Hypnotic Creativity

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Comment by Fable Goodman on March 24, 2009 at 9:01am

Hello Creative friends,

Today I would like to share with you a link to a site just set up by an old and very good friend of mine, Mike Reece, A lifelong storyteller.
We have sat around the Fireside together at Laurieston Hall a few times over the past twenty years or so. I have found his creativity inspiring.
http://www.michaeljreece.com/


LOve and hugs,

Fable
http://www.michaeljreece.com/

Comment by Sophie Nicholls on March 23, 2009 at 6:02am

Hahahaha... It just looks so inviting. I ran a really extra-bubbly bath for my partner's little girl the other day and I am thinking that she would have loved all these colours. I think it is fabulous that you make time to play with these ideas, Fable. I have decided that I haven't been playing enough recently. On Saturday, I painted one of my kitchen walls a bright raspberry colour and baked a cake with rose water, pistachios and real rose petals. It was very playful and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. :-)

Comment by Fable Goodman on March 23, 2009 at 5:35am

Episodes one and two, Involves running the bath, making lots of bubbles, and getting the paints ready... (not really going to publish those).

I didn't actually get in the bath on this occasion, as it would have spoilt the bubbles...

Episode Four.... well that would be the Directors cut, Including all the bits I cut out because bits of my body were captured, and may not be appropriate for Youtube.

Perhaps it will go on Xtube some day.


Thanks for the comments.

Love and hugs,


fable

Comment by Sophie Nicholls on March 23, 2009 at 4:29am

Wow! I love these, Fable. What I want to know is, did you get in? :-) Maybe that is Episode 4?

Comment by Fable Goodman on March 21, 2009 at 4:11pm

Hello Sophie, and all you other creative souls...

I have just uploaded my latest videos to youtube, I think you may appreciate the creative process;
Bathtime fun episode 3:


Bathtime fun episode 5:




Enjoy

love and hugs,

Fable

Comment by Sophie Nicholls on February 26, 2009 at 4:34am

I found this really inspiring....

Comment by Fable Goodman on February 5, 2009 at 1:23am

Modern scanning technology, shows, what happens in the brain of an artist, engaged in creating a senseless act of beauty!

Comment by Fable Goodman on February 3, 2009 at 5:16am

Thanks Sophie,

I though it might apeal to you. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

Love and hugs,

Fable

Comment by Sophie Nicholls on February 3, 2009 at 4:44am

Linda, Welcome to the group and thank you so much for sharing this with us. Wow! You are all such amazing people!

Fable, I love 'The Artist Within' mp3. If anyone has not heard it, please go and check it out on Fable's page :-)

Comment by Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt on February 1, 2009 at 3:26pm

Yes, I have read the book "How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci", I am a professional Artist, and "specialize" in all forms of Creativity, whether it be artistically creating a work of art, learning to use the creative imagination, or conscious creation through Specialized Mind Development. There are many ways to develop your creativeness that mostly evolve around "lightening-up", learning how to play with ideas instead of getting stuck on them, and not only developing your creative faculties for opening your spiritual sight and hearing, but being able to deliberatly shift your perception to see multiple ideas in the same thing. Or take an idea, and interpret it five different ways, using different types of language with each one, different symbolism, metaphors or conceptual models. You can also chage the outcome, and form an interetation that will create that, or give a scenario a deifferent meaning, and then tell a story about it that matches that meaning.

Anyone who is into dream interpretation, can learn to apply the same skill to waking life, and interpret their daily experiences as though they are not literal, but symbolic. This helps us to see the "underlying" magic" (spiritual realm) of everyday reality. Or perhaps taking an object, any object, and asking yourself, what "quality" or living force could this be a symbolic representation for or of. Take a tree for example, place your full attention on it, then allow a chain-of-associated thoughts to spontaneously emerge from it that are of the same nature.. This helps get the mind in a "flowing" state and develops the creative imagination through ecological correspondences..

Naturally quality of mind determines quality of attention and that forms a corresponding interpretation that produces meaning of the same nature. By developing our "interpretive" skills allows our natural style to emerge. Intentionally embody a particular feeling, then view life through that "quality" and use it "see" the same qualities in your subject. Then tell yourself a story about your subject that expresses those qualities.

Mentoring works fabulously also. Find a creative person whose work and style you really gravitate towards, align yourself with them, gain rapport, and practice "being" like them. This again, allows your natural style to emerge through disciplined practice. You don't have to worry about "copying" them, because in a sense you can't. But the reason you are attracted to them or their work is because it resonates with your own style living within you waiting to be birthed. What we are attracted to outside of us is a correspondence to what has life within us. By gaining resonance with it outside, it serves to arouse it within us. This activates and brings to the surface untapped potential that can then be expressed in a meaningful way, or practiced until we become proficient with it. Our "style" determines how we handle our subject . . . regardless of what the subject is. .

There are many other ways, but a key element as a fundamental aspect is to develop your ability to intentionally create your state of mind, and exercise the ability to become as flexible as possible in any situation . . . especially the ones that we tend to perceive as being "serious and heavy" or the ones where we have very fixed ideas and rules that seem to indicate high risk or bear moral consequences.. We can make either a tragedy or a comedy out of the same story, depending which scenes we choose and the attitude (belief) we use to interpret them.

If we can gain clarity around the fact that we tend to hold our existing model up and perceive through it by examining others ideas and only accepting or integrating the fragments that are congruent with our current way of looking at things . . . . and learn how to set our existing model aside, create an open empty space, and allow an idea to "present itself" to us in it's fullness, and see it for it's possibilities, knowing that we don't have to accept it, call it our own, or belive in it . . . all we have to be willing to do . . . is consider it. Allow to unfold and tell a story. Witness it as one possibility for creating reality.

These are a just few ways to exercise creative ability.But of course . . . there are many.
Intuition is synonomous with creativuty, develop your intuitive abilities and you will simultaneously develop your creative abilities.
And of course all spiritual practice serves to engage us in the activity of consciously creating ourselves, our relationships with others and our private world as a single motion. .
Linda

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