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Inner and outer creative powers
Creativity is an experience
Origins of all our creative power
The bridge
point of the inner and outer creative power
Experiencing the bridge point of the inner and outer creative power
One
Source, three bridges
Once we access the
feelings to create or they arise based on our past programming
there appears to be two way or two parts to our creative power.
Observation has shown there appears to be an
inner creative power and an
outer creative power. That is, we have an ability within
ourselves to cause something new and not previously experienced to
come into existence. Similarly there are things we can do externally
or outside ourselves which give us the ability to cause something
new and not previously experienced to come into existence.
Experiencing these two creative powers as separated is nicely said
in an old Arab proverb, “Trust in God but tether you camel.” That
is, there are things the
outer creative powers/Creative Powers are responsible for doing
and there are things the
inner creative power/Creative Powers are responsible for doing.
We cannot expect one to do the work of the others. The question is,
“When to we look to the inner and when do we look to the outer, or
maybe we need to use both?” Accessing creative power is about being
able to trust our thinking and to come to know ourselves such that
we know when we must go within, when we must go without or we use a
combination of inner and outer to get what seek.
Most of our experience with these inner and outer creative powers
cause us to think they separate and unrelated. How they are
connected and how do we access them through that connection is the
focus of this discussion. Parallel discussions address the
inner creative power and
outer creative power as separate powers.
Creativity is an experience
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The most important thing one needs
to understand about creativity is that creativity is an experience.
Creativity not something you can learn from books and/or from
others. To access the depth and breadth of our creativity, we must
learn to experiment with both the
inner creative power and
outer creative power separate and together to see exactly how
they are connected and what is available to us in any particular
situation. We learn it from doing and
giving ourselves permission to experiment with the
inner creative power and
outer creative powers available to each of us. Unless we
experiment with these creative powers in a way that fits our
uniqueness as a creative being, we will be unable to access the true
depth and breadth of what we can create. In doing our experiments,
it must be realized there are no
mistakes. There are only learning experiences as to what does or
doesn’t work.
In this regard, our creativity is inherently tied to our life
experiences and what we allow ourselves to experience. To understand
the origins of any creative work, we need to explore the life of the
creator relative to the creation. Similarly to access the origins of
our creativity and creative power, we must give ourselves permission
to explore our life and why and how it has unfolded the way it has
for it is our creation.
To access the full depth and breadth of our creative power and
creative ability, we must learn to work at the bridge point where
the
inner creative power and
outer creative power come together. We need to work at the
bridge point to see whether it is better and more efficient to work
with the inner or the outer expression of the creative power to
create what we desire, something that
serves us or
a life worth living.
Origins of all our
creative power (Top)
Our internal creative power arises
from what we think and believe aligning with the flow of our
creative life energy, the
feminine aspect of our being. External creative power is access
through the experiences of
mind and our understanding of how external creation appears to
work. But we still need to have the passion and energy to act on
what we know about the external world to access it.
We can access creative power through our internal creative power
through surrender to the flow of energy that sustains us and flows
from the
Source of Creation. Or, we can access creative power by our
enculturated mind which has been trained to do our bidding in the
external world and harness our
inner feminine to supply the energy
to do that bidding. In the end, our creative power ultimately comes
from accessing the inner feminine, the flow of energy which sustains
us, and learning how to use the feminine power and feminine aspect
of the creative process to support our actions in the world.
The
bridge point of the inner and outer creative power
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It is probably clear there is some
cause which brought Creation into existence as we know it and
experience it. The question is “How can we view Creation such that
we can optimize the external creative power in our creative
endeavors - is there some way to view and/or understand the cause of
Creation such at we can access the inherent creative power within
that cause?” The question is “What do we need to understand to look
inward when we need to look inward and outward when we need to look
outward?” In many ways this is what both religion and science has
tried to do. Religion has tried to access and/or influence the cause
of Creation as a consciousness which most refer to as God. Science
has tried to access the cause of Creation as energy.
What gives rise to these seemingly separate creative powers is how
the energy manifests within an existing creation. The
pair
production phenomenon and the
implications of pair production in our
creative endeavors provides a way to understand how these two
creative powers arise and how this phenomenon of an external and
external creative power is possible.
Creation is the experience of the duality of the
observer and the
observed. It is for the “stuff” of creation to seemingly separate
into energy and into consciousness. The energy assumes a form, the
most fixed and rigid of which is physical mass and Physical
Creation, that consciousness experiences as Creation. It is
consciousness at play with itself. Consciousness creates an
experience of where it focuses its attention and awareness. The
energy within
energy consciousness molds itself into an experience
of that on which consciousness has paced the focus of its attention
and awareness.
The important point to realize in the duality of energy
consciousness is that there are always three views to any creation
as discussed in the topic, “Implications of Pair Production in Our Creative Endeavors.” There is the view from energy, the view from
consciousness and the view from the detached witness, a
transcendental view, neither identifying with the form taken by
energy nor the form taken by consciousness giving rise to the
creation experienced.
As discussed in the
pair
production phenomenon, once the energy
forms into the particle and anti particle, we can take the
perspective of creation from either the particle or antiparticle and
each carries a portion of the origin energy. When the pair
production phenomenon is viewed from particle and hole, the energy
seems to go with particle for the material out of which the particle
arose seemed to be fixed as the backdrop of the creation. Most see
the excess energy above the minimum necessary to create the mass of
the particles going with the particle and the hole seemingly follows
the particle as a shadow.
What is suggested here is a bridge point. The energy goes where
consciousness perceives it to go. The energy in excess of the
minimum necessary to create the form can be seen to lie on a
spectrum. The energy, the creative power to create, is seen to: (1)
lie totally in the external form; (2) split and distributed between
the inner and external world; (3) and totally lying in the inner
world.
When the energy is totally perceived externally, consciousness is
asleep and unaware. It may awake to its own existence or have an
awareness of existing but it appears powerless to become the cause
of anything. Rather it seems to be a victim and at the mercy of the
powers that be.
To see all the energy lying within oneself is to become the Cosmic
Creator. It is to be that which most perceived is the ultimate God.
This Cosmic Creator is to be seen as holding total and absolute
creative power over everything and everywhere.
The third is to see the energy split to one degree or another
between the internal and external world. This is way most of us
experience Physical Creation with most of the creative power lying
in the external world because we appear to have so little control
over the external.
It is here an issue exists that few realized exists that the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective attempts to address.
When the Cosmic Creator looks out over the Creation which manifests
from Its desire, all Creative Power does lie within It. But here
lies the issue. To experience Creation from within Creation this
Cosmic Creator must allows some of the
creative power/Creative Power
to lie outside Itself. Unless
it forgets and
loses itself in
Creation, it can’t experience Creation. When it has given some of is
power away by losing Itself in its Creation and forgetting how It
created the experience, It assumes a victim consciousness to some
degree. That is, It makes Itself subject to powers seemingly beyond
Its control. It is here lies the origins of the
dances of Creation.
It is the dance between giving and taking creative power/Creative
Power It is about giving creative power/Creative Power to the
external world and taking the creative power/Creative Power
internally.
This, in turn, gives us two options. One is to work the
inner and
outer creative power as separate powers as they are experienced
in our life. The other is to move to the bridge point and work our
creative efforts from that point. Both of these approaches are
discussed in the topic “Inner
Creative Power” and “Outer
Creative Power” as viewed from inner and outer perspective
respectively.
Experiencing the bridge point
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If we explore our life and why it
and how it has unfolded the way it has, we will come to see there is
point within ourselves that we turn inward or outward in response to
what we experience. Usually our response is based on programming of
some type. But if we look carefully, we can see we look for the
ability to face what we experience inward or we look outward. In
doing so, we tend to think, “I know what to do” and we act from what
we know. Or, we think, “I do not have the ability and power to face
this - I must look outward.” We then seek some type and kind of
external assistance including the possibility of maybe asking God to
fix our situation. The key point here is we look inward or outward
for the power to effect a change to what we experience. We look to
that
inner creative power or an
outer creative power. The question is, “When is it appropriate
to look inward for the power and when is it appropriate to look
outward - or maybe it is a combination of both.”
Most of us are taught to that when we know something we should act
on what we know. That is why we educate people in school. We educate
them so they know how to act. In essence it is to act on past
programming that has been given to us. When we don’t know we are
taught to ask. We are taught to ask someone who knows. We are taught
to seek out those who have the credentials which indicates the
individual knows.
Few are taught that when we don’t know to go within and ask our
intuitive guidance to lead us to the answer that is most appropriate
for what we desire to create. The logic is, “How can we ask
ourselves when we don’t; know.” But the answer is we do. We are
infinitely creative beings and our
energy and consciousness
permeates all of Creation. It is
just that the answer is not conscious and the “game of creation” is
to create the experiences which gives us what we desire.
Look at it this way. Anything we desire with some passion causes us
to act to get it. When we act we create an experience of, or within,
Creation. When we act based on what we know or we ask another, we
create an experience of creation seeking to get what we desire. But
we seek it based on the past. However, if we go within and ask our
intuitive guidance to lead us, we also create an experience of
Creation. Only this experience is not necessarily based on the past.
It is based on the past only to the extent our
mind uses our past experiences to direct us toward the answer.
But the answer is not based on the past. In the end, however we ask
inward or outward, we crate an experience of Creation seeking that
answer. The question I, “Do we wish to recreate the past in a new
way or do we wish to create something not previously experienced?”
The choice is ours.
It is modern physics through the
pair
production phenomenon which
provides a way to see the actual bridge point between the
inner and
outer creative powers. The topic “Implications of Pair Production in Our Creative Endeavors” addresses how we can being to
see and use this bridge point. It allows us to see and know when to
go within there will be a corresponding change without. When we go
out, there will be corresponding change within. The issue is not so
much whether we go within or without. The issue is are we willing to
make the sacrifice necessary for any creation and does the inner
world or the outer world provide us the guidance that will make our
creative endeavor as fast, easy and gentle as possible. This is done
with the realization if we look outward, we use what
mind currently thinks and believes for it is reflected in the
world we experience and risk recreating the past in a new way.
Whereas if we go within we will be lead into the unknown and risk
begin unable to ground and bring what we seen into manifestation for
lack of the
minimum set of experience to know how to do it.
Our problem centers on the fact we tend to perceive what we feel as
totally arising from within our being rather than in the
interconnectedness of Creation. We fail to realize we may be feeling
an energy which arises from outside ourselves. We fail to realize we
know more about our environment that our conscious
mind can comprehend. We fail to realize we have more information
that we can comprehend. The question is, “Do we have the passion and
know enough about ourselves that we can follow the inward path yet
bring that inner awareness into the physical world we experience?”
What is important to realize, to access the depth and breadth of our
creative power, we need to have a perspective that both fully and
effectively embraces the truth of our own being and the truth
external to us. It is there we access both the
inner creative power/Creative Power and
outer creative power/Creative Power available to us. However,
what we don’t realizes is that we usually do not have a consistent
way of viewing reality across each and every aspect of our being.
Since there is not a consistency across each aspect of our being in
what we think and believe, we experience separation and unconnectedness rather than experience a wholeness, oneness and
interconnectedness. We see our inner world and external world as
separate and seem unable to bring the two together. Additionally, we
tend to believe others more than ourselves when it comes to
spiritual experiences or rather, experiences of the unseen and what
we don’t know and rarely do our own experiment in these areas.
The total energy within Physical Creation or for any creation can
neither be created or destroyed, only transformed - unless we change
the Creation. To surrender to the flows of energy as they exist, we
work within the existing Creation. We need to be come aware that if
we are attempting to create anything in the physical plane or from
within a physical body, we will need to transform some existing
energy arrangement within ourselves and Creation to create something
new. That is most easily done with working with the external world
as we know it. However, the
role of consciousness is the cause of
any creation. We can go within and access a level of consciousness
or an awareness of consciousness to become the cause of a new
Creation. We can change the energy available for our creative
endeavor but we will have to give permission for a change of
consciousness.
What this means is that, for an existing experience of Creation, we
have a certain amount of energy that lies within ourselves and there
is a certain amount of energy that lies without. The energy within
is what gives rise to our
inner creative power. What we can do with this inner energy is
totally controlled by us. However, the outer energy that is
reflective of this inner energy is what gives rise to the
outer creative power and is controlled in three ways to varying
degrees. It is the shared control that allows us to have common
experience of Physical Creation. One way the outer creative power is
controlled is that it is controlled to some degree collectively. A
second way is determined by the cause or consciousness which created
Physical Creation. The third way is it can be controlled to some
degree by us. We can break our energy free from the
collective but
it is much like a rocket escaping the pull of gravity. It is
difficult but can be done under the correct conditions.
Relative to the external creative power, some consciousness, some
cause which can be call the originator, or God for some, created
Physical Creation. From a
creativity perspective, it needs to be
realized and emphasized
the consciousness which caused Physical
Creation to come into existence is not necessarily the consciousness
which caused all of Creation, seen and unseen, to come into
existence. The two can be different and, if we observe carefully
enough, the evidence suggests they are different.
What consciousness exists that gave rise to Physical Creation and
how that consciousness desires Physical Creation to unfold is not
the issue here. All that needs to be understood is that Physical
Creation arose and exists. In arising, the energy in Physical
Creation is fixed much the way the energy if fixed when the
pair
production phenomenon occurs. A certain amount of energy
goes into forming the particles and a certain amount of energy
animates the particles. The energy that creates the particles as
they exist is fixed. The energy that animates the particles is
carried with the particles. That energy can be gained or lost as the
particles interact with the environment in which they find
themselves. However, from an energy consciousness perspective, as a
consciousness and through the use of an awake and aware
consciousness, the particle had the possibility of changing the
amount of energy it possesses. But to do this, the particle needs to
create and awareness and a consciousness different than the one it
now has.
Creatively, the same is true about Physical Creation. There is an
energy split between Physical Creation and its creator and there is
an energy that is split between us and the Physical World we
experience. The portion of the energy that is in us is controlled
exclusively by us. The energy that split between us and the Physical
World and that lies in the Physical world is controlled to some
degree by us, the
collective and Physical Creation. It is this
shared control that allows us to have an experience of Physical
Creation and keeps us bound to Physical Creation when we have
experiences we don’t like. Otherwise, we would simply create
something else.
Our body is the ground point and
bridge point for
where the control of all these energies comes together. Our body, as
this bridge point, is what holds our creative spirit in the
experience of Physical Creation. At this bridge point the control by
the collective, the control by the consciousness which created
Creation and our own control come together. This is why our body and
knowing what our body feels is so important.
It is in understanding the existence of the
pair
production phenomenon and its
implications for our creative endeavors that we
have a
bridge point where the inner energy and the outer energy come
together as does the control of the energy which gives rise to our
body. It is here we have the possibility of shifting the energy
within our experience of Creation including the body as in
mind body medicine, shifting the energy in Physical Creation or
shifting Creation Itself.
It needs to be realized that all arises from the same
Source of Creation. When we are at that point of power, we are at THE point of
power for there is only one point of power. It is the Source of
Creation. We are at the point of power when we
return to the Source
of Creation. However, to do so, we will need to become different. We
will need to change who and what we think and believe in some way.
When we are at the Source all is possible. To return to the Source
is to return to that pool of pure potentiality, that pool of
infinite possibility, where we can cause any creation to come into
existence
analogous to the way we can create a paper “cutout” form a
blank sheet of paper. It is simply a matter of how we choose to cut
the paper.
One Source, three bridges
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We can say there are three
bridge points. There is the bridge point between us as an individual and
Physical Creation. That is, we are a “cutout” of Physical Creation
and there is an energy shared between us and Physical Creation. Then
there is the bridge point between Physical Creation and all that is.
That is, Physical Creation as a cutout of something larger.
Alternative said, we are a cutout within a cutout. We are a
creation
within a creation. We can go back to the source of us as a cutout
and Physical Creation or we can go back to the Source where Physical
Creation is a cutout. But there is only one
source/Source. We are
the stuff of Creation. All arises out of the stuff. When we go back
to the source/Source, we go back to the same Source of everything.
This is the third bridge point. It is to experience the
creator/Creator of the
creation/Creation we experience. The
questions are, “How much creative energy are we willing to open
ourselves to accessing?” and “How much are we willing to change to
carry such an energy and responsibility.”
It needs to be remember that the
environment and the unfoldment of any creation are integrally linked. We can not change the energy
that flows through our being that can change our life and our world
that sustains our being without changing our being. Who and what we
are in this moment is a simply an outward reflection of the flow of
creative life energy that flows from the source/Source and
sustain us. It is reflected in how and what we think and believe. To
change that flow of energy to access a different level or magnitude
of creative power will cause us to become different. It will cause
us to think differently, believe differently and act differently. We
cannot remain the same. If we are unwilling to make the changes we
thwart any possible change in flow of energy. How big a change we
have to make simply depends on how much creative power we wish to
access or what we desire to create.
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