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Learning to creatively dance
Taking the next step to meet
your creative spirit
Getting started
Essential understanding
Free will
Clear intention/clarity of intention
True freedom
Death and transformation
Overview of a multi-step process
Learning to creatively walk - working with the two views of creation
Exploring mind
Exploring what is symbolized in the heart
The pivot point of breaking with the past to create - a new way to
think about thinking
Understanding what the mind presents
The pivot point
Origin of our thoughts
Expanding our experiences
Creating a single point focus for what we desire
Exploring our
conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions
Learning to creatively dance
Deciding what creative dance to learn
Dance of energy and consciousness
Dance between mind and heart
Dance between the enculturated mind and the truth of our being
Dance of identity
Dance of the inner masculine and inner feminine
Dance of the mature inner masculine and mature inner feminine
The inner creative power
The outer creative power
The outer dances - the outer dance and the dance of the Creation
with Creation
The offspring of the encultutated mind
Our charisma
Ultimate dance
The next step
Creation/creation is a
dance. It
is a dance arising from the
relationship between energy and
consciousness. Conscious creating is about learning to dance. It is
about learning to consciously work with our
creative spirit and
learn to dance with it in the world in which we find ourselves. It
is a dance in several ways at several levels. Becoming a conscious
creator of our experiences and the reality of those experiences
ultimate bring us to the point of learning one or more of the
dances of Creation/creation as discussed below under the topic “Deciding
what creative dance to learn” and in the file "Dances
of Creation/creation."
What dance we need to learn to do depends on what we wish to create.
But no matter what way we creatively dance, and at what level we
creatively dance, the starting point is the same. We need to learn
creatively walk and then choose the dance that is most appropriate
for what we desire to create.
As such, this file is accessed from a variety of applications for
each application requires us to learn to creative walk. This file is
designed to help you become a conscious creator to consciously
create whatever you desire to experience in any given area or aspect
of your life. In understanding the different creative aspects and roles of
the
masculine and
feminine within our being and learning their dance
allows us: to heal the wounds of the past; become free from the
burden of the uncertainty of the future; to live in the present; and
to create what one desires to have - even relationships. The
question here is, “What exactly is the masculine and feminine dance
and how do we learn to do it?” Yet this dance is only one of many
and may not be the one most appropriate for our creative endeavor.
This discussion and its subsequent sequential hyperlinks are
directed to providing: (1) some guidance to understand what
dance you may need to learn to do that is appropriate for what you
desire to create; and (2) some guidance as to how to do the dance
that is appropriate. What is provided here on any one topic is only
a starting point. You will have to ultimately learn to access and
follow your own
internal guidance as to what you need to do to
create what you desire. This material is designed to assist you in
developing that internal guidance for use in your creative
endeavors.
Getting started (Top)
The approach used here is to step
through what is considered necessary based on the
creativity perspective and
energy consciousness model to learn the
dances
of Creation/creation. For each step refer is made to the appropriate
hyperlinked discussion along with some thoughts as to how you may
act on that understanding to make it experientially real for you.
It needs to be understood, there are two part to any knowledge.
There is the classroom portion and an experiential portion. To have
a creative working knowledge of any subject or topic, we need to
have both. For example, the classroom portion is reflected in the
fact there are thing you know but can’t seem to do anything with the
knowledge you have to make something happen. The experiential
portion is reflected in the fact that there are things that you do
but you have no idea as to why you do them. These two part as
discussed in the topic, “Two types, or aspects, of knowledge,
understanding, awareness and knowing”
Creation/creation is experiential. There are many things we can
create without the classroom portion of creativity and knowledge of
how we create. In fact, we all create the experiences we have and we
do it all the time. It is just that most create at an unconscious
level. To become a conscious creator we need to make the appropriate
aspects of our
subconscious/unconscious conscious. To do this we
have to have both some conceptual understanding of what we are
trying to do and do our own experiments and gain our own experience
of the principles discussed. The material provided here is designed
to help you to do this.
As a first step, it recommended you review the discussion on the
topic of “Two types, or aspects, of knowledge,
understanding, awareness and knowing”
Essential understanding
(Top)
In learning to creatively dance,
there are some concepts, ideas and understanding that are essential.
These concept continually arise in our creative endeavors and haunt
our creative actions unless we face their real implications as early
as possible in any attempted creation. It is recommended you explore
each of these to some degree and realize you will most probably have
to occasionally revisit their real meaning and implication as you
pursue your creative endeavors.
Free will
(Top):
The issue with
free will is that we are
infinite creative beings
with an
unlimited creativity. We are free to create whatever we
desire. We have only chosen to limit our
creative power and creative
ability for the purpose of having a
physical experience as a human
being in this time and place. There are no judgements on what we
create other than what we, ourselves, impose on what we do. However,
there are consequences to our choices and actions. We only need to
be willing to accept the consequences and
surrender to the flow of
energy we create by our choices. Otherwise we
bind and fix our
creative life energy rather than allowing it to flow freely.
The recommendation is to explore the hyperlinks associate with the
topic “Free
Will” and contemplate what free will really means to you
and what are its implications if you have a free will. Of course,
one of the decisions you will have to make is to decided if your
really have a free will or not.
Clear
intention/clarity of intention
(Top):
What needs to be noted here at this point is that to consciously
create we need to create a conscious
clear intention for what we
desire to create. We need to hold that intention as a
single point focus and
surrender to the flow of energy created by that intention.
To do so requires us to be
open to feeling. We need to be able to feel more than we think.
We need to be able to respond and
honor the intuitive guidance that arises. Honoring the intuitive guidance is
to create a
suorephex based on that
intuitive guidance. To become
this conscious creator, we will have to become more
feminine than
masculine. The more we are in
mind, the more we will be recreating the past. To create, to
bring into existence that which has not been previously seen or
experienced, we will have to be able to
step out of mind
to
surrender to the flow of energy we create based on the
intention we hold. Becoming a conscious creator is about learning
how to live in, and become, the
nurturing feminine creative energy.
This is very difficult for both males and females who prefer, and
have created the habit of, living from and within the mind. This is
especially true of humanity today where both males and females are
taught to be so much in our mind.
To gain
clarity of intention, we will need to become aware of why we
desire to create what we do and the feelings we wish to create. We
will also need to become aware of our subconscious intentions which
may be competing for the energy we need to create what we desire. It
needs to be remembered that
mind is a switching station for our
creative life energy. Our creative life energy we flow to create an
experience of that on which we focus our attention and awareness. A
subconscious or unconscious focus works just as well, if not better,
than a conscious focus. We will need to become aware of the types
and kinds of experiences what we are pulling into our life for they
will give us some idea of how our subconscious and unconscious are
focused.
The recommendation provided here is to explore and contemplate the
meaning of
clear intention and look into your own life as to how
clear you really are about what you desire to create in and with
your life. Some topics which may be of assistance in your
exploration are
Clarity of Intention,
Your Eulogy and What You Wish
to Manifest With Your Life,
What Serves One’s Being,
A life Worth
Living - Something Worth Doing.
True freedom
(Top):
True freedom is about becoming unattached to what we experience. In
becoming unattached our
creative life energy is free to flow into
our next desired creation. If we are not free, our
energy becomes
bound in the past and we simply recreate the past in a new way.
The recommendation is to read and contemplate the discussion of
True
Freedom and what it means for your life.
Death and transformation
(Top):
To learn to creatively dance and have the freedom to do the dance
that is required to create what we desire, there is a transformation
which we must undergo. That transformation requires a
sacrifice of
some type. The sacrifice is only part of the creation process we
face to create what we desire. This transformation will most often
be experienced as some type and kind of death. That, in turn, causes
the fear of death to arise in many individuals. When we are not free
to flow with the process we create what has been called the
dark
night of the soul at some level within our being. How intense the
experience of the dark night of the soul we face and how much
pain
we create depends on what we desire to create and how much we hold
onto that which must be sacrificed/transformed for the new creation.
This subject is further discussed in the topic “Death and the
Transformation Process.” Some thoughts as to how to make any
transformation process faster, gentler and easier have been compiled
under the topic of “The Possibility of Creating a Gentle Phoenix.”
It needs to be understood that death and transformation as some
level within our being will always occur and be required for any
creation. We face them every day but do not realize it for so much
of our creativity is done subconsciously. Facing the death and
transformation for any given creative endeavor is probably the
biggest obstacle to becoming a conscious creator. They are topics
that we each have to directly face as some point if we ever hope to
gain conscious control over what we are creating in and with our
lives. It also needs to be noted here that many of our beliefs about
death and transformation lie in our subconscious and usually do not
surface until we are faced with the prospect of death and/or
transformation. It is here a
metatheater or similar simulation may
be useful in surfacing our subconscious beliefs.
The recommendation made here is to read the hyperlinked files
related to death and transformation above and contemplate the
subject. Become aware of what you think and feel about death and
note if any fears, concerns or the like which arise around the
topics of death, transformation and a required sacrifice for any
creation.
Overview of a multi-step
process (Top)
Learning to dance is a multi-step
process. It starts with learning to creatively walk and discerning
the
view of the heart and the
view of the
mind from each other.
Learning to creatively walk entails the need to explore our
mind and
explore what is
symbolized in the heart. In exploring mind we look
to see what we think and believe. Exploring what is symbolized in
the heart is done by opening ourselves to our feelings at each and
every level of our being and deal with the reasons as to why we may
have shut our feelings down.
It is in understanding how
mind presents what we feel that we can
move to the second step of learning to creatively dance and create a
single point focus for what we desire to create. When we create that
single point focus with a
clear intention we can begin the third
step to explore our conscious, subconscious and unconscious
intentions which may be influencing, if not competing with, what we
desire to create.
When we have done some exploration of influences and competing
intentions, we we can move into the fourth step to actually
creatively dance and move between holding the intention we wish to
manifest and
surrendering to the flow of energy created in holding
that intention and what life has to offer. It is about making our
life a
single point focus such that all our efforts are concentrated
to create what we desire.
Learning to creatively walk
- working with the two views of creation (Top)
To dance, we first need to learn
to walk. The issue in learning to walk is the need to be able to go
into and out of balance, first right (or left) and then left (or
right), without falling. To walk is to alternately move between two
directions. Two complementary directions, not opposite directions.
Complementary directions take us in the same direction but in a
different way. That is, they each have a component in the same
direction as that which you desire to go.
To creatively walk is to understand there are
two views to Creation and we need to be able to alternate going
into one and then the other. One view is the
view from the
mind and the other is the
view from the heart.
As discussed in the topic, “Learning to Walk - Going into and out of
Balance,” to walk we need to go out of balance in one direction but
catch ourselves before we fall down only to go out of balance in the
opposite direction and similarly catching our ourselves. To walk, we
need to continually alternate going out of balance in one direction
and then the other. If we remain balanced, we never move but stay
exactly where we are. If we move totally in one direction without
movement in the other we either fall down or go around in circles.
The key to walking is going into and out of balance in one direction
and then the other.
To creatively walk, we need to be able to freely go into either the
view of the heart
or the
view of the
mind and remain there as long
as necessary. We need to be able to move into the view of the mind
and become unbalanced. Then move into the view of heart and become
unbalanced only to return to the view of the mind and start the
process all over again. How long we remain in one or the other and
how unbalanced we need to become totally depends on what we desire
to create. The greater the creation we desire to create and the
greater its difference from what currently exists, the greater the
unbalance necessary.
When we are aware of going into and out of balance, there is an
uncomfortableness and/or uneasiness. We experience the
sacrifice of
creation and the
chaos of creation. Often there is the fear we are
going to fall. When we learn to dance that fear may be valid for we
probably will fall. But unless we pick ourselves up again and try
again, we will never learn to walk. When we create, many of us will
fear the unbalance. Some of us will fear the unbalance of the
mind
where as others will fear the unbalance of the heart. Most of us
have been trained to live in the mind so we will fear the unbalance
of the heart rather than the unbalance of the mind. Alternatively
said, we will feel we are going crazy when we experience our own
heart but never realized that we have been living in the unbalance
of the mind so long we are comfortable with it.
To creatively learn to walk it is essential that we know there are
these two views of creation and we need some experience with each.
To say we know and understand each is only to have a classroom level
of knowledge. To creatively walk we need both the classroom and
experiential knowledge of each. We all will have to spend some time
exploring the
mind and coming to know what the unbalance of
mind
really feels like. Similarly, we each will have to spend some time
exploring what is
symbolized in the heart and coming to know what
the unbalance of what is symbolized in the heart feels like. We need
to know what each feels like be able to readily determine whether we
are in heart or mind. The question we all face in any one moment is,
“Are we going to
surrender to the experience we have and feel our
way through it or act from mind and respond based on what we think
and believe?” The key is to conscious creating is to know when to
remain in feeling and when to move to the mind.
Exploring mind
(Top):
To learn and work with the
view of the
mind it is necessary to
understand what we think and believe and why we think and believe
what we do. We need to spend some time explore our mind and becoming
totally lost in
mind. We need to learn what it feels to
step out of mind. We need to know what it feels to step past the limits and
barriers of mind. We need to become aware, if not perceive a glimmer
of, the different between the
enculturated mind and the
transcendental mind. We need to become aware of how some memories bind and fix our
creative life energy where as other memories hold little or no
energy. We need to become aware of how our mind and memories work to
begin to understand how we cause our memories to bind our creative
life energy and how we get them to release that energy.
The recommendation is that you being to explore your mind How you
choose to explore your mind is your choice. The topic, “Exploring
Our Mind,” can be used as a starting point if you wish. For those
aspects of your past which carry trauma or great
pain, you may wish
to seek spiritual, psychological or medical assistance, as
appropriate.
Exploring
what is symbolized in the heart
(Top):
To learn and work with the
view of the heart is about creating an
conscious awareness of the heart and what one feels to know exactly
what flow of energy one is perceiving. Exploring what is
symbolized in the heart requires regaining the ability to feel and addressing
the reasons why we do not allow ourselves to feel at each and every
level of our being. The rule of thumb here is that if we cannot
freely enter spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery
and exploration representative of the
most creative state of being
when we are in a
safe and secure space then we will need to address
the reasons why we shut down this ability. Alternatively if we don’t
know what our spontaneous and innocent play feels like and looks
like and know what we need to do to create it, then we have never
consciously been there in this life and we will have to work through
our
pain to experience it.
To regain this ability to play, it is necessary to understand what
we allow ourselves to feel and not feel and why we feel what we do.
We need to spend some time explore what is
symbolized in
our heart
and becoming totally lost in what we feel. We need to learn what it
feels to
step out of mind and fully into what we feel. We need to
know what it feels to step past the limits and barriers of
mind to
feel creation and become totally lost in what we feel. For most,
this can be frightening if not terrifying. We need to become aware
of how some memories
bind and fix the free flow of our
creative life energy where we
lost our ability to feel and spontaneously enter the
state of
creative play. The topics “Internal Compass” and
“Calibrating Your Internal Compass” provide some guidance as to how
to get back in touch with what you feel.
The recommendation made here is to
calibrate your internal compass
and begin to understand what truly serves you. The topics
“Calibrating Your Internal Compass,” “What Serves Ones’ Being,“ and
"Exploring
Feelings" have been provided to assist you in these areas.
The
pivot point of breaking with the past to create - a new way to
think about thinking
(Top)
Understanding what
the mind presents (Top):
There is an important note what needs to be added here about what
the
mind presents that is essential to our creative efforts and
learning to creatively dance. Mind only knows the past. To act on
what we think we need to do is to act totally from the past. To act
on what intuition presents and mind interprets is still to act on
the past for we cannot escape the mind. However, there is a
different. What is different here is that which mind presents that
is from our
intuitive guidance is only interpreted by mind as to what we
sense. Although the interpretation by mind may be inaccurate and
based on the past, the direction to which it points is correct. By
honoring our intuitive guidance no matter how bizarre or strange it
looks, we move in the direction as perceive by our intuitive
guidance. Although it may take several iterations and/or
refinements, as we gain the minimum set or requisite experience to
properly characterize what we sense, we move toward a more and more
accurate interpretation. In time, as we gain the
minimum set of requisite experience, our mind will know exactly what we need to do
or have to act to create what we desire.
The pivot point
(Top):
The pivot point to break with past, become a conscious creator and
learn to creatively dance is to be able to distinguish the thoughts
that arise from an energy perceived to lie with the span of
mind and
our localized body and the thoughts that arise from an energy
perceived outside the span of mind and what our
intuitive guidance
perceives with our
non-localized body and our non-localized being.
The energy which will give rise to our creations, whatever those
creations may be will be, will be perceived as lying outside the
limits and boundaries of our
enculturated mind. Creation, but it
very definition, will be perceived as arising from thoughts that
originate from outside the experiences we have had. The experiences
we have had are what create the limits and boundaries of our enculaturated mind. In becoming mindful and aware of our thought and
what we feel we can being to distinguish what thoughts seem to be
arising from within our mind and those that seem to arise from
without.
Origin of our thoughts
(Top):
What needs to be understood here is that all thought arises from an
energy that is characterized by our
mind. However, we sense energy
one of two ways. We can sense the energy within the realm of our
localized energy which is expresses by our body and our mind Or, we
can sense an energy that lies outside of localized energy. In
essence we sense an energy through the
non-localized aspects of our
being.
If the energy is perceived to exist within our localized energy it
will appear to arise from our
mind and falls within the realm of
what mind thinks and believes. Mind will generate a thought based on
that energy as it knows and understand it. In this case essence the
energy is perceived as existing within the realm of the body and
mind.
However, if we sense energy with our the non localized aspects of
our being,
mind does not recognized that energy. It is outside the
experience of the limits and boundaries of the
enculturated mind and
what mind has experienced. However, it perceives our body and our
being has detected something. If it recognizes how the body and/or
our being reacts to what is sensed in some way, it will provide some
type and kind of characterization based on the experiences it has
had that appears to correspond what the body senses.
Since what is being sensed lies outside
mind, mind’s
characterization will be incorrect in some way. How incorrect the
characterization is depends on whether or not we are capable of
stepping outside of our
enculturated mind and use what is available
in either our
transcendental mind and its experiences or the
interconnectedness of all things, but the energy that is sensed may
also be outside the experience of the
transcendental mind.
In either case, the
mind characterizes the energy it receives based
on the experiences it has had. The more the energy looks like what
has been previously experienced in the past, the more accurate the
characterization mind will provide. The more the energy is unlike
what it experienced in the past, the less accurate the
characterization. Often mind will fit a characterization to an
energy that is unlike anything it has experienced and be totally
inaccurate. For example, something is read in a book. Mind then has
an experience of something and says for one reason or another, “This
must be what I read about.” It then labels that experience and
described it based on what it read. It then beings to think it has
experienced what it read. Yet it is totally inaccurate. This is why
it is said at the beginning of this discussion there is a mental and
experiential aspect to any knowing. Until we have both, we really
don’t know something.
When it comes to creativity and creating something not previously
experienced,
mind is of questionable and marginal value. When it
comes to something not previously experienced, as in a creative
endeavor, mind is at a loss to provide and accurate description of
what is. This is why it is said that when mind presents an intuitive
insight, the image is probably wrong but the direction of travel is
correct. That is, the energy that is experienced as compared to all
the experience mind has had, the best fit of what mind has
experienced in the past is in the direction of the image presented.
Hence, if we honor the image presented, we move in toward and into
the energy which is experienced by our
intuitive guidance.
With a little experience and practice, we can being to recognized
what thoughts arise from within our
mind or are a characterization
by mind of something sensed within our
intuitive guidance. It is as
though each thought comes with a little flag that tells us something
about it origins. In fact, we may be able to see what thoughts we
have that originate as a result of the beliefs we hold that have
been given to us by another and actually say “this though is not my
though.” Similarly we can recognize alien thoughts that we know
arise from something foreign to our being.
Creation lies in the unknown. It is to bring into existence that
which has not previously been experienced or is significantly
different from the past. In being able to distinguish whether or not
a thought arise from our
mind or our
intuitive guidance, we being to
step out of the past and look to what we feel more and more to
create something new. It is when we start selecting our intuitive
guidance over the thoughts that arise from our mind that we begin to
become that conscious creator.
Mind will always play an important role and it is inescapable.
Becoming a conscious creator is to be able to separate our intuitive
thoughts which is the energy we sense characterized by mind from
what our mind thinks and the thoughts it generates. It is to make as
many decisions as possible based on our
intuitive guidance for our
intuitive guidance is what leads us into the unknown to create. Mind
only allows us to repeat the past. This is the first creative dance
that we need to learn to do. This is the essence of the
dance
between heart and mind.
Expanding our experiences
(Top):
It realizing our thoughts arise by how
mind characterizes the energy
we experience based on our past experiences, the more varied the
experiences we have the greater our ability to more accurately
characterize what we sense. What needs to be realized whatever we do
in life. We live in a new experience each moment or we simply repeat
the past by overlaying our past experience onto what we experience.
This is the based of entering each moment with a
beginners mind such
that we do not bias what we experience with the past. Rather, we are
open to fully experiencing the moment as it unfolds. People often
are heard saying, “I have “x” years of experience at such and such.”
The question is, “Do they have “x” years of experience or one year
of experience repeated “x” times. There is a very significant
difference between the two. Most people have one year of experience
repeated “x” times for we all tend to live in our past and project
that past through expectation into the future. All the experiences
of life do not give us new experiences. Many are just repeat
experiences of the past in a little different way. The more we can
step out into new and varied experiences the greater we expand our
creative ability.
The recommendation is to create something like a “not doing”
practice routinely in your life. That is, do something that is
different than the way you define yourself with the specific
intention of acquiring different experiences to define yourself
differently. The more we can become comfortable with stepping out of
our perceived identity, the greater the creative capability we
access. Additionally, the greater the volume of different
experiences we have the great the volume of experience we have to
call upon to characterize what we experience in the unknown. This is
the basis of the statement that wisdom comes with age. But that is
only true if that age has brought a wide selection of experience.
Many do not become wise when they age simply because the do not have
the depth and breadth of experience to become wise.
Creating
a single point focus for what we desire (Top)
As stated in the overview
above it is necessary to understand how
mind presents what we feel
such that we can move to create a
single point focus for what we
desire to create. That is, to have mind hold an wavering focus on
the feeling of what we desire to create.
Within the
energy consciousness model, our energy goes were we focus
our attention and awareness. By holding focus on an intention we
generate a flow of energy which will unfold in the experience of
what we desire. Alternatively said, there is a feeling which goes
with the intention we hold. We can use that feeling as an
internal compass to guide our actions in the world to create what we desire.
Until we create that
single point focus with a
clear intention we
can’t really begin the next step to learn to creatively dance.
Creating a
single point focus on feeling is about creating a fuller
experience of life such that we are capable of choosing to focus our
attention through the feeling and the flow of energy as opposed to
mind. To do this, we will have to develop a strong internal sense of
identity and
strength of will reflected in our
mature inner
masculine. Here we needs to develop and use our
internal guidance to
guide us. It is what allows us to hold focus and not be frightened
or intimated wherever the flow of energy leads or what it causes to
occur externally. We need to learn to feel what we desire and let
those feelings drive our creative actions more than what we create
with
mind and what we think.
Additional discussion and guidance on these topics are found in the
following topics: “Intention and a Flow of Energy," “Clarity
of Intention,” and “Single
Point Focus,”
Exploring our conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions
(Top)
Until we create that
single point focus with a
clear intention we cannot effectively begin to explore
our conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions which may be
influencing, if not competing with, what we desire to create. The
reason for this is quite simple. The number of issues, beliefs, and
other distractions that can arise will cause us to become totally
distracted. Additionally, as our creative energy begins to freely
flow it reminds us of the past. Rather than facing the
pain of the
past where our creativity was thwarted, we tend to keep it
suppressed and enter the “Valley of Contentment” on our creative
journey. That is, rather than facing the pain of the past to
continue forward, we become satisfied with were we are. Creating a
single point focus on our feeling for what we desire to create keeps
our energy grounded and focused on what we desire to create so as to
not become distracted. With this focus, we can begin to explore our nonconscious world and not become lost.
To explore what diverts our creative energy from our desired
creation, we need to become consciously aware of what conscious,
subconscious and unconscious intentions we hold including the
intention for our life. Here we realizes that there are many things
mind wants
and desire because of the experience it has had and what
it has been programmed to believe about itself and life. Many of
them us have no conscious awareness of the existence of our
competing intentions. We begin to understand the numerous intentions
we carry and discard those that don’t really serve what we desire to
create. Otherwise, we will be unable to focus and concentrate our
energy to create what we desire. We will be unable to
surrender to the flow of energy as necessary as we act to
honor the intuitive guidance as above.
Exploring our
conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions and
beliefs is the creative dance for they are what is keeping us from
having what we desire now. It is a dance between the truth of what
is and what we desire and think and believe. Remember, within the
equivalency of energy and consciousness, our energy goes where we
focus our attention and awareness. If nothing is
blocking the free
flow of our energy, we would create what we desire instantaneously.
But to have the experience of
creation/Creation we
need to forget
and step out of the awareness of exactly how we create what we
create or we would not experience the creation. This last sentence
is very important to understand if we wish to understand how
consciousness creates an experience of Creation. If it is not clear
how we create by binding the free flow of our creative life energy
it is suggest you review the topic, “Binding the Free Flow of Energy
to Create.” If it is not clear why we need to forget that we are the
creator of our experiences and how we create them, it is recommend
you review the topic “Creation Is About Forgetting” and “The Need To
Become Lost.”
In our situation as a human three things normally block the
instantaneous fulfillment of our desires. Two are by design. The
third is about us learning conscious creativity. The first is the
nature of creation at any level of Creation is such that we must
bind
or block the free
flow of our
creative life energy to
experience
creation/Creation and then we
forget how we did it. The
second is the
nature of the Physical Creation
which is designed to grow and evolve our experiences. In essence
Physical Creation slows down the rate at which we create and
increases the time it takes to manifest our desire. It can be said
Physical Creation is teaching us how to learn to control our
thoughts and learn to develop the conscious awareness of what we
create and hold a
single point focus for what we desire to create.
The third is we carry intention and beliefs which conflict,
restrict, influence, rob and/or impede our ability to create. In
essence, we have not “cleaned up our creative house” to have
everything in proper order to create in the fastest way possible
given the
conditions of the environment we face.
Learning to creatively dance
(Top)
Learning to creatively dance is
about becoming very clear in our intentions and beliefs, including
learning to surface our
subconscious and unconscious intentions and
beliefs, and to know what feeling we desire to experience in holding
that intention. It is to learn how to feel the needed movement, the
dance, to dance with the experience presented to us. We need to move
into what is
symbolized in the heart and feel the flow of energy
generated by the intention we hold. We need to become fully present
with the experience to fulfill and honor the intention that created
it. Then allow our
intuitive guidance to arise and step into mind
honoring our intuitive guidance and choose to act in a way to create
the next experience that leads us to manifest what we desire to
create.
What this process of following our
intuitive guidance looks like is
discussed in the topic “What does navigating from the heart and/or
following our internal guidance look like?”
Exploration of influences and competing intentions is the creative
dance. Creation is “step up” or designed to
causes us to forget what we set out to do. We move to
creatively between holding the intention we wish to manifest and
surrendering to the flow of energy created in holding that intention
and what life has to offer. The process is actually simple if it
were not our conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions
competing and the mundane of the world diverting our
creative life energy away from what we have chosen to create.
In essence, a dance is a form of walking (going into and out of
balance) done in conjunction with a tune or melody. The movement of
the dance and the pace or rate of going into and out of balance are
determined by the melody. The direction of travel is determined by
what dance we choose to do with that melody. For any given melody,
we can often choose to do different dances. In our creative
endeavors the dance we choose to do will be determined by what we
desire to create. Any one intention held by
mind can be manifested a
variety of different ways. What determines the dance we do is the
feeling we wish to create.
Most dances we do are some form of a social event or done with
another so they are contained within the given space of a social
gathering. The social gathering provides the safety for the dance.
However, the actual space can be quite large. For example, the
movement of a hunter and its prey as the prey is stalked is a form
of a dance. There is the alternating movement of the hunter and the
prey. One moves in response to the other. This hunting dance is not
contained within a limited space or a predetermined direction and
can be as vast as the prey can roam. One of the goals of the hunter
is to figure out how to contain the prey so as to eventually capture
or kill it. When the prey is captured or killed, the dance ends and
the creation is had. It is at this time the we
return to the
conceptual formation step of the
creative/creation process.
The hunter stalking its prey is a very good analogy for our
creativity. Our
creative power and creative
ability are actually
unlimited. They are free to roam in an unlimited space. The ultimate
desire of our
creative spirit is to experience the infinity of
creation and the freedom of its own unfoldment.
Mind is like the
hunter. It seeks to contain or corral our creativity into what it
desire to create. It does so by the intention it holds.
There is a ongoing tension and
dance between these two efforts in the ongoing
dance between mind
and heart. The dance is to move between going out of balance by what
is
symbolized
by the heart then alternate with going out of balance
by what is presented by
mind.
What
mind presents in any one moment is all that it has amassed
consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously about the energy in
that moment. All that you have every been and experienced, both in
the
transcendental mind and
enculturated mind, is present in each
moment. What is called up to be used in that moment is another
issue. The most energetic is what bubbles to the surface. How we
choose to respond and what we allow to choose our response is our
choice.
Most do not realize we usually allow our subconscious or unconscious
to choose the majority of our responses. How long a duration one
needs to be in
mind or heart and what is the ratio between being in
one as compared to the other totally depends on the creation we wish
to manifest and how well we intimately we know our mind and
intimately know our heart. We may need to be
out of mind a long time
to intimately know our heart. It may take some time to work through
freely experiencing the heart and return to a state of
creative play. There may be many subconscious and unconscious issue
preventing the free express and unfoldment of our
creative spirit.
Similarly, it may take some time to intimately explore our mind.
It needs to be noted here that being in balance with the heart is to
be fully aligned with the flow of energy allowing it to lead. Being
unbalanced out of balance with the heart is to allow
mind to lead
and the heart, the flow of our energy, follow the lead of mind. To
be out of balance with the mind it to
step out of mind allowing the
flow of energy and what we feel to lead. To be in balance with the
mind is for mind to be in control, including force our
creative life energy to flow into a direction that does not feel correct.
The intention we hold is the equivalent of the melody of the dance.
Once the melody is chosen, the pace of the dance is set. Once our
intention is chosen, a flow of energy arise that determines the pace
and unfoldment of the creation for the environment in which we find
ourselves. The flow of the energy is determined by the intention.
The environment in which the energy will flow is determined by our
conscious, subconscious and unconscious intentions and beliefs. They
form a mental landscape across which the flow of our
creative life energy as determined by the intention we hold must flow to manifest
what we desire.
It is much like the terrain of a continent determines the rate and
pattern of flow of a river traveling across that terrain. Just as we
need to
surrender to the movement and tempo of the melody of the
dance, we need to
surrender to the flow of energy created by the
intention
mind holds as it flows through the environment. As we
change our conscious, subconscious and unconscious beliefs and
intentions, we change the terrain or landscape across which the flow
of energy created by our intention must flow. Hence, we can change
the rate at which what we desire can manifest if we do the correct
mental work.
The main issue with creativity is that the flow of our
creative life energy, our
creative spirit, will flow into the unknown to find and
create what it desires. However, our
mind lives in the past. All is
knows is what it has experiences. It continually pulls us to the
past and toward what we know and understand. It does this by rather
than being open to what is as it is, mind continues the past by
projecting its expectations such that the past is creating, or
rather overlaying the real terrain. Overlaying the past on the real
terrain creates a new terrain which is reflective of what mind
thinks it must flow through but masks the real issues that must be
faced. So there is an ongoing, never ending tensions between the
pull of our
creative spirit to freely unfold in the unknown and the
mind which seek what it knows in the known.
There is paradox here that few ever realized. We seek life and
freedom. Few desired to be controlled.
Mind thinks that what it
seeks will free it from the past. Yet in mind seeking what it thinks
it needs is only living in, and confining itself to, the past.
Surrendering to the flow of our
creative life energy that takes us
into the unknown appears to mind as though we lose control and lose
our freedom. We feel at the mercy of unknown forces which seem to
control our life. Yet it is in the unknown that we move out of the
past into the new and previously not experienced. But in moving into
the unknown we are at the mercy of the unknown for we have no idea
as to what to expect.
All we can really do is know the feeling we desire to create and
hold focus on that feeling. In holding focus on that feeling with
our
mind as a
single point focus we move into the unknown. In moving
into the unknown holding that feeling, we allow the energy to flow
with the terrain of the unknown. We only ask our
intuitive guidance
to give our mind an understanding so that mind can direct us into
that flow. Mind needs something to do. If it is not actively working
to direct us toward the flow of energy based on some idea, image or
concept it has, it will distract us. In consulting our intuitive
guidance as to what we need to do to align with the flow of energy
we allow mind to accumulate the
minimum set of requisite experience
it needs to understand what it needs to know to create the feeling
we desire to create which lies within our intention. Eventually mind
will know what it needs to do to create what we desire. To do the
dance between holding the feeling and what mind thinks it needs to
do next we need to continual consult our
internal guidance so as to
keep the mind focused on the feeling.
Deciding what
creative dance to learn (Top)
Our starting point for consciously
doing the dance is to understand what dance we will need learn to do
to create what we desire. In essence, it is the same dance but at
different levels of awareness
within our being. The question is, “What level of our consciousness
do we need to go to create what we desire?” As such, each dance
deals with a different set of conscious, subconscious and
unconscious intentions and beliefs appropriate to what we desire to
create. There is no need to learn any dance other than the one most
appropriate for the intention we hold.
A diagram of the possible dances we can do is provided in the figure
entitled “Dances of Creation” provided below. What dance we think we
do is determined by the perspective we hold as determined by the
focus of our attention and awareness and determined by what we
desire to create. What we need to do is to be aware of is what dance
is being called forth for us to do. But we will not know what dance
we are asking to do until the issues surface from our subconscious
and unconscious to
show us the level. However, what often happens is that our dance
is iterative. That is, there are layers and layers of issues that
need to be address to create what we desire. We start at a shallow
level moving deeper and deeper, seemingly to
spiral around iterating the process as we move deeper and
deeper.
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Each dance listed in the figure is
briefly discussed below. Appropriate hyperlinks are provided for
each for further discussions.
Dance of energy and consciousness
(Top): The first dance
indicated by circle 1 is the
dance of energy and consciousness. All
the dances are ultimately a dance between energy and consciousness
and the
observer and the observed. All that differs is the
perspective we hold.
Our energy flows where we focus our attention and awareness. Our
awareness awakens and is changed by the flow of energy it
experiences. There is a constant and endless
awakening and going to
sleep of awareness within an endless experience of creation as our
consciousness awakens and goes to sleep. As stated above, the dance between energy
and consciousness can be experienced as the
dance of creation/Creation, the
dance of duality, a dance between the
observer - observed pair, the dance of the
ebb and flow of creation
into and out of form and creating
something from nothing as the
dance between form and no-form.
The dance of energy consciousness is the starting point of on the
diagram. It is the dance between what we feel and what we think.
Dance between mind and heart
(Top): The second dance, circle 2, is the
dance between mind and heart. Here we must alternate, not
necessarily equally, between the
masculine aspect and
feminine
aspect of Creation. The masculine aspect is reflected in our
thinking and symbolized by the
mind and
what mind wants. The
feminine aspect of Creation is the flow of energy within our being
and what we feel,
symbolized in the heart. When we localize our
awareness in the body we can feel through our body and our being.
When we localize our awareness in what we think and believe, we
experience the
mind. When we focus on the experiences of this life,
we enter the
enculturated mind. If we focus on all the experiences
we have ever had, we experience the
transcendental mind. Most never
become aware of their transcendental mind and remain in their enculturated mind. We need to move from the view and perspective of
the enculturated mind to be
open to feeling what we are feeling in our bodies.
Dance between the enculturated mind and the truth of our being
(Top): The
third dance, circle 3, we face is the dance between the
enculturated mind and the truth of our own being. We are an
infinite creative being whose energy and consciousness permeates and spans the
infinity of Creation. This is the truth of our being and all is open
to us if we know how to access it. However, the experiences of life
and our enculturation and
lack of teachers, have caused us to believe we are something much less and other
than an infinite creative being as described here. The dance here is
to learn what arises from our enculturated mind and what arises
nature to our being and to know which is which. It is to learn to
know which we need to use to create what we desire. What we chose in
this dance determines how our
inner masculine does or doesn’t create
the space for the
inner feminine to mature.
Dance of identity
(Top). Circle 4 is the realization of the identity of
the Source and Its Creation and the source and its creation. Any
creative endeavor ultimately takes us back to the
Source of Creation
for all
creation/Creation arises out of the same material of
Creation. When the
inner feminine is free to nurture true to itself
there is a direct unobstructed, unbiased, awareness of the Source of
Creation even if that awareness is subconscious or unconscious. It
is that conscious, subconscious or unconscious awareness of the
Source of Creation which provides an
inner satisfaction that never
runs dry and a feeling of wholeness and oneness with all of
Creation. When the inner feminine is not fee to be true to itself,
we experience the source and we seem to live in separation from the
Source. This is the illusion of
mind and actually one of the
functions of mind.
Mind will create an experience of whatever on
which mind chooses to focus and allows us to experience that on
which it focuses as a separate entity experiencing Creation. Mind
exist to provide an experience of creation yet creates the perceived
separation from the Source by causing us to lose the awareness that
we are the creator of the experience we have.
As can be seen in the flow diagram above, our ability to access the
Source of Creation is ultimately determined by our
mind. The dance
is between living true to ourselves or living our enculturation.
Living true to ourselves is what creates the space for an awareness
of the
source/Source of
creation/Creation. The more we live true to
ourselves the more we nurture the
inner feminine the more we move
from the source to the Source. If the inner feminine is sufficiently
nurtured and protected by the
inner masculine to live true to
itself, the probably of experiencing the
Ultimate Accident is
significantly increased.
It needs to be noted that as long as we see and experience ourselves
as a separated individuated consciousness, we will not have a
conscious experience of the
Source of Creation. The two are mutually
opposed. We may be fully aware of our connection with the Source and
operate from that level with an
inner satisfaction and feeling of
wholeness, but we will not consciously experience it except in brief
moments through the
Ultimate Accident when we
step out of mind in
conscious awareness. To think otherwise is only to be trapped in
mind and the reason for this is discussed in the topic “The problem
of mind and the experience of the Source of Creation - the trap of
mind.” The goal, if there is one of this
dance, is to be able to dance at the doorway stepping into and out
of the Ultimate Accident and a conscious experience of the Source of
Creation.
Dance of the inner masculine and inner feminine
(Top): Circle 5 is the
dance of the
inner masculine and
inner feminine. It is the marriage
or merging of the inner masculine and inner feminine to create an
offspring that we present to the world that meets some desire of the
world. It needs to be noted here that this offspring is created as a
result of less than a mature inner masculine. This means that our enculturated programming and experiences in life have a significant
influence on how we are responding to the world. This means we are
meeting the world on its terms as a creation within a creation. It
is the cause of what we experience. Here we tend to have more of
victim consciousness where we are at the mercy of creation. In
essence the world tells us, ‘This is who and what you am and this is
what I want from you.” We, of course, believe what we see external
to us and give the world what it demands of us.
Dance of the mature inner masculine and mature inner feminine
(Top):
Circle 6 is the dance between the
mature inner masculine and the
mature inner feminine. It is a marriage that results in
our charisma
which is our gift to the world and meets a need of the world. Here
we do not listen to the world. Rather we operate from
internal
guidance. Rather than the external world being the cause, we become
the cause. Here we move into the
reason for our incarnation and the
forces which pulled us into
incarnation. We become a cause to change
the world in response to what we, as a unique
individualized
consciousness, has to offer Creation. Here we move into the realm of
becoming the Creator of Creation as that cause of Creation.
The inner creative power
(Top): All the dances above the line separating
our inner creative power from the outer creative power is about us
accessing the creative power within our being. We access our
creative power through our feelings and direct that creative power
through what we think and believe. We merge our
inner masculine and
inner feminine in some way and present the
offspring of the
relationship to the world.
Our creative ability lies in what we think and believe and how we
choose or don’t choose to access our creative power and then direct
it. Our creative power lies in what we feel and how much passion we
access. All is available to us through the
Source of Creation and is
reflected in the fact our energy and consciousness permeate all of
creation. The fact that all is available to us through the Source of
Creation is what lies behind the importance of
inner masculine being
able to mature and properly provide the space for the
inner feminine
to mature. It is the mature inner feminine that opens the door for
accessing the Source of Creation. With the mature inner feminine, we
may not consciously experience the Source of Creation as in the
Ultimate Accident. But we can be in a direct and open communication
with the Source of Creation. We access the Source through learning
to work with our
intuitive guidance and how our subconscious and
unconscious presents the information our intuitive guidance provides
to us.
As we being to see how our
intuitive guidance works and where is it
is accurate and inaccurate, we can begin to learn how to consciously
use our subconscious/unconscious connection to the
Source of Creation. Most importantly, we can use that connection when we
return to the Source in a creative endeavor and when we enter the
most creative state of being or the
second most creative state.
The outer creative power
(Top): Our outer creative power is determined by
the dance we do with the world. It is determined by the
offspring we
present to the world. The most important realization one can have
about accessing the outer creative power is that what we access is
determined by the inner state we create and the offspring we present
to the world. It is here most have their difficulties and lose what
creative power and ability that is available to them.
Most have been trained to
castrate the inner masculine and live by
our an enculturated programming. Many have obtained great success
doing what the world desires and directs them to do. However, if we
look at the results, only a few rise to the top and really achieve
the success that is promised. Additionally many who are successful
do not have an
inner satisfaction that never runs dry no matter what
is happening in the external world. The key is to understanding
there is a great creative power that can be obtain in understanding
how the both physical and social external world works and learning
how to use them. However that is only part of creative power that is
accessible.
For centuries humans have tried to access the power in a external
God in one way or another. All cultures have their gods or God and
all have their prescribed ways of accessing the power inherit in
God. However, if you look at the results, they are much less
successful that those who access the physical and social external
world. In fact, much of the success attributed to God in societies
is not so much a result of the power of an external God as it is in
the harnessing the social creative power under the mask of God.
Mobilization of societies for “holy” wars is probably the best
example of this. But then there are a handful of individuals who
seemed to actually have access the power of God. There are great
healers and individuals who seem to do wonderful, Godlike things.
Here the key is how the individual has coupled the inner and outer
creative powers.
Coupling the inner and outer creative powers is the key to accessing
external creative power. Most have focused on harnessing the
physical or social creative powers at the expense of what some would
call their inner spiritual creative powers. Those who purse the
external spiritual creative powers tend to neglect the external
physical and social creative powers. What is not realized for most
is the
relationship of the environment and the creation and there is
not spiritual or physical. There is just what is. Our energy and
consciousness permeate all of Creation simultaneously through the
wave-particle aspects of energy. What we experience entirely depends
on where we localize our awareness.
What is key is to realize that our internal world is reflective of
our external world. We are the creators of our experience and the
reality of those experiences. What we create is usually done at a
subconscious or unconscious level. More often than not it is done at
a subconscious level based on enculturation and the experiences life
has provided to us. Few go directly to the intention for our life.
Most allow it to be a undercurrent influencing their life but not
directing their life. In essence our creative power and ability is
scattered and fragment much like a regular flashlight as compared to
a laser.
The issue it to align our conscious, subconscious and unconscious
beliefs and intention such that we create a laser like focus of our
creative power and ability. What that means for each of us is a very
unique path. Only we can do that alignment. We can use the
assistance of others and we can use a guide to hold us accountable
to our own truth. But we must do the work. No one can do it for us.
The external creative power we access is sole determined by the
marriage of our inner masculine and inner feminine and the
offspring
we present to the world.
In presenting our inner
offspring to the world, we then need to
decided how we are going to dance with the external world. Do we
dance in a way that allows the offspring to freely grow and unfold
in the world true to its own nature. Or, do we dance in a way that
causes the offspring to wither and even die. Or, do we dance in a
way that causes us to recreate the world we experience. The choice
is ours.
The outer dances - the outer dance and the dance of the Creation
with Creation (Top): Circles 7 and 8 represent the outer dance. The outer
dance is a spectrum of possible dances. There are two extreme
versions of the outer dance. The outer dance is between the inner
world and the outer world such that what appears before us is the
experience we desired to have created by the
marriage of the inner masculine and inner feminine.
The offspring of the encultutated mind
(Top): On one extreme there is
circle 7, the dance between the outer world and the
offspring of our
inner masculine and
inner feminine where the
inner masculine is
totally castrated. Here the inner dance is determined by our
mind,
outside programming and enculturation. This dance will provide a
feeling of separation and even possibly isolation. We feel a
separation and look externally for someone or something to fulfill
it. It can look for a Beloved or a beloved but the issue is we are
not giving what needs to be given internally. Only in maturing the
inner masculine do we create the internal conditions such that we
can give what we seek externally. Here we seek another to fulfill
the self and our creations tend to be self serving in an attempt to
fulfill externally what needs to come internally.
Our charisma
(Top): Then there is Circle 8, the opposite extreme where the
dance is between the outer world and the
marriage of the mature
inner masculine and mature inner feminine. This extreme view (Circle 8) in conscious awareness is the dance of
the
creator/Creator with its
creation/Creation. This dance provides
a feeling of wholeness, oneness and fulfillment. We feel a wholeness
and completeness unto ourselves. There is a deep
inner satisfaction
which come to us no matter what is happening in our external world
when release
our charisma. Life if not necessarily easy but there is
a deep satisfaction and nothing is needed externally to fulfill us.
It is from this space we can share life and give to another without
demanding them to fulfill our need. Here we seek to create with
another to create something that goes beyond the self.
Ultimate dance
(Top): There is the ultimate dance we face that is not
listed in the figure but over shadows all of our dances. It is the
dance between creation and
true freedom. To create an experience and
have an experience of Creation,
we need to bind and limit the flow
of our
creative life energy. We need to “fix” our energy into a
given form to create the environment we wish to experience. Yet we
need to be able find
true freedom to be free to create what we
desire without any attachments. It is this dance around which all
else is centered. The question is, “How free are you to be true to
yourself and flow like the wind - coming with nothing and leaving
with nothing - where each experience we have is truly savored and
enjoyed no matter what it is and how mind judges it?”
The next
step (Top)
The recommended next step is to
choose what you wish to create and then go create it. All of what is
provided to you here is
intellectual information. You need to make
it
experiential
to know its real truth and to really understand it.
You can only do that by creating and becoming mindful and aware of
what you experience in your creative endeavor.
It is recommended you
discern what is true for you and
allow
effectiveness to be your measure of truth. If what you know and what
you do is effective for what you wish to create and you create
what
serves you and/or create
a life worth living, then use it. If what
you do and use does not serve you and/or does not create a life
worth living then keep what is useful and find something else. You
will need to do your own experiments. No one can do this for you.
The only thing you need to remember is there are no judgements on
what you create. You are truly free to create what you wish. You do
have a
free will. However, there are consequences to whatever you
choose. You do need to become responsible and accept the
consequences for what you choose to do. If you become mindful and
aware and pay attention to what you are doing, and
learn to use your
past experiences and use the past experiences of others wisely, you
can
create a safe space for your creative endeavors. But again, this
is something no one can do for you. You will have to do your own
experiments and see what works for you.
Related topics
The outer dance
The third dance
Ultimate dance
Dance of creation/Creation
Dance between mind and heart
Inner masculine and inner feminine
Dance of energy and consciousness
Dance
of the masculine and feminine
Dance of Duality - the essence of creativity
The observer - observed pair and the nature of duality
The ebb and flow of creation into and out of form
Something from nothing
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