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I want to talk about creativity and imagination.
I think that there are things that as we get older in a biological sense, we often lose.
Can you tell us about the importance of those and how we talk more deeply into them?
Creativity is
an inherent attribute of our consciousness, not a our mind.
Mind is conditioned and so the mind has no creativity.
Consciousness
Prior to all conditioning is infinitely creative.
So a fundamental state of being is infinite creativity. You just have to tap into it and
one of the best ways to tap into it is to ask a question, any question, and
Then go deep into stillness.
That's one and then not worry about the answer. It shows up either as a sensation, image, feeling, thought,
perception, and counter-relationship
synchronicity, whatever, or just
insight and imagination, which is also an attribute of
consciousness.
So, it's
asking questions and going into stillness.
Now a while ago I also realized that what we call our body is actually
projected conditioned mind.
So, if you ask the question and you feel your body because your body is a sensation.
If close my eyes, the only experience I have is of my body.
If I open my eyes, the experience of color, shape. But with my eyes closed
The only experience I have is of my body and sensations. Someone can hear something's and things like that
but if I just pay attention to my body
All it is is a bunch of sensations.
Then you ask questions of the body and then you listen to your body and it
kind of sends you messages and
there are two kinds of messages that come. One are uncomfortable and
pleasurable, joyful. If you get a pleasurable, joyful response
to the question
that's important because that is actually an
evolutionary response
it's probably the right response. Then, by and by,
intuitively, you learn to decipher these sensations.
Every sensation is actually a message.
You can actually when you're talking to another person you can tell what they're going through. Or a
person on the street.
I mean it can be expanded. You can eaves-drop on the entire universe.
Ultimately you eaves-drop on the cosmic mind
which is when your body doesn't send you any messages except it's not there. It disappears and
then you know you're eaves-dropping on the cosmos. That's creativity, vision, imagination. They are all connected. Now, I teach creativity
to other people who've not yet cultivated this
awareness and I talk about
various steps. There's an internal vision. There's information gathering, then information
analysis and incubation and insight
then inspiration then implementation then
incarnation. So, all creativity is the death and the resurrection.
Creativity's a new story, a new context new, a new meaning.
Relationships, or even if it's the old relationship, a new
a new expression of those
relationships that
resurrection in between these nine steps.
Which I've just told you. I've tended to find in my experience, and I'm curious what your feedback is to this, is that
imagination is sort of the portal for me to create my reality or manifest something
What is your take on that? Yeah, the imagination as the word implies is creating images in the mind
So imaginination comes from the word
'image'
Big secret here is to ask questions and see what images come into your awareness.
A lot of those images are of course memories and conditioning
personal desires, so always kind of distinguish between something that's a personal desire and what's a big ambition.
Love it
So Deepak if you were forced to, but you probably wouldn't even want to so let's say you had no
option which we already know is a faulty premise
but to switch lives with someone for one day. Whose life would you want to take over for the day and try out?
I wouldn't switch lives with another human.
Think we are to go beyond being human. So I
might switch lives with another species and I can think of so many species that I'd like to switch lives with.
Underwater creatures
Birds, eagles soaring in the sky, dolphins even plants. I'd love to know how a plant feels it's way towards the sun gathering all the light . And then giving nourishment to the plant.
I would like to switch roles with a cyborg.
And hybrids of human intelligence, animal intelligence, and machine intelligence.
Species, you know species are
There's a difference between a
Species and
Particular family in genera within this species so up until say
Sixty thousand or a hundred hundred thousand years ago
There were eight different kinds of humans species. So we are Homo sapiens, which means the wise ones, we gave ourselves that name out of
Humility, but then we give other species names too
Homo erectus
Neanderthals
Etcetera. And all these species-very interesting -that species mate only with its own kind
but it still belongs to a larger family like the lion, the tiger, a panther, a cat a
Cheetah, leopard. They're all the same in family, but there are different species. So
species don't mate
cross-mate
But I think in the future we'll be able to do that through
if not
naturally, but through the mixing of
Genetic material and therefore we be able to create new species. That'll be the next civil rights movement maybe.
Well, thank you as always.
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