Concerning all acts of creation
Neil December 30th, 2009
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth –
that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”
–Van Goethe
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What are you defending?
Neil November 1st, 2009
What are you defending?
An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity.
By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you dis-identify from it.
In the light of your conscious, the unconscious pattern will quickly dissolve. This is the end of all arguments and power games which are so corrosive to relationships. Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and is available to you NOW.
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So anyone who is identified with their mind, and therefore disconnected from their true power their deeper self rooted in being will have fear as their constant companion. The number of people who have gone beyond mind is as yet extremely small, so you can assume that virtually everyone you meet or know lives in a state of fear. Only the intensity of it varies. It fluctuates between anxiety and dread at one end of the scale and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other. Most people only become conscious of it when it takes on one of it’s more acute forms. Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep seeded sense of lack, or incompleteness – of not being whole. In some people this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough. …..often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego gratification and things to identify with, in order to fill this hole they feel within. And so they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship. Basically so they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete. But even when they attain all these things, they find that the hole is still there. That it is bottomless, then they are really in trouble – because they cannot elude themselves anymore……
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle – Audio book version
Mind like Water : falling water 07-08-09
Neil September 16th, 2009
The best of man is like water,
Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them,
Which flows in places that others disdain,
Where it is in harmony with the Way.
Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them,
Which flows in places that others disdain,
Where it is in harmony with the Way.
So the sage:
Lives within nature,
Thinks within the deep,
Gives within impartiality,
Speaks within trust,
Governs within order,
Crafts within ability,
Acts within opportunity.
He does not contend, and none contend against him.
unique sealed orders
Neil March 6th, 2009
“Throughout our lives each of us discovers more and more deeply our unique sealed orders, a way that only we are gifted to give and receive love.
When I am in touch with the special purpose of my life and carrying out my sealed orders, I have a profound feeling of consolation or rightness and my whole body relaxes. I believe this sense of rightness expresses itself physiologically because the purpose of our life is built into the very cells of our body.
I have noticed this sense of rightness whenever I am in touch with our learning about the inner goodness of created things. Loooking back, I realize that this has guided all my major decisions in life.”
Moments of desolation are equally instructive.
Sleeping with Bread - Dennis Linn
Techniques for higher creativity
Neil February 19th, 2009
Here is a podcast download of my presentation to the venerable Foundation Workshop attendees and staff Titled Techniques for Higher Creativity
If this podcast has opened your mind, please show your support by purchasing these two items in support of my creative communication – First the song by Delirium
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Second, show your gratitude by purchasing the presentation through the create cart – to help make sure more presentations are availabe in the future:
If you would like more information from the speaker quoted in the presentation here is a link to his training materials titled “Doing Business Supernaturally 201″
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Mind Like Water: Tao 12
Neil December 24th, 2008
Too much colour blinds the eye,
Too much music deafens the ear,
Too much taste dulls the palate,
Too much play maddens the mind,
Too much desire tears the heart.
In this manner the sage cares for people:
He provides for the belly, not for the senses;
He ignores abstraction and holds fast to substance.
TaoTeChing.org
mind like water: separation is perception
Neil September 9th, 2008
separation is perception
comparison brings shortfall
participation is elation
judgement generates separation
you will what you imagine
Neil July 7th, 2008
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Mind like water: Practice the art of Meditation
Neil April 27th, 2008
Mind like water is a visual metaphor for a state of being. A nugget I hope you gain from watching this video is quoted “choice is a function of awareness, awareness comes as a function of meditation.”
So if no-one has ever taught you the goal of meditation let me help you “observe things from a place of non-reaction, which does not mean detachment, but means not attached to an outcome.” And this is my personal favorite photographic mode, allowing my own choices to be fully aware and scooping creative power from the natural surroundings….I hope you begin a practice of meditation into your life to help you create with a watchful eye and this article blesses you with the inertia to start that practice.
YouTube – Michael Beckwith – The power of Meditation
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Header #1: Metaphysical explanation
Neil April 23rd, 2008
Please join me in a meditation on ancient Hebrew scripture:
Genesis 1
The Beginning
- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
- And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
- God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Well, where to start with all that.
First do you have any potential biases? Have you ever considered the truth contained in Hebrew scriptures? If you can find truth in the oldest spiritual text on the planet – then you might have a chance with a lens too. Clear your mind of any haze of skepticism and find the essence of these scriptures and how they may effect you.
Vs. 1 is an intro – kinda set’s the stage with the most important summary of all. Connect with God and you’ll connect with creativity itself, more on that later.
Vs. 2 – can you actually conceptualize nothingness? Try it – oops – no you can’t do that, because you exist – I kinda see this verse along those lines. A little gotcha joke, that teaches a lesson. Quantum physics is now just learning and informing us that the mind creates the universe……another very tricky catch22, that we all find the answer to when we die.
Vs. 3 – Ok so we’ve tackled some pretty major philosophical hurdles, what’s next? Well we know a few things about light now in the Twenty First century. We admit to knowing less about God so let’s put it together. E=mc2 is the best explanation that we have so far. It’s no such thing as why – but a very nice how. Energy, can become matter if it’s moving fast/slow enough. Pretty cool so Genesis has it right, God created ‘light’ and there was matter all nice and tidy in His one substance. Those ancient people knew a bit of something about reality didn’t they! they just communicate it differently than we do.
Now let’s draw some parallels that are important for our craft. God’s first creation he used for our primary interface with the world. I don’t mean to Kinda tricky how he did that eh? We are created to interact with the light. Ponder the multidimensional wonder of that thought for a while since you’ve now realized that light gives us information, as well as creates the substance we inhabit.
But wait, I have to burst that wonderful thought bubble to break in that we don’t actually interact with the light anymore – we interact with the darkness. Yep, you’re responding to the darkness around you. The darkness tells you where your keyboard is; the darkness tells you where the subject in your viewfinder is; the darkness defines color and shape in your photographic prints. The study of visual perception has been around since the Greeks were able to guess that light came into our eyes, and the first photography book that really opened up my mind to understand the intricacy of how we see was Perception and Imaging by Richard Zakias. It is always my first recommendation for those seeking to study photography and understand building a photograph with visual elements.
So here you begin to understand the levels upon which I developed the concept and the motivation for this site – to Make Light Real
As another perspective on light as a key to metaphsyics, you can watch this clip by Bob Proctor
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