Creativity The concept of Creativity is limitless. We've watered it down to mean visual art, possibly music and writing, especially fiction. However, creativity is the most important activity that any spirit shall ever undertake. All spirits are creative but so few realize how much or consciously, willfully, exercise this power. When we look around at the physical world, when we listen to what our ears take in, when we feel the ground beneath our feet and taste or smell the food that nourishes us, we are not being creative. We are associating the physical world to our own five physical senses. We've been trained to identify and classify physical sensations. We've learned to react to them in certain ways. It's barely more than instinct, no matter how complex the input. Even being able to read or work simple mathematics could be said to be sensory activities. We've learned to relate words to objects and numbers to quantities of objects, much in the way that we've learned to relate the taste of a strawberry to that small red fruit with the tiny seeds on the outside. We relate some behaviors to specific times and places in response to early training. There are appropriate places for some activities that would not be acceptable at other times and places. Anything that we learn by rote, with simple associations, is really little more than basic function in the physical world. Thankfully, we are not limited to this. We can function apart from the strictly physical world and to do so requires creativity. Anything you can think up that you have not seen, heard, touched, smelled or tasted is a creative construct. Even if you use things which you have previously experienced, the act of combining them in different ways is creativity. Higher mathematics contains creativity. Calculus functions seek to define circumstances as values approach infinity or as they approach zero, even though these quantities cannot be measured physically in these instances. Geometry can be used to describe two- and three-dimensional objects before they exist. Trigonometry can be used to quantify arcs and angles that are unmeasurable in the physical realm. Most scientific discoveries start out as creative leaps of imagination before these theories are tested and defined to be valid or not. Einstein could not have made his fantastic revelations by observation alone. He had to create possible explanations then follow each to find out which ones held true against physical evidence or at least worked out on paper by what means were available. Darwin could not see evolution in action. He was not here to record the changes within species through the millenia. He saw some curiosities and created possibilities, theories, then worked to find out if they made sense in light of physical reality, past and present. We can do the same thing. In fact, we DO the same thing. We theorize, we create, we imagine outcomes before they occur. We postulate on what has been a trend or a pattern then test out our theories or just go with them. What we forget is that often our theories are no more than summaries. We allow ourselves to assume that what has been will always be. Yet we know that is not the case. We don't use a firestick to light wall torches in our caves to push back the darkness. We don't light candles throughout our stone castles. We don't turn up our oil lamps. We don't even ignite our gas lanterns. Instead, we flip on a light switch. Creative minds brought each of these advances to our collective use. Someone had to be the first to think that maybe we could burn bee's wax to make light or we could somehow mimic natural static electricity and harness it to our use as a power source. Alright, so maybe you don't think you'll be the one to think up a new power source or some theory of global proportions. That's no excuse for not creating. You can create any time. When you think about your family and they are not standing in front of you, you are creating their essence, in your mind. This could be counted as just memory, but it isn't. Right now, think about three members of your family being in the room with you. What do they look like? What are they wearing? Are they smiling? Are they talking? What would they be saying? You are creating them because they are not in the room with you. Those three may not even be in the same room together, wherever they are. They are not likely wearing the clothes you picked, nor the faces you painted on them. They are not saying the words which you imagined, not now, not in 'reality.' Perhaps they have never said those words. You have manifested them using your own imagination, your own creativity. Truthfully, we do this all the time. We may not create the entire universe from scratch during every minute of every day, but our perception of everything around us and even within us is our own creation. We have chosen to accept a lot of standards. Most of us agree on what to call the color red when our eyes receive that band of light reflected from objects. Some of us cannot distinguish between red and green, so those people must determine the possible color from what the object is. They are creating a bridge from a shared bit of knowledge to aid their own perception. As I noted early in this text, it is all perception and our perception is a result of our creativity. You have a choice with everything you experience. You can accept your early training and make only the concrete associations that you've learned, or, you can create. You can assume that to eat a strawberry is to put it into your mouth, chew and swallow. Or... you can kiss a bite from the strawberry and savor its tangy sweetness before stealing the next bite and adding the essence of strawberry to your physical being. It's merely perception, but when you reach beyond the straight, factual, physical, learned reaction, then you start responding with your imaginative spirit. There can be a purpose to this outside yourself as well. In a way, we have all been hypnotized to believe a rather complex set of rules by which we function in this physical realm. We have done this to each other. We all generally agreed that we shall react in certain ways to certain input or actions outside ourselves. However, none of us have to stick with that. We can each create infinite variations AND when we do, we suggest to each other that there are new ways to experience old things. In this way we can enrich our lives and in fact change the ultimate nature of physical and spiritual life. This is quite similar to the way in which creative minds have brought us newer ways to light up the darkness. What you project is perceived by other people, just as what they project is perceived by you. You can tell when a person hates their job. You can tell when someone is embarrassed by a blemish on their face or by the condition of their clothing. Even if they don't say it, you can often pick up on the signals of what they are projecting, by their actions, their words or just the feeling you get in their company. You know when a person is shy or arrogant. You know when someone is reserved or open and friendly. Well, they can pick up the same from you. So, what you project is who people will perceive. Create you, as you want to be and share that special you with everyone you meet. Faking it won't work. You know you can usually tell when someone is false, eventually, if not immediately. So can others. BE who you want to be and others will see it in your manner, hear it in your voice, know it from your actions. Create your own joy and light, for your own benefit, then share it with the world. Just the act of generating this within yourself will brighten the collective pool of light by that much. Then, when you open yourself to share it with others, it will begin to grow geometrically. In our not-so-distant past, there was only one lightbulb. Shine your light and others will follow. Realize that the same thing happens with darkness except that most people who are generating darkness are not aware that they are truly creating it themselves or allowing it to pass through them. They may feel that they're the victims of circumstance and cannot fight it. However, they are making choices and creating reverberations of their own sadness, anger and fear. They have yet to find the switch, their own switch, that will let the positive energy and light of joy flow through them too. You cannot help them by judging their situation. You cannot help them by adding your own ill feelings as a response to them. Don't let your creativity turn in that direction. Continue to maintain your own light and joy and use compassion to try to understand them but also understand that there are likely reasons for their situation that you do not know. Ask if you may assist in any way. Offer your concern. Do what you can to help them lighten their condition but don't drag them from it. They must learn to emerge into the light themselves. Your example may help as long as you don't let your ego try to blind them with your own good fortune. Once you are in the light, your own light, then you can choose how to use it and direct it and when to dim it. There are indeed times when candlelight is more enjoyable than bright sunlight. Use your spirit to create whatever circumstances you wish to enjoy and share your imaginative living with those around you in a loving way. You cannot go wrong if you realize that every other person, every other creature, every other force within the Universe is as valuable as you are. So, don't forget to value yourself highly. (Creativity)

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