Really like this piece. About how we have to keep alive the wave. And not think we can stop and then continue at a later date. I find it totally amazing when I go deep into that wave of thought and creation. It is a struggle once you are deep within because your mind is analyzing what is right and what should be left behind. The struggle is part of the process that makes it so fulfilling. I often wonder if it is really me or information being fed to me to struggle over from someone/something else outside myself. Like my mind is connecting to a source or spirit that I cannot see or hear but has a life (maybe a life I lived once upon a different time and place) that is part of my heritage as a person. Who are we to know that it might be someone talking through us? But however it happens, I will leave my mind open for the next wave.
Makes lot of sense. The true discipline is getting rid of distraction, interruption, noise and messages. But then we miss the source of ideas and connection with the world.. the big contradiction!
When this power/inspiration/source takes over when I am painting in particular, it is as if time has become irrelevant I am unaware of hunger, thirst or time. It may seem like I have been painting only an hour or so when it has been five or six hours. I have always called this being in the zone and it may closely reflect an active meditative state, i have never thought of it that way, I enjoyed this article. as I do most of yours as they create more mind expanding possibilities. Thank you.
When making art, or performing an athletic feat, or music, whatever. Many parts of the mind are aligned and we enter a flow state.
Meditation, at least for advanced meditators, is a similar state, except one can go even farther. It is possible with enough meditation to align ALL parts of the mind. This is known as "unification of the mind" and is a necessary step on the path to enlightenment.
But yes, they are very similar mind states. And those states are our birthright.
You’re very welcome for commenting. I think it’s an interesting topic. I meditate each day or try to because I believe you’re right and feel as if it helps. I used to believe in only God as well. I thought though, what created God? Man created the title God and although personally I will always respect that, I can’t truthfully say that some haven’t taken the title God to an extreme that has caused wars and turned people against each other. It’s in history books, etc.! All in all. I respect all beliefs but will always and forever believe in simply the unknown. Same goes for any and all titles. I respect them but believe there is something bigger that guides us, something unknown.
You might be interested in the concept of the "holotropic attractor" theory by Lazlo. It is a theory of this cosmic force ("god") that, as many are attempting now, to understand ancient spiritual wisdom from a more scientific viewpoint. https://noetic.org/blog/evolution-the-force-that-is-with-us/
*Always keep a notebook with a pen clipped to it next to my bed. Why? because it is in the wee early hours and the inconvenient times of day magical ideas awaken and shine.
*Never leave home without memo pad and pen in my car for similar thoughts visions and reminders. *Remember to purchase notebooks (10 at a time or more) when they go on sale for pennies on the dollar. Keep pens and memo pads similarly stocked up.
ANYONE with visions has got to find a way to live with it productively and keep track of the Daily Muse as it drops in for a friendly, daily visit. We are writers, musicians, artists of every kind.
What if what inspires us is in actuality inside each of us? What if this unseen inspiration for creation is what some call God? I call it the unknown personally because I think that is what it is...unknown. Maybe a piece of the unknown is in everyone and we can't choose when inspiration will strike because it's unknown. We have to write it down once that spark of creation comes because it's unknown as to why it leaves, etc. or when it will leave. What if we aren't really whole but we just are because we were each meant to be for unknown reasons? What if it's a deep Spiritual thing that truly can't be explained?
It could be that it's a part of our mind that feels "separate." Our shadow self talking to our awake self. Or our right brain "talking" to our left brain. But, going deep into meditation, and paying close attention to the world, and what happens, for me anyway, it feels to be a deep truth that we are all connected to some larger field/force/something. To me, all of existence is "god" and as a part of all of existence, we are all part of "god" and connected that way. It feels as of consciousness arises from outside of us and our minds "receive" it. However, I am open to the idea that it all happens within individual brains as it doesn't change much. We are all still connected in a metaphorical sense as humans and should strive to better our collective situation. But the pattern of the universe is holons: quarks are individual and part of the whole, particles. Particles are individual and part of the whole (atoms), atoms are individual and part of the whole (molecules), molecules are individual and part of the whole (cells), cells are individual and part of the whole (organs), organs are individual and part of the whole (humans), humans are individuals (and part of the whole?) It makes more logical sense to me that, the pattern of the universe would continue in the same way it has at all levels below and above us. But as I said, it could be, and many think it is, two parts of our brains communicating with one another. Thanks for your comment.
That is pretty much what I believe but I don't title it. I don't get offended by it though. I don't like that so many throughout history would fight over the title of their religion. Many do that today too but in different ways. You've also got people claiming to be the one and only god or the reincarnation of god, etc. I believe as you said that a little part of the unknown is in everyone. We don't truly understand all of it or it wouldn't be unknown. Anyway, I comment to discuss things. It's an interesting topic to me.
Really like this piece. About how we have to keep alive the wave. And not think we can stop and then continue at a later date. I find it totally amazing when I go deep into that wave of thought and creation. It is a struggle once you are deep within because your mind is analyzing what is right and what should be left behind. The struggle is part of the process that makes it so fulfilling. I often wonder if it is really me or information being fed to me to struggle over from someone/something else outside myself. Like my mind is connecting to a source or spirit that I cannot see or hear but has a life (maybe a life I lived once upon a different time and place) that is part of my heritage as a person. Who are we to know that it might be someone talking through us? But however it happens, I will leave my mind open for the next wave.
Makes lot of sense. The true discipline is getting rid of distraction, interruption, noise and messages. But then we miss the source of ideas and connection with the world.. the big contradiction!
When this power/inspiration/source takes over when I am painting in particular, it is as if time has become irrelevant I am unaware of hunger, thirst or time. It may seem like I have been painting only an hour or so when it has been five or six hours. I have always called this being in the zone and it may closely reflect an active meditative state, i have never thought of it that way, I enjoyed this article. as I do most of yours as they create more mind expanding possibilities. Thank you.
When making art, or performing an athletic feat, or music, whatever. Many parts of the mind are aligned and we enter a flow state.
Meditation, at least for advanced meditators, is a similar state, except one can go even farther. It is possible with enough meditation to align ALL parts of the mind. This is known as "unification of the mind" and is a necessary step on the path to enlightenment.
But yes, they are very similar mind states. And those states are our birthright.
You’re very welcome for commenting. I think it’s an interesting topic. I meditate each day or try to because I believe you’re right and feel as if it helps. I used to believe in only God as well. I thought though, what created God? Man created the title God and although personally I will always respect that, I can’t truthfully say that some haven’t taken the title God to an extreme that has caused wars and turned people against each other. It’s in history books, etc.! All in all. I respect all beliefs but will always and forever believe in simply the unknown. Same goes for any and all titles. I respect them but believe there is something bigger that guides us, something unknown.
You might be interested in the concept of the "holotropic attractor" theory by Lazlo. It is a theory of this cosmic force ("god") that, as many are attempting now, to understand ancient spiritual wisdom from a more scientific viewpoint. https://noetic.org/blog/evolution-the-force-that-is-with-us/
Thank you!!! That was very interesting. I agree with alot of it.
*Always keep a notebook with a pen clipped to it next to my bed. Why? because it is in the wee early hours and the inconvenient times of day magical ideas awaken and shine.
*Never leave home without memo pad and pen in my car for similar thoughts visions and reminders. *Remember to purchase notebooks (10 at a time or more) when they go on sale for pennies on the dollar. Keep pens and memo pads similarly stocked up.
ANYONE with visions has got to find a way to live with it productively and keep track of the Daily Muse as it drops in for a friendly, daily visit. We are writers, musicians, artists of every kind.
What if what inspires us is in actuality inside each of us? What if this unseen inspiration for creation is what some call God? I call it the unknown personally because I think that is what it is...unknown. Maybe a piece of the unknown is in everyone and we can't choose when inspiration will strike because it's unknown. We have to write it down once that spark of creation comes because it's unknown as to why it leaves, etc. or when it will leave. What if we aren't really whole but we just are because we were each meant to be for unknown reasons? What if it's a deep Spiritual thing that truly can't be explained?
It could be that it's a part of our mind that feels "separate." Our shadow self talking to our awake self. Or our right brain "talking" to our left brain. But, going deep into meditation, and paying close attention to the world, and what happens, for me anyway, it feels to be a deep truth that we are all connected to some larger field/force/something. To me, all of existence is "god" and as a part of all of existence, we are all part of "god" and connected that way. It feels as of consciousness arises from outside of us and our minds "receive" it. However, I am open to the idea that it all happens within individual brains as it doesn't change much. We are all still connected in a metaphorical sense as humans and should strive to better our collective situation. But the pattern of the universe is holons: quarks are individual and part of the whole, particles. Particles are individual and part of the whole (atoms), atoms are individual and part of the whole (molecules), molecules are individual and part of the whole (cells), cells are individual and part of the whole (organs), organs are individual and part of the whole (humans), humans are individuals (and part of the whole?) It makes more logical sense to me that, the pattern of the universe would continue in the same way it has at all levels below and above us. But as I said, it could be, and many think it is, two parts of our brains communicating with one another. Thanks for your comment.
That is pretty much what I believe but I don't title it. I don't get offended by it though. I don't like that so many throughout history would fight over the title of their religion. Many do that today too but in different ways. You've also got people claiming to be the one and only god or the reincarnation of god, etc. I believe as you said that a little part of the unknown is in everyone. We don't truly understand all of it or it wouldn't be unknown. Anyway, I comment to discuss things. It's an interesting topic to me.