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The creativity perspective on
death
Our
perspective
Identification with the body
Why the
need for death
The
physical experience
From a
creativity perspective there is no death. There is only the
transformation of an existing form of
energy consciousness into some new form. Energy, as
consciousness, can neither be created or destroyed. We perceive
death as we do become of (1) our perspective and (2) we identify
with the body as opposed to the awareness within the body.
Our
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Death, experienced as the ceasing
of something to exist, exists only because of the perspective we
hold. If we look at the life of any creation there is it birth, it
preservation and then its death followed by a quietness or
non-existence. But this perspective is to view the
creative/creation process from either within the eyes of the
creation and/or within the world of the creation. There are
multiple perspectives available. Form other perspectives we can
seen that within the perceived quietness there is also a birth, a
preservation and death in the unseen world. In the unseen world
beyond the world of death there is life. Death exist only in
relation to an expressed creation. In actually there is an
ongoing, never ending, cycle of birth, preservation, death,
dissolution and rebirth. We can look the “Making
music analogy for the creative/creation process” and look at the
quiet between the notes as the death of the note. Yet, there is
movement in the unseen to make the next note.
Identification with the body
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Our true identity is that of an
infinitely creative being as described in the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective. We are a unique
aspect of an infinite Consciousness seeking to discover and explore
itself. As a unique aspect of an infinite Consciousness, it will
take and infinite number of finite experiences to fully and totally
experience exactly who and what we are. Creation is simply the
composite and superposition of all these unique aspects of this
Consciousness simultaneously experiencing themselves.
The essence of who we are is the awareness of this unique aspect of
Consciousness awakening to the flow of energy within the body and
looking out from within a body. As a human, there are an infinite
number of unique experiences we can have as a human. Death is simply
shedding our body, the vehicle for a physical experience as a human,
for another type and kind of experience. Our problem is that,
because of the intensity of the physical experience and the way it
imprints our memories, we become attached to the body and think we
are the body. As such, we are consumed by viewing our experience in
the body as if our identity is the body.
To view our existence as a human means that we must die. To be human
means we have a physical body which dies after a certain period of
time. To view our existence as a human means that we cease to exist
upon death. But a part of us knows this is not true. The awareness
that something of us exists past death has been prevalent in almost
every culture no matter where it has been found on earth. Some say
it is wishful thinking on our part that we don’t die. But others
feel there is something more. They feel there is something beyond
the physical. Some have said that we are a spirit having a physical
existence.
What is missed is that we are the awareness within the body that
awakens within a flow of energy. We then begin to define ourselves
based on the experiences we have as that flow of energy. Yet we are
not the flow. We are the awareness within the flow and it never
dies. It simply redefines itself based on the flow of energy within
which it awakens. Because of the intensity of the experiences in the
flow, those experiences dominate our memory. But sometimes we
remember. Sometimes we remember other experiences, other lifetimes,
other bodies or other vehicles. We think it is our imagination but
we never look to see what is really real. We fail to become aware
that what is real are the feelings that give rise to our thoughts
and images, not the thoughts or the images.
Our thoughts, which come from our mind that has arise as a result of
the experiences of the body, say we are our body. But we are the
awareness of our thought and the awareness of our feelings. If we
identify with the awareness and live our life from that perspective,
more as a detached witness, we can come to see we are not our
bodies. In that awareness we can come to see death is a perception
because of a view we have taken. In the awareness of a detached
witness, we can come to see each moment provides death but it also
provides a life. To think we live means we must die. To become aware
we exist, death has no meaning other than a transition from one
state of being to another. How much pain, suffering, joy or pleasure
we experience in death is simply a matter of how we are choosing to
view it and to what we do, or don’t, hold. This, of course, is quite
a leap for most of us and much easier said than done. Yet, it is
nevertheless true.
Why the need for death
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Death is not what we think it is.
Death as we experience it is needed so that we don’t get stuck and
our creative life energy so bound such that we lose total
freedom of movement and ability to create. In many ways death as it
is currently experienced is a safety measure put into place so that
we don't become trapped. There is no reason to die other than to
release all that we have come to think we
are.
In actuality death is actually about liberation. We create the
condition to experience as we do only because of how we hold onto
the past. If we learn to let go and simply flow with the flow of
energy that sustains us, we could seen death no different than going
to sleep in an airplane leaving one city and awakening in the
morning being in another. Many do it all the time and think nothing
of the experience. Death is no different. But we believe it is
different so we fear it and try to avoid it.
An important part of the
creative/creation process is the
need to forget and
becoming lost in the creation. If we do not become lost in the
creation we will not fully experience what we have created.
Similarly, if we remember exactly how we create what we do, we will
attempt to change the creation whenever there is an aspect we may
not enjoy. Memory is of mind. Being overwhelmed in the feelings
which arise in the
energy generating step of the
creative/creation process takes us
out of mind. Being out of mind, the
chaos of creation, the
anxiety of creation and the annihilation of aspects of the
existing creates conditions which allows us to forget how we created
our experience. The overwhelming feelings of the
dark night of the soul and/or the euphoria of the
Kundalini in the flow of released energy allows us to become
lost in the experience of the creation. These phenomenon, in turn,
only prepare us to fully experience the creation we desire by
causing us to forget we are the creator of the experience we
have.
In this regard there are two types of liberation. One death is the
death of the creation. For example, the death of our body. The other
type of death is the awareness shedding its identity while within
the creation. The key to avoiding an experience of death is
awareness. In awareness we can learn to let go of any experience we
have when we have it and each experience is face new without
judgement or bias. In that process the point at which physical death
would occur is seen and experienced as any other moment.
The physical experience
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The physical plane is a plane of
grounding. That is, it pulls our awareness into form. It is a
very important experience for it shows us what we have become and
are creating. The physical plane slows down our ability to create
and ties our creations to time so that we can actually come to learn
and understand how we create what we do. It gives us a chance to see
exactly who and what it is we are creating and capable of creating.
This is why so many esoteric and mystical teachers talk about earth
being a school. But it is not a school to learn anything in
particular. It is simply to experience our creations is a greater
awareness. The only lesson to be learned if there is one is
awareness. Awareness of what we thinks, say, feel and do and to come
to know
what serves and doesn’t sure us.
Life tells us if we are living in heaven or hell. Because the
experience can be so intense in the physical and each life gives us
the opportunity to clean up our act so to speak. We can either make
heaven here on earth and take it with us or we can create hell and
also take it with us. However, before we can consciously create
heaven we need to understand how we create hell. In that realization
then we can learn to let go of our creation and allow heaven to
exist and not hold onto it and become bound. We can become seriously
bound to seeking pleasure and that which is pleasurable. At every
moment we have the choice of changing what we have become to not
repeat the past or we can hold to the past or even increase our
burden of what we carry. All death does is provides us with a sharp
break with the past to gives us the opportunity to start over. That
is, of course, true only if we allow ourselves to release all that
we carry with us at the moment of death.
How much we create that is truly new and how much of it is only a
repeat from the past determines how much energy we allow to be bound
in the memories we hold. It is here that the seeds of heaven and
hell reside. If we are in heaven, our creative life energy is free
and it is available to create whatever we desire. If we are in hell,
we cannot free our energy and we are stuck in the past. We have
little freedom to create something new. Yet, hell is only a
cage of our own making. No one holds us to the past but
ourselves. We hold the key to our own freedom or imprisonment. No
one can unlock the door to our cage but ourselves. Each death gives
us the opportunity to let go and become free.
Each death gives us the opportunity to let go and become free. This
is why so many perceive heaven to be something that occurs after
life. Many see the need to transcend and/or leave the physical to
become free and/or to find heaven. But heaven, as is hell, is here
an now. It is simply matter of allowing our creative life energy to
be free or bound in the memories we hold and the experiences we
have. It is a matter of how we have or have not defines ourselves in
the experience we have.
True freedom and freedom from the experience of death is to become
like the wind, coming with nothing and leaving with nothing. There
will always be change and there will always be the transformation of
energy from one form into another. But the experience of death is
only the view we get from the perception we hold - namely from
looking from the perspective of the creation or from the world of
the creation.
There are the saying, “You can’t take it with you" and "Naked you
came into the world naked you will go out.” At one level, the
physical level these statements are completely true. However,
energetically and creatively these statements are not true. We did
not come into the world naked. Our body and the time and place of
our incarnation are a direct manifestation of an intention that we
carry, the
intention for our life. As we go though life we can change and
adjust that intention such that when we leave, we will leave with
some desires and intentions that will carry over into the future.
Whether we incarnate or not in the future is entirely what we choose
to carry with us when we leave and what we may choose to do after we
leave.
As we go through life we literally and figuratively become too full
as to who we think we are and how we think the universe works. There
is no fertile space for the creative life energy to continue renew
itself and create anew within our being. We cannot stay young and
innocent because we loose our trust that all our needs will be met
and the universe is only molding itself to what we intend. We may
say that is the result for that is what it means to have a human
experience. But it also true to say that if we continually renewed
our whole being we could continually recreate ourselves in given a
human form. But in continually recreating ourselves in our current
form, we would become stuck and death is only a way to insure we
don’t become trapped. When we come to the realization of how to
sustain ourselves in our current human form we will also loose the
need to do so. We will realize and understand why things are perfect
exactly the way they are - with death and everything else that goes
with begin human and having a physical experience.
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