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Access Creative Power
Implementing Creative
step/guideline #4
Creative
Step/Guideline #4
Background
A
Creative Power greater than ego can understand
The need to harness the ego
Harnessing the ego
Seeking
to create an impossible dream
Starting with the end in mind - two stories
What do you hold sacred
A
recommendation about what to hold sacred - hold your creative sacred
Code of
honor
A
creation story for understanding the inner and outer Creative Powers
Creative
Step/Guideline #4 (Top)
: Understand and accept that there is a
Creative Power greater than what your ego can understand. Yet this
Creative Power is only accessible through, and within your own
being, when you harnessed your ego. Learn to harness your ego. One
of the quickest ways found to harness the ego is to seek to create
something for another which your ego considers impossible or highly
improbable with no expectation of direct personal return and
surrender to the lead of your intuitive guidance to create it.
Background
(Top)
The issue that needs to be
addressed here and ultimately the most important issue you will face
relative to your creative ability and probably the most difficult
and, in some ways, frightening. is “where do you currently believe
the
creative power/Creativity Power of the universe lies and why do
you believe what you do?” This issue also addresses whether or not
you possess a
victim consciousness and whether or not you have given your
creative power away to an animate or inanimate other. The issue that
many individuals will face here is simply and best reflected in the
old Arab proverb which states “Trust in God but tether your camel.”
Christ actually addressed this same issue when asked about paying
taxes and he replied, “Render unto God that things that are of God
and render unto Caesar (man) the things that are Caesar’s (man’s).”
Quite simply, there is a creative power within and a creative power
outside you and each of us need to get them straight in our life.
Here again it needs to be emphasized that creativity takes you into
the unknown and into a place of “no-thing-ness” for what you seek
does not exist. You need to remain in the unknown long enough to
find what you seek. To do so, you have to step out of mind and
travel what is traditionally called the left hand path. The left
hand path is the alternative path you society and the way in which
you were raised to step out of the existing form to find what you
seek. It is to take an individual journey into the unknown of own’s
own being. The intent of the creativity perspective found within the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines, is to take you to the source of
your creative powers for any situation so that you can effect the
change to create what you desire to create. This journey starts with
holding your creativity sacred and exploring the depth and breath of
your creativity to the source of your being. You cannot expect
another, God or otherwise, to do what you yourself must do. The
question is, what do you need to do to create the change you desire
to see especially since you desire the change, not another.
However, you will constantly be pulled by mind and habits of the
past to abandon your journey and step back into the comfort of the
known world. So you will constantly find yourself struggling against
these things that are pushing you into the status quo and to keep
things as they are. You will have to maneuver your mind and its
thinking pattern such that you do not become captive of the limited
thinking of the past. The biggest obstacle you will face is
understanding who holds the key to the creative powers in your life.
Does the creative powers in your life reside in you, your society,
God, or some other entity human or otherwise, that controls your
life.
The creative power within is about our imagination and how
effectively we can act to manifest what we hold in our imagination
as an experience. The creative power without is about understanding
how the world outside of us works and how to control and/or work
with that outside world. Our body is the bridge or vehicle that
connects the inner world of imagination with the outer world of
form. It belongs to both worlds and is profoundly affected by each
in ways that inner does not often understand the outer and outer
does not understand the inner and how the two are connected. The
common aspect that makes it all work and holds it all together is
energy. That is, the ability to make things happen or to produce an
effect.
You cannot do what the outside powers (traditionally seen as God,
and/or people or nature external to you) is responsible for doing
and you cannot expect the outside creative power to do what you,
yourself, are responsible for doing. It is your job to figure the
two out and then get them straight in your life and understand how
these powers apply to you and how to use them for your creative
effort.
You are unique. Although there are similarities between all of us we
are different. We each possess a slightly different form of the same
creative power and ability. Since each of us are unique and
infinitely creative, we each have a different way of using the power
we can access. Sometime it is similar to the way others do things
where as at other times it is completely different. The question is,
“How creative are we and how much power do we actually possess to
create our experience and even the reality of those experiences?”
This is the issue you being to address here in this Creative
Step/Guideline. Here you being to understand what you believe about
where and how the creative power accessed in and through your life.
A Creative Power
greater than ego can understand
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Understand and accept that
there is a Creative Power greater than what your ego can understand.
There is a Creative Power that has
given rise to the world you experience and if you really look, it
will be rather obvious to you if it isn’t already. You do not have
to believe in God to know there is a creative power greater than
your ego can understand. It is beyond what your ego, what you think
and believe about yourself and your world, can fully grasp.
Scientist and mystics have been working for centuries to understand
it. You only need to look at the sun. Without the sun and its
energy, there would be no life on earth as you currently know it and
experience it. Additionally the life that has arisen on earth as a
result of the sun it much more diverse and varied that just the
existence of your little ego and the body you have. Many of us
assume human consciousness is the best and highest the earth has to
offer. But we really don’t know for sure. It is an assumption on our
part because of what humans appear to have accomplished and there
are some profound things we have accomplished. So that assumption
may be correct but we really don’t know. But what we do know is
there is something behind Creation much bigger than us. How we try
and explain it is really irrelevant. The question is, “Can we access
the creative power/Creative Power inherent in the Universe to create
what we desire and if so, how do we do it?”
It needs to be realized your mind as you currently know it and
experience it came into existence only as a result of the
experiences you have had and you had many experiences that reside in
your subconscious before your consciousness become aware of itself.
The earth, the sun and your parents existed before your mind came
into existence. Also consider how much your mind, as you know it,
was involved in growing your from an fertilize egg, into an infant
and subsequently into an adult. How much did you have to think about
and/or direct what was happening to you?
However you choose to look at the creative power/Creative Power
greater than what you can understand, you will have to accept the
fact some powers exists outside of your control. If you don’t
believe it, go step off a tall building and see if thee is anything
that is influencing you outside of your ability to control
circumstances. As a minimum you may find gravity.
The need to harness the ego
(Top)
Yet this Creative Power is only
accessible through, and within your own being, when you harnessed
your ego
From a creativity perspective,
this Creative Power is not necessarily
God, but it can be. You are free to choose to view this Creative
Power however you wish. But be mindful as to whether what you
believe is robbing you of your creative power. We have no interest
in the concept of God, or your concept of God, here other than how
it allows you to access the creative power to create what you desire
to create. The only interest here is what this
creative power/Creativity Power looks like to you and whether or
not you can access that power.
Rather than any concept of God, or fully understanding the Creative
Power behind Creation, what is referred to, and of interest, here is
only that consciousness that brought you into this world and created
the flow of energy that created and sustains your being. Nothing
much more needs to be said about it. Many find it sufficient to
describe it as what is traditionally called their “Higher Self.”
Some see it as their soul. Some see it as God. Others see it as a
Spirit Guide or Guides. Yet it clearly needs to be understood, it is
only what you think, believe and understand about this Creative
Power that is reflected in how and what you believe about yourself
and your world, that you can use this power to change yourself and
the world you experience. The only recommendation made here is
whatever you believe don’t give away your creative power and what
you are responsible for creating. This is very important to
understand. It is your belief structure, how and what you think and
believe and why you think and believe the way you do is controlling
your creative power. It controls what you are capable of accessing
within in and what you can access without.
Our problem is we have much more creative capability than we usually
understand. It is probably not too difficult to accept you are an
infinitely creative being. If you think about it, no one has ever
been able to put a limit on the creative we possess. No one can
ultimately control what we think unless we have open ourselves to
their way of thinking. Our imagination and creativity is as
expansive as we wish it to be. However, it is not so easy to accept
that we are also an infinite creative being. That is, our being, no
just our creativity, knows no limits or boundaries other than the
boundaries we impose on ourselves and how we have limited ourselves.
It only knows what we impose upon ourselves because the awareness
that is in us resides in a body and we have come to think and
believe we are the body we possess.
It need to be understood, the ego is only the identity we
consciously and subconsciously give ourselves to identify who we
think we are. It is a result of the belief structure and based on
the past experiences we have had. Our belief structure as our ego
are constantly changing or capable of constantly changing. Both are
transmutable. Each is very plastic and can be soft and malleable
under the correct conditions. Each is also very brittle and hard
under other conditions. Some look at this hardness as stubbornness.
But, it is a much deeper phenomenon that to which stubbornness
refers. However, our awareness, the detached witness, does not
change. It is only aware of that on which it focuses itself
consciously or subconsciously. Currently a majority of your
awareness is focused to have a physical experience in the way you
have come to believe physical Creation works.
In this regard, you have to “bite the bullet” so to speak. You have
to embrace a perspective that will allows you to create what you
desire regardless of what ego likes and dislikes. You have to
embrace a the new perspective regardless of what your ego thinks
about that perspective and what that perspective requires you to do
or not do. The perspective you need to embrace obviously depends on
what you desire to create. If you wish to build a building, then you
need an engineering perspective. If you wish to fix a broken arm,
you need a medical perspective. If you wish to control a
communicable disease, then you need a social health perspective. If
you wish to create, you need the perspective of a creator. A
creativity perspective, where one’s creativity is held sacred will
work in all situation to help you to get what you need. It does not
replace the other perspective but rather allows you to step beyond
any perspective you have to create what you desire. However, you may
only need an engineering or a physician’s perspective or the like
for a particular problem you face and wish to solve.
This Creative Power has an inner and outer component. It is
recommended you reflect on your personal creative power. Reflect on
what you think you can and can’t seem to create and then reflect on
the Creative Power of the Universe and how you experience the aspect
of this Creative Power which lies within your own being and explore
their differences and similarities. Look to see what statements you
make about the Creative Power as to whether they are demonstrable
truths or just unsubstantiated beliefs or opinions. Challenge
yourself to give proof. If you can’t find a proof, challenge
yourself to find such a proof. It needs to be realized that creative
power is creative power. It doesn’t matter where it is found. It is
the same creative power. The creative power inside you is the same
as that outside you,. It only looks different. Examine what you
believe as opposed to accepting the belief that you were told by
another or others. Here you want to reflect on what you personally
have experienced as to the nature of this Creative Power as opposed
to what you believe because you were told. You can create a
guided meditation to explore your personal understanding of this
Creative Power. A
sample guide meditation format you can use is provided. In fact,
you can personify this Creative Power and allow it to meet with you
in the guided meditation to explore exactly what this Creative Power
looks like to you. It also needs to be realized as you change your
creative effort, you may need to change your view of this Creative
Power and change your symbol of it. However, how you access it will
be the same. You will access it through your intuitive guidance and
how your past experiences present and interpret the
intuitive guidance you get.
A starting exercise you can do is the following. Based on how you
perceive this Creative Power, find or preferably write a prayer,
story, or find or create a symbol that represents this Power as you
currently perceive it. This symbol or prayer can be used to help
hold the focus of your attention for you creative efforts. As a
starting point, you can use your concept of God as the symbol for
this Creative Power but be prepared to not limit yourself by the
belief you currently have as to the nature of this Creative Power
and/or the nature of God you currently choose.
Two sample prayers, “The Opening Prayer” and “The Prayer to the Four
Directions and Four Aspects of Being” were prayers written for
various creative endeavors. The prayers reflect how I tried to
capture to the best of my ability who and what I understood God and
the inner and outer Creative Powers to be for the particular
creative endeavor. You may wish to create equivalent such prayers
for what you will do that will capture your understanding about the
Creation Powers of the Universe at this point in time as you start
your journey and/or your creative endeavor.
Harnessing the ego (Top)
Learn to harness your ego.
To harness your ego, that unique
identity that you use to define yourself, you need to want to find
some way to transform the ego. To transform your ego, allow yourself
to play with your ego and see how malleable it really is. You may
even want to learn to destroy your ego. A symbolic death, an inner
and outer cleansing, and/or a “not doing” practice can be used to
allow the ego to realize it will not die. Rather, it is continually
transforming by the experiences you have. A “not doing” practice is
doing other that how your ego has defined itself. A good candidate
for “not doing” is to do one of the things you heard yourself say,
“I would never be caught dead doing that.”
In knowing that the ego will never die and it is only the
perspective you use to create and view the creation/Creation you
experience, you access a deep creative ability. It is a deep
creative ability that lies beyond what the ego and your mind as you
currently know them can conceive. Within this realization, you are
free to become whatever you need to become to experience the
intention you desire to experience.
Seeking to create an
impossible dream
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One of the quickest ways found
to harness the ego is to seek to create something for another which
your ego considers impossible or highly improbable with no
expectation of direct personal return and surrender to the lead of
your intuitive guidance to create it.
In this step, it is said the
quickest way to harness the ego is to create something for another
which your ego considers impossible or highly improbable with no
expectation of direct personal return and surrender to the lead of
your intuitive guidance to create it. This recommendations is made
for three reasons. One is the nature of ego is that it seeks to
protect itself and hold to what it knows. This is not necessarily
good nor bad. It is just a fact. So to being to see, experience and
understand the Creative Powers of Creation and what is available to
you, one must somehow step out of mind and the ego it has created.
One must find a way to step out of the control of mind. By looking
to something you consider impossible or highly improbably, you step
out of the limits of your mind to look options not currently
available to you.
The second reason is that mind seeks to reinforce its wants and what
it wants to maintain the ego identity it has created. Quite simply
mind sees the body will die. Unless mind has some experiences that
indicates it will not die, it think that it too will die. Anything
that causes the identity mind has created, that is, the ego, to
significantly change will cause mind to think the identity it has
created is dying or will die. Hence it seeks to protect that ego. By
choose to create something that has no direct personal return, the
ego is not as attached to its created efforts. As such, it has more
freedom to move with the creative effort and not fear its death
since it perceives the change happening to another.
The third reason is that there is a creative process that
accompanies any creative effort. The creative process is much like
the way you can remold a piece of iron. You take a given piece of
iron, throw it into a furnace to be melted and then pour the melted
iron into a mold to create a new shape. There is an analogous
creative process. The existing form is dissolved and reshaped into a
new form. The Creative Powers of Creation you wish to access lies
within the creative process. So, to access those Powers, one must
surrender to the process to see how and where the Creative Powers
are accessible and when. As said above, “Trust in God but tether
your camel.” There are things you are responsible for doing and
things the Creative Power of Creation is responsible for doing. Part
of your journey is to learn which is which and when you can or
cannot access the Creative Powers.
This method does work and was instrumental in accessing the
information found on this and
related web sites. Although it is
discussed else where under that topic of “The Overall Intention of
the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Technology” that because of
our individual uniqueness and the limitations of our mind, our
individual experience will not necessarily be the path that will
work for another, this approach addressed key issues about the mind,
the ego and the need to step out of, or beyond, each.
How this particular approach works may be clarified in discussing
how the essence of this process was realized. Diverting slight to
provide some background, in the discussion entitled, “Origins of
understanding about the creative spirit” I said that I was asked to
help an individual create something that seemed to be irrationally
motivated given the circumstances that currently existed in their
life. Since I did not consider what they wanted to create something
that made sense to me, I had no attachment whatsoever to what they
desired to do. It was important to them and I chose to support their
effort. I wanted them to get what they sought. To help them, I
looked at both the external circumstances they faced and the
internal. That is, how they were perceiving and thinking about those
circumstances. I looked to see where the real obstacles laid both
internally and externally. In looking at their inner obstacles, I
was able to find a way to create the space for their bound creative
spirit to become free such that they could access the energy they
needed to create what they desired.
In attempting to assist them two thing happened - one to them and
one to me. For them, their creative spirit was released and I came
face to face with the existence of it. That experience changed my
whole understanding about creativity and how and where our creative
power and ability resided. Ultimately that experience lead to the
realization of the existence of the creative spirit as something
that must be protected and nurtured if we are going to access and
release our unlimited creativity.
What happened to me is a little more difficult to describe. I was
overtaken by a seemingly impossible dream. For all practical
purposes I was impregnated with a dream that appeared, at first,
impossible to create. But yet I knew that it needed to be given
life. It needed to be gestated, birthed and helped to stand on it
own two feet. There was nothing in my life experiences that prepared
me for what it really meant or even to being to understand how to
manifest it.
This impossible dream become the occasion for accessing the
realization of how to make it impossible possible and to see the
true depth and breadth of the
creative power/Creativity Power
available to us. That understanding, in turn, lead to the foundation
for the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Technology. It was an
understanding about how to make the impossible, possible; the
possible, probable; and the probable a certainty. Such information
is available if you choose to access it.
Harnessing the ego came quite naturally and as a byproduct. The
beauty inherent in the dream and what it had to offer people was
sufficient motivation to let go of the ego and what I thought and
believed. The dream was of untold beauty of something that did not
exist before and for most, was impossible to create. The impossible
dream was a faster, easier and gentler way to transform oneself
without
the dark night of the soul, without extensive
pain and
suffering, and/or without
years of intensive mediation or yogic
practice. It truly was a gentle
phoenix. I simply was in wonderment
and “ah” at what I observed.
Yet, that freedom of that released creative spirit could not be
sustained. There was nothing I or the individual themselves could
do. I witnessed that creative spirit being recaptured by what
initially seemed to be their life circumstances. Yet, I was
witnessing something much more profound. In many ways what was
playing out before me was the basis of the Greek mythical story of
Persephone and her abduction to the underworld by Pluto, the Greek
god of the dead.
It is to be noted that in that mythical story, Persephone is allowed
to return from the underworld for a time of each year. That time is
spring time when new life springs forth. At the time I did not
really understand how that part of the story had any relation to
what I was observing and to our
creative power/Creativity Power. But
the return of Persephone is key to understanding how to creative
spirit operates and accessing the Creative Power of Creation for our
creative needs. In the mythology Persephone was the daughter of
Zeus, the supreme deity and ruler of the celestial realms (Heaven
and/or the unseen Creative Powers). Demeter, her mother, was the
goddess of agriculture (the Earth), marriage (joining and uniting to
create an offspring) and fertility (the creation of life).
Persephone, the offspring, and symbolic of our creative spirit is
what unites (the marriage) the Creative Power of Creation within us
(the earth) that brings forth the creative energy (the fertile,
nourishing energy of creation which catalyzes our actions) into our
lives to create what we desire.
In the same way Persephone comes out from the underworld and returns
each year and then leaves, our creative spirit can be called forth.
When it is called forth it allows us to tap into the Creative Powers
of Creation in unimaginable ways to give us the energy and ability
to create what we desires including recreating our life. In time,
our connection to the Creative Powers of Creation seems to wane and
go dormant. Our problem is we try and hold the power that is
inherent within a process. We can only hold the power we access if
we stay active in the creative process. That in turn means one must
consciously and actively seek to continually be recreating
themselves. It is about learning a dance. A dance between our mind
and our creative spirit. In knowing what you may face and what you
may need to do to create that dance, you can create a faster, easier
and gentler way to access the creative power you need.
In witnessing the abduction of this creative spirit I saw three
things. One thing I saw was a process. I saw the dance between the
conscious and subconscious mind’s struggle for control of this
creative spirit play out before me and how the creative spirit
becomes captured. I saw how the creative spirit becomes captured by
the past and the response patterns developed early in life to
protect ourselves from perceived hazard real or imaginary. I saw how
both the conscious and subconscious mind plays a role in capturing
and holding our creative spirit captive.
The second thing I saw was the possibility of finding a way for that
creative spirit to be released in any individual whenever it was
needed. I also began to see what needs to occur for that creative
spirit to sustain its free unfoldment in the world. The challenge
was to figure out how to do that.
The third thing was I saw the possibility of creating the impossible
dream. I saw the possibility of creating a faster, easier and gentle
way for an individual to access the source of their creative power
and creative ability and to experience the Source of Creation than
has been available in the past. I also came to understand that the
realization of how to make the impossible possible only came in
accessing the Creative Powers of Creation that lies at the Source of
Creation. That realization was adequate to shatter my understanding
about what it means to be human, the nature of creation/Creation,
and how we create our experiences. The experience of the Source of
Creation coupled with witnessing the abduction of the creative
spirit was more than adequate to harness my ego to surrender to the
possibility of creating what was considered impossible - to create a
gentle phoenix
I stumbled into an impossible dream and the Source of Creation quite
by accident. But in that stumbling I came to see a path. Such
experiences are available to each of us. To know what would be
appropriate for you to do to implement this aspect of Creative
Step/Guideline #4, you should consult your
intuitive guidance. Your
mind will be unable to properly guide you for two reasons.
One is that you are asking your mind to guide you into something it
has not experienced. Mind is not equipped to lead you into the
unknown. It only knows the past and what you have experienced. There
are Creative Powers, Creative Forces and assistance available to you
outside of mind. But you have to be willing to step out of mind to
access them. The other reason is that mind, and the ego it has
created, has a way of desperately trying to protect itself. Any
recommendations minds gives you, not matter how altruistic it may
seem, will be insufficient to harness the ego for mind is making the
choice. To harness the ego it must be couple to something larger
than what mind can conceive. Even when mind chooses the path that
seems larger than itself, the ego and the fears of the past will
step in and hold your creativity bound rather than stepping into the
unknown. I was very fortunate in that the ego was sufficiently
enamored by the possibility of creating the impossible - a gentle
phoenix - such that the ego and what it believes about itself was
completely shattered. I simply realized all that I thought and
believed was inadequate. In a moment the ego was harnessed for it
saw how it was limiting what needed to be done.
So to find the way you should act to implement this step, you should
ask your intuitive guidance. Ask your intuitive guidance, “What do I
need to do to harness my ego in the quickest, easiest and most
playful way to achieve what I am asked to do here in this Creative
Step/Guideline?” You may even want to create an
initiation ritual
where you give yourself over to what is required, or will be
required, of you. Your intuitive guidance will lead you accordingly.
You only need to
honor the intuitive guidance you get and you may be
very surprised as to what your intuitive guidance suggest you do. It
most probably will look nothing like what you expect. Here you will
have to trust in what it is you are lead to do. It may even suggest
something simple and mundane. But remember, it is not intuitive
guidance you get that is important. It is the direction you must
travel that is important. The direction you must travel is toward
the intuitive guidance you get. In any case, you should not be
surprised if what your intuitive guidance suggests you attempt to
create something you consider impossible. In attempting the
impossible for something other than yourself and what your ego
wants, the door is open for you to see and experience the Creative
Power of Creation in a way you never thought possible.
Starting with the end in mind - two stories
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If you choose this path, and you
do not have to choose this path, to explore the true depth and
breadth of your creative ability, you will discover you are
infinitely creative and are an infinitely creative being that never
dies but only continually transforms itself. You will access and
discover for yourself how the mystics can say “I am God” or “I and
the Father are one” and yet not have the power to stop the outside
authority who kills them because they have blasphemed or they upset
the status quo. You can come to understand this and how it is
possible. Most importantly, you will come to understand what it
means for your life. Such an understanding will transform your life.
The starting situation in which we find ourselves is best
illustrated in two proverbial stories accessed in the file “The
Human Condition as seen from the Creativity Perspective.” They
effectively represent the situation in which each individual finds
themselves relative to their destiny and birthright as a being of
unlimited creativity what prevents them from claiming and
consciously living it.
What do you hold sacred
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To access the Creative Power of
Creation, one will have to learn to hold creativity, and in
particular, their own creativity sacred. But what does it mean to
hold something as “sacred?”
Many see something sacred as something that is related to the
spiritual and/or some how associated with the divine. However, that
is a very narrow understanding of sacred. Traditionally, for
something to be held sacred, it is something which is set apart or
dedicated to a specific function. Something that is sacred is
hallowed and entitled to reverence or respect. It is not to be
profaned and is inviolable. Anything can be sacred - an object, a
person, a role we play, a relationship, a piece of mucic, textual
material like a prayer or a story, a certain time, a place or even a
space.
The usual application of the word and concept of sacred is to
religious or religious type use. However, you could say a surgeon’s
scalpel is held sacred. Since it needs to be sterilized and can be
dangerous if not properly held and used, it is set apart and
dedicated only to the surgical operation. It is treated with respect
when used and used by a trained individual because you don’t want to
cut what needs not be cut and you cannot profane its use by using it
other than for surgery or you risk both contaminating the scalpel
and dulling its blade.
What is important to understand is that we insert more time and
energy into what we hold sacred and what we perceive as sacred. What
we perceive as sacred often determines how we set our intentions and
invest our time and money. What we hold as sacred may or may not
have anything to do with what we consider moral and not moral and/or
spiritual. Often they align but not necessarily in all cases and for
everyone. For example, if one hold their body sacred, although they
may not necessarily consciously say so, one is more likely to avoid
those activities such as smoking and excessive drinking and the like
that are know to increase the probably of harming the body. Rather,
they will look to eat more of what they consider healthy foods
and/or exercise with some regularity to protect and effectively
maintain the body. Or, if you hold a relationship sacred, you will
work to avoid destructive conflicts and look for ways to improve
communications with the other. If you don’t hold the relationship
sacred, you will allow it to dissolve overtime. The same can be said
about anything that you hold sacred. What you hold sacred you seek
to, as a minimum, preserve and protect and more often than not, seek
to allow it to expand and grow in your life.
However, that which you hold sacred is a two edge sword. It can be
source of great power and a catalyst for action in your life. Or, it
can be a tremendous drain of energy and power that robs and steal
your creative power. Ideally, that which you hold sacred causes
powerful emotions to arise and catalyze you. It can cause you to
become more and more attracted to what you hold sacred much like a
moth to light. It can raise the desire to adore the sacred and make
it an object of adoration. It can cause one to be filled with
gratitude and most of all, it allows one to uplifted and inspired.
Yet, that which we hold sacred can cause us to become violent,
angry, resentful and warlike if what we hold sacred is in some way
violated or desecrated If we are unable to act to protect and defend
what we hold sacred, we may become depressed, anxious or guilty in
some way and/or even lash out angrily at things totally unrelated to
what desecrated or violated what we hold sacred. When what we hold
sacred is violated or desecrated, we see it as a violation or
desecration of our own being. We take it personally for it is
something very special to us.
So the question to explore is, “What do you hold sacred?” As an
exercise, you may want to list those things which are sacred to you.
Now if you really want to explore what is sacred to you, there are
two exercises you can do to raise your awareness about what you hold
sacred. One is to give the list of what you hold sacred to someone
who you can trust. Then ask them to challenge what you hold sacred
when you do not expect them to do so. Ask them to act as though they
were going to violate or desecrate what you hold sacred. Observe
your response and see what energy does or does not arise within your
being in response to what you see and/or experience. If passion
beings to flow, then you have identified what you hold sacred. If no
passion arises, then your mind has been lying to you as to what is
sacred in your life.
The other exercise is similar but look more at what you may not be
aware of existing. Ask someone whom you can trust who has seen or
can observe you and the way you live your life. Ask them to observe
to see if they can determine what is sacred in your life and where
you are devoting your energy. Ask them to act without your knowledge
as if you were going to violate or desecrate what you hold sacred in
some way. Again, observe your response and see what energy does or
does not arise within your being in response to what you see.
What you may find out in these exercises is what you hold sacred is
not really what you think you hold sacred. Rather what you hold
sacred is actually something of which you may not be aware and never
consciously admitted to yourself. Then again, you may be perfectly
aligned and you are fully and consciously aware of what you hold
sacred in or about your life. Then, whatever you hold sacred, you
will have to see if what you hold sacred really severs your being
and allows for the free unfoldment of your creative spirit or does
it keep it bound and controlled such that what you hold sacred robs
you of your own creative power.
A recommendation about
what to hold sacred - hold your
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In a similar and analogous way as
described above, within the creativity perspective, creativity,
one’s ability to be creative within the creative process , and, all
that is necessary to become creative and enhance one creativity
within a situation, is protected and held as sacred. All else is
secondary.
All other concepts and beliefs are considered malleable to address
one’s creative needs and keep one’s creative ability clean and
sharp. In this regard, it can be said that all other beliefs would
then be held a secular and profane.
In saying creativity and one’s creative ability to create within the
creative process is protected, what this means is that one protects
their ability to enter
the most creative state of being when the
need arises. The most creative state of being is to enter the
spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and exploration
of one’s self and one’s world without the judgements and
intervention of mind. In addition to doing what needs to be done to
regain this ability, one protects what they regained so they don’t
lose that ability again.
What the individual or society holds, or rather believes, as sacred
about Creation, scientific, religious, spiritual or philosophical is
not necessarily held sacred within in the creativity perspective.
Here again, this may cause you to do and act differently than what
society would consider acceptable and will cause you to walk the
left hand path. In doing so, there may be fears that arise that you
will need to address
In holding and emphasizing the understanding of creativity, the
creative process and what serves our creativity as sacred, you may
find what is said about creativity and the creative process
challenges everything in your personal life that does, or does not,
allow you to be creative. Challenges, problems, issues, feelings and
the like may arise in many areas to cause you to reevaluate your
thinking about creativity and whether or not you should engage in
the creative effort you chose to undertake. However few of these
contain real hazards that need to be faced. Most are only issues
within your own mind.
In this regard, any creative endeavor and or any focus on the
creative aspects of creation is a break from the past that may be a
thrilling and exhilarating to me may but be terrifying for you. Some
individuals may even perceive the challenges of a creative endeavor
hazardous and even down right terrifying to who and what they
believe themselves to be and opposed to who they really are. This is
one reason why change is such an issue for people. It is a break
with the past. The difference between change and creativity is that
in creativity, one tends to be proactive and create the change or
cause the change to happen. In change, where change is forced on
someone or some system, one normally reacts to the change and few
learn how to become proactive in that change to. In addition to
breaking with the past, there are several other reasons why stepping
into a creative endeavor can seen as very challenging and several of
these issues are discussed in the Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines.
Here again, as you will hopefully come to see and experience, few of
them contain any real hazards.
Code of
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In many adventure stories or myths
such as the Greek myths or the stories of the medieval knights,
before one started out on a quest or journey, they were required to
answer two essential questions. These two questions were
• What do you seek?
• What is your Code of Honor?
These questions apply equally well
for any journey one undertakes in life to manifest any intention or
the journey or quest into exploring one’s own unlimited creativity.
Conscious creating requires these questions to be answered. It is
suggested any Code of Honor you currently have, you modify it to
hold your creativity sacred. If not permanently, at least hold your
creativity sacred for the duration of your journey into the
exploration of your creative ability or the creative endeavor.
Whether you realize it or not, you are on a journey into the unknown
as you go through life or exploring the path to manifest any
intention you hold. Creativity is a journey into the unknown by the
very definition of originality and what it means to create. In this
journey, you encounter a variety of people, ways of being and
situations to which you are asked to respond. When you respond you
will need to know why you respond the way you do and what you are
holding as sacred. You will need to know what is the intention that
lies at the very root of your desired creation. Our questions here
is, “What are the principles to which you adhere in your response to
life.” That is what principles, such as ethical or moral principles
or particular philosophies, that you use when you encounter both old
and new situations in life. These principles are what you feel
ensure your integrity of your personal truth in any situation. It is
that code that will prevent you from becoming that victim and will
not shut down the innocent wonderment of the childlike play.
What do you seek?: What do you seek is a rather
obvious questions. Before embarking on any journey it is wise to
have clarity as to what you are seek and to understand the intention
as to why you seek what you do. What one seeks and the intention
behind that search will greatly determine what they discover along
the way. Without clarity, one may even not recognize success when
they find it. To say “I seek to be happy no matter what” with the
underlying intention to avoid pain will result in a much different
journey than “I seek to find and understand what makes me happy”
with the underlying intention I will face whatever pain is necessary
to find that answer and then create that world that would make me
happy. Hopefully, what you seek has been clarified by the actions
you took to address Creative Step/Guideline #2. You may want to
review and check you intention at this time.
What is your Code of Honor?: One’s Code of Honor are
the principles to which one will adhere to during their journey.
Whether or not the Code of Honor includes one’s social ethical or
moral principles become very important. The Code of Honor is what
you will not violate. It is what ensures the integrity of your
journey, not the journey of society or someone else. So you will
need to become very clear as to what is your code of honor not one
give to you, or imposed on you, by another no matter who that other
may be, or how important they have been, in your life.
On this topic, we all have been raised with a particular set of
ethical and moral principles. Many of us have been taught a set of
principles by the culture and society in which we live, especially
that society and culture in which we grew up as a child. However, we
also have a set of personal values and ethics which we carry with us
that may or may not be reflective of the general culture of what we
were taught. For example, most cultures within the United States
teach that it is wrong to take the life of an other human unless you
are a authority of the state fulling the laws of the state or an
authorized military representative of the state fulling the desires
of the state. Other cultures, like the traditional Quakers, say that
it is wrong to take any life even taking a life under the laws of
the state or as a military representative of the state. If called
upon for military service many Quakers will claim a conscientious
objector status. They are willing to work in the hospitals and such,
but will not bear arms against their neighbor. So too within our own
being. We may be taught a certain set of principles and moral codes
that is reflective of the general culture in which we live, but we
have a deeper inner code that fits our preferred way of being and
existing in the world. There are several questions in this area. For
example, “What is your individual code of honor?” “How effectively
are you able to live it in the world in which you live?” “How
willing are you to live your Code of Honor even if it goes against
the society in which you live?”
Wether or not these social ethics and morals violate our personal
Code of Honor is another questions. Sometimes our personal Code of
Honor goes well beyond the of the society in which we live and at
other times, we may find the social morals actually violate our Code
of Honor. Your code of honor are those principles and beliefs do you
hold sacred that you will not violate. These are not principles that
you have been taught or give to you by some tradition, spiritual or
otherwise. Rather, they are the principles that you yourself must
follow or you feel you will violate the deepest parts of your being.
It is your code of honor that had been violated as a child such that
you lost your innocent childlike play and created the defensive way
of being in the world to protect yourself from the pain and hurt
that you would feel in living your truth. Many will have to go back
to a state of spontaneous and innocent play to understand what their
personal Code of Honor truly is and how they have compromised it.
To create anything, other than exploring your unlimited creativity,
almost any Code of Honor you select will be adequate except for the
fact that you need to understand the Code of Honor will set up
boundary conditions that will limit the potential options open to
you. So it is recommended you look to a Code of Honor that is as
broad as possible. It is recommended it is one that respects the
other and that you will not intentionally harm another in your
creative efforts. However, in seeking an experience of the unique
expression of your creative life energy by consciously creating, any
Code of Honor will not do and there are several recommendations to
consider.
It is recommend that one principle that you included within your
Code of Honor is that you do not violate the truth of your being.
That is, you live your truth. The reason for this recommendation is
quite simple. If you are a unique expression of the creative life
energy of the universe, you have to be the embodiment of that energy
without denying it in any way so as to have the experience of that
energy. If you deny it for some reason because it seems to be taking
you away from external social or ethical principle, you will be
denying your own being. Somewhere, sometime, you will need to give
yourself permission to follow that unique creative life energy that
is within your being if you wish to truly know what it looks like.
It does need to be understood that in doing so, you are also taking
full responsibility for where that energy takes you. For you to say,
“I am not responsible because I was following my unique creative
life energy, is a denial of your truth and in turn is a denial of
the energy itself.” You are responsible in every way, especially to
surrendering and follow the flow the energy.
A second principle recommended you include in your Code of Honor is
that you will hold your creativity and flow of your creative life
energy sacred and that you will not give your creative power and
ability to any other, animate or inanimate, seen or unseen. To hold
your creativity sacred and not give your creative power away may
require you to go back and visit any vows, oaths or loyalties that
have been given implicitly or explicitly to another or to an
organization.
In looking at your Code of Honor, it is recommended that you
identify and write out your Code of Honor to the best of your
ability. You can add to it or change it whenever you wish. However,
you do need to be aware of what Code of Honor you will be following
when you make this or any other journey.
Your code of honor becomes essential when you face the suffering and
pain of the past and any new situations in life that cause you to
run away and activate the defenses you designed to protect yourself
in the past as a young child. Part of your journey is into the cause
of the pain and suffering of the past and unless you have a strong
code of honor which includes not denying the truth of your being and
hold your creativity sacred, you will again be overwhelmed by the
pain. Part of you code of honor may be simply to swear a loyalty to
living in the wholeness and oneness of your own being and to no
longer live in separation within your being. Such a loyalty would
honor the truth of your being for you are already whole and
complete. You have just give your creative power and ability away.
Similarly, when you explore the true depth and breadth of your
creativity, you will find you are living in wholeness and oneness.
A
creation story for understanding the inner and outer Creative
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To help you better understand how
it is possible that you can access the Creative Powers of Creation
from within after harnessing your ego, a
Creation Story for the
Creativity Perspective is provided for you review. It is built on
the
relationship between energy and consciousness and it provides a
way of looking at Creation that ultimately provides a way to unite
what both the mystics and scientist have found about the nature of
the universe.
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