Previously I wrote about the visible and obvious part of imagination, combined with engineering to create the shiny and the new. I also described how it is seen and known to the observant.
Understand that our consciousness is split into roles, where one is an Observer who watches everything with a detachment from emotions like fear and your Observer has no desire to judge your actions.
When you peel and eat a banana it is you who does the pealing as well as eating it. However, it is also you who watches the peeling and eating of the banana. We can understand the Observer is always watching what we do, including our imagination. However, this watchfulness sees only the fully formed or near fully formed. Our Observing self is blinded to that which is below completion, below the consciousness.
For now I will walk the path which is far less well known, with the possibility of disagreement. These disagreements lead to conflict, cruelty and suffering. I may fear your reaction but I will tread on.
Underlying our Observer or full consciousness, we have the sub-conscious and unconscious. So too underneath the imagination we visualise using the Observer part of our selves is the sub-imagination. Yet deeper within is the under-imagination.
Humans would like to believe we are orderly, but we utilise chaos quite extensively. When we are on the verge of sleep and the dreaming process begins, many of us experience fragments of information. Most seem to make no sense. Yet these fragments are a rare insight we have into working below consciousness. These are fragments of images, sounds, thoughts, emotions and ideas, incomplete and without context.
I put it out there to you, that the sub-imagination (another core part of the creative process and one of which we may or may not be clearly aware of), is absorbing and sorting fragments of information for relevancy within our daily reality. It is looking for context. Our imaginations are constructed from these building blocks, like Lego bricks, and are sourced from a chaotic stream. So we combine these image, sound, thought, emotion and idea fragments together with our context to create something.
This chaotic stream is where things begin to get interesting, for example: where does it come from? An even more important question to think about is: what is driving the stream need? We know this last part as desire. Desire to create.. something. Why? And this question will become more important later.
Deep down inside lies the under-imagination. The wellspring of our creative steam. Our source of life and wealth, like imagination. From here you get your stream to fulfil desires which lacks the order, because it is freely given in love. Free of context which you may apply, sort and create with. Here lies the heart of creation which is the Creator.
The stream comes to you in freedom and love but you are the processor you decide what to accept and reject. To create more completely you could open your mind to accept outside your comfort zone. For example, if you must be different then experience sameness. If you must protest then submit. If you must submit then protest. If you must be real then abstract. Break the bonds and be free.
So we co-create with the Creator who is all that will be as long as you desire it. So then one could say there is no freewill for we are will-bound upon by the Creator. But so too is the Creator a part of us as we are of the Creator. In this way we are the Creator’s will. As free as we have always feared we are not. Remember the key is Love.
Anything can be created, with others who are open, then amazing things can bloom that are beyond ourselves.
If art is your desire then whyfor do you wait for a fleeting moment, when all moments are momentary? Do you fear your art is not resonant enough, not glamorous, too mundane? Art is the creative process, not the object. It is dead once created, move therefore to the next art and many will know the beauty of creation in action.
And so here I complete one half of what I want to say, for there is the Mirror. The other half which instead of being an internal mechanism, is all about being external.
Introspection is my strength from youth but extrospection was my education. For the question asked is why do we want to create? The answer is often very simple. It may be to make a better living, to feed the family, to entertain, or to share. It may be for nothing more than a few dollars in the pocket. Yet creation doesn’t stop there. Once something is made and observed by others it is like a virus. It spreads. Like the ideas of a stirrup, bronze and iron spread right across the world. Like the spread of religions and art, like the internet has spread. Central authorities be damned, it will seep even into the dark corners of China.
Your creation becomes a creation shared by the world. Copyright be damned. Copyright may slow the process, but the ideas will spread, legally, illegally and most often sub-legally. Microsoft coping the Xerox copying. Doom clones anyone? Who copies who? They all do, and if they didn’t, many products we use today would be dreadful because the majority of features on them were created by someone else. Without the spread all these features would be absent.
How many things do we use which are not comprised of many other creations? Even back to such basic things as bronze? Engineering study lets one see this as a tiny glimpse into the splendour and power of millions of ideas, that all come to work in harmony. They make one item into another all driven by people with the same basic reasons you made your creation for. To feed the family and make a living etc. To make a single computer requires so many steps and complex associations starting with raw materials like oil, ore, sand, trees, seawater, freshwater and plants and animals of various types.
Who can follow it all? I cannot follow even a single computer. It would take me years to try to, and by then it would have changed, improved, become obsolete. In the end I am only looking at selective parts of the process. I might look at how the silicon is processed and purified to make a CPU, only to neglect the purifier and all the steps it took to create that. Who can follow it all? The Observer. The other one. The “Big Guy in the Sky”.
Each of us have our petty needs and desires prompting us to complete our small step in the creative process. Summed up across the world, we have the ultimate result of many needs and desires cared for, with the bonus of amazing creations, like the computer which serve us in many capacities. One of those capacities is to create yet further wonderful things.
And so we come to the end of creation’s cycle which is the same as the beginning.
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