The methods of observation

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Copyright 2008 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

The issue we face in exploring creation/Creation and the creative/creation process is that, being within the process, we can not fully see the process for what it is. Our mind, as we know it, is not be able to fully understand the process for it is a product of the process. Mind as we know it, cannot stand outside the process. Remaining in the mind we have, which came into existence as a result of the process, will keep us from seeing and understanding how we create our experiences and how we create the reality we experience.

The question arises, "How do we step out of mind to see what process really looks like?" The answers is that we can step out of mind three ways.

One way to step out of mind is to use the Bohr Approach and look to see what nature reveals about the creative process. This means to take nature at face value without all our opinions, judgments and preferences about what we see and experienced. Nature is what is and that is the way it is. For example, everything will eat of another to sustain itself in one way or another. One of the more straight forward examples of this is all life on earth eats off the energy of the sun in some way to survive. For humans, everything will eat of another is true spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally. We only need to look to see if what we eat is really nourishing us.

Although the approach to observe nature in non judgment is a powerful technique and provides a tremendous amount of information, we are still observing the process of creation/Creation from within Physical Creation. That biases what we can see and observe. The Bohr Approach can only take us so far in understanding the process of which we are a part and gives rise to our existence as we know it and experience it.

A second way to step out of mind is to become a detached witness. To become a detached witness is to identify ourselves with the awareness that perceives through mind. It is to see and understand that who and what we think we are is only a result of the experiences we have had. A different set of experiences would cause us to see and perceive ourselves differently. But it is to realized that the awareness that perceives is unchanged by the experience it has. What changes is what the awareness believes about the experience.

Becoming a detached witness is a very powerful technique. It allows us to step past the enculturated mind, that is, the mind based on the experiences we have had in this life time, and see and experience the transcendental mind. The transcendental mind is the part of mind that transcends our current life. The transcendental mind allows the awareness to see all that it has ever experienced. However, to see the creative/creation process for what it truly is, one must remain in the awareness as that detached witness and look past the transcendental mind.

However, powerful as this technique is, there is still a problem. Mind cannot perceive what it has not experienced. What mind experiences it cannot understand until it gains the minimum set of experience to understand and properly characterized what it experience. Until mind gets the minimum set of requisite experiences to understand the creative/creation process it will be unable to know exactly how the process works.

The reason for this there are an infinite number of ways to experience Creation. It will take some faction of that infinite number of experiences for mind to begin to see exactly how creation/Creation works. Fortunately, through oral and written communication, humanity has learned to share lessons learned. We, as individual entities, do not have to personally have all the necessary experiences. We can learn from the experiences of others and build on what they have discovered. The question here is two fold. One part of the question is, "What is that minimum set of experience we need to have to begin to see the creative/creation process for what it really is and know that it is correct?" The second question is, "How do we get or find that minimum set of experience?"

This takes us to the third way to get out of mind. The third way to get out of mind is through feeling. That is, totally place one’s awareness into what one feels and allow the feelings to carry us where they may. For some, this is extremely frightening. For others it is tremendously difficult to discern a particular feeling and follow it from start to finish where the energy in the flow is fully dissipated.

In this process, we need to realize consciousness awakens as a result of a flow of energy. There is an awareness in what we feel. Feelings arise as a result of the flow of energy we sense. The more we are open to feeling we literally expand our awareness as we explore the awareness which lies in feeling. Expanded awareness, in turn, provides a greater depth and breadth to what we experience. The greater awareness we have the fewer experiences we need to get that minimum set of experience. There are two reason for this. One is any experience we have is experienced to a greater depth and breadth covering a much greater "range" of experience.

The second is the greater depth and breadth of an experience also allows us to see beyond the obvious and into what is giving rise to the experience and into the unfoldment of the experience. It is not about seeing into the past and into the future, although some will interpret it that way. Rather it is seeing the cause which gives rise to the effect and the consequences and outcomes of the effect that is experienced. With expanded awareness one is able to see the unfolding process.

If we are able to discern and lock onto a particular feeling and then follow that feeling to dissipation, we can begin to experience the creative/creation process for what it is. We may experience the creative process only a short time and the particular flow of energy we follow may not gives rise to the depth and breadth of what is possible in a creative flow, the flow can nevertheless give us an understanding for the overall process. In knowing the overall process, we can look at any one process and see where the point of observation lies relative to the overall process. Then in looking at a variety of creations in this manner, one can being to discern what exactly the creative/creation process looks like. "The rain-river analogy for the creative/creation process" is something you may find useful as a reference to being to see the entire creation cycle.

Once we begin to see the overall creative/creation process and what gives rise to any one flow of energy, we can begin to experiment with the process to see if, in fact, we have an accurate representation of the process.

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