Two levels to our creative endeavors

 

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Two levels to our creative endeavors
Two ways to create
A masculine way to create
A feminine way to create
Two views of the same process
Two theaters for creating

This topic address the fact that in looking at the creative/creation process there are actually two ways to create and two theaters of creation/Creation in which to create.

Two ways to create (Top)

The essential idea of creativity or creation is to bring something into existence that did not exist before or that is significantly different than what came previously.

If we look at all the different ways there are to bring something into existence, we will come to see there are two ways in which this can be done. These two ways can be perceived as two level to creation process.

A masculine way to create (Top)

One way to create is to use existing materials to create something new and not previously experienced. In many ways it is the masculine way to create. It is to thrust out and take and use what is. It is to construct or build using existing materials to create something new and not previously experienced. This is the way most of us create and it the easiest and fastest way to create anything. Building anything using ready made and prefabricated material is much easier and quicker than having to start from raw materials and make everything you use. This is the way most of us create and it the easiest and fastest way to create anything. It is the way most frequently and normally used by nature. The Creation we experience as human uses ready made and prefabricated materials. We use the existing building blocks of Physical Creation to create what we desire to experience.

For example, an architect takes existing materials and designs a new building or structure never seen before. Or, or an artist takes paint and creates a painting of a landscape. In both these cases, the individual can be seen as taking something that already exist - the building materials and paint, and rearranging them into a new form that did not previously exist and is significantly different than what came before it. Both are creations but they came from readily existing starting materials.

In this type of creativity, there may exist a creative idea, an original idea not previously manifested. But to manifest the idea in physical form or to execute the idea, one only rearranges existing materials to conform to the shape of the idea. It should be noted that Physical Creation uses this method. The cycles we find in nature are of this type. It is most evident in the reproduction of life which unfolds from a seed whether it be animal life or plant life.

When we look at the physical world, it appears rearranging existing materials into a new, previously unseen arrangement, seems to be the predominate way that Creation keeps changing itself to give us the experiences we have. Through the motion and change that are continually present within the physical world, such as the rising and setting of the sun, the movement through the seasons and the like, we keep having new and different experiences. Hence we continually experience new creations.

How much different any particular moment is from the next such that one would call each moment a new creation is really up to the observer. We tend to like to not see things change and try and hold a constancy in our life. Yet, that is not way of nature. As the old adage says, “The only to things that are certain in life are change and death,” and death is no more than a change.

If you observe the world around you carefully, it can be said that there are enough things that can change and do change each instant in time that can allow each moment to be a new creation if we are willing to experience the change that does exist and is occurring. What is obvious but we rarely really pay attention to the fact that the types of superimposed cyclical motions inherent in Creation are the guarantees our world keeps changing such that Creation is always creating a new and different environment for us to experience.

In rearranging existing materials into something new, one may ask, if the original idea, the manifestation of that idea or is the material form that actually comes into physical existence a result of that idea is the creation. We can ask if all three, the idea, its manifestation, and the physical form are separate creations since the creation process can be stopped at any point along the way or are they the same creation since the are integrally linked?

These question then takes us to the second way of bringing something into existence that did not exist before. It also raises a questions about original thoughts which seem to be something that arises out of a nothingness.

A feminine way to create (Top)

The  second way to create is to create something from nothing. It is to literally get something from nothing. In this view of creation, we literally bring into existence something never previously existing and we did not rearrange any existing materials - or so it seems. That is, in addition to the creation itself, we need to create the materials to create what we desire. We may use existing materials to create the new materials but the materials we use in the creation do not exist in the form we use. In many ways this is the feminine way to create. Here we must nurture the creation in that we must give of ourselves to create each piece.

In  nature we rarely seen something literally being created from nothing. Yet, there are two puzzling examples of getting something from nothing that we all comprehend. One is to try and answer how Creation originally got started and came into existence. The second is how life seemingly arose form nothing.

Whatever Creation story you believe, the Big Bang or God Creating the World, and whether you believe life started by a few amino acids forming the first DNA sequence in some primordial ooze or God infused life into a material form, both Creation and life seem to have started from nothing. From our human perspective, there was a some starting point to both Creation and life. The seemingly unanswerable nature of these two questions is probably the main reason why we say Creation is a mystery. It is a mystery because it seems to have formed from nothing into something.

It is the opinion and premise of the creativity perspective and energy consciousness model that something appears to be created out of a “no-thing-ness” only because of how we are choosing to observe.We are observing both Creation and life within Creation from within Creation and within life. We are viewing the creation process from within the process. The issue is we need to figure out some other view point to view these two processes.

When we do change our perspective, creating something from a seemingly “no-thing-ness” only means in addition to the creation itself, we need to create the materials to create what we desire. We may use existing materials to create the new materials but the materials we use in the creation do not exist in the form we use.

The extreme case here would be that before an instant in time there was nothing and after a given instant there was a form and substance with mass. An example of this is your hands are empty and all of a sudden “seemingly out of thin air,” you create a rock or some obscure new material in the palm of you hand. That would literally be creating something from nothing. It really wouldn’t matter if the material you materialized did not exist before or is only a copy of existing material. The fact you created something from nothing would be a creation.

For most of us, creating something physical out of nothing is a form of creation not directly experienced by us in the physical world. Most of us have never seen a material object materialized out of nothing. Creating something physical out of nothing is only something we read about in the esoteric literature and possible by great Masters or Teachers or miracles performed by God.

Yet, creating something from nothing is exactly what happens in the pair production phenomenon where energy is converted directly into mass. In one moment there is energy and in the next moment there is a particle with mass and its anti particle. Here mass seems to be created out of nothing - except that energy is converted to mass. But you don’t have to go to the physic lab to see the phenomenon for creating something from nothing. Every note of music is creating something (music) from nothing (silence). A cloud forming in the sky seemed to be something appearing out of nothing. Ice forming in water seems be to something (a solid) forming out of nothing - no solid (a liquid). It is all a matter of perspective.

The bottom line here is this kind of creativity seems to be opposed or significantly different from creating something from rearranging existing materials as the architect or painter. Getting something from nothing as described here is the type of creation one would normally associate with magic and mystery. It is a mystery as to where the material came from since you did not start with any starting materials. But the mystery and magic exist only because you have an inadequate perspective to understand all that occurs.

Two views of the same process (Top)

What needs to be understood is both ways of creating follow the same basic process. In the first way, we use existing materials. We start from which has already been created out of the raw materials of creation.  In the second way, we use the raw material of creation out of which all creation arises - that is, energy and the desire of consciousness. There is a way  of looking at the Universe where both of these types of creation (creating something out of nothing and rearranging existing forms) are in fact the same process and we are fully capable of doing both. It is only a matter of where we are observing the process that causes the creative process to look different. We can and will observe one or the other or both under the correct conditions. All that one needs to understand is the environmental conditions that are needed to allow each form of creation to occur.

In any case, few choose to create where one must also create the materials they need for their creation. As stated above, rearranging existing materials into a new creation is the easiest way to create. However, creations where both the creation and the materials for the creation are created tend to revolutionize the world in which we live.

Usually when we create we actually use a combination of the two ways and lean more to the first way than the second. That is, in any given creative endeavor, there may be a few materials that are created and the remaining items we use are from what is readily available. As a minimum all our creations start with a thought and our thoughts do appear to arise out of a “no-thing-ness.” Initially there was no thought then the thought appears and we choose to act or not act on the thought we have to manifest that thought. If is something new and not previously seen and experienced, then we are creating. If it is something previously seen and experienced, we are just repeating the past.

One question that does arise is, “How do we find or create those original thoughts - those things not previously seen or experienced by humanity?” The answer to this question is addressed by what gives rise to the origins of our thoughts and is addressed in the topics “Origins of Our Thoughts.”

Two theaters for creating (Top)

In addition to the two ways to create above, there are two arenas or theaters to preform our creativity. One arena or theater is creation outside of the existence of another creation. It would be to create a world unto ourselves. In many ways what we create within our being can be this type of arena or theater of performance. When we create a world unto ourselves, there are no rule but the rule we create. Here we do not have to abide by the opinion and desires of any other. We are totally free to create what we desire. However, most in their internal world still follow the guidance provided by the external world.

The other is were we create within a creation. Physical Creation is such an arena. In some ways creation in the Physical World it is like being in a sandbox. In a sandbox we choose to create with sand rather than wood, mud, ice or some other material. Being in the sandbox, we have to build what we desire using the rules that govern sand. The rules of wood, mud and ice are not applicable to sand. Although we may not like sand as a building material and it is difficult with which to work, we nevertheless need to follow the rule of sand if we are going to build out of sand. If we are going to use something other than sand in the sandbox, we are changing the rules and the way that we will be able to build in the sandbox. Although we can introduce new materials into the sand box, we may need to get all the other people in the sandbox to agree with what we do. Otherwise, disagreements could arise. What those disagreements mean and what they look like depends on the situation at hand.

When we create with an existing creation there are agreements we make about what we can and can’t create and there are rules to follow. Most of us are not consciously aware, or even subconsciously aware, of the rules and agreements but they nevertheless exist and we follow them. Many of the agreements we make about being human, as is the intention for our life, and that limit our creativity lie in our unconscious, well below the subconscious. One reason for this is creation is about forgetting. To have an experience of creation there is the need to become lost.

From a creativity perspective and getting some idea as to how consciousness translates its desires into a physical experience is seen as a combination of creativity in these two arenas. The “game” we play is a dance between mind and what is symbolized in the heart. The mind can creatie independent of the world it inhabits and then tries to manifest what it thinks into that reality. On the other hand is the heart. What is symbolized in the heart asks us to surrender to what is, as it is, and to use mind to figure out how to live what the heart desires and have the experiences we incarnated to live. It is these two arenas of our creative activities that come together into physical Creation and make physical Creation so interesting.

From a physics perspective, it is important to understand what lies within our own being and in internally influencing what we desire to create. There are concepts and ideas which we embrace and which provide the governing criteria for many of our actions. Similarly, there an many external influences pushing us to act one way or another. Some times the inner and outer agree and other times they do. This, in turn, give rise the outer dance between the creative spirit’s desire to express itself, true to itself, in the external world and the demands of the outer world in which it finds itself.

The physics of creative/creation process is focused on some physical processes that can help to understanding how all of these influences comes together and how we create our experiences and the reality of those experiences. It also provides a way to see how it is possible to create something from a perceived “no-thing-ness.” These concepts, in turn, can help us to understand how energy can mold itself in response to what consciousness desires.

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The rain-river analogy for the creative/creation process
Creation within creations
A world unto our self

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