Where do you get your ideas?

October 11, 2007 |

During the week someone asked me, where do you get your ideas? Here’s an answer…

When I’m talking with people I think in a visual format. So if we are talking about a bus coming at 7.00pm which will bring us to the cinema. The images I will see will be a bus, a clock at 7.00 probably with a night sky, a road with street lights, a cinema building, cinema screen and probably a recall of a recent ad for a movie. I think most people would see the same if they are any way visual.

Now let’s say we are talking about a more spiritual subject like our inner make up. We have our body, our emotions, our memories, our mind, subconscious and possibly something even deeper our Soul. Now what are you thinking or seeing in your imagination or your mind’s eye? I will occasionally see a fairly concrete image of the whole concept. That’s the easy bit.

My professional career is a graphic designer and as such we are required to visualise a concept or idea that will communicate a message to the public for a client. So over the years I’ve developed the skills to capture what I see in my imagination and put it in a form people can see.

So at this stage I now have some of the skills to put philosophical or spiritual subjects into a visual format. These are my images but by you seeing them you may get a better understanding of what goes on within your self, in your inner worlds. Hopefully there is some insight or knowledge to be gained in whatever you see in the pictures.

The picture above Soul Overseeing is the image I saw when discussing “our body, our emotions, our memories, our mind, subconscious and possibly something even deeper our Soul”.

Does this answer the question or does it beg more questions? If you have more questions put them in the comments and I’ll try to answer them for you.

Comments

[Ed P]

Paul on October 12, 2007 1:25 pm

Hi Ed,
you seem to be getting the hang of blogging. I’ll look into the questions you asked me tommorrow. May not be able to answer fully the one on the header image, but I will be doing a video on this shortly with the help of someone and will send it on to you.

[jess heckenlaible]

Hi Ed,
I see the visual, but they come through as symbles. They give me a feeling of their meaning, but mean something different depending on the level, mind, emotions, ect. Being open enough to except them in the physical seems to be the problem. This happens in the dream state as well. It's like having something on the tip of your tongue and you can't quite spit it out.
In ECK, jess

[Ed Parkinson]

Hi Jess

It's nice to get a comment from an Eckist. I think you're the first Eckist to comment on my blog, thanks.

You say "Being open enough to except them in the physical seems to be the problem". This is the problem most people have when they get an idea, concept, dream or vision. It can be very difficult to capture it so that your mind can see it. If the idea comes from the subconscious or a higher level above the mind it can be very difficult to 'mentalise' it into something we can understand here.

Imagine you are a worm and you see a cloud with the sun behind it radiating a beautiful light. Then you return to your home in the earth and try to draw or communicate it to your family and friends. You don't have the facilities to reproduce it unless you can inspire their imaginations.

It can be a bit like this trying to explain what you see within. I've been working at it for over 30 years and still have a long way to go.

*Ed

[jess heckenlaible]

Thanks Ed,
It's nice to know I'm not alone. I saw once that when we are consciously making an effort to be in harmony with life (the ECK) we're on the very edge or limits of our earned consciousness. Anything beyond that boundary is hard for us to except, because it outstrips our exceptance. The question for me is what's not excepting. Is it a mater of spiritual maturity,to many passions of the mind, both? Initation gives new horizons (grace), but is it only our view point that determins the quality of our life or is it loosening of the dross that allows us to assend. Does this make any sence? Do I miss something? Is this a good place to ask?
In ECK, jess

[Ed Parkinson]

Hi Jess

Is this a good place to ask, why not? Mind you I can only give you my answer; there are other answers from other people who may add a comment here at some stage.

You use the word 'exceptnce' do you mean 'acceptance'? I've read your question a few times now and I'm still struggling to get my head around it. I'll try and deal with the parts I can grasp, the ones that are at the edge of my acceptance.

"is it only our view point that determines the quality of our life" I think our viewpoint has lot to do with our quality of life. Paul Twitchell mentions in his writing the story of the Hindu saint Chandra who as a child once meditated on a rubbish pit. His mother asked him why he was praying in such a place, he said. 'But mother, God is everywhere. If He isn't in this rubbish pit then he isn't anywhere.'

I suppose what I'm trying to point out here is that it is as you say; our view point determines the quality of our life. If you can see God in the rubbish pit and in the beauty around us you are going to have a happy existence.

*Ed

[jess heckenlaible]

Sorry Ed,
I can't spell, it's "acceptance". I need spell check to write anything.I guess what I'm trying to say is, why do I see life the way I see it. Has my level of initiation given me a certain view point on this ever higher mountain, or have I shed enough karma to make me buoyant. Both seem to take me higher, but i'm struggling to understand this creative process. How do I further tap into this? Where do I put my energies. This is probably very mental, but it's been bugging me. I'm glad this is a place I can talk. Maybe someone else has a few words.
In ECK,
jess

[Ed Parkinson]

Hi Jess

We all see life differently. What we see is based on our experiences which when you put them all together give us the view point we have on the world around us. For example, I like the sea; to me it is beautiful thing with power and majesty. To somebody else who may have nearly drowned, it is a place of danger. So we both see the sea from different points of view.

Your experiences will bring you higher up the mountain and you will be lighter as you have gained more knowledge and awareness of how life works. As you experience life more, your consciousness opens up which in turn opens up your creative imagination.

The creative process originates from our Soul, (the eye in the picture above). It has to go through our mind, memories and emotions before it manifests in the physical. We can make contact with Soul but we need to do it carefully and at a pace that suits us, as if we do it too fast we can get out of balance.

What kind of creative process are you involved in? What do you do or where are your energies going at the moment?

*Ed

[jess heckenlaible]

Hi Ed,
By "We can make contact with soul" do you mean the oversoul(the ECK) as we are soul who would be "we"?
I started out in life, I thought, to be an artist. But in my troubled teens it disappeared. It still manifests in what I do as a handyman. I like stained glass, and have writen four books (children's stories) in diffenent stages of completion. All unpublished. Publishing seams daunting. At the moment everything is pointing to change, but to what? I know it's something more creative. I know it has something to do with light and form, but being an Eckest, that could be anything. I think where you say "we have to do it carefully", in my case is true. I start pushing on the door, foregetting it opens inward.
Thanks for your ear,
In ECK jess

[Ed Parkinson]

Hi Jess

By 'contact with Soul' I mean contact with our true self, that part of you which is pure, bright and full of love. We all have it but in our efforts to survive here in the physical world we often loose contact with it. The mind and emotions begin to rule us. If we can re-establish contact with Soul we get back to our source of love and happiness. The 'we' is just you and me, us individuals on our path through life.

I like doing handyman jobs; there is a lot of creative satisfaction to be got seeing something physical built or working by our own hands.

For you books you could look at www.lulu.com, it's a site for self publishing your own book. If you make progress tell me how you get on.

*Ed

[jess heckenlaible]

Hi Ed,
I once was doing a spiritual exercise, imagining the higher planes. I saw a fence with a knot hole, which . on the other side was the goal. As I looked through, wondering how to get there, I all of a sudden found myself on the other side looking back through the knot hole where I had been. The mind couldn't figure how to get there, but I was already there and only had to realize it. But there in is the rub. I am soul any anywhere I be. It's my attention, or where I put it, that determins how things are viewed. The Kal's trick, i think, is to distract our attention to anything else but our goal. Or if not that to at least scatter it. One way to do that is to make it seam like there is a higher and lower self (soul). Soul is soul, it's our attachment to the very things we have created that holds us here. I like to look at it as God (Sugmad) creating a place of lower vibration (a school where there is duelality) a playground where soul can make or do anything it wants to. I don't think the Sugmad had to throw soul kicking and screaming into the lower worlds. I think, in it's self serving state of consciousness, it went there gladly. The catch, we're responcible for what ever we make. Reebazar said, "Experances are a rupee a dozen" I think what he meant by that is what we learn from the experances is what matters. (Back to responcibility again). If we go the way of love (that of service, or doing all in harmony with the will of God, which is love) then we have that pure state able to be a coworker with the Sugmad. If we go the way of power (self serving) we become the effect of our own doing. To the point of forgetting who and what we realy are (Soul). What let me have that experance at the fence? Did I learn enough through my experances in the lower worlds to have a glimpse. Or did the teacher (The Mahanta) let me experance it to remind me of who I am? Both? Something else?
Thank you for your sugestion, I looked at the site. Expensive. It would cost over $18.00 a book and that's for a 200 page book. Mine is 1800 pages. Do you know of a purpose to self publish? Is there an advantage besides saying that I am a published auther.
In ECK,
jess

[Ed Parkinson]

Hi Jess

That was a pretty cool experience and one that proves we are where we put our attention. I think your inner guide/ guardian angel/ the Mahanta did give you the experience so you would have a taste of the possibilities within your grasp. Like you say it’s what we learn is the important thing.

I love your insight into how we ended up here in these worlds. “a playground where soul can make or do anything it wants to. I don't think the Sugmad had to throw soul kicking and screaming into the lower worlds.” I did this picture last year to explain that very concept, it’s on my web site at http://www.edp-art.com/gallery-journeybegins.htm

Your book, at 200 pages, seems a bit big for a children’s book. Have you priced it from a local printer. (btw where are you based?) If you give the job to a regular printer you’ll probably have a minimum order of 500 or more. What do you intend to do with the book, sell it your friends or to local book shops or to a book distributor? Your answer will tell you how many copies you’ll need and which process will be suitable. The self published book is a good way to test the market and gives you something concrete to show to prospective customers.

*Ed