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The rain-river analogy for the
creative/creation process
The water vapor analogy
- the process
The metaphor and a
line by line review of the creation/Creation process
Creative
passion in the river analogy
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, discussed here, 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 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 water vapor
analogy - the process (Top)
Any creative process can be seen
analogous to the process of how rain forms from the ocean and flows
back to the ultimate source of the water, the ocean. In this analogy
we start within an already existing creation where there is an
atmosphere and the waters are separate from the land much like the
way earth is today. However, unlike the earth, we neglect where
water lies below sea level like the dead sea. For our analogy, the
ocean is the lowest level of the water. The overall process is
diagramed in the figure below.
The whole process from the sun beating down on the ocean surface
causing the water to evaporate. For clouds to form there needs to be
heat somewhere to evaporate the water that is going to form the
clouds. There is heat of the sun is applied to an ocean of
nothingness, a sea without form. The energy of the sun which we feel
as a radiant heat is absorbed by the water. The water becomes too
energetic to remain in a fluid state and it breaks free of the
hydrogen bonds within the water to evaporate. The energy within the
radiant heat causes the water to change its physical form and
evaporate into the air seemingly unseen without a form until it
forms into clouds
It needs to be noted here a certain amount of energy needs to be
supplied to break or dissolve the existing form. In the case of the
water it is the hydrogen bonds which holds the water in a liquid
state.
The heat from the sun evaporate the water. The water rises into the
air where the water vapor is pushed along by the existing prevailing
currents, the winds of the atmosphere to some part of the world.
Water vapor is almost always present in the atmosphere. You can look
at the atmosphere as permeated by water vapor. As more water vapor
moves into the air and the water vapor increases in density, it
thickens and the water vapor forms out of a seemingly nothingness of
the atmosphere into clouds. The clouds form near the place of
origin, or the water vapor forms into clouds at a later time as
conditions changes in the atmosphere as the water vapor moves along
with the air currents.
When the conditions are correct, the cloud forms into rain
Eventually the cloud enters atmospheric conditions where the water
vapor in the clouds becomes too dense for the air temperature. The
clouds condenses in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet and is
pulled downward by gravity. Eventually the water vapors in the
clouds moves to a place where it becomes “grounded.” That is, some
conditions exist in the environment where the water vapor condenses
into some form of precipitation, rain, snow, hail or sleet, to fall
to the ground. Often high mountains block the prevailing wind. The
mountains enhance formation of clouds on one side of the mountain
and profoundly reduces them on the opposite side.
What is interesting to note, in the formation of both rain and snow,
it is essential to have a “seed” to cause the water vapor to
condense either into a snow flake or a water drop. That “seed” is
usually a speck of dust or an ice crystal. The actual form that the
water drop takes, depends on the environmental conditions exactly at
the point of formation. The type and kind of cloud in the sky is
very dependent on the environmental conditions. Although the initial
water vapor has no form, the cloud and any subsequent rain, snow or
ice has defined boundaries.
The rain then falls on the ground beginning a journey back to the
sea. It create a flow of water back to the sea. The water eventually
flows along the contours of the land according to the
path of least resistance usually in the form of a stream or
river back to the sea. As the water flows to the sea, along the way
it brings life and creates a unique world and life unto itself all
along its flow path.
The water flows until all the energy that created the water in the
first place and held within the water is dissipated. That only
occurs when the water reaches the sea. Until then, the energy the
water posses is always above the level which from which it started.
Often the water goes underground and reemerges at a later time in
the form of a spring or can even remain locked in an underground
water source seemingly never returning to its origins in the ocean.
At other times the water re-evaporates long before returning to the
sea only to fall as rain and being the journey back again.
What needs to be noted here is that as the water flows back into the
sea there is current within the flow. If you look at the flow of a
river there is normally a “central” current or place where the
current is optimized or maximum. If you align with main current, you
will flow back to the sea with the greatest speed and ease.
When the river reaches the ocean the river expands into the ocean.
The energy of the flow of the river dissipates. The river current no
longer exists. The identity of the river is lost in the expansion
into the ocean.
It is to be noted here in this process of creating rain and
returning the water to ocean, once suffice energy is added to create
the clouds, the process of rain follows an almost automatically
process in accordance with the existing conditions of the creation.
You could say the path of the water returning to the sea is
predestined. That is, the process follows the existing prevailing
currents, the contour of the land and the environmental conditions
as they exist at any point influencing the process. Additionally, it
needs to be noted, the heat of the sun is not only focused on the
ocean. It is focused across the entire process and beats down on the
atmosphere and the land mass onto which the rain falls. So the sun,
in addition to creating the water vapor for the rain is influencing
where the rain actually falls and how it flows back into the sea.
If you reflect on the “stuff of the ocean.” the water, the ocean
water, the clouds and any ice and snow that may form are all just
different physical expressions of the same chemical compound in
different environments. You could call the water hydrogen hydroxide
and realize that chemical composition of the water never changes.
Chemically, the water is just positive hydrogen ion joined with a
negative hydroxyl ion where the hydroxyl ion is just a doubly
negative oxygen ion joined with second positive hydrogen. Together
the two hydrogen and one oxygen atom form the chemical compound H2O
which we know as water. Yet this compound gives rise to quite
different phenomenon and expressions because of its environment. Yet
its chemical essence is always the same and never changes. Similarly
all [there of course maybe a few exceptions] chemical compounds that
don’t break down in intense heat or when heated, will have a solid,
liquid and gaseous state. It is only the difference in the
environment that causes the material to take one particular form or
state than another.
The metaphor
and a line by line review of the creation/Creation process
(Top)
Metaphorically, any experience in
life, including our own life, can be seen as the flow process that
parallels the process for creating rain and the flow within a river.
All we need to realize is two things both of which are difficult and
hard for our
mind to imagine. One is that there are layers within layers to
the
creative/creation process. That is, there are many different
creative processes occurring instantaneously and many overlap with
each other and others occur within others. The second is the process
of creation occurs instantaneously but proceeds according to how and
what we believe. The description of making rain described above is
spread over time and space (from an ocean, through an atmosphere,
down a mountain and back to an ocean). However, in reality, the
“stuff” of Creation,
energy consciousness, can move from nothingness into form with
no need of time and space. Time and space do not exist outside the
realm of the creative process. Time and space are only the
perception and experience of what is happening from within the
creative process. An example of how this is possible is given in the
discussion entitled “Time,
space and a view from within the creative/creation process.“
The essence of
creation/Creation: Before starting what amounts to a concept by
concept review of the process it is appropriate to start with the
end in mind. That is, the essence of the
material of
creation/Creation never changes. At the end of the rain - river
analogy, it was said, “...the water, the ocean water, the clouds
and any ice and snow that may form are all just different physical
expressions of the same chemical compound in different environments.
You could call the water hydrogen hydroxide and realize that
chemical composition of the water never changes. ... Yet this
compound gives rise to quite different phenomenon and expressions
because of its environment. Yet its chemical essence is always the
same and never changes.” The essence of
creation/Creation is
energy consciousness. It is the material that lies at the
source/Source of any creation/Creation and which exists in every
creation/Creation. All that differs is the environment in which it
finds itself. What this means is that given the correct environment,
any pieces of Creation can be experienced as consciousness, as
energy or as energy consciousness. It can become awake and aware of
itself or it can remain asleep totally and completely unaware. In
this regard,
energy consciousness is holographic. This means that any piece
of the whole, no matter how smaller or large it is, has an awareness
of what lies in the whole or what the whole looks likes. Quite
simply it is part of the whole and never removed from it. It only
experiences itself as separate from the whole. However, the smaller
the piece, the less clarity that is available. Not because the
clarity of the whole is not present . Rather, it is because the
focus is on the piece rather then the whole,. Because of the focus
to create the piece, the focus in not on the whole and the whole is
not seen for what it really is and represents.
The creative force of creation/Creation: The whole process
from the sun beating down on the ocean surface causing the water to
evaporate. For clouds to form there needs to be heat somewhere to
evaporate the water that is going to form the clouds. There is heat
of the sun is applied to an ocean of nothingness, a sea without form.
The starting point for the rain analogy is that the sun beats down
on the ocean surface causing water to evaporate the water. Any
creation, physical or otherwise forms in an analogous way. There is
a heat, a fire which causes the “stuff” of creation,
energy consciousness, to move. The fire, the source of heat, is
the desire of consciousness. You can look at your attention and
awareness as the sun beading down of the surface of the earth
causing the water to evaporate and slowly coalesce into clouds.
The overall generic creation process can be seen starting with a
consciousness focusing it attention and awareness into, or onto,
something it desires to create or desires to have. This object of
focus can be a belief, a desire, an intention, an idea, a vision.
That on which consciousness focuses itself doesn’t really matter.
All that is needed is there needs to be something that causes
consciousness, consciously or subconsciously, on which to focus.
This focus is the heat or the fire of creative process.
The focus of our attention and awareness causes the
energy-consciousness which permeates reality to from and shape
itself into the object of our thoughts. The thought that is formed
acts as the seed from which the physical creation can manifest. As
soon as you being to name something or recognize it as a discrete
entity or object you define it limits and boundaries and bring it
into existence and give it a form and a shape. In essence to have a
thought is for
mind to “name” an energy it is experiencing. This is essentially
what our mind does with the energy that our being senses.
Our attention and awareness is what give the energy for the thoughts
to solidify into form. The more we focus our attention and awareness
the more energy that goes into the object of focus. It is like the
sun beating more intensely making more water vapor to enter the
atmosphere. The continued and more intense focus of consciousness on
a particular concept, intention, idea or thought is such that it is
beginning to take form. The more passionately we hold our focus, the
greater the amount of energy we add to the process.. The more we
believe the more we see it. The more we see it the more we believe
it and concentrated even more on what it is we believe that we are
seeing. In many ways we can look at our lack of focus on what we
wish to create because of all the stuff in our life and mundane
distractions as the cloud which cover and prevents the sun from
directly evaporating the water to make new clouds.
Dissolving the existing form: The energy of the sun which
we feel as a radiant heat is absorbed by the water. The water
becomes too energetic to remain in a fluid state and it breaks free
of the hydrogen bonds within the water to evaporate. The energy
within the radiant heat causes the water to change its physical form
and evaporate into the air seemingly unseen without a form until it
forms into clouds.
It needs to be noted here a certain amount of energy needs to be
supplied to break or dissolve the existing form. In the case of the
water it is the hydrogen bonds which holds the water in a liquid
state.
In the same way the radiant energy of the sun, which we feel as
heat, is absorbed by the water and the water breaks free of the
hydrogen bonds and becomes too energetic to remain in a fluid state,
the focus of our attention and awareness causes the existing form of
what is to dissolve, or melt to move, into a formlessness. It is
much like a solid melting into a fluid or ice melting into water.
The
energy consciousness becomes “fluid”to be recast or remold into
the new creation that is desired. This part of the process gives
rise to the concept of the “cauldron
of creation/Creation” and often experience as the
chaos of creation/Creation. For many, it can be experienced as a
time of high anxiety. They will experience the
anxiety in this chaos if not some type or kind of fear arising
as a result of what is experienced and the
fear of facing the unknown.
This part of the
creative/creation process can give rise to what has
traditionally been described as the
dark night of the soul if we are able to let go of what is
required for the
sacrifice of creation. Similarly if we can let go and flow with
the process may have experience what has been called the
kundalini or the kundalini rising as the energy is freed to flow
into the new creation.
Undercurrents of creation: The heat from the sun evaporate
the water. The water rises into the air where the water vapor is
pushed along by the existing prevailing currents, the winds of the
atmosphere to some part of the world.
We are a creation within a creation and there are existing currents
which give rise to the creation we experience. We are carried along
by these
deep undercurrents. Sometimes they support our effort in that
what we desire to create aligns with the direction and flow of these
deep undercurrents. At these times creation seem magical for what we
desire readily manifests. At other times what we desire is opposed
to these currents and it seems as though there is nothing we can do
that will push our creation into manifesting.
In many ways these deep undercurrents are like the seasons of the
year. There is little we can grow in winter and it is best to wait
till spring for our seeds to sprout. Similarly, we can plant our
seeds on the middle of summer and they sprout and grow. However, the
growing season is too short for our plants to come to maturity to
flower and bear fruit.
Creating something from nothing: Water vapor is almost
always present in the atmosphere. You can look at the atmosphere as
permeated by water vapor. As more water vapor moves into the air and
the water vapor increases in density, it thickens and the water
vapor forms out of a seemingly nothingness of the atmosphere into
clouds.
What is interesting about clouds is that they form from water vapor
in the atmosphere. Water vapor is almost always present to one
degree or another. It is always entering the atmosphere but we don’t
see it. As the concentration increases, clouds being to form which
we can see.
Energy consciousness is very similar. It is always there and
permeates all that is unseen. It can be seen as a field of pure
potential. As we focus our attention and awareness that pure
potential is converted into energy. The longer and more passionately
we hold our focus, the more it concentrates. However, it needs to be
realized
environment conditions play a big part in what manifests and how
it manifests as does the
intention for our life.
The point that needs to be realized here is that creation is about
rearranging that which is. All that is and will ever exists already
does. If it doesn’t exist in a manifested way, it exists with the
potential of what is possible. That which does not exist or has not
existed exists as potential in that which does exist for, if you
look, everything arises from something else in some way. We create
something from nothing only because
our perspective gives rise to the unseen and we do not necessary
understand the
role of the unseen in how it rearranges itself to manifest in
the seen.
Thought form - a bridge between the seen and unseen: The
clouds form near the place of origin, or the water vapor forms into
clouds at a later time as conditions changes in the atmosphere as
the water vapor moves along with the air currents.
Clouds appear from out of a seemingly nothingness. The boundaries of
the clouds which are formed are more nebulous than that of water
drops in the rain. We could say the water vapor in the form of a
cloud is the bridge between the unseen realm where the water vapor
appear invisible in the atmosphere and the “more physical” from of
water as rain. If we only focus on the clouds it seems mysterious as
to where the clouds come from. Yet it is known they arise from the
water vapor in the as a result of the evaporation of water in the
ocean.
So too our thoughts and anything we create. A creation arises from
acting on the creative thoughts we have. However, our creative
thoughts arise just as mysteriously out of a seemingly nothingness
like the how the clouds seem to form in the sky. But we know our
thoughts are just a form of
energy consciousness for all of creation arises out of the same
material of
creation/Creation.
Analogous to the way clouds form out of water vapor in the
environment, our thoughts arise from the energy in the environment
and within our being. The energy is characterized by
mind based on the experiences we have had. The collection of
experiences we have had allow for us to recognize and characterize
the energy we sense in our environment. The greater depth and
breadth of experience the better we can characterize what we
experience. With the thought as a focus, as directed, and in the way
directed, by our consciousness, our
creative life energy begins to flow into a new creation in the
way outlined or blueprinted by the belief, desire, intention, idea
or vision you hold.
Birthing into the world: When the conditions are correct,
the cloud forms into rain Eventually the cloud enters atmospheric
conditions where the water vapor in the clouds becomes too dense for
the air temperature. The clouds condenses in the form of rain, snow,
hail, or sleet and is pulled downward by gravity.
In a way you can say there is a threshold level for a creation to
manifest. Analogous to the rain, there is a “level” of energy we
need to put into our thought before it manifests. As we continues to
hold our desire or intention, more and more energy flows to manifest
the desire. Then, when environmental conditions are correct for the
existing world, the creation manifest as the object or experience we
desire. The focus of our consciousness within a belief, desire or
intention directs a sufficient flow or amount of energy analogous to
getting the water vapor to the right “altitude.” That is, creating
the correct environmental conditions given the prevailing currents
of the time and place within Creation for our creation to form. As
long as the focus is held the flow of energy will flow into the
experience one desires - sometimes quickly, something only after a
long time.
What needs to be realized about birthing and bringing creations into
the world is that we must grow them and/or build them like anything
else and that takes energy in one form or another. Sometime the work
and growth is done in the unseen realms and the creation is “born”
fully grown into the world. At other times we must “grow” it in the
physical world by taking the right actions in the physical world to
bring our creation into existence.
Taking the right action is not about doing what
mind wants to do or mind thinks needs to be done. We can’t bring
something new and original into the world through mind. Mind only
knows the past and has not yet experienced what we desire to create.
If we follow our mind, we will only create the past in a new way. To
bring a new creation into the world we must surrender to the flow of
energy giving rise to that creation and allow it to lead our
actions.
Grounding: Eventually the water vapors in the clouds moves
to a place where it becomes “grounded.” That is, some conditions
exist in the environment where the water vapor condenses into some
form of precipitation, rain, snow, hail or sleet, to fall to the
ground. In the figure provided here, the existence of high mountains
block the prevailing wind. The mountains enhance formation of clouds
on one side of the mountain and profoundly reduces them on the
opposite side.
Grounding from a
creativity perspective simply means one’s
creative life energy is pulled from the unseen realms of
Creation, for example, in a vision held in the
mind, into a physical manifestation or expression either as an
object or an experience on which we focus in the physical world.
This need for grounding is the origin of the concept of the
muse.
Energy flows between two points - a place of high potential to a
place of low potential. We become the source of energy for a
creation and we needs something on which to focus and direct or
energy. Otherwise there will be no flow of energy to create what is
desired. Thoughts and ideas are like the clouds. They remain in the
atmosphere as “unmanifested” rain until the environmental conditions
are such that the cloud is pulled to earth in the form of some type
and kind precipitation.
The ground point for the creative process is that on which
consciousness focuses That is, the object of focus pulls our
creative life energy into an experience of the object of focus.
But that on which you focus also allows us to supply the heat for
the creation process. This is why the tradition concept of the muse
is about arousing passion to act.
In the rain analogy each of these are different steps because they
are seen occurring at different locations in time and space. In the
creative process they occur simultaneously.
There is no time and space outside the realm of the creative process.
Whatever you hold in
mind consciously or subconsciously is always directing our
creative life energy into an experience of what you hold. In
this regard, we are having an experience of what we hold in
accordance with the environment in which you find ourselves. If the
environment supports what we hold in mind, we see it manifest
immediately. If the environment does not support what we hold, we
either move toward creating that environment or what we hold waits
till the environment is correct for its manifestation. In any case,
as long as we hold the thought, that thought is manifesting in some
way either as an experience or creating the environment for the
experience. The longer we hold something and the more we are willing
to act to create what we hold, the more the environment changes to
manifest a fuller experience of what we hold.
Conscious creating is about holding what we desire to create and
then using either the
masculine way or
feminine way to act to create it. Subconscious creating is about
holding a thought or idea and then when the environmental conditions
are correct it manifests seemingly out of no where. In actuality,
most of our creative activities are done at the subconscious level.
We are puzzled by what life gives us but never realize how much of
what life gives us we are creating it by our own beliefs and our own
thinking.
Seeding a birth: What is interesting to note, in the
formation of both rain and snow, it is essential to have a “seed” to
cause the water vapor to condense either into a snow flake or a
water drop. That “seed” is usually a speck of dust or an ice crystal.
What needs to be noted here is that a belief or intention that
focuses consciousness is both simultaneously the heat or fire that
fuels the creative process as described in the last section but also
it is the mold into which the flowing
creative life energy is channeled and pulled to ground to
manifest the desired creation. The object of our focus become that
“seed” around which the water vapor begins to from and coalesce. In
the same way the seed we plant in a garden determines what grows in
that garden, the thoughts we hold become the seeds for what we
experience in life. It become essential that we become mindful and
aware of the thoughts we have and hold and learn to
“garden” our thoughts to create
a life worth living and one that
serves us.
Influence of the environment: The actual form that the
water drop takes, depends on the environmental conditions exactly at
the point of formation. The type and kind of cloud in the sky is
very dependent on the environmental conditions. Although the initial
water vapor has no form, the cloud and any subsequent rain, snow or
ice has defined boundaries.
The environment influences our thoughts in many different ways. For
example, because there is too many clouds the sun is not as intense
and cannot heat the air or the water to make more water to
evaporate. Hence the existing clouds interfere with making more
clouds. So too the thoughts in our
mind. If we are continually thinking, we don’t leave the space
for original thoughts to arise. In fact, we can develop a
thinking addiction so that we do not open ourselves to the
feelings that will give rise to original thoughts. Not having
original thoughts then keeps us from having to face the fear of the
unknown where original thinking will take us.
Another way the environment influences our creation is that our
creative life energy flows into an experience of what we desire
along the
path of least resistance for the environment in which we find
ourselves. What this means is that the environment may not be
adequate to support the experience we desire in its fullest
expression. Unless we change what we desire or change the
environment in which we are trying to manifest our desire, we will
not get exactly what we desire. This not because Creation is not
giving us what we want. In fact Creation always is giving you the
perfect manifestation for what we desire for the environment in
which we find ourselves. What needs to be understood is that
there is an interconnectedness in Creation. Unless we become aware
of
the connection we have with our environment and can work what is
necessary to change both our inner and outer worlds, we will not be
able to access the full creative power that is available to us.
A journey of unfoldment within a given set of conditions:
The rain then falls on the ground beginning a journey back to the
sea. It create a flow of water back to the sea. The water eventually
flows along the contours of the land according to the
path of least resistance usually in the form of a stream or
river back to the sea. As the water flows to the sea, along the way
it brings life and creates a unique world and life unto itself all
along its flow path.
In the rain process, the evaporated water rises into the air where
the water vapor is pushed along by the existing prevailing currents,
the winds of the atmosphere. So too the energy flow that is created
by our focused consciousness. The flow of energy is pushed along by
the existing currents within creation and the world we inhabit along
the
path of least resistance. In addition to our creating flowing
into manifestation, the energy that is flowing into manifestation is
itself flowing within
deeper currents of creation.
In the rain-river analogy, the waters of the rain flow along the
contours of the land according to the
path of least resistance as a stream or river back to the sea.
In
creation/Creation, our
creative life energy flows into an experience of physical
Creation along the path of least resistance in accordance with our
desire until the
energy dissipates back into the sea of nothingness. What needs
to be realized and emphasized, is that we are creating within a
creation. What we create will conform to the contours of the
environment in which we find ourselves. It is not that we can’t
create what we desire. It is to realize we need to work with our
environment to create what we desire and the environment determines
the unfoldment of the experience we have.
Our environment and our creation are in reality inseparable and
integrally connected.
Dissipation of the energy of creation: The water flows
until all the energy that created the water in the first place and
held within the water is dissipated. That only occurs when the water
reaches the sea. Until then, the energy the water posses is always
above the level which from which it started.
In the rain-river analogy, the flow of water starts a rain and then
eventually forms a river flowing along the contours of the land
until it reaches the ocean and the flow dissipates in the ocean. All
our creations follow this process. Once we create the flow of energy
through our intention and the passion to act that manifest the
intention, the energy flows until it dissipates.
For us as human, physical Creation is the
dissipation of our creative life energy in a physical
experience. To have a physical experience we consciously experience
only half of the creation process. There is a seen and an unseen
portion. The part of this creation process that we as an awake
consciousness experiences as our life or as an experience in life is
the part of the process where the energy manifest physical and then
flows through a physical experience until the
energy dissipated in the experience. The
role of the unseen portion is where we create the conditions for
the physical experience that we have. When the energy is dissipated,
the experience is finished and what exists, whether it be an object
or an experience, seems to die. Yet, the energy is only returned to
an
non localized form to be recast into the next creation. Whether
the consciousness that develops as a result of the experience that
is had returns to a non localized form is another question. Physical
death does not end the experience of consciousness.
Consciousness does not die. It only changes the experience
consciousness has.
Binding, fixing and trapping our creative energy: Often
the water goes underground and reemerges at a later time in the form
of a spring or can even remain locked in an underground water source
seemingly never returning to its origins in the ocean. At other
times the water re-evaporates long before returning to the sea only
to fall as rain and being the journey back again.
As we all know, rivers tend to get larger as they get close to the
sea. As they move toward the sea, they collect more and more runoff
from the land. However all the water that falls on the land does not
return to the sea via the river. There are conditions that cause the
water to not enter the flow of the river and be dissipated in the
sea. So too the flow of our
creative life energy that goes into any creation we experience.
What needs to be understood is the
creative life energy which animates our life provides only so
much energy twenty four hours a day. By become awake and aware as to
what energizes us and depresses us, we can optimize that flow of
energy. However, if we do not let go of what we experience we cause
some of
our creative life energy to become bound and rendered
unavailable for the next creation. Any emotionally charged memories
cause some of our energy to be bound. In fact, any memory for which
we have a positive or negative preference binds a portion of our
creative life energy small as it may be. Although most of our
emotionally charged memories then to be memories of unpleasant
experiences, those that are overwhelming please can also bind our
energy. Whenever we live our life in avoidance of or in preference
to certain types and kinds of experience we are binding our creative
life energy. We are not allowing ourselves to live the full range of
our creative potential.
Sometime an experience can be so painful to us that we suppress or
literally lose a part of our creative spirit. That is, there is a
part of our creative spirit that become totally unknown if not alien
to us. In these cases some form of
soul retrieval is necessary. That is, we need to go back and
recover that part of our being that we left behind.
Optimum flow of creative energy: What needs to be noted
here is that as the water flows back into the sea there is current
within the flow. If you look at the flow of a river there is
normally a “central” current or place where the current is optimized
or maximum. If you align with main current, you will flow back to
the sea with the greatest speed and ease.
In the rain-river analogy, within the water flowing back into the
ocean there is current within the river and at some point in the
river the current is strongest. So too the flow of our
creative life energy creating any experience we have in life.
Whether it is our overall life or in a particular creative endeavor
there is a point within the flow of energy that provides the optimum
flow. As with the river, there is a “central” current or place where
the current is maximum. If we align with main current of our
creative life energy by allowing our creative life energy to freely
flow into the experience we are having, and we are open to our
feelings, we will experience the a
feeling of fulness of being or fullness of life.
Experiencing the fulness of being is possible for any experience you
have in life and for every moment in life. It needs to be
remembered, there is
no time when we see the entire creative process which generate
the flow of our
creative life energy and allows for its unfoldment. If we are
aligned with the flow we will experience the fulness of being every
moment If we allow ourselves to be centered in the flow at the
source of the flow, allowing creation to unfold out from that flow,
we will find an
internal calmness and
inner satisfaction that never run dry no matter what is
happening the external world.
Additionally, if we allow our
creative life energy to flow freely, the energy will dissipate
as it flows back into the sea of “no-thing-ness”
at the completion of the experience. When this dissipation occurs
there will be a calmness within ones being as deep, if not deeper,
than obtainable in any meditative practice and it doesn’t matter
what you are doing to experience the calmness. We just need to
freely flow with the energy. Here again, there is
no concept of time at the source/Source where the flow of our
creative life energy is generated. It is flowing into a physical
experience every moment and dissipating into the sea of nothingness
every moment. So it is possible to be in the deepest state of
calmness every moment of our life. Simply by being aligned with the
flow of our creative life energy in the fulness of being and allow
it to flow freely within our being.
Death and dissolution of the existing form: When the river
reaches the ocean the river expands into the ocean. The energy of
the flow of the river dissipates. The river current no longer
exists. The identity of the river is lost in the expansion into the
ocean.
When viewed from within the creative process, the river seems to
die. Yet, the essence of the river does not die. Only the form of
the river dies.
Death is only the energy of creation being returned to the
Source, a place of “no form” or “no-thing-ness”
relative to the experience which is had. The energy returns to the
Source to be available for a new creation according to the current
focus of the attention and awareness of consciousness. It is an on
going never ending cycle. As long as there is a focus of
consciousness, the creative process will occur and a creation will
manifest.
Destiny and an automatic process: It is to be noted here
in this process of creating rain and returning the water to ocean,
once suffice energy is added to create the clouds the process of
rain follows an almost automatically process in accordance with the
existing conditions of the creation. You could say the path of the
water returning to the sea is predestined. That is, the process
follows the existing prevailing currents, the contour of the land
and the environmental conditions as they exist at any point
influencing the process.
One point that needs to be emphasized is that in the process of
creating, as in the process of creating rain, once a suffice flow of
energy is added by a focused attention and awareness the process of
creation follows almost automatically in accordance with the
existing conditions of the creation. That is, the process follows
the existing prevailing currents of Creation, the contour of the
beliefs you hold, and the environmental conditions as they exist at
any point influencing the process.
Diverting our creative life energy: Additionally, it needs
to be noted, the heat of the sun is not only focused on the ocean.
It is focused across the entire process and beats down on the
atmosphere and the land mass onto which the rain falls. So the sun,
in addition to creating the water vapor for the rain is influencing
where the rain actually falls and how it flows back into the sea.
Part of this process is that consciousness can extend itself across
the entire process. As with the heat of the sun, the sun focuses
across the entire landscape. Consequently some of the rain that fall
on the land gets re-evaporated and does not flow to the ocean
creating the origin creation cycle. Similarly, our consciousness can
focus across our entire life and all that we do. Any focus that we
hold is directed across our entire life. In our creative endeavors,
in addition to creating the flow of energy to manifest a particular
object or experience, the focus of our consciousness is influencing
the
path of least resistance across one’s environment and the volume
of flow that we create. We ourselves are influencing how our
creative life energy manifests our desired creation. This is why
it is important to not become distracted in our creative endeavors
and/or allow
mind to raise the past and divert our attention.
One final point needs to be made here. Once we focus our attention
and awareness on an intention to create a flow of energy the flow of
energy itself creates a focus. Remember consciousness is awakened by
flow. The flow of energy we create by what we hold causes an
awareness unique to the flow to awaken. Often this awareness takes
on a life of it own in our life and the lives of others. So if you
think by simply changing our intention we change the flow of energy
we are mistaken. When we change an intention we will also have to
undo what our intention has already causes to manifest.
This is the basis of both past lives therapy (whether or not you
believe in past lives doesn’t matter) and many self development
programs. They ask what unfinished business do we have in our life
whenever we want to regain our creative powers to create a new life.
We needs to realize that any creative process is multidimensional.
It cuts across all aspects of our being. The examples used here do
not address the interconnectedness between us and our environment.
Rather they only outline the overall creative process across a
linear time and space as we perceive Creation.
Creative passion in the river analogy (Top)
We can also use the rain-river
analogy to understand how the intention for our life and our
creative passion are related. We can look at the rain-river
analogy where the intention for our life is a vast river that drains
a continent. The direction and flow of that river to the ocean is
pretty much determined by the landscape. In this sense our lives are
destined by the time and place of our life For example, the
rainwater that falls to create the river can be seen as falling in
the United States on the continental divide. The east side of the
continental divide of the Rocky Mountains flows into the Gulf of
Mexico. Its path to the Gulf tend to be gentle crossing broad
planes. The rain which falls on the west side, flows into the
Pacific Ocean. Its path tends to be fast falling great distances
flowing a much shorter path to the Ocean than the East side of the
mountains. Although we cannot control the direction of the flow,
that is towards the Gulf or the ocean, we can build dams and direct
the water within the existing flow pattern.
The
intention for our life is similar. It establishes the existing
flow pattern of our
creative life energy for the time and place of our incarnation.
That is, the water (our creative life energy) that creates the river
(our life) falls on one side of he mountains or the other. As such
that rate at which the energy can be extracted from our life, or the
river, is determined by the landscape in which we pass. In living
our life, we most probably will not reverse the flow pattern and
take the water to the other side of the mountain. But we have a wide
latitude as to how it flow and the terrain in which in flows. For
example, we cannot take all the water that falls on the Eastern side
of the Continental Divide and put it on the West side without a
tremendous expenditure of energy. But, we can effectively utilize
the flow that is on the Western and Eastern sides. We can convert
the water power to electrical power and send the electricity across
the Continental Divide. We can also build channels that redirect the
water vastly different direction along the Continental Divide.
However, ultimately, the water flows toward the Gulf of Mexico or
the Pacific Ocean depending on where it falls..
Relative to the
intention for our life other than your minimum life energy that
sustains our life we can direct our life energy wherever we desire.
However, the minimum life energy that sustains is life and is
available t us is the preset pattern of energy flow analogous to the
rain falling on one particular side of the Continental Divide. If
the water fall on the Eastern side, there is a long path to take to
the Gulf of Mexico. If the water falls on the West side there is a
relatively short path for the water to take to the Pacific Ocean. A
part of our life and the energy we can access is set or fixed much
the like how the water will flow to the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of
Mexico. In this regard some of us have short lives and some have
long lives. Some of us have periods of great energy release as we
cascade off a plateau and at other times we have little creative
energy for we are crossing a very gently sloping broad plain. Other
may find a continual and relatively constant creative energy for
their path has the same rate of energy release across their entire
journey.
We can access all of our creative energy and transform it as we
wish. However, often we need to know and understand that present
pattern before we can effectively utilize the flow. The initial flow
pattern for our life is contained in the intention that brought you
into this world. It determines the
passion we have in life and where that passion is ultimately
directed. This intention can be accessed through knowing and
understanding how to utilize the
body consciousness and our
intuitive guidance through the subconscious
mind and our intuition that comes with our body wisdom.
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