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Energy - an
invariant within the creativity perspective
- the key to understanding the creative process
Definition
of energy
Consciousness as energy
Energy and work
Implications of
the creative equivalency of energy and consciousness
Implication topics of
related interest
When you work with the
creativity perspective and hold your creativity sacred, what you
will find is that there is really only one concept and an associated
set of principles that remain unchangeable or invariant in any
creative endeavor. This invariant is energy. It is the ability to
cause an effect or the ability to make something happen. This
concept and the associated principles work in creativity as the
energy principles of physics. The principles of physics apply to
anything you do, anywhere, at any time, regardless of the society in
which you live or in which you apply the principles. For example,
the concept of gravity works everywhere. Its effects may be
negligible for microscopic situations, yet it nevertheless exists as
an influence following the same consistent set of principles. So too
the concept of energy in creativity. This concept and associated
principles allows one to bridge the world of imagination, the
physical creation and the unseen realms to manifest what you desire.
Definition of energy
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If you look carefully, you will see the ability to cause an effect
or the ability to make something happen is only the definition of
energy as used in physics. In physics, energy is defined as the
ability to do work (a force - a push or a pull - acting through a
distance) or the capacity or ability to produce an effect. In
studying the creative process it is the latter description of
energy, “the capacity or ability to produce an effect,” is what is
key to understanding the creative process.
As for what you can say about energy, we only need to look at the
volumes of human experience as to what energy and our understanding
of energy has made possible. What is interesting about energy is
that you can store it, manipulate it, sense it and change the world
with it, but we don’t really know what it is. It just is. You can
convert it to mass but the energy you convert to mass is essentially
“frozen.” You can do nothing with the energy converted to mass. You
can manipulate the mass and change the energy of the mass but you
cannot access the energy that was converted to the mass unless you
convert the mass back into energy. All we can really say about the
energy converted to the mass is that sometimes it acts as a wave and
sometimes it acts as a particle. The mass retains the wave like
nature of energy but it is effects are negligibly small and can only
be seen under certain conditions. Nevertheless, the effects still
exist and it is a phenomenon that you can readily use in your
creative endeavors.
Consciousness as energy
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Consciousness is defined as the ability to be aware of oneself. To
be conscious is to be aware of one’s own existence, feelings, and
thoughts. To be conscious is to be aware of external objects and
conditions, mentally awake, deliberate and intentional.
Consciousness, of course, is the state of being conscious such that
one has an awareness of oneself and an awareness of surroundings. It
is because of this awareness that gives rise to the ability of
consciousness to be aware of the choices it makes and its actions.
That awareness of choice and action is what allows a consciousness
to make things happen. Awareness of choice allows us to become
proactive to become the cause rather than only being reactive to
what occurs. Consciousness awareness allows us to cause an effect as
opposed to responding to an effect.
This ability to choose one’s actions and make things happen is the
capacity to produce an effect and in turn, is simply the definition
of energy. Hence conscious awareness or consciousness is our ability
to produce an effect. From this perspective, consciousness is
energy. It can be said consciousness is only a flow of energy that
is aware of itself. In the awareness of itself, it can then focus
and direct its energy into whatever it desires. The consciousness
may not be aware of exactly what it is. Nevertheless, in its
awareness of its own existence as being separate and apart from its
surroundings that it becomes aware of its ability to make things
happen. This awareness is the doorway to one’s creative power and
ability.
From a creativity perspective, energy and consciousness are one and
the same. Or, maybe better said, they are different forms of the
same “stuff” of creation much the way ice, steam, snow, frost,
sleet, and water are all different forms of the chemical compound
which we call water. They are only perceived differently and
experienced differently. The easiest way to understand this
relationship is to look at the concept of energy as the capacity or
ability to produce an effect. Understanding energy within this
definition is the key to bridging the seen and unseen realms of
creation and ultimately uniting mysticism and science into an
integrated wholeness.
Energy and work (Top):
As for the ability to do work, you only need to realize a flow of
one’s attention and awareness held for some duration is the
equivalent of work and changes, or better said, transforms, the
energy of a situation. Physics has shown that the observer changes
what it observers. If you wish, you can look at the observation
shifting the energy, not necessarily changing it, but shifting what
it look like, or transforming its form, as a result of the
observation and the way one chooses to observe.
To understand how one’s observations can change what is observed one
can look of a simple example in changing the position of a box
across a table. If we slide a box from one end of a table to the
other end, work is done. Since the motion of the box has not changed
(it is still at rest), we say the energy added to the box by pushing
the box across the table is absorbed by the friction between the box
and the table. Of course, the box and the table may heat up slightly
because of the friction. However, that heat is eventually
dissipated. The box still sits on the table but just in a different
position. The energy before the box was moved is now the same as
after the box has moved. But, nevertheless, there is a difference.
The difference was achieved by rearranging the energy of the
situation although we ultimately don’t change the energy content of
the situation.
Because it is in a different position on the table it will look
different against the same background when observed from the
outside. Similarly, the surrounding environment around the box as
viewed from inside the box will look different. The difference many
not be great but it nevertheless different. The box is not moving so
we say the energy of the situation has not changed form before it
was moved. But there was a change. Although the total energy of the
system remains the same, its form has been changed. The situation
before we move the box is different than after we move the box.
In many ways this is what the power of our observation can do. It
changed the form of the situation without changing the overall total
energy content. On this point, many mystical traditions talk about
seeing the world differently - being in the world but not of it. Or,
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water - after enlightenment,
chop wood, carry water.” Such comments are about seeing differently.
But, seeing differently, is seeing the possibility of becoming the
cause and/or creating a cause as opposed to responding to the paste.
We create an effect which allows us to see and experience the
situation different. In essence it rearranges the energy of the
situation without changing the overall energy content. In essence,
energy is added by the focus of our attention and awareness and the
energy is dissipated against the internal and external forces
holding things as they are - much like friction and inertia. As you
study the creative process, you can come to see your creative life
energy, the ability to make things happen or to produce an effect,
goes where you focus your attention and awareness and you perceive
differently because of that focus. Yet, the power in our observation
is much greater than this simple example for we also can change the
energy of the situation not just rearranging it.
Implications of the creative equivalency of energy and
consciousness (Top)
There are a variety of
implications in the creative equivalency of energy and
consciousness. Some of the more important of these are provided
below.
Although it is not initially obvious, but probably the most profound
implication of the equivalence of energy and consciousness is that
in some ways it is the equivalent of the metaphysical nuclear
energy. It is about rearranging our inner energy, that sustains our
life and which we perceive as the consciousness internal to us and
within our being to create an intense passionate outward flow of
energy to effect the change we desire to experience or create in the
world.
It needs to be noted that when mass and energy were found to be
equivalent, there was a revolution in physic which ultimately
transformed the world. Within the understanding of the equivalence
of mass and energy humanity gained the understanding to split the
nucleus and eventually to fuse nuclei with the release of huge
amounts of energy in each case. So too the equivalence of energy and
consciousness. It can help you to understand how to release huge
amounts of energy in your life to recreate your life and change the
world you experience.
However, you need to be aware of what you do. There is also a
parallel relations to the fact that splitting the nucleus tends to
be a “dirty” process with long term after effects where as fusing
nuclei, is a “clean” process without the long term after effects
found in the fission process. Here again, so too the applications of
the relationship of energy and consciousness to create what you
desire.
To see energy and consciousness as creatively separate, we create
unwanted by product in what we create because we do not see the
interconnection of what we create with the world around us. We think
our creative effort, including what we think and believe, are
separate from the world around us when in fact, they are
interconnected. To see energy and consciousness as creatively
equivalent, we become are of the interconnections between how and
what we think and believe and the experiences we have and the
reality of those experiences. In this relationship we see how all is
interconnected in a way we could previously not understand. It
allows us to create a life much more free of unwanted byproducts. In
doing so we can access a profound creative power and creative
ability but it is
not necessarily what our mind expects or often can even
understand as power and ability.
Implication
topics of related interest (Top)
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consciousness/Consciousness within Creation
Consciousness never dies - but it can go to sleep
Intention and the creation of an energy flow
Life force, life energy and creative power
Creation/creation is an energy balance
We are a creative living process
A creative life energy
Looking to Nature
Stumbling into the intention for our life
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consciousness relationship, visit “Creative
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