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There are various discussion
within the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity applications such as,
“Multiple
Perspectives from which to view the creative/creation process,”
about how our perspective does or doesn’t allows us to see the
creative/creation process. There are also discussions such as “Two
levels to our creative endeavors,” about how our perspective
causes creation to appear as thought we are creating something from
nothing. In these and other discussions, reference is made to an
inherent calmness within the
dissipation of the energy in a creative endeavor and within
aligning with the direction and flow of energy in a creative
endeavor. One question that raises is exactly how does
creation/Creation work.
Creation is about manipulating flows of energy. Without a flow of
energy there is no experience to be had. That is, anything that
comes into existence whether it be a thought, an object or an
experience, arises from a flow of energy. There are two analogies
whose composite can be used to help us understand the
creative/creation process. These analogies pull together the
concepts of how the overall creative/creation process works, and the
role of the unseen and seen aspects of Creation. understanding
creating something from nothing, the
ebb and flow of creation/Creation
and the
cycle of
creation/Creation.
One analogy is the flow of water as it cycles through the
evaporation and condensation process to make rain and its flow
within a river back to the ocean. The other analogy, discussed here,
is the flow of lava from a volcano to form a harden land mass that
eventually gets recycled as the land mass gets pushed back into the
molten earth. Each of these two analogies provides a way of viewing
the
creative/creation process not provided by the other. To
understanding the
creation/Creation process it is necessary to image the “stuff”
of creation, this
energy consciousness, simultaneously as a composite of these two
analogies. So if you can, allow the understanding provided by each
of these analogies to merge together as one in your mind
The lava analogy - the process
Any creative process can be seen
analogous to the process of how lava forms new land masses and
through plate tectonics flows back to the ultimate source of lave -
the core of the earth. In this analogy we start within an already
existing creation much like the way earth is today.
In the volcano process the molten rock exists as a fluid within the
earth, call magma. It remains fluid because of the heat supplied by
the internal temperatures and pressures caused by the pull of
gravity of each individual particle of mass pulling on every other
particle of mass to hold the mass of the earth together in one
massive structure. Here the intense internal pull of gravity between
each individual mass is what creates the intense internal pressures
and temperatures as opposed to some external source of heat as in
the
rain-river analogy. That is, there is an internally generated
heat and pressure.
The molten rock of the magma is without form. It has no form and is
a place of nothingness. Because there are intense pressures within
the magma created by the heat of the core, the magma will flow out
into the external world as lava at an available weakness in the
earths crust.
As the lava flows out in the external world in some ways it is much
like a river. However, unlike a river, as the lava flows, the
outside parts of the lava flow cools and creates an external hard
form or shell. The interior of the flow continues to flow outward
through the hard outer shell from the magma pool because of the
greater inner pressures of the magma pool as compared to the
exterior of the planet.
As the lava flows upward and outward from the magma pool it
continues to flow out though the top of the tube it, itself, has
created from its own flow. The lava flows out and down the exterior
sides of the tube creating the typical cone-like shape, unless of
course, there are some obstacles in the way or an alternative path
of least resistance. The volcano grow more and more massive creating
a new land structure. If this effect is experienced near the surface
often the end result of this process is lava tubes that you can go
into and explore.
In time, the lava stops flowing and the newly created land mass
remains until it is slowly over millennium is pushed back into the
magma pool to dissolve only to be recast into a new land mass as
some future point in time.
The metaphor and a line by line
review of the creation/Creation process
In the volcano process, a flowing
material moves from a place of “no-form” or “no-thing-ness”
through some ground point to burst into the external world as an
experience until all the energy dissipates in forming a new
creation. Then, in time, all the material flows back into the place
of “no-thing-ness.”
Internal heat generation: In the volcano process the
molten rock exists as a fluid within the earth, call magma. It
remains fluid because of the heat supplied by the internal
temperatures and pressures caused by the pull of gravity of each
individual particle of mass pulling on every other particle of mass
to hold the mass of the earth together in one massive structure.
Here the intense internal pull of gravity between each individual
mass is what creates the intense internal pressures and temperatures
as opposed to some external source of heat as in the
rain-river analogy. That is, there is an internally generated
heat and pressure.
The high temperature and pressure that causes the magma to form is
internal to the material. The heat for the process does not come
from the outside as with the
rain-river process. In the lava analogy, every particle with
mass on, and in, the earth is gravitationally pulling on every other
particle with mass. Similarly, the focus of consciousness is
affecting every aspect of creation causing energy to flow into the
form it desires. The important point here is that every focused
point of consciousness is affecting every other point of
consciousness just as every particle with mass is affecting every
other particle with mass. What this means is that we are all part of
a collective, both an internal collective and an external
collective. What we experience, that is the way our
creative life energy actually flows into an experience, is the
overall resultant of the collective pull of all points of
consciousness. We are bound to the collective and the collective is
bound to each of us. So if at times in our creative effort we feel
as though we are pulling against our entire society, we are.
Similarly, for anything we create, there is an internal collective
pull against which we struggle.
Internal forces push outward: The molten rock of the magma
is without form. It has no form and is a place of nothingness.
Because there are intense pressures within the magma created by the
heat of the core, the magma will flow out into the external world as
lava at an available weakness in the earths crust.
Creation is not done alone. We need the other external to us to give
a form to what flows from within us. Within us is a desire, a desire
to be expressed. The “Creation
Story for the Creativity Perspective” provides an understanding
for where the most basic desire we all have arises. Desire is the
fuel of creation. We look externally to satisfy the longing within
ourselves and our desire takes shape based on the external world. We
can express our inner longing in many ways but in end the essence is
the same. We desire to share ourselves for only in reference to
another or other do we have the contract to know ourselves.
An inner flow and outer shell: As the lava flows out in
the external world in some ways it is much like a river. However,
unlike a river, as the lava flows, the outside parts of the lava
flow cools and creates an external hard form or shell. The interior
of the flow continues to flow outward through the hard outer shell
from the magma pool because of the greater inner pressures of the
magma pool as compared to the exterior of the planet.
We tend to think of lava flowing down the side of a volcano.
However, what gives rise to the volcano is a lava tube. That is, the
external edges of the flow of lava harden where as the interior
continues to flow. Under the force of gravity pulling down and the
upward and outward push of the magma, the lava builds a volcano.
So too with the flow of
creative life energy that is animating our life. Our energy
flows outward into
creation/Creation in response to our beliefs, desires and
intentions and according to the environment in which we find
ourselves. Our beliefs, desires and intention, in essence, form a
blueprint or channel in which our creative life energy follows to
manifest an experience. The outermost expression of our energy can
be seen as hardening into a physical form and an physical experience
according to the path of least resistance within our environment.
But what is within us, forming the creation we experience continues
a flow of energy animating the creation. If you identify with the
fixed boundary that have hardened, we lose control over what is
actually animating our life. However if we learn to focus on the
flow, our attention and awareness is placed at the point of maximum
creative power for the essence of who we are. In doing so, our
awareness experiences
creation/Creation at the
source/Source of what is being created and what is animating our
life.
A new creation unfolds: As the lava flows upward and
outward from the magma pool it continues to flow out though the top
of the tube it, itself, has created from its own flow. The lava
flows out and down the exterior sides of the tube creating the
typical cone-like shape, unless of course, there are some obstacles
in the way or an alternative path of least resistance. The volcano
grow more and more massive creating a new land structure. If this
effect is experienced near the surface often the end result of this
process is lava tubes that you can go into and explore.
The lava flows from inside outward to create fixed and massive land
mass continually adding to itself that survives for eons. So too the
flow of our
creative life energy. It will flow into the habits and the life
we create forming very fixed ways of being that can take eons to
dissolve and let go. However what is created is a hollow structure
like the lava tube. The lava, the life inside the tube is gone. All
that remains is a fixed shell. Our habits are much like this. They
are hollow in that we have little life creating them. Often they run
in unawareness and only offer to channel our energy into the past
rather than creating a new life.
All eventually returns to the source/Source: In time, the
lava stops flowing and the newly created land mass remains until it
is slowly over millennium is pushed back into the magma pool to
dissolve only to be recast into a new land mass as some future point
in time.
All that we create, all that we experience is much like this. We fix
and bind our energy into patterns that sometimes last for eons. But
in time, all is dissolved by the
source/Source to be reborn anew. If we follow the natural
processes, all will be recycled. If we become conscious, we can free
ourselves from the past to create something new. But we do not
necessarily have to change the past. The question is, “Does what we
create
serve us and have we created
a life worth living? If the answer is yes, there is no need to
change. If the answer is no, then we need to look to see what we
need to change within our selves to create a life worth living and
one in which we are served.
Related topics
The rain-river analogy for the creative/creation process
Freezing water analogy for binding our creative life energy
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