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Interdisciplinary aspects of the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Technology
Interdisciplinary mix of two puzzling phenomena about our creative
power
The
interdisciplinary concepts of awareness and energy
An
invariant awareness
An
invariant energy
Bridging science and mysticism
Is the
relationship between consciousness and energy real or metaphoric
The Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material draws upon a wide variety of sources and
disciplines. This approach integrates many discoveries of modern
science and technology, the ancient and esoteric concepts found in
many of the world’s spiritual and shamanic traditions, and the
stories and legends that have been handed down to each successive
generation. How this variety of disciplines integrates into the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material can be seen in the both
the
applications of this material and in the
types and kinds of programs and services that are
typically offered.
Rather than discussing the depth and breadth of the of the applied
subject areas and techniques that are uses, an encapsulated
understanding of this interdisciplinary mix can be expressed in two
ways. The first way is that the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
technology capitalizes on the understanding which gives rise to two
puzzling phenomena about our creative power. These phenomena set the
stage for the second way to express this interdisciplinary mix. The
second way is about understanding the concept of energy and what
that concept really means relative to our creative ability.
Interdisciplinary mix of two puzzling phenomena about our
creative power (Top)
The first of these two phenomena
is that in many, if not all, spiritual and religious traditions
there are individuals who are called mystics. A traditional
definition of a mystic is one who has a direct, intuitive or
subjective perception and/or experience beyond the ordinary range of
human experience and comprehension of human reason into the nature
of reality. Often these mystics have or had either: 1) a spontaneous
experiences of what can described as either as Oneness or a intimate
experience of the Divine, or 2) spent an enormous number of years
creating a state of being within themselves for
what they believe is an experience of the Divine through some
type of practice such as meditation, yoga, prayer, contemplation,
rituals and the like. In this perception and/or experience, many of
these mystics have claimed and demonstrated they have achieved a
deep inner satisfaction that allows them to transcend the normal
frustrations and issues of life. Some have the ability to see
through time and space. In fact, there is a
range of powers, including the reported ability to heal, that
are often obtained in these mystical states.
When you hear these mystics talk, or read what they write, to
communicate to others who have not had such experiences they say
things like: God is within you; you are the Creator; the world is an
illusion; you are not real; everything is interconnected; drop your
illusion; and other seemingly cryptic statements. To the people who
were trying to understand the mystic and/or have similar experiences
these statement often appear too much to be believed. Many people
are puzzled to hear mystics say “I am God” or some equivalent
statement. Many times in the past when the mystic would make such a
statement, they were often killed outright for heresy and/or
blaspheming. Yet, for those mystics who are not killed, other than
their followers (believers), they are disregard by “unbelievers”
(non followers). The “unbelievers” do not see the mystic who claims
to be God changing the world in the way many think God should be
able to do - or want to do. The mystic is seen to make little impact
on recreating the world as you would expect God to do. Some mystics
may have a tremendous number of followers who create an alternative
society. Yet the alternative society still functions very much like
other societies. The mystic, although seen or claimed to be God
incarnate, does not seem to act in the world with the powers that
many would attribute to God.
Of course, when a mystic is questioned about the validity of the
statements they make, the answer they would provide about their
cryptic statements is something to the effect that, “if you have not
had the experience you cannot understand for it cannot be
communicated.” The question the seeker usually asks is, “Show me how
to have such an experience so I too can understand.” The mystic then
lays out a path or way that the mystic thinks either (1) allowed
them to have their experience or (2) will take the individual to
such an experience. Of course there is a truth in the statement you
cannot understand something unless you have had the experience, but
there is also a fallacy in such a statement.
In part, what it means to understand something also means that you
are able to communicate the understanding or figure out how to
communicate it. Many teachers say they learned their subject only
after they tried to teach it. They will admit they really didn’t
learn the subject when they studied it. They thought they understood
it until they had to teach it. Then, in trying to teach it, they
were surprised about their own lack of understanding. They are
surprised that they really didn’t know or understand what they
thought they did. Whenever you truly understand something, you can
find a way to communicate to another. The proof of this statement is
to just look at the world you experience and how the world has been
transformed from communicating what one has learned about how nature
works. The world we know has been transformed by the understanding
of something called energy. It too is unseen yet much can be
understood about it, communicated and taught to another as to how to
use it and manipulate it. That question is, “What does the mystic
know such that they could make such a statement such as ‘I am God’
yet is so hard to communicate to another?”
The other puzzling phenomenon is that of the scientist. The
scientist on the other hand have a different experience. For a
scientist to do their work, it really doesn’t matter whether or not
they believe in God and whether or not God exists or if there are
other unseen realms of sprits. The scientist simply applies what
they have learned from observation of the universe. But when a
scientist simply goes about doing what scientist do they get accused
of playing God and upsetting nature. When the scientist decides to
splice genes, release nuclear energy, created designer drugs or
clone a human embryo they are accused of playing God such that the
public demands that the scientist stop playing God and trying to
change the world.
Yet when one looks at the essence of many of the scientific concepts
such as the wave function of quantum mechanics, string theory, dark
matter, and the like, they are just as mystical as anything else you
will come across. Yet these mystical concepts of science can be
readily taught and their application can be used to change the world
you experience. The question is, “What does the scientist know that
they get accused of playing God in simply applying the knowledge
that they have learned?” The answer is each have a way of accessing
the ability or capacity to produce an effect. The difference is what
effect they create.
The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity technology bridges these two
worlds and these two phenomena. In this way it is used and
understood , the bridge is energy and your ability to manipulate it.
Whether you simultaneously experience what the mystic knows and what
the scientist knows to change the world depends entirely on what you
desire to create and how you choose to go about doing it.
Nevertheless, you can become that scientific mystic or that mystical
scientist and simultaneously live in the world that each knows and
merge them into one understanding. The bridge which does this is
your own creativity and creative power and ability to manipulate the
energy of Creation. What must be understood and recognized, anything
that humanity has done that has impacted the world started as an
idea in a single human being. Several humans may have had similar
ideas simultaneously. Nevertheless, the change that resulted started
from a single idea in the mind a single human. What results from any
idea held by any individual is the result of the desire and passion
of that human to act on that idea and in the way they acted.
You have the creative power and ability within you to change the
world, let alone to change your life. The question is, “How do you
consciously access that creative power and ability and then act on
it in a way that will change the world?” The answer lies in becoming
intimate with your creative spirit and managing the flow of creative
life energy within your being. To do this one needs to understand
the interdisciplinary aspects of the concept of energy and how
energy and consciousness are related.
One needs to understand the external energy as found in your
environment and your internal energy that is sustaining your life.
Understanding energy involves understanding the flow of energy and
its relation to passion and the ability to create and how we need to
transform that energy as if flows within our being into what we
desire. Related to understanding energy and the manipulation of
energy is the need to understand consciousness, define here as the
ability to be aware of existence of oneself, and the nature of mind
and their relationship to energy and how they influence the flow of
energy within your own being and the world you experience.
The Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity technology is based on the
fact that all we experience results from what we call energy. It is
understanding the flow of energy and its relation to consciousness
and how we perceive ourselves that allows us to access our creative
ability and power. For whatever you desire to create , the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity approach is to direct you toward the
source of your creative powers. That is, to access the source and
flow of energy within your being that sustains you to access your
ability to create an ability.
The
interdisciplinary concepts
of awareness and energy (Top)
When you work with the
creativity perspective and hold your creativity sacred, what you
will find is that there is really only one concept associated with
God and/or mysticism and only one concept associated with Science
that seems to remain unchangeable or invariant in any creative
endeavor. It is these two concepts and their relationship that
allows one to bridge the unseen world and the physical creation to
manifest what you desire.
An invariant awareness
(Top):
The concept associated with God and/or mysticism that seems to
remain invariant is that there is a conscious awareness or
consciousness behind what you experience in Creation. This awareness
can be experienced both inwardly and outwardly. However, other than
saying this consciousness exists and the conscious awareness you
experience within yourself is made of the same “stuff” as the
conscious awareness that stands behind Creation externally, you
can’t say much more about it than that.
The reason for this is that we are a part of the Creation which is
unfolding and a part of the awareness of that unfoldment. Being
within the process of Creation and viewing from within the process,
it is hard to step outside the process to see exactly what is
happening. You can’t really say much more about the awareness within
creation, unless of course, you project on it all the understanding
and experiences we have about the human consciousness and limit the
Consciousness behind Creation to the human experience. But what we
can do is infer. We can infer an understanding about this awareness
and about Creation and the Creation process by observing the
processes within this process and understand all arises out of the
same “stuff” of Creation - wherever that “stuff” my be. But were are
the “stuff” of Creation. The question is, “How big a part of this
awareness within Creation are you?” The ultimate answer is it is
your choice and your choice makes all the difference as to what you
experience.
An invariant energy(Top):
The concept associated with Science that seems to remain invariant
or unchangeable is that energy exist and can neither be created or
destroyed, only transformed. As for what you can say about energy,
we only need to look at the volumes of human experience as to what
energy and our understanding of energy has made possible. Yet, what
is energy? In physics, energy is defined as the ability to do work
(a force - a push or a pull - acting through a distance) or the
capacity or ability to produce an effect - any effect. In studying
the creative process it is the latter description of energy, “the
capacity or ability to produce an effect,” is what is key to
understanding the creative process. It is energy that lies at the
base of all we think, remember, say and do. Without a flow of energy
there is nothing to perceive for there will be no movement. For any
creative effort, there needs to be some energy flow.
What is interesting about energy is that you can store it,
manipulate it, sense it and change the world with it, but we don’t
really know what it is. It just exists. However, it exists more of a
concept in our mind than something concrete in the physical for it
exist in the seen and unseen. It existence is only know in relation
between objects, in particular a movement of object relative to each
other. We cannot sense energy unless there is some type of detector
to sense it. We only know of the existence of energy beyond what our
body can sense because of the detectors we have created to detect
the energy. There of course is the question as to what energy lies
outside the range of the detectors we have created. Yet all is
composed of this energy.
One can convert energy to mass and mass to energy. However, the
energy you convert to mass becomes essentially “frozen.” You can
nothing with the energy converted to mass until you convert it into
some form of energy and movement. It terms of what energy really is,
it all seems to boil down to the fact that it some time acts as a
wave and sometimes it acts as a particle depending on the conditions
under which we choose to observe it. Yet we all are an embodiment of
energy. All the mass in our bodies is energy and a flow of energy is
what animates our life. When that flow of energy stops, we die and,
interestingly, our bodies dissociate back into the component parts
of the physical world - atoms and molecules whose arrange is
determined by the conditions under which the body dissociates.
Bridging science and
mysticism (Top)
The reason why these to concepts
remain invariant or unchangeable appears to be the result of their
relationship. That is, if you look carefully, you will see energy
and consciousness are actually one and the same. They are only
perceived differently. The easiest way to understand this
relationship is to look at the concept of energy as the capacity or
ability to produce an effect. Understanding energy within this
definition is the key to bridging the seen and unseen realms of
creation and ultimately unites mysticism and science.
Consciousness is defined as the ability to be aware of oneself. To
be conscious is to be aware of one’s own existence, feelings, and
thoughts. To be conscious is to be aware of external objects and
conditions, mentally awake, deliberate and intentional.
Consciousness, of course, is the state of being conscious such that
one has an awareness of oneself and an awareness of surroundings. It
is because of this awareness that gives rise to the ability of
consciousness to be aware of the choices it makes and its actions.
That awareness of choice and action is what allows a consciousness
to make things happen. This ability to choose one’s actions and make
things happen is the capacity to produce an effect and in turn, is
simply the definition of energy. Hence conscious awareness or
consciousness is our ability to produce an effect. From this
perspective, consciousness is energy and it can be said
consciousness is only a flow of energy that is aware of itself for
it is in action, in flow, that causes things to happen.
The flow of energy which allows us to create is often experienced as
passion for what we desire to create and that passion fuels the
creative process. The experience of passion occurs when you align
with the flow of energy that is manifesting what you desire to
create. Some would argue consciousness is only the ability to
manipulate energy and not the energy. However, only a conscious
awareness has the ability to cause an effect. Subconscious awareness
and a dormant awareness only respond to event. They do not cause
things to happen. Only a conscious awareness can choose to make
something happen. Without conscious awareness we can only react to
what occurs and respond to an effect. Conscious awareness is needed
to create an effect or to become the cause.
As for the other part of the definition of energy, the ability to do
work, you only need to realize a flow of one’s attention and
awareness held for some duration is the equivalent of work. Physics
has shown that the observer changes what it observers. If you wish,
you can look at the observation shifting the energy, not necessarily
changing it but shifting what it look like, as a result of the
observation and the way one chooses to observe. To understand how
one observes changes the observation one can look of a very crude
example in changing the position of a box across a table.
To move a block across a table against friction, work is done. There
needs to be an applied force through the distance the block moves.
The forces adds energy to the block and it moves across that table
only to have the energy absorbed by the friction between the block
and the table. After work is done, the box still sits on the table
but just in a different position. However, because it is in a
different position on the table it will look different against the
same background when observed from the outside. Similarly, the
surrounding environment around the box as viewed from the box will
look different. The difference many not be great but it nevertheless
different. In essence, changing a perspective is doing work but no
energy is seems to be added because there is no perceived movement
other than the movement of our perception. Alternative said, the
energy that is added or the work that is done is the movement of our
perception. By changing the way you observe you are doing the
equivalent of work. Yet, the power in our observation is much
greater than this simple example for we also can change the energy
of the situation. As you study the creative process, you can come to
see your creative life energy, the ability to make things happen or
to produce an effect, goes where you focus your attention and
awareness and how you perceive differently because of that focus.
In looking at energy and consciousness as different forms of the
same basic substance of Creation, the door is open between the seen
and unseen realms of Creation. In working with this material, what
you will come to see is that your creative ability is the result of
tapping into a flow of energy that lies within the deep current
within your being. As such, your creative power is a result of that
flow much the way you need a flow of electrical energy to make an
electrical appliance work. You need to “plug” into the flow of
energy. When you do, if you align with the flow of that energy, what
you get is the direction of the current and how you need to act to
align with that flow of energy to access the power of that flow to
manifest what you desire. You first need to tap into the flow of
energy to get your creativity engine running. Then, once it is
running, it can manifest what you desire by aligning with and
sustaining the flow. You will know how to align with this energy
through feeling. So to do so, there will be the need to reawaken a
deep level of feeling that most have shut down early in life when
they lost their ability to be the state of spontaneous and innocent
childlike play of discovery and exploration of itself and their
world. So, in the end, the journey takes one from the disciplines of
mysticism and science into the realm of play. The play of
consciousness to transform the energy of creation into whatever the
observing consciousness desires.
Is the relationship between
consciousness and energy real or
metaphoric (Top)
One question you may ask is, “Is
the relationship between consciousness and energy suggested here
real or metaphoric?” From a creativity perspective, the answer is
“Yes.” It is both real and it is metaphoric.
From a creativity perspective and how they influence your creative
power and creative ability they are both the same. They are just
different expressions of the same “stuff” of Creation. It is just
that one is experienced from within a flow of energy and the other
is experiences from outside a flow of energy. The material provided
on this and
related web sites is intentionally provided such that you may
come to understand how this is true and maybe accept it as true.
Whether you believe it or not is not as important as at least
learning how to use it metaphorically. Seeing them as equivalent but
perceived differently will allow you to see options and relationship
that would otherwise not be available to you. The only experience
that I have found that truly comes close to explaining what is
possible and what is available in our creative imagination in
accepting this relationship between consciousness and energy is
something I first experiences in high school called
complex integration. Since it deals with mathematics (and
subsequently it application in engineering), it will be probably
will not be of interest to most. But a brief discussion is provided
through
this hyperlink if you are interested. However, it was the
awareness of complex integration that allowed me to see how a
metatheatrics could be created to address many issues of mind
and creativity and the importance of play in the creation process.
In any case, if you look carefully, you will find that science does
not really explain energy. Although there have been tremendous
technological advances made based on the concept of energy, no one
really can explain energy. It just is. Physics accepts the fact that
there is something that exists which can be described and utilized
by the definition and concept of energy. That is, the ability to do
work and/or the capacity to produce an effect. The magic of physics
is that it has been able to capture the concept of work through it
relationship of a force (a push or a pull) acting through a
distance. That, in turn allows a mathematical expression of energy
and the capacity to produce an effect. Energy is itself mystical. If
you really contemplate what you can do with energy if you understand
how to use it, it is magical. It is as magical and mystical as the
concept of spirit that is seen to animate and give life to our
bodies and which has baffled people for centuries. Yet they are the
same. The are each a way of describing the capacity to produce an
effect. It is about the ability to become the cause within a
cause-effect relation to create an experience.
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