Creative contemplation is as much art as other more polished and perfected forms like poetry, song, sculpture, and the like. The creative process itself is what constitutes art, and this process always begins in the imaginative mind. Art can even simply be a way of life, a style in which one moves and evolves. The question is: are you utilizing the mind to merely think and react to sensory input from outside, or are you utilizing the mind as a tool for creation, from within?
The Mind is the most sophisticated piece of technology in existence, as it is directly linked to the Creative Principle (or God) itself. It is time to become true mind artists, and look upon the external world as a malleable canvas or sculpture, stretched across time, that we have the power to create, and not simply to react to or merely think about and analyze. Evil exists to teach us, to show us the potential for our creative capacity, for evil is the anti-thesis of creative love. We cannot truly know ourselves and our true capacity for creativity if we cannot experience it’s opposite, and contemplate and understand our relationship to it. This existence is one of relationships, designed for us to achieve knowledge and understanding of who we are.
I have been reading Neville Goddard lately, and his writings really resonate with me. He describes this existence as states of mind that we move through, with each state of mind having a guiding principle or “truth” that organizes how we see things. This is exactly what is known to many homeopaths, as each remedy has an “organizing idea” or state of mind that it cures, through the law of similar resonance: like cures like. We cannot move beyond a state a mind until we (our true Self, not the one encompassed within a particular state of mind) becomes consciously aware of that state of mind. We need a “mirror” to see it, thus we need to quite literally be confronted with this similar resonance in order to develop a relation to it, so that we can no longer believe we ARE it. It is like building up immunity. The Self is strengthened when it becomes aware of non-Self.
A state of mind is the center of outer activity and happenings within a person’s life. Once someone becomes aware of this, it becomes harder and harder to view ourselves as victims of external events, and instead is a wonderful thing to realize that the Mind itself is a creative tool of causation. This does not mean that one should assign “fault” or “blame” to oneself (state of mind of shame) for things in their life they view as negative, but instead view this is an incredibly liberating truth. If we no longer need to frantically scramble and re-arrange the outer manifestations of the world in order to try to “fix” it, by trying over and over again to build systems that might eradicate evil, or try to amass external material wealth to solve internal struggles, we are left with a totally different option: to begin working on the greatest “system” we have yet to collectively tap: the Mind.
Perhaps we need to teach humans to access their creative mind, instead of focusing on how to clean up the external manifestations of Mind that we currently see played out on the world stage. We are attacking symptoms, not cause. If the cause is in the state of mind, it does not matter how many government or private systems you put into place to try to clean up the debris–the cause is still there, always finding another avenue to manifest itself, and we remain in endless cycles of war, poverty, and disease projecting our un-resolved anger/victim consciousness out onto the world. It’s all following the Laws of Nature, and none of it is a mistake. So maybe the design of these laws is to teach us–so that we can see, and understand that we are not helpless victims, but instead co-creators with God.
How do I change the world? First, you must commit to evolving your self, and align your Mind with your desires, as to not contribute any further to projecting un-resolved non-Self (false ego) out onto the world. This is an inside out job. It does not mean you need to go remove yourself from the world to do this. It’s simply a commitment to the process of unfolding truth and love to the highest degree you can, so that you can fully create onto the world, freeing yourself and your impact on your surroundings from the cycles of karmic lessons. Your karmic lessons are deeply intertwined with the karmic lessons of those you come into contact with–so there’s no need to worry about harming others while you learn lessons, for they are learning lessons as well by interacting with you. The task is to always work to impose the creative capacity onto your circumstances, and find the inner Christ, which has the ability to elevate and re-shape anything and everything. It is the cause of Love itself, and you have it within you.
The Depths of Light 