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Becoming aware of the story we
tell
Background
The story we tell
The role we incarnated to play
Our beliefs - the top and bottom of the box
One of the most important actions we can take to
reconstitute our
creative
ability and creative power is to become aware of
the story
we tell. We all have a story we tell about our life and who and what
we are.
Whether we realize it or not, we have defined ourselves and the
definition we have give to ourselves is the story that we tell. The
way we interpret the events in our life and define who we are from
those events can tell us where we have given away our
creative
ability and creative power. We can also see how and where we have
become a victim or assumed a
victim consciousness. To understand the
creation we have created to date and are causing other individuals
to experience, we need to understand
the story
that we tell. We need
to understand how the “I” of
ego and who we think we are has come
into being.
But
the story
we tell goes deeper than how we see the events in our
life. How we see the events in our life and subsequently the story
we tell is tremendously biased by what we believe about Creation and
what we believe about being human and being male or female.
Background
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Remember,
energy, as consciousness is neither created or destroyed
and can only be transformed. To transform our reality, we will have
to understand what aspects of our reality we need transform. There
is a
cause effect chain for all that exists. It doesn’t matter if we
believe the cause is first or the effect is first, the point is
there is a place, a branch point, a decision point, where our
current reality has taken its root. Depending on what we desire to
change in our reality, we need to go back to that decision point
that is most fundamental to our current reality.
In looking at the
cause effect chain , there appears to be many
branching chains and offshoots and a tremendous number of influences
that make understanding how our reality was created seemingly
impossible. Yet, there is a continuous thread of cause and effect
choices and decisions as to how we got to where we are to experience
the events that we do.
To become aware of this
cause effect chain , we need to become
mindful and aware of how we are choosing and making our decisions.
We then need to go backward in time to see how and why we chose the
way we did. Although we will not necessarily have a conscious memory
of the pattern of choice, we can none the less fill in the key
points and milestones of our journey. How we got from one point to
another is not so much and as important as the fact that we were at
a particular point and we are now at another point. We only need to
understand the two points and compare them attribute by attribute.
We only need to understand what is different about each of the
attributes or how each of the attributes changed and why they
changed. Again the individual steps as to how the attributes changed
are not as important.
The story we tell
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The
story
that we tell about ourselves is only part of the
information. It is the part that we consciousness embraces and makes
the most sense to us. However, there is a
nonconscious part that is
just as great, if not a greater, influence. It operates much like an
automatic control feature and continues in the same direction until
changed. The nonconscious programming is revealed by all the
attributed that changed that we have no conscious understanding of
choosing or influencing the change.
We need to
pull the string and go back to the “beginning.” However
if we truly are eternal, where is the beginning? We need to go back
to an appropriate starting point and understand how we have created
the current reality we are experiencing. But where or what is that
starting point?
The most convenient starting point is our current life when it
began, namely our birth. We need not ask, “Who am I?” for we already
know and we live it every day. If we are asked, ‘Tell me about
yourself,” we will probably start with, “I was born in Umpty Fratz
just outside of Bozosville” and then proceed to tell all that we
think is import about ourselves that we think the individual with
whom we are talking would like, or want to hear.
If we look carefully, there is a “data bank” of experiences that we
have had in this life. We call upon that data to use to define
ourselves. We share pieces of that date bank based on the situation
in which we find ourselves. Most of it is stored subconsciously and
as we give one detail that detail causes a whole series of related
details to surface into our conscious awareness. However, what
surfaces depends on what detail we present. If we talk to a
potential employer we will give a different set of details that if
we are talking to a potential lover. The only way we uncover the
whole data bank is to try and describe our story one at a time to a
collection of individuals who represent every aspect of our being.
Since we have infinite
nonconscious and it is already loaded with
information, it will take some time.
However, there is an easier way to access
the story
we tell and
understand how you have created ourselves. It is to use the
life
map. A life map is no more than a time line or the road from our
earliest memories we feel appropriate to draw to where we are now.
The only thing that is required is that it is a time line from our
starting point to now. Look at is as a road map or a map of
geographical features of a continent where the predominate features
on the map are the events in our life. What that map and time line
can be is anything we want it be. Just draw what we feel like
drawing, or rather, are lead to draw.
The way to do this is to draw several
life
maps [that is more than
one] using the images and symbols that arise naturally within us in
that moment to describe our story. The reason for this is as
follows. One story we can tell is how we became who we currently
think we are in this life time. If we draw or write out our story,
we can then look to see why we tell the story the way we do. In
reviewing our story in this manner, we can see there are many ways
to tell our story based on the exact same set of experiences. We can
then tell our story in the way that it is most powerful for us and
in a way that allows us to take back the creative powers we gave
away. In some way we can say that we reframe our story to make the
negative and perceived setbacks as positive growth experiences and
opportunities that allowed us to tap an unknown aspect of our own
being.
One way to see how we can tell different stories about our life is
to draw several
life
maps separated by time and space. How much is
several? The recommendation is that we can draw as many as we wish
but we should at least draw three and they should be separated by
time. Probably at least a month. We should not refer to any of our
previous life maps and only look at them all together after we have
complete the three or all that we feel we need to draw. Ideally each
map should be drawn in a different physical location. The locations
themselves are not as important other then they are all different.
If we draw one in our house maybe draw another in a local library or
at a picnic table out doors.
To draw the map we will need to review the intention that we set
under which we are drawing the
life
map. The intention will bias
what we access. If it to restore our ability to be in spontaneous
child like play, then we need to think about that intention before
we being to draw. Similarly if we are going to access
our creative passion, then think about what we perceive our creative passion to
be. The intention acts as the individual to whom we are talking when
we tell our story. We will pull from our memory those aspect of our
data bank that are influencing the manifestation of our intention.
By doing three
life
maps at three different times in three different
locations we will see subtle, and sometimes not so subtle,
differences in the maps. The maps themselves, the symbols, and the
subtle differences tell us much about our personal symbolism in the
area of our intention and the obstacles we may face in manifesting
our intention. Additionally the maps may even reveal a pattern as to
the direction we are moving in evolution. In any and all cases, we
will begin to see how we are defining ourselves in the area of our
intention. When we have this information we can begin to ask
ourselves why we have defined ourselves as we have and what other
possibilities exist as to how we could define ourselves. When we
being to see the
freedom that we actually have available to us, we
will being to realize all that we think about ourselves is only
that, it is only what we think and not necessarily reflective of
reality. In this realization we have the possibility of creating
something completely different.
The role we incarnated to play
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In telling our life story, it needs to be realized, no matter how we
retell our story about our current life with the
mind created by the
experiences in our current life, we will be bound by the flow of the
creative life energy that brought us into this world and sustains
our being. We can optimize the energy available to us to do what we
came to do, but that creative life energy will be limited to what
the role we chose requires us to do. That is, unless we choose to
step beyond our
current mind, the
enculturated mind and
what we
incarnated to do we will be limited by the identity that role
provides us in life and the experiences we have in attempting to
live that role. To move past our current mind, our beliefs become
essential and we will need a very different perspective about who
and what we are. We will need to have beliefs that allow us to
access and work with the
transcendental mind.
What needs to be understood, is if we access more power than our
role in life requires without awareness, we would most probably
destroy the role in that we would not do what we came to do. That in
turn would disrupt the lives of all those who were to be helped by
us in that role. Since everything is interconnected and the role of
others is connected to our role, unless we become aware of this
interconnection, the universe will limit what we can access. It is
not that the universe is personal and looks to keep us bound and
control what we do with our life and how we expend our
creative life energy. Nothing is father from the truth.
Rather it is like a rocket trying to break the pull of gravity to
escape into space. We have to have sufficient energy and knowledge
of the principles of flight, knowledge of gravity, and knowledge of
material science to build what we need, to break free. Otherwise we
remain bound within the confines of gravity. So too with our being
and our role we incarnated to play. Unless we become aware of the
principles we need to break free of our role, we will remain bound
in that role.
In the same way each piece of mass of earth pulls back to hold the
rocket to the earth, each consciousness within humanity within our
defined role tries to hold us in our role and where humanity
collectively thinks we belong. It needs to be noted here that
humanity has a consciousness and a role to play within a larger
Creation. It too has an
ego as to who and what it thinks it is. This
collective ego interferes with and blocks the role of humanity just
like any individual and how our ego blocks the
role that we
incarnated to play.
In addition to our own
ego holding us back to play the our role, the
ego of the
collective holds us back. The reason is that if we
succeed in transcending our
enculturated ego and either play the
role we incarnated to play or changing that role in awareness and
understanding, we demonstrate to everyone else that both are
possible.
Now it is possible to transcend our
enculturated ego to play the
role we
incarnated and, if we choose, to become aware and
gain understanding to transcend the role itself and change the role.
This of course means if we achieve these two ends, others would have
to become aware that they too have a role which they are fully
capable of finding and fulfilling. As long as we exist as that
example, we will force them to change. They, in turn, are left with
one of two choices. Deal with the changes that we bring to light by
our example or put out the light and live in unawareness. In
general, it is easier for the
collective to pull back rather than
helping us to go forward. It is much easier to turn out the light
than deal with what it reveals.
Once we escape the
collective consciousness and the
enculturated ego
to play your role, we will then see there is another story we can
tell about how our
transcendent ego came into existence. In this
story, if we believe we are human, our identity is integrally linked
to being what it means to be a human and then the entire evolution
of what it means to become human from thought to finish is our
experience or rather available to us as an experience. This means we
will have to deal with two things. We have to deal with all of, or
at least much of, the
mind that
binds our
creative life energy
because of our past experiences. However, we also have to deal with
the past physical life experiences as a “generic” or collective
human. That is, we face the collective human experience and can
experience memories of things that are not specifically our personal
experiences. Rather we experience part of the collective experience.
This is because humanities experiences are our experiences for the
two, we and humanity are connected.
The more we believe we are human the more of the
collective human
experience we bind to ourselves and make our own. It is much like
visiting an amusement park and believing we are of the amusement
part and our life and identity are tied to that park. We being to
make our decisions based on the past and what the park needs because
of where the amusement park has been. That is, our past becomes the
amusement park past. Our past becomes the history of maintenance and
repairs that are needed to keep the amusement park functional in the
way we want it to move into the future. Yet our existence was
completely independent of the amusement park until we come to
believe we and the amusement park connected ourselves to it. In
claiming an amusement part identity, we become bound to the park and
its past and we carry it into our future.
If however, we realize we chose the
human experience as a physical
experience, we transcend any and all human experiences and see them
simply as an experience as if we were watching moving of humanity in
which we played a role. We simply see ourselves as an actor in a
role that we once had. Within this understanding we begin to see a
glimmer of the depth and breath of who we really are and the
creative process we have at our disposal. In choosing this way, we
are then free to choose and explore the depth and breath of our own
being or use what we have found to change the physical experience.
That is to change not only our own life, but the nature of the
physical experience itself for others. Although we will have some
ego identification at this point, it really isn’t an issue for we
will have transcended serving the ego and we will do what is in the
best interest of all who are choosing a physical experience.
Our beliefs - the top and bottom of the box
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Reconstitution of our
creative
ability and creative power is about
taking our creativity out of
the cage or box which we create to keep
our creativity captive and confined. Breaking out of the sides of
the box is relative easy. Lateral moves in life are always
relatively easy. We can change jobs, move to a new house, change our
fiends and the like. However, breaking out of the topic and bottom
of the box is much more difficult.
There are two sets of beliefs we hold that become essential to
keeping us bound within the role we incarnated to play and often
keeping us from playing that role. One are the set of beliefs
related to how we “plug into” the unseen world - the top of the
box.. That is, what we believe about all that lies in the unseen
realm and how what we believe is or is not able to catalyze our
life. The other set of beliefs are related to how we “plug into” the
physical world - the bottom of the box. That is, what we believe
about the human physical experience and what it means to be a man or
a woman.
Our beliefs about the unseen world start with whatever Creation
Story to which we subscribe. A Creation story explains how Creation
came into existence. It in are many assumptions about Creation and
the nature of the human being. We need to have beliefs about
Creation and choose a Creation story that empowers us as an
individual and
hold
our creativity sacred. How we believe the world
was created is essential to our thinking - especially as a creator.
How we believe the world was created says a tremendous amount about
what we believe about what it means to be human and who and what we
are relative to Creation itself.
Once there is the understanding of how we are created and our
relationship to Creation takes hold as a belief, it becomes
integrated in our overall thinking and influences all that we do and
think. For example, if the Creation story that we believe included
the idea that some how we have sinned and we are separated from the
Source of Creation, every action we take and every thought pattern
we develop will be influenced by this thought including our own self
worth and how worthy we feel we are. Similarly, if we feel Creation
was simply a random phenomenon of nature and humanity is a random
occurrence of life, that gives little meaning to our life and does
not empower our ability to create a reality of our choice for all of
reality is only a random occurrence.
There are a myriad of Creation Stories that exist and every society
and culture has one. It is essential that we find a creation story
that empowers us and does not in any way take away our creative
power and responsibility to create the reality of our choice. If we
have difficult finding one that we like and fully empowers us, there
is the “Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective.”
It is the most empowering Creation Story found
which
holds
our creativity sacred and gives it the greatest possible depth and breadth.
Similarly to what we believe about Creation, the same is true what
we believe
about what it means to be a human being and what it means
to be a male or female. The topics, “The physical experience of
being human” discusses what it means to be human in a way that
empowers our
creative
ability and creative power. The issue of what
it means to be a male or female centers on our view of sexuality and
how we use sexuality in our life. Sexuality is discussed in the
topic, “Creative sexuality.”
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The story of your life - your life story
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