CREATION

WHO IS WALKING WITH...? We have a lack of shared meaning in our world and grounding to the earth and human society in general. This leads people to explore alternative religions, shamanism and all manner of experiences in their agonized search for an answer, a ground to their life. Yet when people seek the transcendental out of a sense of desperation they leave themselves open to all manner of forces. 

For Native Americans this phenomenon of "soul loss" can be very real. "A Map in the Head": This is something learned in childhood as you sit around the fire at night and listen to the songs and stories of the elders, you learn it by watching the animals, by coming to know the land in which you live, by talking to rocks and trees, by participating in ceremonies and by entering into a wider reality within dreams. 
This Map in the Head is a connection to the time of creation, a guide to the world of powers and energies and also a protection. We are like those chemists and physicists in the first decades of this century who played around with radio-active materials without using any protection. Moreover, the danger is not just to individuals but to our whole society which is in danger of losing its collective soul. Economic inflation is bad enough but psychic is even worse! But our psychic inflation is expressed in our desire to escape from the body, from the world of matter, from human society, from nature and into the world of the spirit. Our world also has great difficulties in dealing with what Jungians call the shadow, that dark area within ourselves which we to deny by projecting it onto others. We cannot afford to continue this destructive cycle of denial of the earth and our bodies though inflation of the psyche. We can no longer deny our collective shadow. We have to face ourselves and this requires a new form of action which is essentially creative. It is an enormously creative act to watch and listen, to stay with something, to suspend action. It is enormously creative even to allow our children to grow up. It is creative because the natural reaction of our Western minds is to exert control. Juanlo doesn´t accept this let it go concept. We want to analyze, to reduce things to problems and then immediately to seek a solution - some way of predicting, manipulating and controlling the world. This can work quite well when it comes to practical issues, but in other cases it may be more important to suspend action, to look, to listen and then to attempt some act which flows harmoniously out of the whole meaning, movement and essence of the situation.

We are constantly striving, constantly making an effort, constantly trying to anticipate the future and control its outcome, constantly asking how we can become more creative. But what if creativity is an inevitable as breathing and what we are really doing most of the time is blocking this natural force? continue