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As a result of how our creative
power is in intertwined and linked to both our spirituality as
related to our concept of God and our sexuality, a
common introduction and a discussion of the
link between Creative Spirituality and Creative Sexuality is
provided as to their origins and occasion for being created. These
two topics are discussed in the following files:
A common introduction to origins and occasion for creating
Creative Spirituality and Creative Sexuality
Overview of the primary issue and integral linking of God and sex
The above discussion are not
essential to the origins of Creative Spirituality but they do
provides additional information on the subject.
The occasion for creating
Creative Spirituality
The occasion to create Creative
Spirituality was when the author realized that to access and release
our unlimited creativity, we needed to create the conditions to
embrace the external Creative Powers face to face in a way that
empowers us. The way we will need to do this is unique to our own
being. We need to be able to explore the external Creative Powers
and see what they look like to us. However often our concept of God
does not allows us to embrace the external Creative Powers in the
way we need to do. Many will have to transcend their concept of God
to see what really inspires them and catalyzes their creative
passion.
What occurred to bring the author to this realization was when he
was talking to a particular client with whom he had worked over a
period of about two years. The client had commented as how, as a
child, they told their parents they did not want to go to their
parents church. So the author asked the client, ‘Take me to your
church, take me to that place that inspires you.” The client was
baffled by such a request.
However, a few week later, the author was invited to visit a piece
of property along the Chesapeake Bay the client was considered
buying. Having known the client for some time, the author was
thrilled to see the transformation in the client when they arrived
at the property. But is was not the house or the property that was
exciting the client. It was the water and the Bay.
In talking to the client about what he observed it become obvious
that the client had a connection with the water in a way the client
had never realized. They client knew they were drawn to water but
never understood the connection as a place where they drew power. It
was a deep connection that went to the soul of their being. It was
clear their “church” was the Bay. The energy that the client drew
from being around the Bay was simply transformative. The author had
no doubt he had visited the client’s “church” where the client could
meet the external Creative Powers in a way that inspired them.
In this realization the author finally understood the issue with
breaking out of the top and bottom of the cage or box as discussed
in the topic, “In
a Box” in which we place our creative spirit. In this
realization the author knew he would have to create something to
help people face the issue of breaking out of the top of the box
which held their creative spirit captive.
Creative Spirituality is that response.
Origins of Creative Spirituality
The author never gave any
consideration to exploring spirituality as part of his journey into
creativity. However, the experience of the
Ultimate Accident changed all of that.
The deepest origins of Creative Spirituality probably lie in the
fact the author never experienced a separation between the spiritual
and the physical. The more he understood the physical the more he
seemed to understand the
creative powers/Creative Powers of Creation what people
attribute to God. Hence the more he felt he understood God. However,
he was taught the physical world and spiritual world are separate
and that God stands apart from Creation. As a child he believed what
he was taught and believed it until he had a personal experience of
the oneness of Creation in the Ultimate Accident.
The most significant event in the
Ultimate Accident was to experience the release of the creative
spirit.
In the past, the author saw what spiritual traditions called our
spirit released within a given spiritual tradition. One aspect of
the Ultimate Accident was to see the released of a creative spirit
in even more power, playful and profound way in a context that had
nothing to do with spirituality. In that moment the author saw the
true oneness of Creation. In that moment he came to understanding
what is in each of us is a creative spirit and it desires to create.
Along with that experience came an experience of the Source of
Creation. That experience completely shatter any ideas he had about:
Creation, his own ego and his identity; what he was here in physical
Creation to do and the separate of the spiritual and the physical.
He knew in that moment that what he was taught was inaccurate. The
question was, “What was a more accurate view of Creation?” The
answer to this question eluded the author for several years.
In the
Ultimate Accident he found there was no separation as he was
lead to believe. Yet, at the time of the Ultimate Accident he held
onto the belief there was a God separate from Creation and that
stood apart from Creation. He long since resolved the issue of the
triune self within his own being. Although the Ultimate Accident
destroyed any issue that saw the spiritual and physical as separate,
he still believed in spiritual entities and beings that existed
apart from himself. He saw spiritual entities as separate being no
different that we he experienced as a human. That is, each human is
a separate being with a free will. Hence, it made perfect sense for
there to be non physical beings. Seeing God standing apart and
separate was seen as being no different.
In fact, the
Opening Prayer was created specifically to address this issue of
non physical beings. What prompt the author to write it was he felt
he needed all the unseen help he could get for what he was going to
try and do. He reflected on what he really understood about the
unseen realms and God and created a prayer that came from the
essence of his being and his understanding of Creation. He wrote it
as he would talk to any person to solicit their help. He felt he
should talk to them talk to them as honestly and as truthful as he
could be. He felt it would be appropriate to attempt to talk
directly to their heart. He wanted to make them passionate about
what he was trying to do so they would help. Or, if not help, at
least not interfere. The Opening Prayer reflected that communication
with the Creative Powers of Creation. It was the author full meeting
his own understanding of the Creative Powers of Creation at that
point in his life.
In reading the Eastern mystical literature, the author contemplated
several concepts that his Ultimate Accident seemed to challenge. One
concept was the concept of “no-thing-ness.”
Many of the mystics talked about it. Another was the creative
process reflected in the Gods which were described as the Creator,
the Preserver and the Destroyer which were all products of a
“greater” God that lied behind them and gave rise to each of them.
Another concept was how the mystics could calm the statement, “I am
God.”
As the author read more and more about what the variety of mystics
were saying he reflected on what they said. He then started to
reflect on the concepts of energy and consciousness. In time he made
the connection between the two as described in the “Interdisciplinary
Aspects of the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity Technology.”
He also found a way using a concept analogous to the phenomenon of
pair production were each of us can be the creators of both our
experiences and the reality of those experience. The author felt
that analogy could explain the mystics could say our inner world is
reflected in outer world or the “as above, so below” principle. It
seemed to explain things like psychics abilities, synchronicity,
Native Amerian familiars, and the like. Yet the author was not
drawn to discuss spiritual. He felt his work was about creativity
and he still viewed creativity and spiritual as different fields of
study.
However, the author was becoming more and more aware of the power of
our
creative imagination. Although he was familiar with rituals and
ceremonies, he began to become aware of such things a
meta-theater and the power of
creative play. Although he explored accelerated learning
techniques, he started to move more and more into play and using
theater as a way to create playful metatheater where a different
level of our being was accessed. He being to better understand the
role of our creative imagination both in our learning process and
our creativity.
In seeing the release of the creative spirit in a non spiritual
context, the author began to look deeper at what was really being
giving to people about this creative spirit in spiritual and
religious traditions. He looked more and more into different
mystical traditions to see what he could glean about the creative
spirit. Most seemed to talk about their concept of God but few
talked directly to the creative
creative powers/Creative Powers themselves whether they resided
in God or in the individual. None seemed to be able to relate to the
creative power being access in the modern sciences that were
transforming the way humans were living. In particular he explored
what was taught about the
Beloved/beloved this powerful desire and drive that seemed to
emanate from our heart. Yet, although he was developing an
understanding about the relationship of God and the external
Creative Powers and he seen how little was provided on the topic of
our creative spirit and the inner and outer creative powers, he had
no interest in writing about spirituality.
He then stumbled unexpectedly upon something. In reading about the
life of the founder of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous the
author realized he would have to write about spirituality. Three
things impacted the author about the founders life. One was the
author found it intriguing that breakthrough in sobriety for the
founder of the Twelve Steps came in embracing God. But what was
intriguing was not embracing God, but he could not accept God as the
people around he were trying to communicate to him. Rather, his
breakthrough came when he surrendered to God as he understood God
to be. He opened the door to gaining control over his addiction
when he embraced God as he understood God and there was at least one
person who stood by him to hold him accountable for what he desired
to create, in this case sobriety.
What the author saw was the importance of embracing God as we
understood God to be. It is what the author had to do to be set up
for the
Ultimate Accident and what it had to offer. It is not to embrace
anyone else’s perception of God but the way we perceive God.
Additionally, to create what he desires, name sobriety from alcohol
the founder needed another who support him in that adventure. This
experience of the founder of the Twelve Steps, in essence laid out
an important aspect of the creative process. That is, we need to
embrace both the internal and external
creative powers/Creative Powers as we understand them and have
at least one person support our efforts and hold us accountable to
what we desire to create.
The second thing the author saw was that the founder of the Twelve
Steps had experiences similar to his own. In reflecting on why the
author pursued those experiences, he could see the founder of the
Twelve Steps was probably pursing them for similar reasons. The
founder of the Twelve Step was pursing a spiritual journey to get a
better understanding of what people called God but he was rejecting
the commonly accepted concepts. He was looking for something the
normally accepted concepts of God, spirituality and religion do not
address. So he had to look at the alternative he could find. Yet the
founder was still looking at what others saw as God and they saw as
spiritual. He did not appear to be allowed to explore his own unique
truth and understanding about God.
The third thing was that the author saw the founder of the Twelve
Steps was not free to live his truth. He kept trying to fit in to a
world he did not really fit. It was not that he could not fit, but
no one gave him the space to do what he needed to do in the way he
needed to do it. That understanding the author gleaned, in part, the
way the story of the founder was told. The story was told within the
standards of society and there were judgment made on what the
founder did. They were not condemnations of the founder but rather
they reflected the perception of society and the failure to see a
creative spirit seeking to freely express itself according to its
truth. Society does not currently encourage such adventures.
In seeing what the found of the Twelve Steps program faced, the
author felt a deep compassion this individual and his struggle. The
author knew there was another way and that others did not have to
have such experiences. So the author created the
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines and realized he would have to
write about creativity and spirituality.
The
Fifteen Creative Steps/Guidelines provide a way to explore our
creative power with an individual of our choice. Creating the
Creative Spirituality home page, is the way the author can
provide his support and stand by you and encourage you to explore
not so much God, but the
creative powers/Creative Powers of Creation as you know them to
be. You free to use any concept of God you wish. There is no
judgement made on any concept of God. It is only recommended you use
what is effective in your life to create what you desire. The
material on the Creative Spirituality provides you some thoughts to
begin to explore the inner and outer creative powers/Creative
Powers.
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