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The source/Source of
creation/Creation
The source/Source of our being/Being
Overview
Problems in perceiving the Source
Mind only knows what is has experienced
The mind is finite but the Source is infinite
Our experience of the Source is determined what we think and believe
We are aware of the Source through what we feel
The relationship of the source and the Source
Play and the Source of Creation
The
relationship of the Source, God and the Creator
Becoming the source/Source
Summary
From a
creativity perspective,
the most important statement that can be made about the Source of
Creation is that it is not what
mind thinks that it is. It is our experience of mind which keeps
us from knowing the
truth about the Source of Creation and understanding our
connecting with it.
Overview
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The Source of Creation is the
Source out of which all Creation arises. It is the Source of our
being. That is, our existence arises from the Source. We can never
be removed from the Source for it continually sustains us. We may
lack conscious awareness of the Source and/or a conscious awareness
of our connection with the Source as a result of the
illusion of mind, but we can never be removed or separated from
it. We are the Source manifested. Everything emanates, grows and
unfolds from a single Source.
Our total being, not just our physical being but our spiritual,
mental, emotional and physical being is molded from Creation and/or
the same material of Creation. We are it. Ultimately Creation, in
its entirety is a direct reflection of what is inside our
consciousness as discussed in the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective and we are a
direct reflection of Creation. The discussions, “Origins
of Creation” and “The
observer - observed pair and the nature of duality” provide a
way of see how all arises from the same Source of Creation and we
can never be separated from the Source.
Many
mystics talk about the Source of Creation being a place of “no-thing-ness”
out which all Creation arises. This statement is true in the sense
that one aspect of the Source of Creation has no form. It is
“no-thing” but has the possibility of being everything. But in other
ways this statement is misleading for all of Creation is only the
Source flowing into and out of form in an endless
ebb and flow. To see the Source other that all of Creation in
any and all forms it is a statement of the perception of
mind. As discussed below the mind greatly biases what we
experience and it often does so incorrectly.
Realizing all Creation is the Source, all that can be said about
what individuals perceive the Source of Creation to be is that it is
free, unbounded, unconditional
energy consciousness (no-thing-ness,
no-form). The Source is totally unconditional it its
creation/Creation
and what it nourishes and sustains. The energy within Creation will
mold itself into an experience of whatever on which consciousness
focuses its attention and awareness and in to a form based on
whatever consciousness thinks and believes. . It does not matter
what it is. In this regard, the Source gives freely to what
consciousness desires to experience. In this regard,
creation/Creation is intentional and there is a conscious or
nonconscious intention which gives rise to any creation.
When our
creative life energy become
free and unbounded, we can experience the source as free and
unbounded
energy consciousness. In this moment, the Source can be
experiences as a state of
true freedom. It is a place of freedom of movement in any
direction. Any
true creative endeavor
will cause us to pass through this
free and unbounded state of the Source to
free the energy for the new creation. However, most do so in
nonconsciousness and/or unawareness.
Anything more said about the Source of Creation is only the
perception of some aspect of consciousness which has awakened and
characterizing the Source based on its past experiences. The best we
can do to know the Source is learn to observe the properties,
characteristics and phenomenon as to how
energy consciousness, energy and consciousness manifest and
realize our
mind and its past experiences are biasing what we think we know
about the Source of Creation and how it functions. The Source of
Creation is a place of
freedom which becomes biased by what consciousness thinks and
believes in order to have an experience of Creation.
From a
creativity perspective,
what is important to realize, any
creative endeavor
will take us back to the Source of Creation in some way.
Consciousness then biases the freed energy it experiences at the
Source of Creation by what it thinks and believes. In doing so, it
causes the
free unbounded energy of the Source to form into an experience
of Creation. In this process, consciousness experiences the Source
but it is experiencing the Source in the form of what it thinks and
believes. This is the
illusion of mind and we do not experience Creation for what it
really is and how we are actually the creator of the experiences and
the
reality
we experience.
When we create, we change how and what we think and believe in some
way. That change causes us to go back to the Source where the
existing form of
mind based on what we currently think and believe is dissolved.
In doing so, the energy giving rise to the existing creation is
released or switched into a new pattern to take a new form. The new
form is based on the new belief structure giving rise to our
creative idea on which we act. Acting on the creative idea then
directs the freed energy to form into an experience. If we don’t let
go of what currently exists, can cannot create.
But Creation has a
creative tension that causes and
ebb and flow of
energy and consciousness into our out of form or into and out of
the Source. For every creation formed there is a creative tension
that pulls that creation to dissolve and return to the Source.
Consciousness experiences the pull of this creative tension as a
longing for something. In reality, it is simply the experience
of the creative tension pulling us back to the
source/Source.
It is an endless
dance of energy and consciousness or the
dance of the masculine and feminine. It is the
masculine thrusting out of consciousness based on what
mind thinks and believes only to experience the
feminine nurturing flow of energy to experience a creation which
eventually dissolves back into the Source out of which it came.
Problems in perceiving
the Source (Top)
In talking about the Source of
Creation, we need to consider several biases we carry that greatly
influence our perception of the Source. They are:
mind only knows what it has experienced, the mind is finite
where as the Source is infinite, our experience of the Source is
determined what we think and believe before the experience of the
Source, and finally, we are aware of the Source through what we
feel, not what we think.
Mind only knows
what is has experienced (Top):
The first is that our
mind will interpret whatever we perceive based on our past
experiences. For any experience we have mind will use its past
experience to characterize, explain or otherwise describe what we
experience. But mind has never had a conscious experience of the
Source for mind came into existence as a product of Creation. Mind
arise from the
creative process emanating from the Source. All conscious
experiences of mind are of a particular form of the Source. In
essence, being part of the creation process and a result of the
process, mind can never see the full process of which it is a part
Nor can it see and experience what gives rise to itself. This is why
a traditional experience of the Source of Creation is a void, a
place of “no-thing-ness”
and without form. Mind does not have the experience of what it
really means to be the Source so it simply sees as a void.
However, in looking at other
creative processes of which
mind is not part, we can see all of Creation arises out of
energy consciousness. We can see that which lies at the Source
is
free, unbounded unconditional energy consciousness. But the
truth of the matter is, all is only the Source manifest or in a
manifested form, a form determined by what consciousness thinks and
believes. The key to seeing the Source for what it is with our mind
it is to become a
detached witness and to extrapolate what we see is other
creative processes to see what is the true
nature of Creation
such that all we experience arises from the same basic material of
Creation.
The mind is
finite but the Source is infinite (Top):
A second problem
mind has is that mind as we know it is only the sum total of all
the experiences it has had. That is, mind is the composite of a
finite set of experience. The Source of Creation gives rise to all
that has ever existed, does exist and will exist. It is infinite. It
will take an infinite number of experiences of our mind to fully
experience the Source of Creation. The best we can do is approximate
what we think the Source of Creation is based on the experiences we
have had. Any understanding mind has will, in some way, be incorrect
and not address the full spectrum of what is possible. This includes
the
energy consciousness model
as used, discussed and applied in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material. What is provided in energy consciousness model
and the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material that makes the
approach so different is that they provide way to
hold
our creativity sacred such that we can expand into the
infinity of our own being and into the infinity of the Source.
Our
experience of the Source is determined what we think and believe
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A subtly about the experience of the Source is
the Source is seldom seen for what it is because what we experience
and remember about the experience of the Source is determined by
what we think and believe when we enter the experience. This issues
is further discussed in the topic “The
problem of
mind and the experience of the Source of Creation - the trap of mind.”
What is important to realize is that we must be as close as possible
to having a
beginner’s
mind and/or having become
lost in creative play when we consciously experience the Source
of Creation. This allows the experience to imprint our psyche with a
memory and feeling without bias. It may take us years to fully
understand the experience we had. But, if we have the imprinted
memory and feeling without bias, we can continually go back and
recall the experience to see exactly what we experienced as we gain
a deeper and broader experience of life. This is why not doing
practices are so important. They continually cause us to
step out of mind
and who and what we think we are and how we have defined ourselves.
In doing so, we gain a much broader and deeper experience of life
that if we stay in our limited perspective. The broader and deeper
experiences then allows us to more accurately interpret and/or
characterize experience of the Source we had.
We are
aware of the Source through what we feel
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If we think and look carefully, we can come to
see only in feeling or as a result of a feeling do we chose to act
to cause something to happen. Unless there is a feeling and
passion of some type, whether it be
love, hate, anger, hunger,
pain, or the like, we will not act. All
creative power
arises from feeling.
Creative
ability is determined by
mind. Creative ability is determined by what we think and
believe and how we choose or do not choose to act on what we feel.
But the power to create arises from feeling. We can use what we
think and believe to create feelings, but without the feeling, there
is no power to act.
The
mind does not feel. It can recall the feeling of experiences we
have had and it will interpret any feeling we have. It can even
create feelings. In this regard, we can become the
source/Source
as discussed below. But it is consciousness which feels.
Consciousness can be aware and awake to what we feel or we can be
asleep and unaware. To access our
creative power,
we need to be aware and awake to what we feel. In any case, mind in
itself does not feel. It is a collection of memories and how we put
those memories together to think and believe.
If we are aware and awake, we can accurately feel the Source for
what it is and recognize it by what we feel. We can feel the
freedom of movement that it provides and we know the Source
through feeling and the freedom it provides. If we are awake and
aware we can feel that freedom in another. If we move into
experiences where the feeling of the experience allow us to
experience an expansion within our being, we are moving toward the
Source and increasing our
creative
ability and creative power. If we move into experiences that
cause us to feel a restriction or shrining, we are moving away from
the Source and shrinking or reducing our creative ability and
creative power.
We do not, and cannot, know the Source through what
mind thinks. Many who experience the Source with mind become
terrified of it. It has been reported as experiencing a vast abyss
into which we can fall or as if we are a balloon being pumped up and
we will explode. Yet others experiences simply experience
wonderment and “ah” or
fulness of being that is overwhelming to mind that all that can
be uttered is “ah” at what is experienced. Now we can create an
experience of what we think the Source of Creation is as determined
by mind and what we think and believe. This is how we create all our
experiences. But what we create is not an experience of the Source.
What we create is only what mind thinks and believes is the Source.
We must be
out of mind
and the bias of
mind to know what the true feeling of the Source. This is why a
beginner’s
mind or a mind lost which become totally
lost in creative play has the best opportunity to see the Source
of Creation for what it truly is. To try and access the Source to
escape
pain, escape any conditions of physical life or escape any
experience of Creation may cause us to experience wonderful ecstatic
experience. But what we will experience is not the Source. We will
only experience what mind thinks and believes is the experience of
the absence of that which we are running away.
The Source is accessible only through the depth of our feelings when
we are
open to feeling. It is when we are open to feeling the very
depth of our being simultaneously at each and every level of our
being - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. How
mind interprets what it experiences in such a feeling is, of
course, another issues. In this regard, there are an infinite number
of ways to interpret what is experienced at the Source. Each of
these infinite experiences will give rise to a different
creation/Creation
or experience of creation/Creation. In this regard, we, as all of
Creation, is simply the Source being experiences in a different way.
The
relationship of the source and the Source
(Top)
In talking about the source of our
creative power and the Source of Creation, many will see and
experience them quite differently. Many see the source of our
creative power as that which gives rise to our ability to create. An
experience of the source would then be to experience our optimum or
greatest
creative
ability and creative power.
The Source of Creation is seen as that which gives rise to all of
Creation. For most, it is seen by their
mind as some enormous source of creative power that exceeds
anything into which a human can tap. If there is any consciousness
associated with the Source of Creation, it is seen as God or the
Creator who is seen to control the creative powers available in the
Source of Creation and separate form us. Few see and understanding,
we are the Source experiencing Its Own Creation.
Although difficult for our
mind to comprehend, the source of our creative power, the source
of our being is the Source of Creation and the Source of Being. They
are one and the same. The subtly is that
source/Source
is something that can only be felt as a feeling. We can feel the
energy flow from the unmanifested Source into the manifested form we
experience as Creation. What we experience when we are in that
feeling is determined by how we focus our attention and awareness.
As a human being, the
human experience is such that we are intentionally blinded as to
seeing the Source while we are in a human body. The body forces the
focus of our attention and awareness into the external world. In
this regard, the body stands a shield that does not allow us to see
the Source that sustains the body for what it is. This is why so
many traditions talk about the need to transcend the body or access
Heaven or Nirvana when we are no longer encumbered by a body.
However, nothing can be farther from the
truth.
It is only a matter of our conscious awareness decoupling itself
from the body as a
detached witness and looking “upstream” as to the flow of energy
that sustains our being. The body is designed to focus our attention
and awareness to look “downstream” into what has or is manifesting
in
Physical Creation. By looking “upstream” we can look into the
Source of Creation. What we see is, of course, significantly biased
by our
mind.
If we are focused upward as a
detached witness and can
step out of mind
to become lost in what we feel, we can stumble into a conscious
experience of the Source in the
Ultimate Accident. In doing so, we can experience the Source for
what it is - total
freedom of movement. In that total freedom of moment, we access
and
unlimited creativity
and the
creative
ability and creative power to create whatever we choose.
Unfortunately,
mind eventually steps in and limits what we access to the limits
and boundaries of our conscious and
nonconscious beliefs and subsequently thinking.
Play and the
experience of the Source (Top)
In talking about
play, there are two plays we can talk about. One is what
mind thinks is play and one is a definition of play which
describes the Source of Creation. Whatever we think play is, most
probably it is not the play we experience at the Source of Creation.
Whatever our mind thinks is play will most probably only prevent us
from experience the play that lies at the Source of Creation. To
experience the play that exist at the Source of Creation we need to
step out of mind
and any judgements, limits, barriers, beliefs and any other
constraint mind can impose. We need to have a
beginner’s
mind with no preconceived ideas in any way and just be with what
is as it is.
Play as experienced at the Source of creation is characterized
by two things. One is
freedom of movement in any direction - to limits, no boundaries.
Just total freedom of movement in any and all directions. The other
is that nothing of which is created is, of itself, important. All is
simply consciousness experiences itself in one direction or another
where any one direction of movement is no less important or no more
important than any other. Consciousness may experience one direction
and preferred over another but at the most fundamental levels,
nothing is more important than anything else which is possible.
The
relationship of the Source, God and the Creator
(Top)
There are many and varied beliefs
about the Source of Creation,
God,
the Creator or any other name given to what gives rise to the
Creation we experience. From the
creativity perspective
and the
energy consciousness model
for Creation,
Creation recreates itself from within Creation. As such, the
Creator is any consciousness that chooses one options over an other
for that is the
role of consciousness in the
creative process. In this regard, we each are the Creator
experiencing Its Creation. The topics “Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective,”
the “Origins
of Creation,” the “The
observer - observed pair and the nature of duality” and “How
the inner reflects the outer,” are a starting point to
understand how this is possible.
Whatever we think
God
is, and from whatever tradition from which the concept of God comes
from, any concept of God is only
mind's interpretation of what how it sees and experiences
Creation or what mind believes about the Source of Creation. Many
spiritual traditions talk about the God within. It is the concept of
the God within that is closest to what the
creativity perspective
would call God. That is, if the word God is replaced by the concept
of the creator/Creator.
From the
creativity perspective,
the creator/Creator within is that within each of us is an
individualized aspect of Consciousness, a
creative spirit, a creator, animating our life and experiencing
its creation, Yet, as in
individualize aspect of Consciousness, Consciousness cannot
separate itself from itself. That is the
illusion of Creation created by the Mind of Consciousness.
Hence, the infinity of Creation lies within the
nonconscious of each individualize aspect of Consciousness and
within each of us. As such we are simply Consciousness experiencing
Its Creator or, alternatively said, we are the Creator experiencing
Its Creation.
The Source of Creator is
free, unbound and unconditional
energy consciousness. Creation is energy consciousness
bound and fixed into some form as determined by the focus of the
attention and awareness of consciousness. In essence, all is the
Source of Creation and to create anything, something part or all of
the existing form must be dissolved to be recast into the new from.
All that is is simply
energy and consciousness moving in an
ebb and flow into and out of form based on what consciousness
thinks and believes.
Becoming the source/Source
(Top)
It was said above that
mind does not feel. It can recall the feeling of experiences we
have had and it will interpret any feeling we have. It can even
create feelings. In this regard, we can become the
source/Source.
What needs to be understood,
creative power
only arises from feelings. We need a feelings to act. Feeling is the
source/Source
of Creation. However, consciousness can create feelings by how and
what it chooses to believe.
Creative
ability is about how much feeling we can cause to arise within
ourselves to act. When we create feeling, we becoming both the
creator and the source.
As an existing human being, we are a creation manifested. We are the
Creator experiencing its Creation whether we experiences ourselves
as creator or the Creator is another issue. As a human, when we
create feelings for, or against, something because of what we think
and believe, we are being the creator. We will cause a creator to
come into existence by the choices we make based on the feelings
which our consciousness causes to arise. We do this all the time
whether we realize it or not. As such we are a
creativity machine which cannot create for our
mind will always be causing feelings to arise for or against any
one experience we have.
When we realize that everything that exists in the world created by
a human being arose out of single thought held by some human being,
we can step into the role of the Creator. Humanity likes to think
there is a God standing outside Creation controlling Creator. But a
equally valid view is that
Creation recreates itself from within Creation. That is, as
consciousness chooses what it experiences, it can choose a thought
such that it awakens as Consciousness to one degree or another, and
recreates Creation as a result of that thought. Hard as it is for
our
mind to conceive, it is a fact. The choice of a single human to
conceive of a nuclear weapon has changed the course of the world.
Atmospheric testing was causing significant radioactive debris to
fall out of the atmosphere and be absorbed in human bodies until
scientist realized that fact - humanity was literally poising itself
by atmospheric testing. Similarly, the choice of a single human to
burn wood to give heat has ultimately caused humanity to go from
wood to coal and oil and burn fossil fuels for energy to apparently
cause a change in the global warming rare.
We think humanity is causing such problems. We fail to consider the
fact that may be the Creator is just playing with Its Creator from
within Creation. Maybe we each need to grow up to the fact that we
are creators/Creators and each of us have the possibility of causing
all of Creation to change by how and what we think and believe and
how we choose to act or not act on what we think and believe.
Summary
(Top)
The most important thing that can
be said about the Source of Creation is that it can only be
experienced as a feeling. Experiences which provide us with a
feeling of expansion and fulness of being are moving toward the
Source. Experiences which provide us what a feeling of contraction
and/or shrinking in any way are moving us away from the Source. The
recommendation is to
allow
effectiveness to be our measure of truth and move toward those
experiences of life that are allowing for a continual feeling of
expansion and a
fulness of being. These types and kinds of experiences are
leading us into the
infinity of our own being and toward the Source.
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