CREATIVITY - PART 6 - CREATIVE PRINCIPLE

THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLE

If you have read metaphysical literature, or taken classes such as The Science of Mind, you may have learned the Creative Principle. To summarize it, the conscious, aware part of your Mind determines the creation of your experience. This conscious thought moves into the great unconsious field of Mind, where the Laws of nature are unconsciously operating all the time. This unconscious field always responds to the thoughts impressed upon it, provided they are not ambiguous – provided they are clear. In due course, a physical counterpart will appear, matching the mental equivalent that you have provided.

The process is as exact as the clarity of your thought and belief makes it.

Perhaps you imagine going shopping. You quickly picture going downtown, maybe visiting the bank, then the store. Then you think no more about it – you set out, go to the bank and the store, and come home. It never occurs to you to doubt it. It doesn’t summon up any fears, or difficulties. You just do it. The process is largely unconscious, following from the original, brief, conscious thought. That’s how life is meant to work. That is the creative Principle in action.

It is characterized by a unity of thought, belief, and action.

When fear and doubt creep in, that’s when the Principle begins to falter. It can only do for us what we can think in a clear manner. Unclear thinking produces matching results; perhaps a wandering trip that never quite gets downtown. Negative, fearful thinking may produce a traffic jam, an accident, or other blockage to action.

We are trained to see the action of the world as separate, apart from ourselves. We may tend to see the forces that guide and control everything as something distant and apart. This is what it feels like to be separate from God. We then feel manipulated and controlled by circumstances.

There is a Oneness to things that is infinite in scope. It includes us, because we cannot limit the infinite to be apart from us- how could we? When we understand this Oneness, and really feel our place in it, we become co-creators with it, and we live in harmony with the Spirit of Life.