Free Energy – healing our fears and the path to creativity
Free Energy – healing our fears and the path to creativity
I’ve been thinking about the nature of creativity, and what becomes obsolete when people start to have more power to create for themselves. And in thinking I began to write. So I thought I would share what came to mind. Though it may seem more like one big poety exploration, rather than a richly informative piece.
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There is a school of thought that we are better off learning about ourselves through creating with less dependence on the use of technology. A robot human is a wasted human. But I wonder if to some extent the fear of that extreme can permeate our vision of a technologically assisted future. Perhaps this is because it is easy, understandably, to associate technology with environmental plunder (from how it’s made), clutter and waste (from when it’s abandoned), destructive capability (from when it’s misused) and with distraction from our inner and psychic ability.
Firstly – the influential elements of this world, who wish to make humans increasingly technology dependent by integrating microchips and robotics in the human body for controlling purposes, can do so without the use of advanced energy sources. Or, they can utilise the free energy (FE) sources they covertly possess in order to do it, without the rest of us benefitting from access to FE in order to imagine / implement more benign uses that would conversely support our greatest potential. It therefore seems misguided to fear FE for that reason.
The more I’ve thought about this fear, the more I’ve understood how it can be a natural response to conditioning that’s set in over thousands of years, when our experience of expanding creativity usually meant someone had to pay. For every emperor with his palaces, libraries and jewels, there was usually a population of slaves who had been needed to support that cultural advancement. And so it is to this day. It’s therefore understandable, given this conditioning, for us to harbour an inherent mistrust of radical further expansion. On deep rooted level, we associate it with destruction and with death.
What uplifts me about FE is that the problems with plundering and polluting the planet, both to provide for every last person, and to make new goods or dispose of defunct technology, can all be solved – as can the issue of abusive inequality in using slave labour or a working class to support more privileged beneficiaries - which leaves the questions of whether it distracts us from psychic ability, and whether we can process the threat of its use for destructive purposes.
In a world where people are mired in scarcity, it is easy for technology to become a distraction, an anaesthetist to numb the pain of the graft, the oppression and seeming lack of solutions. But that is only a reaction, a response, to a world of scarcity. The world that we’ve inherited for thousands of years. The natural response to a world of abundance could be very different. Prisoners released from jail are sometimes said to remark on how what they missed the most during incarceration was a view of the sky [1]. Give people their freedom, and they naturally wish to look up. To look up to an expanse of possibility that was previously denied. And where they struggle to do so, it is rehabilitation that is needed, not a mental perpetuation of the once-physical confinement.
Technology enables new forms of creativity, and creativity is powerfully linked with our psychic life. It reminds me of something written by psychic and author Sonia Choquette, in her book The Psychic Pathway. She observes how the line between our imagination and our psychic ability is very thin [2]. In her psychic workshops she encourages people simply to imagine the lives of the stranger they have been partnered with – and very often the details they imagine turn out to be facts about individuals they had no prior knowledge of [3]. Post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes has written and spoken a great deal of the deep value creativity has in processing emotion and experience, including in her audio work The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity. She describes the creative state as “soul medicine.” When we lose our joy, our way, our enchantment, it is often blissfully or feverishly through creativity that we find them. We imagine our way through the dark, conceive original ways of viewing the world, and bring light to new realms that call us forward.
External creativity is a valid way in which we access, exercise and share our imagination. And imagination is a key to psychic life.
Painters, musicians, sculptors, digital artists, mathematicians and physicists who are creative thinkers, all create and play around with new ideas using technology. Paint brushes, musical instruments, pens, books and computers are all technology. Creating them in order to better express and explore ourselves, both externally and within (with the distinction sometimes appearing blurred) is a part of how we learn. A part of how we relate to being in a physical world. If creation / God / our own consciousness didn’t wish for us to explore physicality, it does beg the question what on earth are we doing here?
It seems simply a question of balance. Undoubtedly, to immerse yourself in technology in ways that don’t encourage your own growth spiritually and mentally invites stagnation and even atrophy. But people can be stalled and disempowered in that way even without complex technology, so it is always a case of what we choose to do with what is in front of us, whether it’s a bundle of chopped of wood or a solid state computer. I can fashion a spear with a length of wood, or I can build a beautiful gazebo, allowing flowers to weave through the lattice walls.
Just as our tools made us by giving us more time and energy to enjoy and understand the world, rather than focusing on survival, our tools have also made us by giving us new ways to express ourselves and therefore learn, enjoy and appreciate one another. Mozart’s music and the crafted concert halls in which our bodies can be encircled by it, Monet’s cathedral paintings showing the spellbinding transformation that occurs with a subtle shift of light, movies and novels of gentle souls in distant lands, of heroes triumphing over the obscenity of war, of poets and dancers soaring in their prime. They are all expressions of love that are embodied in a creation, aided by technology, that allows that love to be shared with others. And as technology advances, they can be shared with greater numbers in ways that allow for more personal choice both in timing their use and the personal space in which we use them. Broadening the potential and radius of inspiration.
An artist often finds that the act of creating is a deeply psychic experience. States of mind can be reached, emotions can be explored, words can transcend with sound and light. There is an uncovering, a finding, a healing that occurs. We draw inspiration from outside then dive within to process, to mix it with that which makes us unique. And what we create evolves a conversation with the rest of our race.
Many people have yet to discover the empowerment and the growth that nourished and supported creativity can seed. With free energy allowing us to step away from survival-oriented activities, and providing creative tools for all of us (not just those who can financially afford the tools and time to use them) we will all be free to discover the architect, astrophysicist, or acrobat that lies dormant. Sleeping unfound. A mountain climber, inventive healer or philosophy teacher living within. Enhanced creativity allows for new paths and portals to access courage, beauty, and confidence, that for whatever reason old established mediums failed to reveal in those who had the wish but not the means to realise them. How many fears and feelings of limitation will become obsolete when everyone is given the chance to tap untried ways of living and seeing themselves?
Advancing technology makes creating, preserving, and recycling what we make even easier. For example, we might invent paints, sculpting and canvas materials that enable works of art to be rolled into the tiniest size for travel and storage without damaging the work. But to go beyond that, I wonder at how our growth technologically will in fact see us lay down our attachment to physical objects and inspire us to think beyond them. Do we foster attachment to objects due to a scarcity of resources? Free energy can grant everyone the time and materials to create as they dream, and as the realisations of those dreams are witnessed, and the witnessing nourishes our souls, will we rise in frequency and in so-doing begin to enter new dimensions beyond the 3D world? Will a free energy world scratch an itch that has lingered for millennia, to pursue external creativity to a satisfying spiritual conclusion?
Some might say we are purely in physical form to better learn how to apply wisdom, compassion, forgiveness, and other similar qualities, whilst under the strains of the physical world. That to immerse ourselves in external technology is a distraction from looking within. But distractions can abound with or without external toys and tools.
I was listening earlier to a recording made by Alan Watts the philosopher [4]. He commented that Carl Jung had warned of Westerners being distracted from their true selves by meditative practice such as Yoga, due to the fact that if they simply used it to quiet the mind, silencing their thoughts, then their unconscious would find a way to surface later because its deep and complex content had not been dealt with, merely temporarily silenced. Jung apparently made the point that the ancient Eastern cultures from which modern Westerners adopted such techniques of stilling the mind, were possibly well trained in dealing with the unconscious before entering into those practices, and therefore it presented less danger of being escapist. Watts, though appreciative of Jung, disagreed, saying Jung’s suggestion was based on a faulty assumption that the oriental culture’s relative older age equalled a more evolved state of being in its individuals. Either way, a point could be heard about the dangers of stasis, whether wilful suppression or inertia, and of blocking creative process.
Art and creativity are a powerful way of exploring the unconscious, and of linking the unconscious more directly to the conscious mind. They lay the path gently, because they lay it with beauty, with discovery, and with tastes and melodies that lift the journeying spirit. Perhaps with free energy, more people will be able to explore benign creativity, record their creations so they and others can learn from them, and a lot of what has been repressed in our psyches can be released, clearing the path for wonders we have yet to experience as a collective.
If we accept our desire to grow and to explore creatively, then the question remains of how to support that energetically. To fear the destructive potential of FE technology, and favour purely psychic paths of development, is perhaps a little misguided.
In The Holographic Universe author Michael Talbot cites an eminent Indian holy man, Paramahansa Yogananda, who wrote of meeting several ascetics who could materialise food, gold and other objects out of thin air, but who cautioned that such ability did not necessarily equal a deeper, more evolved spiritual state or outlook [5]. Osho, the popular author and Indian mystic, commented on the abuse of psychic energy through the eyes, citing the notorious figure Rasputin as an example of a wilful being who would use his abilities to dominate and influence others. Osho made the correlation between the tendency to this behaviour and the agenda of the hunter, whether human or otherwise [6]. But remove the need to hunt in order to survive, and over time, and generations, you invite the system to rewire itself, and for higher aspects to take precedence.
Whatever the source of our energy, love is the ultimate key in applying it to how, what and why we create. And if we accept that love, decency and good conscience are the seeds of a grounded FE society, whether that FE is psychic or technological, it follows that we are more likely to see the spread of those qualities in our current culture of limited resources if energy and technology solutions are applied that ease our very real physical burdens. That seems a lot more realistic than expecting the majority of humanity to adopt love and kindness and chi for sustenance, holding out wishfully that we will grow psychically stronger and more compassionate in a fiercely competitive world.
With free energy we do not need to repress our creative selves [7], or fear the waste and destruction that a history of creating through scarcity has shown us. With the invention of technology that accesses a field of a clean and abundant source, its inventors have created a progression that can be a cure to those dilemmas.
We are creatures of creation. And the act of creating is a vital part of how we discover and expand our consciousness. Vital as connected to vitality. Energy that glistens with life. The free energy of consciousness exploring life and infinite possibility.
[1] From ‘Bring the Sky – The LIRS Detention Visitation Guide’ - Page 2 :
“Abdinasir Mohamed, a Somali journalist, was imprisoned and tortured when he stood up to a terrorist organization. Abdinasir escaped and fled to the United States. But instead of finding welcome, his freedom was taken again. Abdinasir was detained, shackled, and interrogated for 16 hours before being hauled off to a detention cell. When a visitor asked him if he missed his family, Abdinasir replied, “I miss my family, but I miss the sky more than anything else. Is American sky blue?”Abdinasir was freed after seven months and was granted asylum.”
http://lirs.org/wp-content/uploads/2...-WHY-VISIT.pdf
From the website Close Guantanamo :
“Younus Chekhouri (also identified as Younous Chekkouri), who will be 46 in May, is one of the last two Moroccan prisoners in Guantánamo […] Moreover, discrediting the U.S. authorities' claim still further, in January 2010 he was one of 156 prisoners cleared for release by the high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force established by President Obama soon after he took office in January 2009. 80 of those men have now been released from Guantánamo, but Younus is one of 76 cleared prisoners still held, awaiting a new home, and hoping, since Congress eased restrictions on releasing prisoners that had almost brought the release of prisoners to an end for three years, from October 2010 to July 2013, that he will finally be freed in the near future, to rejoin his wife Abla. Below is a letter that Younus wrote to Abla for Valentine's Day […] “I stare up at the ceiling of my cell. I so miss the sky, the stars and the moon. I remember once when we were together, looking up at a full moon shining like a pearl in the night sky…””
http://www.closeguantanamo.org/Artic...rom-Guantanamo
[2] Sonia Choquette’s The Psychic Pathway - Pages 111-114, Piatkus Publishing, 1999 edition.
“You cannot experience psychic energy without your imagination, because psychic energy comes through the imagination! That is why most people dismiss their intuition as simply imagining. It is!”
[3] Sonia Choquette’s The Psychic Pathway - Pages 158-159, Piatkus Publishing, 1999 edition.
“In my classes I tell my students what my mother taught me - if they want to be psychic, make it up! In other words, pretend you are psychic.” Choquette then describes an example of a student she taught, who was surprised at the success she had applying the technique during a reading with another student.
[4] Alan Watts: A Critique of Carl Jung - Seeing Through the Game
http://youtu.be/VpugMBQD2to
[5] Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe – Pages 152-3, Harper Collins, 1996 edition.
“Haraldsson notes that Sai Baba’s manifestations are not the result of mass hypnosis because he freely allows his open-air demonstrations to be filmed, and everything he does still shows up in the film. […] Accounts of individuals who can materialise are not unknown in India. In his book Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), the first eminent holy man of India to set up residence in the West, describes his meetings with several Hindu ascetics who could materialise out-of-season fruits, gold plates and other objects. Interestingly, Yogananda cautioned that such powers, or siddis, are not always evidence that the person possessing them is spiritually evolved.”
[6] Osho on the abuse of psychic energy through the eyes :
“This was the case with Rasputin, who dominated Russia, before Lenin, just through his eyes. He was an ordinary peasant, uneducated, but with very magnetic eyes, and he came to know how to use this. The moment he would look at you, you would forget yourself, and in that moment he could send any suggestion to you telepathically and you would follow it. That is how he dominated the Czar and the Czarina, the royal family, and through them, the whole Russia. Nothing could be done without his will.
You can have those eyes also; it is not difficult. You have just to learn how to bring your total body energy to the eyes. They become flooded, and then, whenever you look at someone your energy starts flowing toward him. It envelopes the person, penetrates his mind, and in this flooded shock his thinking stops. And this is not a very rare thing that happens just with man, it happens all over the animal kingdom. There are many animals who will just look at their prey, and if the prey looks at them he is done for. Then the prey's eyes become fixed; he cannot move, he cannot escape.
Hunters know this well, and hunters develop very powerful eyes because they are always in search in the darkness for animals. Their eyes become powerful. Thieves and hunters by and by gather more energy in their eyes automatically, because of their work.”
[…] Source: from Osho Book “Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Volume 1”
http://formlesspath-sunthosh.blogspo...y-through.html
[7] Free energy can drastically reduce the environmental footprint of our creativity. But there are other, non-physical reasons why we repress our creative fire. In a culture rife with fear we can be mocked, patronised, dismissed as a dreamer or a danger, for daring to want to dream another world into being. So the conversation we seek to explore new realms is stifled by the mere threat of those who claim unless we have all the answers and can prove the worth of our ideas, we are wasting ourselves and our time. Describing the self-doubt that whispers to us, not to even dream of being and thinking creatively unless we can be a master or a commercial success, Clarissa Pinkola Estes says : “That’s the wolf that devours your creativity before you’ve even started. And if you kill off the products of your art work, or you kill off your hopes and dreams, you are killing the wrong thing. You are killing the instinctual loyal self that knows rightly and properly to shelter and to protect your creative acts.”* And this is the same for the way we think creatively, and pioneer new perspectives. Despite how the world around us can seem unready for free energy, it takes the dreamer in us to have a disciplined vision, and have the strength to nurture it. Even when we stand alone.
*The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity (Unabridged) – A Sounds True recording, at 02:04:46 in the audio.
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Re: Free Energy – healing our fears and the path to creativity
Hi:
I encourage this kind of writing.
Melinda's writings address important aspects of the free energy issue that Brian O and I were keenly interested in. Most free energy talk today is centered around physics, money, and politics, and scientists and inventors dominate the field, but the poets also need to be heard. Understanding the social/mental/ethical/spiritual aspects of the free energy issue is vital, and how energy scarcity shapes today's world (at the global, national, local, and individual levels), and how energy abundance could change it, are central issues.
Good work, Melinda.
Best,
Wade
Re: Free Energy – healing our fears and the path to creativity
This is excellent, thank you so much for taking the time to share
