Introduction — The Adventure of the Conscious Creative

The Adventure of the Conscious Creative

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”
— Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992

Stories of magic and mystery permeate our cultural history, and have fascinated children and adults for untold generations. Fairy tales and mythologies are full of examples of powerful people who have the ability to generate new objects and realities out of thin air. These legends are not just recorded in our cultural history, but live in our collective unconscious and populate our dreams.

There is a nugget of truth hidden inside all of these fables which may be frightening to some: that the magicians and sorcerers are ordinary people like us who have discovered an incredible power within themselves. They know what all of us should know. We should know it because it is a truth that is manifest in unequivocal evidence all around us: we are the creators of what we see around us. Moreover, true creativity is our birthright as human beings.

Whether conscious or unconscious of the creative process in progress, we are creating our realities all the time. Look around you; this is a self-evident truth. Most humans on this planet live in an artificial world of our own construction.

Everything in our man-made environment started out as a creative daydream in someone’s head. As the thought is “caught” and held by the human gift of visualization, it gains more solidity. Eventually, the energy of the original inspiration — the word inspiration means “to breathe life into” — becomes so dense through focus and concentration, that it finally materializes into form.

“Creativity is … seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” — Michele Shea

So someone thinks into existence a chair, a wheel, or a computer. It is the creative thought that forms the eventual material reality. Like a fertilized egg that hatches a chick just because it was kept warm, the actual work of manufacturing the desired object is just the inevitable fulfillment of conception.

The process of manifestation is directed from another side of ourselves that is separate from the initial creative impulse. Meanwhile, the magical butterfly of creative inspiration has flown on to other things.

The madness of modern human experience is that we seem to have forgotten our power as creators. We have abandoned our responsibility for our circumstances, and abdicated our powers to remote authorities who do not have our best interests in mind. When we give over our responsibility for our development as individuals we give up the potential for the greatest fulfillment and joy. Make no mistake: what is at stake is the most important thing to us and to humankind in general: our evolution.

I guarantee you that you are creative, as we are all creative. The life you are experiencing today is what you called to you by the thoughts you were thinking yesterday. We are holding our reality in existence by our focus on the elements of what we percieve to be our reality. Whether aware of it or not, we are thinking our lives into existence from moment to moment. I propose that if we are creating our lives we might as well be conscious of the process and choose what we want to create.

“Every time we say, ‘Let there be!’ in any form, something happens.” — Stella Terrill Mann

This is what I mean when I say we are all master magicians; we are so good at it that have even deluded ourselves into believing that we ourselves are powerless, when in fact, we are the ones in control of our lives. It is in choosing our lives and finding the power to change our circumstances that we can find true mental / emotional independence and creative expression. Nothing is beyond us, because in a state of conscious creation we can live without limits.

Who can help us regain our power? I have come to understand from my work as an artist that we should look to ourselves for the essential answers. If something that you read or hear resonates with you, it is because that truth is already inside you. In this way no one is qualified to be your teacher, because no one can teach you what you do not already know.

If what is written here resonates with the truth inside you, then you will be drawn by this truth to not only read on, but to find other sources of that same truth. It is as if you and your destiny are magnetized by each other, resistance is not only futile, but counter to your true innermost creative nature.

“When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” — Joseph Campbell

As you become aligned with what you want, more and more of what is most like you will be drawn to you. Life becomes what it should be: a joyous adventure. All this is because you made the decision to become what you are: a conscious creative.

Think about the idea of releasing the wondrous power that resides within you. What if we are not Aladdin making wishes by rubbing a lamp, but instead, we are the Genie granting those wishes to ourselves? Does this idea frighten or excite you?

— excerpt from the book Parallel Mind by Aliyah Marr
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