. No one can do it for us. No one can tell us how to do it. All we can do is do our own experiments and use what is effective in our life that move us toward a state of creative childlike play at each and every level of being.

The author, as an adult, has the fortune or misfortune, depending on how we look at it, it stumble into such a state through an experience of the Ultimate Accident. In an instant all that he knew and understood about Creation was shattered. All of this writing, all that has been done since then, is to try and find a way to make it safe for others to have that experience. Not because it is something we must have. But rather, within that experience we will see and experience for ourselves the dance of Creation. The dance of our own inner masculine and inner feminine and the dance that each does externally with those in their life. In such an experience we will come to understand experientially and not just intellectually how creation/Creation is not done alone, and we need that other in more ways that our mind can ever imagine to give us what we ourselves desire to experience - and in. particular, give us an experience at this time and place of Physical Creation as we have chosen to create it.

Some thoughts to consider on sexuality and creative power (Top)

The creative power that we can access is experienced as a feeling and it moves you to act or respond to life in some way. God, which people look to as the prime mover of Creation, is only a concept of mind that ties to characterize and/or explain this creative force and power that we experience. We can hold any concept of God that we wish. The question is whether or not our concept of God allows us to move with the feelings and creative power within our own being. Or does it somehow restrict us.

Mind is a switching station for the energy that we experience, feel, gives rise to our life and causes us to move into the world. Mind switches and directs the flow of energy or stops the flow of energy by how and what we think and believe. Hence our concept of God, which is held in by our mind, may or may not allow the creative energy to flow and may even prevent us from accessing the energy (the creative power) we are trying to access to create what we desire.

Sexuality functions much the same way as a switching station and is about creating, and sustaining life. The mate that is best suited biologically to ensure the best genetic mix for survival of the species is determined by smell. Everything and anything else we believe about a mate or the suitability of an individual as a mate is determined purely by mind. There is not a person on the face of the earth with whom we could not have a passion love affair and/or passionate life. All that keeps us from that passionate relationship is our own mind.

However, sexuality is about a flow of energy to create life. It is a creative force and one of the most powerful creative forces anyone will every experience. It is the second most creative state we can enter. The question is, "How does one harness this creative energy for what one desires to create in a way the keeps our creative spirit free to unfold?". Here is were a competition between mind and heart begins and the issue is about the creative energy and power to create what one desires.

Mind has it ideas of what a mate looks like in which to dump, yes, dump, the sexual energy. That is, a mate to put their mental desires, expectations and sexual feeling. Creation, as can be felt in what is symbolized in the heart and felt in the flow of energy, has its ideas of where the sexual energy should be put for any one specific desired creation. The two may be, but are not necessarily, compatible. The person whom our mind thinks is the perfect mate may be the person who most controls and limits the flow of our creative energy into the creation we desire.

We need to learn to understand the metaphor of sexuality. Sex is about mixing energy to create life. In physical form the genes of two people are mixed to create an offspring. The mixing of genes is only the mixing of energy in the form of mass - specifically in the form of DNA. However, mixing go on spiritually, emotionally and mentally in addition to physical mixing. There is always an offspring when two people get together. The question is whether or not that offspring is what we desire to experience and/or does it carry us to the experiences we wish to have.

Sexual intimacy with someone causes the energies of each to mix more intensely. Energetically, we become a part of them and they become a part of us. This then controls our creative energy in two ways. One way is we take on a part of them and that part of them which we take on may or many not free our energy to create what we desire. They may simply act as a parasite sucking our energy rather than allowing the creative energy to freely flow into our desired creation.

Relative to an energy consciousness perspective, we can look at the mixing which occurs in sexuality as us taking on a part of the other person’s energy. Or, we can simply see it as consciousness creating an experience to awaken consciousness such that each awakens an aspect of consciousness in the other that is currently asleep or dormant. That awakened consciousness now look like we absorbed or took on a part of the other’s energy. Either way we look at it is fine for the end result is the same. Similarly, this awaken consciousness can be experienced as a new life within us. Here gain, how we view it is our choice.

The other way our energy is controlled is that if we see them as the only outlet of our sexuality. In this case, we are unable to mix the energy with any other if that other has what we need to create what we desire. Or, more importantly, what we incarnated to create, experience or desire to do with our life. No one has to separate from another. What happens in life is that we are here to have certain experiences and we need energy to create those experiences and/or a particular awareness. Often in life the person we are with is unable to give us the correct energy and/or awareness we need. So we need to go to another. That does not mean one has to separate from the first. The question is, "What are we trying to create with our life and why did we originally join the first person?" We may find what we need to do may not be done with what they provide. They just may not supply the requisite energy and/or awareness for what we need to do. It is not about running round in multiple partners. It is not about open marriage. It is not about promiscuity. It is understand what our creative spirit desires to create and where does the energy come from for that creative endeavor. We need to understand the concept of the muse is real and different muses serve different purposes.

The two issues we face. One is, "What did we incarnate to experience and create for that is where our creative life energy is desiring to flow if we are willing to surrender to it?" However, we do have a free will. The second question is, "What do we wish to create with the life we have before we die?" The two may or may not be aligned and we may choose not to align them. However, there is a flow of energy in our life and it makes sense to at least understand where that flow is leading for it will always be there.

People originally like to talk about God creating the World. Now, because humanity cannot agree on the concept of God, there is the movement away from a God and just saying there is an, "Intelligent Design." But people are not willing to accept the full implications of what intelligent design means. It means surrendering to the flow of energy that created and is sustaining us. It is not about doing what mind thinks or wants. But that means giving up control to the Creator - or does it? The question that is still unanswered is, "Who is the Creator of our life, not Creation but our life?" There is a creative power we attribute to God, but what creative power to we attribute to ourselves.

We need to give ourselves credit to be the creator of our life and consider the following. When we do so, we have insights about our life we have no other way of getting. We chose to incarnate to do certain things in this life. The flow of energy that gives us life and creates life is directed toward a specific set of experiences that we ourselves desired to have. If we surrender to that energy, which is found in the feeling that provides a fullness of being and fullness of life, and where it leads we are simply honoring our own creative effort. Yet to live based on what we have been enculaturated to believe simply takes us away from our own deep internal desires for incarnating. Often what we are enculturated to believe makes us some what separate within our own being and keeps us from finding wholeness. But we are already whole. We just need to find a set of beliefs that allow us to see and experience the wholeness within our being and then allow align the mind and its thinking to the flow of our life energy and what our creative spirit is desiring to create. This is best accomplished by finding the beliefs that allow our inner feminine and inner masculine to come to maturity.

If we wish to access our creative power, we need to keep to what we feel and flow with what we feel. But we must also learn to look to the awareness which lies in feeling to know from where are feelings arise. We need to look to the experiences which causes us to expand and feel full of life and what causes us to shrink and become less than we can be. Creative power is something we feel. Mind cannot, and will not, give us the necessary answers to what experience will give us the fullness of being. We must learn to feel it. The trick is to learn to harness the flow of energy given the conditions we face without breaking the spirit, controlling it unnecessarily, or putting it in a cage because of what we think - or to please or serve another now or of the past.

We may want to think of this way. Analogously accessing our creative power is like trying to access the power of a race horse. Taking a powerful race horse and putting it into a cage on a treadmill expecting it to function according to its nature will not work. Similarly, we do not access the power of a race horse by putting it in a harness and having it pull a wagon. Rather we needs to create the space or a way for the horse to run free in a way that you can access its power - a small rider for control with a minimum harness.

We have within us the spirit of a thoroughbred. Yet we keep putting ourselves in a harness by our mind and what we think and believe to try and make it function like the draft horse that we were told that we are. We need to think about the two stories of the eaglet and lion cub found in the topic, the "Human condition as seen from the creativity perspective," We are the eaglet with the chickens and we need the lion to give our the taste of our first meat.

The recommendation made here is to ask your intuitive guidance to lead you to that individual or have the experiences to find that lion who will give you a taste of your own creative power. You may want also to ask to do it as gentle as possible for there the possibility of creating a gentle phoenix for any creative endeavor.

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