Energy is forever in flux—movement that can only be arrested via the concentrated state of consciousness, which— when directly perceived at a deeper level—can actually be “seen” as just another transitory stage in the creative flow, since flow is ever-unfolding, ever-flowing around obstructions and hindrances. All states, conditions, and realities are in flux of continuous transcendence often termed as “transformations” even if they can barely be perceived by the human senses, and mainly through the 6th sense of intuitive perception. We come closer to experiencing these states of the abstract or “higher reality” because they are partially unfolded in the imagination, through three distinctive forms of experience and subsequent apprehension—typically, but not always, followed by deeper realization.

The first one is an altered state of consciousness, not induced by drugs but by one’s deeper need to seek—to make contact with one’s soul while hankering after the Divine. Albeit a far less common phenomenon, it can be experienced through Lucid Dreaming (dreaming “awake”) or through an Out-of-Body-Experience (when the subtle “energy body” separates from the physical one in order to experience itself in another dimension). (There are others, but let these two examples suffice.) Although spontaneous in nature when either one of these deeper states graces our lives—on the subtle spiritual level, there is an intense yearning after the Source of all phenomena, and when even minutely experienced, a “deeper” truth is uncovered and a state of “knowing” is gifted to us via insight.

Another experience, a more common one—of “feeling out” the creative flow in its natural state of flux is through any fully absorbed act or state of creating. We only need to observe a musician or artist in her given craft completely “given over” to the act of focused creation. This kind of absorption in one’s craft via the act and intention of purposeful engagement is on another level an act of the self surrendering to the bigger creative forces having their “play” with the instrumentation of the artist. And some artists are better than others in discerning and later delineating this kind of “sensing.” But they all experience some form of energetic inflow from a bigger or higher source best to their person. In common terminology this is often referred to as the “co-creative” dynamic, and when any person who is in the act of creating (and not only art) is also fully surrendered while remaining open and cognizant of the experience, the perception of the creative flow can be that much more powerful—if not revealing.

Apart from the aforementioned two (or more like three), there is yet another mode of perceiving the creative flow; it is through the state and practice of meditation— which is accessible to everyone. Through the act of concentrated focus on oneself, the meditative state of awareness opens up its “muzzle” to the energy field that emanates from the creative source. Of course, this does not happen immediately, but it does happen spontaneously, and as with the purposeful and practiced efforts of any skilled artist—and I would surmise even with the genius, except the speed and rate of progress is immense because the young prodigy is connected to the creative source at a mathematically impossible configurations for us to fathom—the meditator remains informed and subsequently guided by his own direct experience on the cushion. After all, genuine awareness is a form of direct perception. If you become practiced in this—and that means making daily effort to truly become the witness of your experience as it is transpiring—your own evolving meditation practice can then take your further or “deeper” into the experience of “extra-sensory” perception where the energy field of the creative source has its continuous play.

If you’d like to learn more about meditation and how it can jump start or help you maintain your own creative flow, please contact me and let’s explore some ways of how you can make meditation part of your own creative awakening.