CREATIVE WORK
AUGUST 31, 2011. When it comes to practical goals and what it takes to achieve them, there are basic strategies that operate well and productively. However, when the work involves bringing the creative impulse and imagination into the scene, the rules are not the same.
They aren’t the same, because you’re swimming in different waters. It’s not only a matter of focusing on the objective and the plan.
Now you’re talking about Desire, which is a large subject that involves hooking your future up to that North Star…and pretty soon what seemed like a simple enterprise includes more energies and dimensions.
For example: what DO you really desire? How big and wide and deep is that desire?
Writers and other artists often come upon this question. They find that what appeared, at first, as a clear picture takes on new aspects.
It’s as if you wanted to explore an iceberg. You’re looking at the part you can see above water…and then you become aware that the bulk of the object lies under the surface. Or you want to explore an ancient pyramid, and as you move into it, you find corridors and rooms initially hidden from view.
How do you proceed?
Well, it’s an ongoing process. As you attempt to create, in the world, the fulfillment and realization of the desire, you discover that a large part of that desire was obscured from view—and NOW COMES TO LIGHT ONLY BECAUSE YOU ARE IMAGINING AND CREATING.
It’s as if the desire was waiting for you to trigger your own imagination and creative power, and once you do, it exposes more of itself.
You were operating in a territory, so to speak, that was as big as a house, and now it’s as big as a city.
In my consulting work with clients, and in my audio seminars (The Transformations, for example), I deal with these creative issues. They are resolved, as the person begins to create more and as he begins to create with more power.
As a metaphor, consider the life and career of the Spanish architect, Gaudi. Once he began to gain commissions in the city of Barcelona, he was no longer simply designing apartment buildings. He embarked on a huge cathedral, and he created a magnificent serpentine bench at the top of the city…
In other words, he began to see more possibilities for his art, and he began to realize he could imagine and create with greater power and dimension.
In effect, his desire expanded from its original shape.
He was no longer just an architect working on strict orders from his clients.
He saw more of his own desire.
This is the road of magic. You begin where you begin, and as you create more and more, the territory and your power expand.
So does your energy.
The environment around you and within you changes. Your energy is having effects in new spaces. This isn’t something you can measure with a meter. It isn’t something you can get a grip on by merely “taking a scientific attitude.”
This is a different world.
You see that energy and matter and, in fact, the whole continuum we tend to cherish and accept as the totality of existence, is only a piece of something much, much larger.
You don’t just think about this. You experience it.
You discover that every picture of reality, from the sub-atomic all the way to the cosmic and the metaphysical, is “waiting,” just as your desire is waiting, for you to undertake creative work—at which point, the whole notion of reality “surrenders” to your larger imagination and energy.
It’s not a closed system at all. It’s entirely open.
Jon Rappoport
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