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Our mind and the nature of mind is the most
significant issue we will face in experiencing the source of our
being, the Source of Creation and the creative powers which lie at
the Source. Our problem is we will never consciously access the
magic and magnificence of Creation if we are in mind. The problem of
mind arises from the nature of mind. The mystics have said that mind
is an illusion. The reason for this is that mind does not allow one
to see and experience what gives rise to Creation and to mind
itself. Mind does not allow one to see the bigger picture of which
we are a part.
In particular, the problem of mind arises from the fact that mind
only knows the past and what it has experienced. It does not know
about what it has not experienced. Anything that is experienced will
be characterized based on the past. Anything which mind is aware
that is unknown or unexperienced, mind will attempt to characterize
based on the past. The fact that mind characterizing everything of
which it is aware based on its past is not necessarily good nor bad.
It is just the way mind operates It just needs to be understood. It
is the nature of mind.
Our problem is we believe our mind and/or the mind of another. We
believe what it knows and what was experienced by it. We think
mind’s perspective of Creation is correct for we have no other
perspective of Creation to use to explain what we see and experience
in Creation. But mind is an on going, ever changing process and the
product of Creation. As a product of Creation, it can not see the
process of Creation which formed it. Mind is every changing. We
ourselves are a creative living process continually being changed.
Each experience we have changes our mind in some way. Each
experience either reinforces what we believe and reinforces our past
to further “fix” and solidify our mind, or what we experience causes
us to shift what we believe expanding what we believe becoming more
flexible.
Every experience we have does one of two things. Either it (1) moves
to reinforce what we think and believe about how Creation works or
(2) it moves to change what we think and believe. In time, our view
becomes relatively fixed and becomes harder and harder to change.
Yet even though we become fixed in what we believe, our mind is
always changing and evolving becoming more fixed and inflexible or
more fluid and flexible in how and what it thinks. As such, mind is
considered an illusion for it never gives reality for what it is.
Although mind is always changing, it is not easy to change the
perception it creates about the nature of creation and the Creative
Power of Creation. Often it takes something dramatic in our lives to
change our thinking. But whenever something dramatic happens, rather
than looking to change our perceptions about nature and how and what
we think and believe, we try and explain what happen based on our
past.
When we are in mind we cannot see and experience the “stuff” of
Creation out of which mind arises. It is much like riding in a car,
airplane or any vehicle. When you are in the vehicle you cannot see
the vehicle for what it really is for you are inside looking out.
You may know something of its motion because of how it moves but you
know nothing about the vehicle itself. If you have never seen the
vehicle in which you travel and the window is designed to look the
same when viewed from the inside any of the vehicles, you could look
out the same window and be in a car, plane, train, bus, or ship.
Depending on the view it gives you, you will never know what vehicle
you are in. For example, you look at a window across a body of water
at the opposite shore. The vehicle is stopped. You could be in a
car, a bus, a train, a boat, a plane or a train. Hence the
conclusion, mind, the view you have, is an illusion for mind is not
seen as real but the “stuff” that gives rise to mind is seen as
real.
But mind is not an illusion. It is real. It is a creation and part
of Creation just as much as the world you see and experience in
front of you. In fact, mind is what gives rise to all that you do
and do not experience. It is what channels and/or controls one’s
creativity spirit to both (1) create the experience you have and (2)
to reveal to ourselves exactly who and what we are. Without the
limits and barriers imposed by mind on the free flow of our creative
spirit you would never be able to experience yourself. The limits
and barriers imposed by mind allow you to see what the “stuff” of
Creation can really do and how to manipulate it to create what you
desire. But those same limits do not allow you to see the “stuff” of
Creation. Those same limits and barriers that are essential to your
creation and give rise to the creation you experience act as a cage
of your own making. They do not allow you to experience the truth of
what is and the full depth and breadth of who and what you are
and/or allow you to see the truth of reality. Mind does not allow
you to experience what is giving rise to mind. That is, it does not
allow you to see you are an awareness that has no specific identity.
The awareness is only having an experience within a give created
form (the
current mind and its associated body) that creates an identity
(the ego) because of the experiences it has had.
The reason why we don’t routinely experience the
magic of Creation is because we have never allow ourselves to
truly experienced the depth and breadth of our own creativity and
the Creative Power of Creation. Yet we can experience it in any
moment for we are subconsciously using it every moment. Once you
have stumbled into a conscious experience of depth and breadth of
your creative power without the imposition of mind and what it
thinks, you will see for yourself how shallow we live life. You will
see why such an experience of oneself and the Creative Power of
Creation is so important. So the question is, “How do we consciously
experience the depth and breadth of our creativity and the Source of
Creation and to see for ourselves what we really are - how does one
get out of mind to see the “stuff” of Creation?”
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I have had a profound experienced the Source of
Creation. It is what created the occasion to propel me to ultimately
write these words and create this and the
application websites. I have also read and compared the lives of
those, who in one way or another, have been called a “master,” a
great teacher or mystic because they too are reported to have
experience the depth and breadth of their creative powers or the
Source of Creation. In this comparison it became clear to me that
what any individual tries to creates, including me, to get another
to have an experience of the Source is based on how their particular
mind interprets what will need to be done based on their past
experience. It will not be what any one particular individual needs
to do. What is provided may be true and generically applicable
to many individuals. But there will always be an aspect that is
unique to you and only you can find. Some where, at some point, you
must break off from the guidance of others and follow your own
unique path.
The problem is whatever one creates from mind to access the
source/Source of one’s creative power is not what is needed for
another. Any given mind creates only what it thinks needs to be
done. As such, it makes no sense trying to create anything to guide
people towards the source of their creative power and/or the Source
of Creation. All one can do is create the space for an individual’s
creative spirit to become free and allow that creative spirit to
guide the individual into their own being to make the experience
more probable. This is done by getting the individual out of mind to
become intimate with their creative spirit so they can trust it.
Then stepping out of what they think and believe to follow their own
creative intuitive guidance. Other than that, nothing much can be
done and will simply make the journey harder than necessary.
What became clear is that we each have had, do have, or will have a
conscious experience of the Source of Creation. Since it is always
with us and we are always connected to it and using it all the time,
it is only a matter of time for us to realize it. However, we
usually don’t recognize it for we don’t have the
minimum requisite set of experiences to understand it. We can
recognize it as we being to accumulate the experiences that make up
that requisite minimum set of experiences.
The problem is that the Source of our being and the Source of our
creative power is creatively infinite. When we are out of mind and
its limits and barriers and have an awareness of the experience of
the Source, we can experience the infinite in a conscious fashion.
However, to try and recall the experience in any way, communicate to
another, or otherwise try and express what we experienced, we filter
the experience through mind. We characterize the experience the best
we can based on what mind has experienced. Hence we attempt to put
infinity into a box in the way we are attempting to layout as a
path. That cannot be done. We cannot put infinity into a box with
mind as we normally know it and understand it.
The question is, “How good of an approximation is the path or way
that the individual creates to direct another to the
source/Source?”. The interesting thing is that whatever we say,
express or create to return to the Source will be based on our past
and be reflective of the experiences we have had. As such it will be
inaccurate for we don’t really know what allowed us to step out of
mind and experience it in the first place. We think we do but we
don’t. We will have an approximate understanding, but not the
correct one. We think it was what we were doing at the time or how
we prepared ourselves in some way. But we really don’t know. And to
think we know is to be in mind and its limitations. So no matter
what we think we need to do to create that experience for ourselves
or another will not be correct. No matter who we are and what we say
and/or think about the experience of the Source, it will not be
accurate for it is only an interpretation by our individual mind.
But, nevertheless, there is a great power in knowing this and it can
become the key.
A part of me finds a deep sadness in all of this. The result is that
no matter what one creates and/or says about how to access the
Source and no matter how noble their intention, what is said is only
based on how their mind understands it and will be reflective of
their past experiences. It will always in some way be wrong for one
cannot put the infinite into the finite box of one’s own mind. But
this is true for each of us. Nothing anyone can say about how to
access the Source will be ultimately correct. Each of us will
package the experience we have based on our own unique past and it
will not accurately reflect how to get the Source as to what needs
to be done. All that can be done is to create the space for another
to do what they need to do. But the question is, “What is it one
needs to do and how does one find it out when their mind cannot tell
them?
Believe it or not, the answer is provided in becoming intimate with
your creative spirit and feel you way to it. The key is feeling. It
is using mind to remember and focus on the feeling that gives a
fullness of being and/or a fullness of life and follow that feeling -
to follow the feeling that arises from the flow of energy that
sustains us to take us to the Source. It is to use mind to follow
the feeling and to see what allows a expansion and growth of that
feeling in our life. If we do that, along the way we will stumble
into, or rather, fall into the Source.
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