Weekly Message, August 5, 2006
The Right Perspective For Creation
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on June 25, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

Let's say you place yourself in a creative mode. You have a vision, an idea, or a wish. There are certain ways for that to be fulfilled. They are very definite, cosmic ways. The whole universe has been created through them. They are not normal ways; they do not fit the criteria of human nature. They are beyond that.

There are various attributes and principles to this creative process. Some call the process creative visualization. To visualize is to see. And where does the "what is seen" come from? Actually, it comes from many places: wishful thinking, the imagination, desire, or hope.

What do you see? What do you hope to see? What do you want to see? In order to create, you must develop the ability to see clearly, to see exactly, precisely, how things are. You can't do that very well with the intellect, because the intellect selects and pastes together various aspects, and comes up with a certain picture. Mostly, what you see with the intellect is what you believe you can see. For creative visualization, for authentic creation, that is not good enough, because most often beliefs are in error. Most often, beliefs can be distracting, distorting, unreachable, or unacceptable.

So you sit down and you contemplate, "What is it I can see? What am I able to envision? What do I know is possible?" It may take some time to throw out all the distractions, distortions, imaginings, and illusions--the wishful thinking, the magic. But persistence will pay off. You persistently observe what you see. What you see is not just what you perceive with your sight, it is what you see with your mind: the reflections around you, the connections--all of these things have meaning. You are to see the meaning of things, to develop a sense of clarity, a clear seeing. You spend a good deal of time in that practice: coming to see things as they are, allowing connections and meaning to become apparent.

This involves removing wishful thinking, the desire to see things as you want to see them. Sometimes that can be a bitter pill, because the world is not always a nice place. Sometimes it is quite taxing to try to find anything nice about it. There is so much distortion, disturbance, chaos and destruction, that it can be overwhelming. You are often reluctant to see what is really going on. It is easier to hide and insulate yourself from what the world is, to pretend that the world is something different.

Many people are able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the world, to ignore it, to pretend it isn't happening, to hide from it. Many spiritual teachings facilitate this escape. These attempts to escape the world can work for a while, but if that kind of blatant ignorance continues, humanity will not continue to exist. That is a fact. Humanity's days are numbered in this present level of existence where there is chaos, separation, suffering, disease, starvation, and poverty. The world will cease supporting that level of existence.

So you realize, it is important to master this creation, to fully understand this ability to create, to create from a cosmic point of view, not from a selfish point of view. One of the main ingredients in manifesting this creation, manifesting a possibility, is an utter, total lack of selfishness. If your endeavor has a selfish side to it, it will fail. To be unselfish in this process is a major step.

The intellect says, "Well, Ishvara, just about anything I want to create is going to be something that I will enjoy, so it is 'selfish'." From the individual point of view, of course it is selfish. Yet a creation is no longer selfish when it is shared. That is the trick to creation. It is hard to move out of your self's agenda. Part of your uniqueness is involved in that self, so it is difficult to step totally into an unselfish realm. Yet look at the earth. Was the earth created for some selfish purpose? If that had been the case, humans long ago would have ceased to exist. If the earth had been created in a selfish purpose, it already would have rid itself of humans with their greed and ignorance.

The earth was created in a fashion to support Life, to support many forms of Life, and its creation was given great freedom and liberation, the liberty to move in various directions, to access various possibilities. The earth was created in a totally unselfish mode and means.

In the same way, what you create can be something that serves, that supports, encourages, lifts, something that can be shared and enjoyed by others. Then you are in the right channel, the right avenue. Then you are gaining the right perspective for creation.

(To be continued next week).

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