BEGINNING

"In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction". (Albert Einstein, 1949).

Maybe so, in the physical world, but what about the spiritual universe?

PLATO

A chapter in The Symposium by Plato depicts a first human as described by Aristophanes: "The primeval man was round, his sides and back forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces..... He could walk upright as men now do."

After these humans rebelled against the gods, Zeus punished them by slicing them in two. Ever since, according to Aristophanes, humans have been driven by love into trying to reunite with their missing half to make a perfect whole.

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Back, after almost 14 days on the boat. In my country, the season is almost over. Some trees are already turning yellow and red, nights are colder, early mornings filled with mist and dew - until the sun slowly turns all these mysterious grey shades into a palette of joyful colours. I've seen it before, but it is still a revelation, each time.

I've walked mountains and I've walked forests (I still do from time to time with intense pleasure) but nothing gives me more pleasure than being out at sea: The ocean, who gave us all
our reason for existence, seems to have implanted a dreeming memory in my mind.

So passed they naked on, nor shund the sight
Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill:
So hand in hand they passed, the lovliest pair
That ever since in loves imbraces met
ADAM the goodliest man of men since borne
His Sons, the fairest of her Daughters EVE.
(Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667)

The book works still after 338 years. It is such a pleasure to pick it up again.

.............in dreams they met, but had never met before - they wished in their heart to make this journey - how else could they infuse order into a tale without a beginning................

To be unacquainted with events which took place before our birth, is always to remain a child. Intelligent existence loses its meaning, without the aid of history to bring recent events into direct continuity with the past. (Marcus Tillius Cicero, 46 B.C.)

Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have flourished, and have been the living inspiration of whatever else appeared out of the human body and mind. It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religion, philosophies, arts, the social form of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries of science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth. (Joseph Campell)

TAO

The Tao is called the Great Mother; Empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds. (Lao-tzu. Tao Te Ching)

We sometimes say "I would like to sleep on that". Instinctively we are all aware that something may happen during sleep that can alter our attitude, and even find a solution to a problem.

Think good, and good follows. Think evil, and evil follows. Your subconcious mind is a wise instrument and knows the answer to most questions.. If you want the subconcious to work for you, give it the right request, and attain its cooperation. You are the master of you subconcious mind, and you may even be the master of your fate. Believe in what you are doing, but be prepared to act on what your subconcious mind suggests.

THE PAST

A number of cultures have dealt with the common theme: Where does it all come from? In many accounts, God(s) created the natural world and the placed the human race in this landscape. Other descriptions are of scientific nature, providing explanations on how the universe might work, or descriptions providing the foundation for ethical and religious views of how we are to find our place in the grand scheme of things.

Where does it all come from? How can we explain and cope with the world? How do we forget and remember the past?

Each one of us is a product of all we have thought and experienced. We are encrusted with layer upon layer of genetic influence, of habit and inherited concepts and thoughts. And still, there has never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be anyone exactly like you again.

How can we best learn to cope with the present, and at the same time imagine and form the future. By caring for the past, not erasing it.

"We have, in traversing the past, -however extensive its periods, -only to do with what is present..... The life of the ever present Spirit is a circle of ever progressive embodiments, which looked at in one aspect still exist beside each other, and only from another point of view appear as past. The grades which Spirit seems to have left behind it, it still possesses in the depths of its present. (G.W.F. Hegel)

THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Although I have an idea and a plan with these pages, I intend to let the concept of the Creative Process live its own life for a while, posting seemingly unsystematic pieces of puzzle, that slowly and hopefully will form a coherent background.

The Creative Process, in this context, is a process where thoughts may become reality, by providing the dynamic needed to enable us to reach the goals we have selected. But it requires understanding of a number of principles.

As soon as the process is understood, it becomes a tool. But you can't master it just by understanding what it will do. You must understand its complications and you must put it to the test by practising it. You must be absolutely honest with yourself. And, it also means careful reading, observation and sincere efforts.

You can choose to change your life. For some people, who understand the mechanisms at work, the change will come very fast. For others, it comes slowly, because they have so much to overcome, or they are not conciously applying what they have learned.

But the process will work if you practice the principles, it will even work for you whether you beleive it wholehartedly or not.

Chris

CHANGE

There is nothing human beings cannot achieve once their thinking is right, their belief in achievement is absolute, and positive commitment has been made. Change in personal life may be a subtle thing. It works silently, unobtrusively, but quite relentlessly when presented with the right stimuli. The results, in terms of perceivable growth, are not always quantifiable, yet change will be taking place all the time, once the creative forces are set in motion.

These pages, will help the inquisitive mind to roam free from the complications of daily life, and will help you to slip away to that quiet place only you may enter, where new ideas are born and magic can so easily occur.

Chris

CHOICES

As we travel through life we are constantly faced with crossroads - choices between several different directions. Important decisions have to be made, and, to this end, there is a simple formula:

providing one always selecrs the more difficult option,

there will rarely be cause for regrets in the future

Chris

......beginning...........

.......But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and at last, out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space, and all the mysteries of time, he still will be beginning. (H.G.Wells 1936)

This is meant to be a source of inspiration and stimulation, to enable the inquisitive and searching individual to find a quiet place where magic can take place.

Remember: "To achieve greatness a man must know how to turn all his chances to good account (la Rochefoucauld).

Let me ask you a question: Is being you really good enough. Are you comfortable with you as you are? Change is as much a matter of dicarding and rejecting as of acquiring anything new.
People come in all shapes, sizes and peculiarities but over and above all you see the one great difference. Some of them are happy and successful and some of them are not.
Some walk confidently from day to day, achieving success upon success. They seem to be endowed with some special force, while others seem to drag themselves through life as if life itself were a burden. Or do you belong to the class of people who limp through life: they are never completely miserable, but they are rarely really happy; they're never complete failures but success is always seemingly just beyond their reach.

Every day is filled with choices. If your present situation is the result of choices made in the past, it is logical to assume that you may mould and develop your future by the choices available to you now.

There is a creative law as old as man, operating ceaslessly in him. It can furnish the dynamic needed to enable him to reach the goals he has selected: man can direct this law for his own betterment. The law exists to serve him, and it is as certain, orderly and unchangeable as are the laws of science.

Are you seeking change in your own life?

As Mark Twain once stated: There is nothing training cannot do. It can lift men to angelship.

Desire for change, must precede commitment to action. Quietly seek the solitude of your own mind, for it is there that all the answers are to be found.

Acheivement does rely on developing the right attitude, and having a burning desire to succeed.

Are you prepared to walk the path of making changes to your life? Do you have the desire? Are you prepared to establish the your Goals, make a Commitment and define a Plan?

Without awareness, desire and commitment it is doubtful that you will ever start! - and without a plan it is doubtful you would ever arrive.

SOON TO COME: The Creative Process

Chris