The rain-river analogy for the creative/creation process

 

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The rain-river analogy for the creative/creation process
The water vapor analogy - the process
The metaphor and a line by line review of the creation/Creation process
Creative passion in the river analogy

There are various discussion within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity applications such as, “Multiple Perspectives from which to view the creative/creation process,” about how our perspective does or doesn’t allows us to see the creative/creation process. There are also discussions such as “Two levels to our creative endeavors,” about how our perspective causes creation to appear as thought we are creating something from nothing. In these and other discussions, reference is made to an inherent calmness within the dissipation of the energy in a creative endeavor and within aligning with the direction and flow of energy in a creative endeavor. One question that raises is exactly how does creation/Creation work.

Creation is about manipulating flows of energy. Without a flow of energy there is no experience to be had. That is, anything that comes into existence whether it be a thought, an object or an experience, arises from a flow of energy. There are two analogies whose composite can be used to help us understand the creative/creation process. These analogies pull together the concepts of how the overall creative/creation process works, and the role of the unseen and seen aspects of Creation. understanding creating something from nothing, the ebb and flow of creation/Creation and the cycle of creation/Creation.

One analogy, discussed here, is the flow of water as it cycles through the evaporation and condensation process to make rain and its flow within a river back to the ocean. The other analogy is the flow of lava from a volcano to form a harden land mass that eventually gets recycled as the land mass gets pushed back into the molten earth. Each of these two analogies provides a way of viewing the creative/creation process not provided by the other. To understanding the creation/Creation process it is necessary to image the “stuff” of creation, this energy consciousness, simultaneously as a composite of these two analogies. So if you can, allow the understanding provided by each of these analogies to merge together as one in your mind

The water vapor analogy - the process (Top)

Any creative process can be seen analogous to the process of how rain forms from the ocean and flows back to the ultimate source of the water, the ocean. In this analogy we start within an already existing creation where there is an atmosphere and the waters are separate from the land much like the way earth is today. However, unlike the earth, we neglect where water lies below sea level like the dead sea. For our analogy, the ocean is the lowest level of the water. The overall process is diagramed in the figure below.

The whole process from the sun beating down on the ocean surface causing the water to evaporate. For clouds to form there needs to be heat somewhere to evaporate the water that is going to form the clouds. There is heat of the sun is applied to an ocean of nothingness, a sea without form. The energy of the sun which we feel as a radiant heat is absorbed by the water. The water becomes too energetic to remain in a fluid state and it breaks free of the hydrogen bonds within the water to evaporate. The energy within the radiant heat causes the water to change its physical form and evaporate into the air seemingly unseen without a form until it forms into clouds

It needs to be noted here a certain amount of energy needs to be supplied to break or dissolve the existing form. In the case of the water it is the hydrogen bonds which holds the water in a liquid state.

The heat from the sun evaporate the water. The water rises into the air where the water vapor is pushed along by the existing prevailing currents, the winds of the atmosphere to some part of the world. Water vapor is almost always present in the atmosphere. You can look at the atmosphere as permeated by water vapor. As more water vapor moves into the air and the water vapor increases in density, it thickens and the water vapor forms out of a seemingly nothingness of the atmosphere into clouds. The clouds form near the place of origin, or the water vapor forms into clouds at a later time as conditions changes in the atmosphere as the water vapor moves along with the air currents.

When the conditions are correct, the cloud forms into rain Eventually the cloud enters atmospheric conditions where the water vapor in the clouds becomes too dense for the air temperature. The clouds condenses in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet and is pulled downward by gravity. Eventually the water vapors in the clouds moves to a place where it becomes “grounded.” That is, some conditions exist in the environment where the water vapor condenses into some form of precipitation, rain, snow, hail or sleet, to fall to the ground. Often high mountains block the prevailing wind. The mountains enhance formation of clouds on one side of the mountain and profoundly reduces them on the opposite side.

What is interesting to note, in the formation of both rain and snow, it is essential to have a “seed” to cause the water vapor to condense either into a snow flake or a water drop. That “seed” is usually a speck of dust or an ice crystal. The actual form that the water drop takes, depends on the environmental conditions exactly at the point of formation. The type and kind of cloud in the sky is very dependent on the environmental conditions. Although the initial water vapor has no form, the cloud and any subsequent rain, snow or ice has defined boundaries.

The rain then falls on the ground beginning a journey back to the sea. It create a flow of water back to the sea. The water eventually flows along the contours of the land according to the path of least resistance usually in the form of a stream or river back to the sea. As the water flows to the sea, along the way it brings life and creates a unique world and life unto itself all along its flow path.

The water flows until all the energy that created the water in the first place and held within the water is dissipated. That only occurs when the water reaches the sea. Until then, the energy the water posses is always above the level which from which it started. Often the water goes underground and reemerges at a later time in the form of a spring or can even remain locked in an underground water source seemingly never returning to its origins in the ocean. At other times the water re-evaporates long before returning to the sea only to fall as rain and being the journey back again.

What needs to be noted here is that as the water flows back into the sea there is current within the flow. If you look at the flow of a river there is normally a “central” current or place where the current is optimized or maximum. If you align with main current, you will flow back to the sea with the greatest speed and ease.

When the river reaches the ocean the river expands into the ocean. The energy of the flow of the river dissipates. The river current no longer exists. The identity of the river is lost in the expansion into the ocean.

It is to be noted here in this process of creating rain and returning the water to ocean, once suffice energy is added to create the clouds, the process of rain follows an almost automatically process in accordance with the existing conditions of the creation. You could say the path of the water returning to the sea is predestined. That is, the process follows the existing prevailing currents, the contour of the land and the environmental conditions as they exist at any point influencing the process. Additionally, it needs to be noted, the heat of the sun is not only focused on the ocean. It is focused across the entire process and beats down on the atmosphere and the land mass onto which the rain falls. So the sun, in addition to creating the water vapor for the rain is influencing where the rain actually falls and how it flows back into the sea.

If you reflect on the “stuff of the ocean.” the water, the ocean water, the clouds and any ice and snow that may form are all just different physical expressions of the same chemical compound in different environments. You could call the water hydrogen hydroxide and realize that chemical composition of the water never changes. Chemically, the water is just positive hydrogen ion joined with a negative hydroxyl ion where the hydroxyl ion is just a doubly negative oxygen ion joined with second positive hydrogen. Together the two hydrogen and one oxygen atom form the chemical compound H2O which we know as water. Yet this compound gives rise to quite different phenomenon and expressions because of its environment. Yet its chemical essence is always the same and never changes. Similarly all [there of course maybe a few exceptions] chemical compounds that don’t break down in intense heat or when heated, will have a solid, liquid and gaseous state. It is only the difference in the environment that causes the material to take one particular form or state than another.

The metaphor and a line by line review of the creation/Creation process (Top)

Metaphorically, any experience in life, including our own life, can be seen as the flow process that parallels the process for creating rain and the flow within a river. All we need to realize is two things both of which are difficult and hard for our mind to imagine. One is that there are layers within layers to the creative/creation process. That is, there are many different creative processes occurring instantaneously and many overlap with each other and others occur within others. The second is the process of creation occurs instantaneously but proceeds according to how and what we believe. The description of making rain described above is spread over time and space (from an ocean, through an atmosphere, down a mountain and back to an ocean). However, in reality, the “stuff” of Creation, energy consciousness, can move from nothingness into form with no need of time and space. Time and space do not exist outside the realm of the creative process. Time and space are only the perception and experience of what is happening from within the creative process. An example of how this is possible is given in the discussion entitled “Time, space and a view from within the creative/creation process.“

The essence of creation/Creation: Before starting what amounts to a concept by concept review of the process it is appropriate to start with the end in mind. That is, the essence of the material of creation/Creation never changes. At the end of the rain - river analogy, it was said, “...the water, the ocean water, the clouds and any ice and snow that may form are all just different physical expressions of the same chemical compound in different environments. You could call the water hydrogen hydroxide and realize that chemical composition of the water never changes. ... Yet this compound gives rise to quite different phenomenon and expressions because of its environment. Yet its chemical essence is always the same and never changes.” The essence of creation/Creation is energy consciousness. It is the material that lies at the source/Source of any creation/Creation and which exists in every creation/Creation. All that differs is the environment in which it finds itself. What this means is that given the correct environment, any pieces of Creation can be experienced as consciousness, as energy or as energy consciousness. It can become awake and aware of itself or it can remain asleep totally and completely unaware. In this regard, energy consciousness is holographic. This means that any piece of the whole, no matter how smaller or large it is, has an awareness of what lies in the whole or what the whole looks likes. Quite simply it is part of the whole and never removed from it. It only experiences itself as separate from the whole. However, the smaller the piece, the less clarity that is available. Not because the clarity of the whole is not present . Rather, it is because the focus is on the piece rather then the whole,. Because of the focus to create the piece, the focus in not on the whole and the whole is not seen for what it really is and represents.

The creative force of creation/Creation: The whole process from the sun beating down on the ocean surface causing the water to evaporate. For clouds to form there needs to be heat somewhere to evaporate the water that is going to form the clouds. There is heat of the sun is applied to an ocean of nothingness, a sea without form. The starting point for the rain analogy is that the sun beats down on the ocean surface causing water to evaporate the water. Any creation, physical or otherwise forms in an analogous way. There is a heat, a fire which causes the “stuff” of creation, energy consciousness, to move. The fire, the source of heat, is the desire of consciousness. You can look at your attention and awareness as the sun beading down of the surface of the earth causing the water to evaporate and slowly coalesce into clouds.

The overall generic creation process can be seen starting with a consciousness focusing it attention and awareness into, or onto, something it desires to create or desires to have. This object of focus can be a belief, a desire, an intention, an idea, a vision. That on which consciousness focuses itself doesn’t really matter. All that is needed is there needs to be something that causes consciousness, consciously or subconsciously, on which to focus. This focus is the heat or the fire of creative process.

The focus of our attention and awareness causes the energy-consciousness which permeates reality to from and shape itself into the object of our thoughts. The thought that is formed acts as the seed from which the physical creation can manifest. As soon as you being to name something or recognize it as a discrete entity or object you define it limits and boundaries and bring it into existence and give it a form and a shape. In essence to have a thought is for mind to “name” an energy it is experiencing. This is essentially what our mind does with the energy that our being senses.

Our attention and awareness is what give the energy for the thoughts to solidify into form. The more we focus our attention and awareness the more energy that goes into the object of focus. It is like the sun beating more intensely making more water vapor to enter the atmosphere. The continued and more intense focus of consciousness on a particular concept, intention, idea or thought is such that it is beginning to take form. The more passionately we hold our focus, the greater the amount of energy we add to the process.. The more we believe the more we see it. The more we see it the more we believe it and concentrated even more on what it is we believe that we are seeing. In many ways we can look at our lack of focus on what we wish to create because of all the stuff in our life and mundane distractions as the cloud which cover and prevents the sun from directly evaporating the water to make new clouds.

Dissolving the existing form: The energy of the sun which we feel as a radiant heat is absorbed by the water. The water becomes too energetic to remain in a fluid state and it breaks free of the hydrogen bonds within the water to evaporate. The energy within the radiant heat causes the water to change its physical form and evaporate into the air seemingly unseen without a form until it forms into clouds.

It needs to be noted here a certain amount of energy needs to be supplied to break or dissolve the existing form. In the case of the water it is the hydrogen bonds which holds the water in a liquid state.

In the same way the radiant energy of the sun, which we feel as heat, is absorbed by the water and the water breaks free of the hydrogen bonds and becomes too energetic to remain in a fluid state, the focus of our attention and awareness causes the existing form of what is to dissolve, or melt to move, into a formlessness. It is much like a solid melting into a fluid or ice melting into water. The energy consciousness becomes “fluid”to be recast or remold into the new creation that is desired. This part of the process gives rise to the concept of the “cauldron of creation/Creation” and often experience as the chaos of creation/Creation. For many, it can be experienced as a time of high anxiety. They will experience the anxiety in this chaos if not some type or kind of fear arising as a result of what is experienced and the fear of facing the unknown.

This part of the creative/creation process can give rise to what has traditionally been described as the dark night of the soul if we are able to let go of what is required for the sacrifice of creation. Similarly if we can let go and flow with the process may have experience what has been called the kundalini or the kundalini rising as the energy is freed to flow into the new creation.

Undercurrents of creation: The heat from the sun evaporate the water. The water rises into the air where the water vapor is pushed along by the existing prevailing currents, the winds of the atmosphere to some part of the world.

We are a creation within a creation and there are existing currents which give rise to the creation we experience. We are carried along by these deep undercurrents. Sometimes they support our effort in that what we desire to create aligns with the direction and flow of these deep undercurrents. At these times creation seem magical for what we desire readily manifests. At other times what we desire is opposed to these currents and it seems as though there is nothing we can do that will push our creation into manifesting.

In many ways these deep undercurrents are like the seasons of the year. There is little we can grow in winter and it is best to wait till spring for our seeds to sprout. Similarly, we can plant our seeds on the middle of summer and they sprout and grow. However, the growing season is too short for our plants to come to maturity to flower and bear fruit.

Creating something from nothing: Water vapor is almost always present in the atmosphere. You can look at the atmosphere as permeated by water vapor. As more water vapor moves into the air and the water vapor increases in density, it thickens and the water vapor forms out of a seemingly nothingness of the atmosphere into clouds.

What is interesting about clouds is that they form from water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor is almost always present to one degree or another. It is always entering the atmosphere but we don’t see it. As the concentration increases, clouds being to form which we can see. Energy consciousness is very similar. It is always there and permeates all that is unseen. It can be seen as a field of pure potential. As we focus our attention and awareness that pure potential is converted into energy. The longer and more passionately we hold our focus, the more it concentrates. However, it needs to be realized environment conditions play a big part in what manifests and how it manifests as does the intention for our life.

The point that needs to be realized here is that creation is about rearranging that which is. All that is and will ever exists already does. If it doesn’t exist in a manifested way, it exists with the potential of what is possible. That which does not exist or has not existed exists as potential in that which does exist for, if you look, everything arises from something else in some way. We create something from nothing only because our perspective gives rise to the unseen and we do not necessary understand the role of the unseen in how it rearranges itself to manifest in the seen.

Thought form - a bridge between the seen and unseen: The clouds form near the place of origin, or the water vapor forms into clouds at a later time as conditions changes in the atmosphere as the water vapor moves along with the air currents.

Clouds appear from out of a seemingly nothingness. The boundaries of the clouds which are formed are more nebulous than that of water drops in the rain. We could say the water vapor in the form of a cloud is the bridge between the unseen realm where the water vapor appear invisible in the atmosphere and the “more physical” from of water as rain. If we only focus on the clouds it seems mysterious as to where the clouds come from. Yet it is known they arise from the water vapor in the as a result of the evaporation of water in the ocean.

So too our thoughts and anything we create. A creation arises from acting on the creative thoughts we have. However, our creative thoughts arise just as mysteriously out of a seemingly nothingness like the how the clouds seem to form in the sky. But we know our thoughts are just a form of energy consciousness for all of creation arises out of the same material of creation/Creation.

Analogous to the way clouds form out of water vapor in the environment, our thoughts arise from the energy in the environment and within our being. The energy is characterized by mind based on the experiences we have had. The collection of experiences we have had allow for us to recognize and characterize the energy we sense in our environment. The greater depth and breadth of experience the better we can characterize what we experience. With the thought as a focus, as directed, and in the way directed, by our consciousness, our creative life energy begins to flow into a new creation in the way outlined or blueprinted by the belief, desire, intention, idea or vision you hold.

Birthing into the world: When the conditions are correct, the cloud forms into rain Eventually the cloud enters atmospheric conditions where the water vapor in the clouds becomes too dense for the air temperature. The clouds condenses in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet and is pulled downward by gravity.

In a way you can say there is a threshold level for a creation to manifest. Analogous to the rain, there is a “level” of energy we need to put into our thought before it manifests. As we continues to hold our desire or intention, more and more energy flows to manifest the desire. Then, when environmental conditions are correct for the existing world, the creation manifest as the object or experience we desire. The focus of our consciousness within a belief, desire or intention directs a sufficient flow or amount of energy analogous to getting the water vapor to the right “altitude.” That is, creating the correct environmental conditions given the prevailing currents of the time and place within Creation for our creation to form. As long as the focus is held the flow of energy will flow into the experience one desires - sometimes quickly, something only after a long time.

What needs to be realized about birthing and bringing creations into the world is that we must grow them and/or build them like anything else and that takes energy in one form or another. Sometime the work and growth is done in the unseen realms and the creation is “born” fully grown into the world. At other times we must “grow” it in the physical world by taking the right actions in the physical world to bring our creation into existence.

Taking the right action is not about doing what mind wants to do or mind thinks needs to be done. We can’t bring something new and original into the world through mind. Mind only knows the past and has not yet experienced what we desire to create. If we follow our mind, we will only create the past in a new way. To bring a new creation into the world we must surrender to the flow of energy giving rise to that creation and allow it to lead our actions.

Grounding: Eventually the water vapors in the clouds moves to a place where it becomes “grounded.” That is, some conditions exist in the environment where the water vapor condenses into some form of precipitation, rain, snow, hail or sleet, to fall to the ground. In the figure provided here, the existence of high mountains block the prevailing wind. The mountains enhance formation of clouds on one side of the mountain and profoundly reduces them on the opposite side.

Grounding from a creativity perspective simply means one’s creative life energy is pulled from the unseen realms of Creation, for example, in a vision held in the mind, into a physical manifestation or expression either as an object or an experience on which we focus in the physical world. This need for grounding is the origin of the concept of the muse.

Energy flows between two points - a place of high potential to a place of low potential. We become the source of energy for a creation and we needs something on which to focus and direct or energy. Otherwise there will be no flow of energy to create what is desired. Thoughts and ideas are like the clouds. They remain in the atmosphere as “unmanifested” rain until the environmental conditions are such that the cloud is pulled to earth in the form of some type and kind precipitation.

The ground point for the creative process is that on which consciousness focuses That is, the object of focus pulls our creative life energy into an experience of the object of focus. But that on which you focus also allows us to supply the heat for the creation process. This is why the tradition concept of the muse is about arousing passion to act.

In the rain analogy each of these are different steps because they are seen occurring at different locations in time and space. In the creative process they occur simultaneously. There is no time and space outside the realm of the creative process. Whatever you hold in mind consciously or subconsciously is always directing our creative life energy into an experience of what you hold. In this regard, we are having an experience of what we hold in accordance with the environment in which you find ourselves. If the environment supports what we hold in mind, we see it manifest immediately. If the environment does not support what we hold, we either move toward creating that environment or what we hold waits till the environment is correct for its manifestation. In any case, as long as we hold the thought, that thought is manifesting in some way either as an experience or creating the environment for the experience. The longer we hold something and the more we are willing to act to create what we hold, the more the environment changes to manifest a fuller experience of what we hold.

Conscious creating is about holding what we desire to create and then using either the masculine way or feminine way to act to create it. Subconscious creating is about holding a thought or idea and then when the environmental conditions are correct it manifests seemingly out of no where. In actuality, most of our creative activities are done at the subconscious level. We are puzzled by what life gives us but never realize how much of what life gives us we are creating it by our own beliefs and our own thinking.

Seeding a birth: What is interesting to note, in the formation of both rain and snow, it is essential to have a “seed” to cause the water vapor to condense either into a snow flake or a water drop. That “seed” is usually a speck of dust or an ice crystal.

What needs to be noted here is that a belief or intention that focuses consciousness is both simultaneously the heat or fire that fuels the creative process as described in the last section but also it is the mold into which the flowing creative life energy is channeled and pulled to ground to manifest the desired creation. The object of our focus become that “seed” around which the water vapor begins to from and coalesce. In the same way the seed we plant in a garden determines what grows in that garden, the thoughts we hold become the seeds for what we experience in life. It become essential that we become mindful and aware of the thoughts we have and hold and learn to “garden” our thoughts to create a life worth living and one that serves us.

Influence of the environment: The actual form that the water drop takes, depends on the environmental conditions exactly at the point of formation. The type and kind of cloud in the sky is very dependent on the environmental conditions. Although the initial water vapor has no form, the cloud and any subsequent rain, snow or ice has defined boundaries.

The environment influences our thoughts in many different ways. For example, because there is too many clouds the sun is not as intense and cannot heat the air or the water to make more water to evaporate. Hence the existing clouds interfere with making more clouds. So too the thoughts in our mind. If we are continually thinking, we don’t leave the space for original thoughts to arise. In fact, we can develop a thinking addiction so that we do not open ourselves to the feelings that will give rise to original thoughts. Not having original thoughts then keeps us from having to face the fear of the unknown where original thinking will take us.

Another way the environment influences our creation is that our creative life energy flows into an experience of what we desire along the path of least resistance for the environment in which we find ourselves. What this means is that the environment may not be adequate to support the experience we desire in its fullest expression. Unless we change what we desire or change the environment in which we are trying to manifest our desire, we will not get exactly what we desire. This not because Creation is not giving us what we want. In fact Creation always is giving you the perfect manifestation for what we desire for the environment in which we find ourselves. What needs to be understood is that there is an interconnectedness in Creation. Unless we become aware of the connection we have with our environment and can work what is necessary to change both our inner and outer worlds, we will not be able to access the full creative power that is available to us.

A journey of unfoldment within a given set of conditions: The rain then falls on the ground beginning a journey back to the sea. It create a flow of water back to the sea. The water eventually flows along the contours of the land according to the path of least resistance usually in the form of a stream or river back to the sea. As the water flows to the sea, along the way it brings life and creates a unique world and life unto itself all along its flow path.

In the rain process, the evaporated water rises into the air where the water vapor is pushed along by the existing prevailing currents, the winds of the atmosphere. So too the energy flow that is created by our focused consciousness. The flow of energy is pushed along by the existing currents within creation and the world we inhabit along the path of least resistance. In addition to our creating flowing into manifestation, the energy that is flowing into manifestation is itself flowing within deeper currents of creation.

In the rain-river analogy, the waters of the rain flow along the contours of the land according to the path of least resistance as a stream or river back to the sea. In creation/Creation, our creative life energy flows into an experience of physical Creation along the path of least resistance in accordance with our desire until the energy dissipates back into the sea of nothingness. What needs to be realized and emphasized, is that we are creating within a creation. What we create will conform to the contours of the environment in which we find ourselves. It is not that we can’t create what we desire. It is to realize we need to work with our environment to create what we desire and the environment determines the unfoldment of the experience we have. Our environment and our creation are in reality inseparable and integrally connected.

Dissipation of the energy of creation: The water flows until all the energy that created the water in the first place and held within the water is dissipated. That only occurs when the water reaches the sea. Until then, the energy the water posses is always above the level which from which it started.

In the rain-river analogy, the flow of water starts a rain and then eventually forms a river flowing along the contours of the land until it reaches the ocean and the flow dissipates in the ocean. All our creations follow this process. Once we create the flow of energy through our intention and the passion to act that manifest the intention, the energy flows until it dissipates.

For us as human, physical Creation is the dissipation of our creative life energy in a physical experience. To have a physical experience we consciously experience only half of the creation process. There is a seen and an unseen portion. The part of this creation process that we as an awake consciousness experiences as our life or as an experience in life is the part of the process where the energy manifest physical and then flows through a physical experience until the energy dissipated in the experience. The role of the unseen portion is where we create the conditions for the physical experience that we have. When the energy is dissipated, the experience is finished and what exists, whether it be an object or an experience, seems to die. Yet, the energy is only returned to an non localized form to be recast into the next creation. Whether the consciousness that develops as a result of the experience that is had returns to a non localized form is another question. Physical death does not end the experience of consciousness. Consciousness does not die. It only changes the experience consciousness has.

Binding, fixing and trapping our creative energy: Often the water goes underground and reemerges at a later time in the form of a spring or can even remain locked in an underground water source seemingly never returning to its origins in the ocean. At other times the water re-evaporates long before returning to the sea only to fall as rain and being the journey back again.

As we all know, rivers tend to get larger as they get close to the sea. As they move toward the sea, they collect more and more runoff from the land. However all the water that falls on the land does not return to the sea via the river. There are conditions that cause the water to not enter the flow of the river and be dissipated in the sea. So too the flow of our creative life energy that goes into any creation we experience.

What needs to be understood is the creative life energy which animates our life provides only so much energy twenty four hours a day. By become awake and aware as to what energizes us and depresses us, we can optimize that flow of energy. However, if we do not let go of what we experience we cause some of our creative life energy to become bound and rendered unavailable for the next creation. Any emotionally charged memories cause some of our energy to be bound. In fact, any memory for which we have a positive or negative preference binds a portion of our creative life energy small as it may be. Although most of our emotionally charged memories then to be memories of unpleasant experiences, those that are overwhelming please can also bind our energy. Whenever we live our life in avoidance of or in preference to certain types and kinds of experience we are binding our creative life energy. We are not allowing ourselves to live the full range of our creative potential.

Sometime an experience can be so painful to us that we suppress or literally lose a part of our creative spirit. That is, there is a part of our creative spirit that become totally unknown if not alien to us. In these cases some form of soul retrieval is necessary. That is, we need to go back and recover that part of our being that we left behind.

Optimum flow of creative energy: What needs to be noted here is that as the water flows back into the sea there is current within the flow. If you look at the flow of a river there is normally a “central” current or place where the current is optimized or maximum. If you align with main current, you will flow back to the sea with the greatest speed and ease.

In the rain-river analogy, within the water flowing back into the ocean there is current within the river and at some point in the river the current is strongest. So too the flow of our creative life energy creating any experience we have in life. Whether it is our overall life or in a particular creative endeavor there is a point within the flow of energy that provides the optimum flow. As with the river, there is a “central” current or place where the current is maximum. If we align with main current of our creative life energy by allowing our creative life energy to freely flow into the experience we are having, and we are open to our feelings, we will experience the a feeling of fulness of being or fullness of life.

Experiencing the fulness of being is possible for any experience you have in life and for every moment in life. It needs to be remembered, there is no time when we see the entire creative process which generate the flow of our creative life energy and allows for its unfoldment. If we are aligned with the flow we will experience the fulness of being every moment If we allow ourselves to be centered in the flow at the source of the flow, allowing creation to unfold out from that flow, we will find an internal calmness and inner satisfaction that never run dry no matter what is happening the external world.

Additionally, if we allow our creative life energy to flow freely, the energy will dissipate as it flows back into the sea of “no-thing-ness” at the completion of the experience. When this dissipation occurs there will be a calmness within ones being as deep, if not deeper, than obtainable in any meditative practice and it doesn’t matter what you are doing to experience the calmness. We just need to freely flow with the energy. Here again, there is no concept of time at the source/Source where the flow of our creative life energy is generated. It is flowing into a physical experience every moment and dissipating into the sea of nothingness every moment. So it is possible to be in the deepest state of calmness every moment of our life. Simply by being aligned with the flow of our creative life energy in the fulness of being and allow it to flow freely within our being.

Death and dissolution of the existing form: When the river reaches the ocean the river expands into the ocean. The energy of the flow of the river dissipates. The river current no longer exists. The identity of the river is lost in the expansion into the ocean.

When viewed from within the creative process, the river seems to die. Yet, the essence of the river does not die. Only the form of the river dies. Death is only the energy of creation being returned to the Source, a place of “no form” or “no-thing-ness” relative to the experience which is had. The energy returns to the Source to be available for a new creation according to the current focus of the attention and awareness of consciousness. It is an on going never ending cycle. As long as there is a focus of consciousness, the creative process will occur and a creation will manifest.

Destiny and an automatic process: It is to be noted here in this process of creating rain and returning the water to ocean, once suffice energy is added to create the clouds the process of rain follows an almost automatically process in accordance with the existing conditions of the creation. You could say the path of the water returning to the sea is predestined. That is, the process follows the existing prevailing currents, the contour of the land and the environmental conditions as they exist at any point influencing the process.

One point that needs to be emphasized is that in the process of creating, as in the process of creating rain, once a suffice flow of energy is added by a focused attention and awareness the process of creation follows almost automatically in accordance with the existing conditions of the creation. That is, the process follows the existing prevailing currents of Creation, the contour of the beliefs you hold, and the environmental conditions as they exist at any point influencing the process.

Diverting our creative life energy: Additionally, it needs to be noted, the heat of the sun is not only focused on the ocean. It is focused across the entire process and beats down on the atmosphere and the land mass onto which the rain falls. So the sun, in addition to creating the water vapor for the rain is influencing where the rain actually falls and how it flows back into the sea.

Part of this process is that consciousness can extend itself across the entire process. As with the heat of the sun, the sun focuses across the entire landscape. Consequently some of the rain that fall on the land gets re-evaporated and does not flow to the ocean creating the origin creation cycle. Similarly, our consciousness can focus across our entire life and all that we do. Any focus that we hold is directed across our entire life. In our creative endeavors, in addition to creating the flow of energy to manifest a particular object or experience, the focus of our consciousness is influencing the path of least resistance across one’s environment and the volume of flow that we create. We ourselves are influencing how our creative life energy manifests our desired creation. This is why it is important to not become distracted in our creative endeavors and/or allow mind to raise the past and divert our attention.

One final point needs to be made here. Once we focus our attention and awareness on an intention to create a flow of energy the flow of energy itself creates a focus. Remember consciousness is awakened by flow. The flow of energy we create by what we hold causes an awareness unique to the flow to awaken. Often this awareness takes on a life of it own in our life and the lives of others. So if you think by simply changing our intention we change the flow of energy we are mistaken. When we change an intention we will also have to undo what our intention has already causes to manifest.

This is the basis of both past lives therapy (whether or not you believe in past lives doesn’t matter) and many self development programs. They ask what unfinished business do we have in our life whenever we want to regain our creative powers to create a new life. We needs to realize that any creative process is multidimensional. It cuts across all aspects of our being. The examples used here do not address the interconnectedness between us and our environment. Rather they only outline the overall creative process across a linear time and space as we perceive Creation.

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We can also use the rain-river analogy to understand how the intention for our life and our creative passion are related. We can look at the rain-river analogy where the intention for our life is a vast river that drains a continent. The direction and flow of that river to the ocean is pretty much determined by the landscape. In this sense our lives are destined by the time and place of our life For example, the rainwater that falls to create the river can be seen as falling in the United States on the continental divide. The east side of the continental divide of the Rocky Mountains flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Its path to the Gulf tend to be gentle crossing broad planes. The rain which falls on the west side, flows into the Pacific Ocean. Its path tends to be fast falling great distances flowing a much shorter path to the Ocean than the East side of the mountains. Although we cannot control the direction of the flow, that is towards the Gulf or the ocean, we can build dams and direct the water within the existing flow pattern.

The intention for our life is similar. It establishes the existing flow pattern of our creative life energy for the time and place of our incarnation. That is, the water (our creative life energy) that creates the river (our life) falls on one side of he mountains or the other. As such that rate at which the energy can be extracted from our life, or the river, is determined by the landscape in which we pass. In living our life, we most probably will not reverse the flow pattern and take the water to the other side of the mountain. But we have a wide latitude as to how it flow and the terrain in which in flows. For example, we cannot take all the water that falls on the Eastern side of the Continental Divide and put it on the West side without a tremendous expenditure of energy. But, we can effectively utilize the flow that is on the Western and Eastern sides. We can convert the water power to electrical power and send the electricity across the Continental Divide. We can also build channels that redirect the water vastly different direction along the Continental Divide. However, ultimately, the water flows toward the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean depending on where it falls..

Relative to the intention for our life other than your minimum life energy that sustains our life we can direct our life energy wherever we desire. However, the minimum life energy that sustains is life and is available t us is the preset pattern of energy flow analogous to the rain falling on one particular side of the Continental Divide. If the water fall on the Eastern side, there is a long path to take to the Gulf of Mexico. If the water falls on the West side there is a relatively short path for the water to take to the Pacific Ocean. A part of our life and the energy we can access is set or fixed much the like how the water will flow to the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. In this regard some of us have short lives and some have long lives. Some of us have periods of great energy release as we cascade off a plateau and at other times we have little creative energy for we are crossing a very gently sloping broad plain. Other may find a continual and relatively constant creative energy for their path has the same rate of energy release across their entire journey.

We can access all of our creative energy and transform it as we wish. However, often we need to know and understand that present pattern before we can effectively utilize the flow. The initial flow pattern for our life is contained in the intention that brought you into this world. It determines the passion we have in life and where that passion is ultimately directed. This intention can be accessed through knowing and understanding how to utilize the body consciousness and our intuitive guidance through the subconscious mind and our intuition that comes with our body wisdom.

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