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In all transformation there is an
important step that involves chaos. It may not be readily seen but
it still exists and can be felt. Normally this chaotic step in a
transformation process as it occurs in the physical plane is
frequently accompanied by what is experienced as the generation of
heat or that “one is burning up.” Hence the traditional concept of
fire and need for fire in any physical or metaphysical
transformation. Because of the perceived heat associated with this
chaotic step, the
energy generation step in the
creative/creation process can be described as “the furnace,” or
“a blast furnace” as used in melting steel, or “the cauldron,” which
represents the actual vessel residing in the furnace over the fire.
This chaotic step is that period in time in any transformation
process where you have neither the old or the new form. This period
in time, no matter how long the time instant may be measured to be,
is chaotic and it is essential to any creative endeavor.
From a
energy consciousness perspective of the
creative/creation process there is place or point of “no-thing-ness”
or “no-form” which can be seen as a
cauldron or blast furnace that melts and dissolves all existing
form to allow the material to flow into a new creation. It is here
chaos exists. The chaos has no form but a huge amount of energy
ready to bubble from the formless into a new creation.
When we dismantle our existing creation, the energy is still present
only it is without form. It is chaotic. If you wish, this chaotic
state can be seen as the lava in a bubbling volcano ready to pour
forth into a new creation. Hence, chaos is that jumping off point
where you step into a new creation or you can say the jumping off
point is chaotic.
If we are aware of our feelings and open to what we feeling, our
body will sense and feel what our consciousness is experiencing in
the unseen realms if we allow it. If we deny the body and what we
feel in any creative endeavor we can feel a calmness and/or silence
as the existing form dissolves to flow into the new form. But this
is not a true place of calmness. If we allow ourselves to feel, we
will feel all the turmoil as our consciousness reforms itself for
our consciousness is our body manifested and our body will feel the
change. The feelings we have will be unique to us but we should not
be surprised to feel them as heat or as passion that is literally
and figuratively burning us up. A true place of calmness during the
chaotic step is to become the
detached witness and simply what the over
creative/creation process. It is to watch the process as an
ebb and flow of energy into and out of form as determined by the
desire of consciousness.
Consciously experiencing this chaos can be experienced in a variety
of ways depending on our awareness, our intention and what we desire
to create, the perspective we hold, and how attached we are to our
existing internal and external worlds. All creation is the
transformation of an existing form of energy to a new form. For that
to happen, something must be given up or sacrificed to make room for
the new creation. From the
mind's perspective, there will always be some type and kind of
“death,” some type of giving up and perceived loss. There will
always be some chaos.
In experiencing this part of the
creative/creation process, some see the chaos which arises as
entering a wild forest or going out into the wilderness. Here we
become wild. We become a wild man or woman. We abandon the limits
and boundaries which hold the existing form in form as the old form
breaks down to create the new and free the energy for the new
creation. We live without limits and boundaries for some period of
time. Some see this part of the process as craziness. In any case,
the freed energy will almost immediately begin to flow into a new
form as the boundaries and limits for the new from beginning to take
hold. The new form is set by the boundaries and limitations
mind imposes on the free flow of the energy within our being
These new limits and boundaries are determined by the intention we
consciously or subconsciously hold in entering the state of
creative play and any judgments of
mind one makes about the chaos as it is experienced. If we bring
our fears into the chaos and become afraid in some way, that fear
gets encoded and embedded within the new creation. If we bring into
the process anger, you will get anger embedded in the outcome.
Ideally when in the creative process we should
empty ourselves of ALL that does not
serve us and/or that which they are holding onto from the past
that should be recycled.
The transition from new to old always has an element of chaos and
any chaotic situation always brings a certain level of anxiety if
not outright fear. The
anxiety of creation in this chaotic period will always fuel the
anxiety of the unknown and the
fear of the unknown. It takes courage and strength of will to
hold to an intention with a
single point focus and to not doubt when
mind has no way to fully understand what is happening. Mind
would rather respond and seek that
warm fuzzy feeling. The question becomes, “How do we break the
mental habits that keep us away from facing the anxiety of the
creative/creation process?”
Clear intention coupled with mindfulness and awareness is
extremely important and essential to the process if we are going to
gain conscious control of the process In addition to setting a clear
intention for what we desire to create, we should set a clear
intention to figuratively “clean house” and flush out and remove all
the ways of thinking and associated beliefs that do not serve what
we desire to create. We need to hold our creativity and what we
desire to create sacred. We need to look carefully at all that is
interfering and/or compromising our creative endeavors. However,
most of us cannot let go of the past. So when we enter the chaos and
subsequent reformation of any creative endeavor, rather than
becoming completely free, we carry the past with us. When we don’t
let go of the past we risk creating a
dark night of the soul.
A poorly understood fact of how we create is that it is the
limitations and barriers we impose on our creativity and the flow of
the creative energy within our being are what allow the creation we
experience to form and manifest. This is true for any experience we
have whether it is spiritual, mental, emotional or physical.
However, few sufficiently “clean their house” and let go of the past
so we are continually holding ourselves bound to the past.
The key to remaining open to what we feel and not become consumed by
the chaos is two fold. One part is to learn
true freedom and become like the wind - coming with nothing and
leaving with nothing. The other is to become that
detached witness standing outside the process and who simply
observes consciousness at play with itself.
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