The dances of creation/Creation

 

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There are several dances that one must step through that involve the masculine and feminine aspects of creation the are key to becoming and conscious creator and the creator of our experiences.

The first step is to realize there is a dance and to dance we must learn to go into and out of balance. The first dance is the dance between mind and heart or better said, what is symbolized in the heart. It is to learn the view of the mind and the view of the heart and spend a little time exploring each. It is for mind to learn what lies in the heart and surrender to the heart. In doing so, one begins to move into the dance between the inner masculine and inner feminine. That dance gives rise to the marriage of the inner masculine and inner feminine and an offspring. That offspring is a new life and creates a new world within one’s being.

As we move to act from the energy that lies within this marriage and the offspring we being to move into the world and act in the world according to this offspring. That creates the outer dance where the offspring of the marriage of the inner masculine and inner feminine learns how to survive in the world in which it finds itself. This dance is where we begin to access the true depth and breadth of our creative power. The survival of that offspring will change the world we inhabits. It is here we learn the third dance and how to both be the creator of the experiences we have and the reality of those experiences. It is here we moves to, and act form, the source/Source of our being and the source/Source of creation/Creation. It is here the creator/Creator and the creation/Creation are one/One. It is were we experience consciousness/Consciousness at play with itself/Itself. It is here we experience the ultimate dance - the dance between the creation which binds our energy and true freedom

This dance between the masculine and feminine aspects of creation can be seen and or experiences in a variety of ways. The most basic and fundamental way it can be seen as a dance between energy and consciousness. All the dances of creation/Creation are in fact some variation of the dance between energy and consciousness. The dance of energy and consciousness can be seen and experience as a dance of duality or the dance between the observer and the observed. It can be seen as an ebb and flow of energy or creating something from nothing. However we experience it, we experience a dancefreedom

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.


 

Each dance listed in the figure is briefly discussed below. Appropriate hyperlinks are provided for each for further discussions.

Dance of energy and consciousness: 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: 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 feelings what we are feeling in our bodies.

Dance between the enculturated mind and the truth of our being: 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. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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?”

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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