You can shortcut this and guarantee it by becoming a Creator of Experience.

If everything you want and strive for is ultimately giving you an inner experience … why not create the inner experience anyway?

The energy of your inner being is in a zero state of infinite potential.

It’s ready to respond to your iniatory energy. ie. You kickstart the process.

Determine what you want to experience, and then experience it.

Create the feeling, have the experience.

Revel.

Rinse and repeat.

Fear is being pumped into your psyche by the news and media.

It can paralyse you. Or initiate the most creative period in your life.

Your choice.

As always.

Ever get into a slump? Feel like you have got a malaise of the soul? Feel like the fire has gone out on the last ember of your creativity, inspiration, and hope for life?

Is it just getting old? I don’t know. All I know is that it…sucks.

I’ve been feeling like that lately. It just comes upon me at certain times of the day. Pockets of deathliness floating through my consciousness.

Forgive me for over-dramatizing. 

You know how it is when you get gloomy. It’s not just the blues…it’s the end of the world!

Maybe it’s the grinding fear-mongering, the endless broadcasting of bad news, disaster, depression, hatred, and warfare?

Or more selfishly an inexcusable waste of creative energy and an unfocused sense of purpose? The ’soul’ hates to feel useless… 

The temptation is to want to run from these gloom-and-doom ‘floaters’ when they obscure your vision. But I am reminding myself that there is creative power in these deathly phantoms.

How so?

Well, they can be rock bottom, only way is up moments.

Or they can provide contrast, a kicking board to launch new creative endeavour.

Consider that they are also teachers. Here to instruct in the darkness and shadow of the self. That much neglected but essential soil in and from which we grow and bloom.

Intuitively, I say they are ‘black hole energy’. Gateways and portals to dimensions unfamiliar to our habitual ways of being. So much to explore. So much being offered.

Getting intrigued by the ‘black dog’ when it comes, rather than overwhelmed or repulsed, is a much more useful mindset. Who knows what we’ve been missing by struggling to get free of the ‘dementors’ grip? There’s nothing to fear but fear itself — all else is a journey into discovery and learning.

What is death but a void, empty of energy? A void waiting to be refilled.

Perhaps these pockets of death are room to grow, new opportunities for life, for creation.

New territories to explore and populate.

Life is an exploration.

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Check out Alexander Green’s 21 day challenge to quit complaining over at: www.SpiritualWealth.com

Seems like a really worth while challenge to take up.

And look out for the funny monk story at the end of his article – it really made me laugh out loud!

Swiss amateur skydiver, Olivier Vietti-Teppa, made a successful jump over the weekend using a parachute based on Leonardo da Vinci’s design from 523 years ago!

He jumped from a hovering helicopter at 650 metres (2,130 feet) on Saturday and the Leonardo da Vinci parachute opened as planned at 600 metres above a Geneva airport.

Da Vinci’s parachute design consisted of four equilateral triangles forming a pyramid and was featured in a notebook dating from 1485.

For full story: Leonardo da Vinci parachute jump

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From Brain Squeezers to Alan’s Cre8ing Challenges

I don’t know about YOU but in a lot of my creative work and manifestation work, I’m in the mode of trying to GET. I want to get new ideas. I want to get more money. I want to get the life that I think will make me happier. I’m grasping for things from a place of lack.

When you change your mental frame and starting think in terms of LET, you release a lot of energy. Let ideas come to you. Let new wealth flow into your life. Let the life you want take shape before you.

Try it out. Play with both. Letting feels more powerful. You shift to a psycho-spiritual state of the already accomplished, the already perfected, where things can happen and have happened without force.

I feel like I’m at the back of the line when it comes to the uptake on web 2.0. But a quick survey of most of the people I know tells me they haven’t got a clue what Twitter is. To be honest, I haven’t either! But, as of yesterday, I’m on there now and seeing what possible value it has. Some people say it’s good for search engine rankings. I’m just playing with it, see what happens… if anything.

It must have had an effect. Went to sleep last night with a thunderstorm relaxation music track playing. Mrs Walnut was having difficulty getting to sleep and suddenly became aware of owl sounds on the thunderstorm relaxation music track. She hadn’t noticed those before. It took a while before she realised it was me snoring. The twit’s ta-woo!

http://www.twitter.com/wilywalnut

Recent brain research showed how our conscious thoughts emerge from the unconscious mind. Brain activity shows up before we are conscious of thinking the thought. This makes sense, but not to that part of us that likes to think it is consciously making decisions.

It’s a shock to the ego to realize that, actually, no, I’m not in charge!

The conscious mind that we know is little more than a pimple on the skin of the deep vast mind. It’s been called the tip of the iceberg. But I suspect that even that idea makes too much of it, as though the conscious mind is the pinnacle of mental achievement.

It’s worth questioning that assumption.

Unconscious mind. Unconscious means we are ‘not consciously aware of’… it’s happening outside of our conscious knowingness.

How are you beating your heart? Growing hair on your body? Repairing and replacing body cells?

You don’t know. What else don’t you know that is going on and being directed by the deep vast mind, the unconscious?

I like to explore by retracing thought trails back to their source. We’ve already established that thought originates at the unconscious level. So tracing thought backwards offers some hope of getting some kind of insight into the unconscious mind.

At least, that is what I am exploring.

I think it is problematic to have these ideas of conscious, unconsious, subconscious as it helps to create the sense of separation and isolation. You need to move into a state of mind in which you accept it all as the big YOU — even if you are not conscious of all it’s goings-on.

It’s like the body… when you start obsessing about one part of it, you create a sense of separation and disconnectedness from the body. But that disappears when you get absorbed in some physical activity like playing soccer or frisbee or something, and you are just in the body making use of it.

Tracing thought home does give you an opportunity to connect and merge with the deep vast mind. It’s like a meditation in that you have to go beyond conscious verbal thought and plunge into the vastness that is the core of your being.

Then, without thought, you can really only operate on intuition (perception and aperception), experience through being, and pure awareness.

I think the verbal conscious thought stream is a very thin and limited bandwidth data-stream from the unconscious. We need to create or become aware of other channels of data emerging from the unconscious mind. So far one of the best ways we’ve identified to do this is through something like Win Wenger’s image streaming process which taps into the same sort of data stream as we experience in regular night time dreaming.