On Creativity
There seem to be certain desires and expressions that arise In beings that develop self-awareness.
The desire for freedom. The desire to love and be loved. The desire to explore this strange world we have somehow found ourselves in. The desire to express oneself through creative thought and action.
As a microcosmic mirror of the True Reality the natural state of your True Self is also creation.
As you were created you will also create.
Though it may not seem to be like that at times, creativity is in your very essence.
Creation is who you really are.
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What is creativity for us? For us human beings? These flesh suits worn in this simulated world by Consciousness like how a human being wears a space suit in outer space?
Let us start with how True Creativity begins.
When one transcends one’s Mind Screen and perceives reality directly, pierces the veils of illusion that we in our ignorance believe to be actually real, new perspectives are generated, new connections are made, what was once dark is now illuminated by the lighting strike of sudden realization.
We normally perceive reality through an augmented reality – our Mind Screens – a cognitive layer that shapes and edits and layers meaning on the world. This augmented reality is invisible to us. So much that we believe this filtering mechanism to be reality itself.
While our Mind Screens inform us what to move towards and what to retreat from, what this means and what that means in regard to our basic animal survival, it also greatly reduces our apprehension of the greater field of reality.
Your Mind Screen will limit you to perceive one aspect of reality, one face of the prism, one side of the multi-sided die.
When one transcends one’s Mind Screen and perceives reality directly you will gain new insights and solutions to previously unsolvable problems. Novel perceptions will lead to novel insights. You will realize that the problem was not the problem, but your perception of the problem.
This is True Creativity.
As pure and unstained and infinite as Being itself.
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Your Mind Screen is a grid with a finite number of lines and connection. If reality does not correspond to this grid you do not see it - or if you do - perceive it incorrectly.
By dropping your Mind Screen, transcending it, setting it aside you will be able to see beyond that fixed graph and see new points and lines, make new connections between what previously was unconnected, connections that now will seem obvious, surprised that you did not notice them before, connections that were right from front of your eyes all along.
But due to the persistent nature of the Mind Screen, a phenomena that is generated by your interiority, your Points of Contraction, this transcending of your Mind Screen will only be temporary, will reassert itself, though the Mind Screen will be altered, updated with new lines, points and connections, a map that will guide to new ideas, theories, solutions, expressions.
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When one enters the state of No-Mind, that state free of the constant stream of thought, of symbols and their interpretation, there can arise a second form of True Creativity, perhaps maybe the purest.
When one is settled in Being, there can spontaneously arise from Being, which is to say, spontaneously arise from nowhere, completely new ideas, new solutions, new visions that appear to arise without causation, from the void itself, possibly arising from some calculation from the infinite living super-computer of Consciousness that undergirds existence, generates it, is it.
This is inspiration in its most archetypal form. A sacred state of creativity.
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However, these True states of Creativity are not how life is experience at this moment. True Creativity appears to be becoming less and less frequent, these outbreaks of Being increasingly rare as the world is transformed into a programmed robotic hive.
Though this message is not for those cybernetic humants of concrete and wire and screen, but for those who still have some memory, somehow, of their True Identity, who have somehow experienced a single moment of Being free from our metaphysical amnesia, that waking sleep.
Creativity is shrouded by the negative forces within you, by your fear, your anxieties, that tension contraction that has seeped into and took control of your life to the extent that you are barely aware of it, believing it to be just the way things are, you are.
For those engines of fear and desire within you – the Points of Contraction – generate that constant stream of thought that flows through you mind no matter whether you are asleep or awake, that constant stream of thought that contracts your body with its virtual worlds, those somatic contractions which generate that constant stream of thought which is the antithesis of the natural flow state of True Creativity, that primal innocent awareness from which creation effortlessly emerges.
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In order to unleash your innate creativity, in order to enter that stream of awareness in which new perspectives, new connections, new ideas occur, arise unbidden, spontaneously, you will have to cultivate the transcension of that which filters shapes and reduces your perceptions and sensations and sense and perceive existence directly, unfiltered.
Certain exercises, techniques and methods can be used to cultivate primal modes of perception, a vision of pure innocence unstained by experience, states of which are the true font of inspiration and creativity.