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The key breakthroughs to
discovering the alternative way was the existence of what is best
described as
our creative spirit and the dance between what this creative
spirit desires and what mind desires.
Through a series of synchronistic events in the author’s life, the
author was lead to understand that we each have a creative spirit
within our being. This creative spirit is not the spirit or soul
discussed in religious and spiritual traditions. Rather it is a
creative force that animates life, gives a passion for life and for
living, and is source of our ability to create. It wants to engage
life and not be separated from it. Alternatively said, we have a
desire to create that is, in essence, a spirit unto itself. Some of
us live in harmony with this creative spirit where as others live in
separation from it. If we cannot create what it desires to create,
this creative spirit will create conditions in our life that cause
us to move back toward what it wants to create. Sometimes this
movement can be quite painful.
Although this creative spirit is not the spirit as talked about in
spiritual or the soul, it is related. It is part of our being
similar to the soul but something more subtle and more profound. It
is both the source of our creativity and a direct access to the
Source of Creation form which we derive our creative power without
the need for a intermediator if we know how to use it for that
purpose. It is what gives us the power to create that goes back to
the deepest levels of the Source of Creative Power.
In any case, this creative spirit has a desire. But more often than
not, in working with individuals to create, the author came to learn
how mind stands in the way of this creative spirit doing with it
desires to do. Mind will take control of the creative power within
this spirit and use it for what it thinks should be created rather
than what this creative spirit wants to create. Whatever mind seeks
to create is based on what mind wants rather than what this creative
spirit desires. The task was to find out how to get around mind.
What the author routinely saw happen was individual will have dream
or vision to create something, like a retreat center, a foundation
of some type, write a book or play, or whatever that arises from
this creative spirit. Initially the author would try and assist the
individual build their retreat center or foundation or help them
write the book or whatever. But in time he came to realize the
creative spirit within the individual was asking the individual to
become a retreat center, to become the foundation, to become the
book not necessarily built or write it.
There is an old story about a wheelwright that talks to this issue
and it goes as follows: “A wheelwright, highly regarded by the king
for his practical wisdom and who had watched over the prince of the
place when the prince was young, was making a wheel at one end of a
long hall in a palace. At the other end, the prince of the palace,
much older now, was intently reading a book. Nothing could disturbed
the concentration of the prince. The wheelwright was intrigued as to
what had caught the prince’s interest so intently. Laying down his
chisel and mallet, the wheelwright called to the prince and asked
him what book he was reading.
“Ah,” exclaimed the prince. “One that preserves and holds the wisdom
of the sages.”
The wheelwright asked politely, “Excuse me prince, but are those
sages still alive?”
“On no,” exclaimed the prince. “They are long since dead - I read
the wisdom of the past.”
The wheelwright in a seemingly innocent but wise way asked, “Too
bad, but why do you read the droppings and scum of the dead?”
The prince jumped in anger. “How dare you, what do you a wheelwright
know about the wisdom of the sages, how can you find fault with such
a book that I am reading.”
The prince went on to exclaim, “Justify such a stupid comment or I
will throw you out in the cold and banish you from my palace.”
The wheelwright, unperturbed by the princes outburst calmly replied,
“I admit, I know little about what is in books. But as a
wheelwright, I am somewhat puzzled by what is in books. I cannot
learn my trade from a book. This is how I see the matter. When I
make a wheel, if the stroke of my chisel is too slow, I cut deep but
it is not steady. If my stroke is too fast, it is steady but does
not cut deep. It is a dance, not too fast, not too slow. To me it is
not my mind and what I think that gets that right stroke into my
hand. The right stroke comes from the heart. It is a feel that comes
only in doing. It is not something I can put into words. It is an
art. I cannot even pass my art onto my son. It is why at age seventy
five I am still making wheels. I have not yet found another who has
the heart for making the wheel. In my humble opinion, it must be the
same for those who have gone before us. All that was worth handing
on to another died with them. What remains, and what the put in
books, is what is left after they are gone. It is no different than
seeing a beautiful bird in flight. After it is gone, all that is
left are its dropping. The beauty went with the bird. That is why I
said what you are reading is the dropping and scum of a bygone
people. I said it was too bad they has all died because it makes
little sense to read the wisdom of another when you can be with them
and experience their beauty as one experiences the beauty of
watching the bird.”
This story speaks to the fact that all our creative endeavors, which
includes the events in our life and what we create are a by product
of our experiences and our response to those experience. In essence,
our creations are a byproduct of our way of being in the world. In
many ways creativity is the language of consciousness. It expresses
what is within one’s being in a way the current environment is able
to provide.
For example one cannot be a painter unless one chooses to paint. But
to choose to paint one must be in a way of being such that painting
is considers an acceptable way and/or expression of what one desires
to communicate. Although there are many ways of being, not all ways
of being see or use painting as a way to communicate. Some call this
preference of mind a mind set, view point or a perspective on life.
The bottom line however is that unless we have a way of being that
allows us to access what we desire or allows us to be open to the
proper inspiration, we will not be able create what we desire What
needs to be emphasized here is what we create is a product of the
way we choose to be. Different ways of being produce different
results in the world.
Hence the alternative way is to change our way of being and allow
the life we desire to create and /or what we desire to create to
unfold as byproducts of that new way of being. In many ways it is
simply the application of the ancient mystical principle, “As
within, as without, as above, so below.” The unseen creative life
energy of Creation flows within and sustains our being. It flows
outward from within our being into the world to create an experience
in response to what it desires to create.
But this is where mind enters the picture. If we choose based on
what mind thinks, we interject mind into the flow and we recreate
the past and do not create a way of being that allows us to access
the inspiration that gives us the path to create something not
previously seen or experienced. As you are probably aware, mind
arises as a result of the experiences we have. It only knows the
past and what it has experienced. All it can do is recreate the past
for that is all it knows. It will characterize any energy it
experiences based on its past. If we experiences something quite
different than the past, mind finds it very difficult to properly
characterize it. So the question arises, “How can we choose to
create a way of being that is different than the past to create
something unseen and not previously experience as the natural
byproduct of our way of being when any choice we make is based on a
choice of mind and the past?” That is the question which the author
was lead to explore.
What he found in working with the dream or vision that comes from
the creative spirit is that it is about first transforming the
persons inner world then allowing their new way of being to create
the external as a byproduct. It is to transform the inner world such
that the individual becomes the retreat center where people can go
and experience comfort. It is to become the foundation such that
others build upon what the individual provides. It is to become the
book, to become the source of wisdom that others can draw up to
understand and up lift them in life.
The recommend is then this. For any dream or vision we have, realize
it is already happening or we would not have the dream we do. We are
already experiencing the energy that will give rise to the desired
experience and becoming it at some level. To look outside to build
the dream or vision will potentially miss direct us. To manifest we
our dream or vision we need to look inside and ask ourselves, not
what we need to build, but, “What do I need to become, how do I live
my life such that this vision manifests externally as a by product
of my way of being.” You will be then lead by your creative spirit
and intuitive guidance. You will not be lead by your mind and what
you mind thinks needs to be done unless you choose to follow mind.
What the author has found is a vision or dream which comes from what
is
symbolized in the heart is not necessarily something you build
external to you. That may happen in time, but is something that you
first become inside. It is interesting to see the intriguing game
mind pays with
intuitive guidance so that it can remain in control and control
the creative power normally available to one’s creative spirit.
What happens is that our intuitive guidance gives us an
understanding of a situation and what needs to happen. That
understanding is provided based on an interpretation of the energy
which is sensed based on the experiences we have had to date. It is
the best we can understand given the experiences we have had up to
that point in time until mind gets the
minimum set of requisite experience to properly characterize the
energy it experiences. However, rather than realizing it is only the
best understanding we have up to that point in time, mind grabs that
vision and seeks to create the vision as mind sees it. Mind seeks to
create the vision without changing itself. In doing so, it simply
recreates the past in a new and different way. Sometimes the past
recreated in a new way satisfies us. At other times it is
disappointing. Mind, what we currently think and believe, must also
change if we are going to create something not previously
experienced that is free of the past.
What the author found was that what we think and believe does create
our experiences. What we have created and currently experience is
the product of our current mind. What we desire to create is the
product of a mind that does not exist. The question is can we step
outside of our mind to allow mind to evolve into the new mind that
we need to create.
If our dream or vision arises from mind, then the mind will be
extremely effective at manifesting that dream. If the dream or
vision arises from what is
symbolized by our heart, and does not yet exist, that dream or
vision takes us into the unknown. In this case mind will be every
ineffective at manifesting it.
Hence if we are going to create a dream or a vision of something
that does not yet exists, mind cannot leads us. If mind takes the
vision and tries to manifest it based on what it knows is just
recreates the past. To get free of the past, the recommendation is
that you to take whatever vision or dream you have and then go back
to your intuition and ask, “What do I need to become, how do I need
to live, how do I need to become different to manifest this dream as
a byproduct of my way of being in the world.” Then you will receive
some image or thought as to how you need to be or to live your life.
Mind can then take that image or thought and move toward manifesting
that way of being if you allow what is
symbolized in the heart to intent the direction of your life and
have mind attend to the details to make it happen. That in turn will
allow for the dream of vision to unfold as a byproduct of that way
of being without mind compromising what the dream of vison really
means.
The method does work and prevents a lot of false starts. The trick
is that mind is spending its time trying to create the way of being
that it thinks it needs to create . The dream or vision is then
allowed to manifest unfettered by mind’s interference as the old
mind changes in its attempts to create the new way of being.
As you work with this methodology you can come to see and experience
the first step in becoming aware of how we are the creator of our
experiences and ultimately the reality of those experiences. It is
to learn to go within to change our inner world to create a
different way of being in to world. That in turn, creates what we
desire as a byproduct of that way of being. It is an alternative way
to live.
Exactly what this means, how to understand it, how to use it and its
implications are the topics addressed by the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity Technology.
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