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The moment of creative urgency

Posted October 21st, 2010 by Rita Carbon in Evolution of spirituality
In Reference to:
The Meaning of Enlightenment

In Kabbalah teachings, there is a state of evolution of the creature (state four - Malchut), when the creature is not satisfied anymore with its function of receiving pleasure from the Creator. At this stage the creature generates a screen (Masach) that allows to reflect a part of the Light and experience the quality of bestowal which comes form the Creator, and thus enables the creature of becoming identical to the Creator.

That's what I see when Andrew talks about the moments of creative urgency. Serving as a channel, turning into a hollow bamboo. Instead of receiving it all for ourselves, reflecting the Light back to the world. That's the way out of the trap. That's the map that shows the exit out the prison.

Thank you, Andrew and Ken, for pointing toward the exit.

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Urgency

Posted January 26th, 2011 by John Parker

The depth and breadth of creative urgency depends on how transparent we are to the Creator, and how connected we are to the pure flow of creative urgency itself, which comes straight from the Creator. It's a misunderstanding that we become "the Creator." If we did, we'd go up in smoke like a moth merging with flame. The closer we are to being "one with" the Creator is as good as it gets in human form.

Pure creative urgency isn't something manufactured from individual will. It comes from the nature of pure urgency itself that wants to know more of itself. How it expresses itself in and as each individual is determined by a person's unique yet non-separate "soul-print." Some will play golf and it will be the purest expression of creative urgency that can be in a particular person's life. Sometimes it shows up as a beggar. So if there are any preconceived notions about it in terms of activism, or sitting in a cave, and making judgments and evaluations about who is "doing creative urgency" and who isn't, is pure samsaric folly.

So if there is only God, then it shows up as "God as beggar", and "God as golfer" or "God as a speck of dust." Even in a speck of dust there is a natural creative intelligence, and a natural urgency to be exactly what it is, and what it is not. A musician must play music. Where does the creative urgency come from to do it? It comes from its own natural creative intelligence that includes naturally within it a sense of wanting to express itself as music. It's done with natural joy and/or total seriousness. Who's to say what it's supposed to look like, or not look like? Just because the world seems to be falling apart doesn't mean that we need to buck-up ourselves with a sense of urgency and do something that fits a particular way of being. How can we run our lives on assumptions that we know what's happening, and we have to stop or encourage one thing over another? As Katie points out, "Is it true?" "Can we be absolutely certain that it's true?" 

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