I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today that 102 quote comes from Chapter Five and the concept of artists and craftspeople:
Artists and craftspeople
Marcy Pederson gave this working definition of artists and craftspeople:
“Craft is always exercised upon something and aims at transformation of this into that. The craftsman understands what he wants to make. The craftsman’s skill is his knowledge of the means that are used to transform something and this mastery of those means. A fabricator understands what machines and tools are needed to transform metal into a desired shape. A seamstress is a master of a sewing machine. We typically think of trades like blacksmith when we think of craftsman. They are defined by the means they use.
The artist uses technique and has a form of skill like the craftsman. Skill does not make an artist, but a technician. With skill a technician can become an artist. An artist can also have a specific end in mid. They are not creating for a single purpose. They don’t know what is going to happen until it happens.”
So, the major difference between an artist and a craftsman seems to be that the artist creates a unique work each time that they feel the inspiration to create. A craftsperson will more likely repeat a previous standardized creation when they feel the desire to practice their trade. Either the artist or the craftsperson can be totally service to others in their work as their positive intentions may shine through their creations, which may also be functional and/or beautiful. The artist and the craftsperson each fulfill needs of the public in general, and each can be highly polarized in service to others depending upon their own personal spiritual journeys and how they view the universe around them.
And now, from a purely spiritual point of view, Q’uo gave us more of an overview of what it means to engage in artistic productions:
We speak, as we believe you intended us to speak, strictly of those artists who must express that which is within them and who are irresistibly drawn to perform and to share their gifts. Whether or not such entities would think of offering their gifts in a spiritual sense, it is, indeed, a spiritual exercise by its very definition. For in order to make contact with the creative impulse, the entity must move into the open heart or green-ray chakra and thereby move upwards into the ray of communication, the blue ray, and the ray of faith, indigo ray, and thenceforth to move into the violet ray and the gateway to intelligent infinity.
An artist is moving his attention into a place where he is able to draw from beyond that gateway the inspiration and information needed in order to be able to express the visions that he has seen and the perceptions he has garnered in his own way. He is as the treasure hunter who finds treasure and then must share it. Q’uo, April 26, 2008.
In this quote Q’uo uses the term “creative impulse” that exists within all true artists. This creative impulse is accessed, according to Q’uo, not so much through a conscious desire or choice but through that which is “irresistible” within one who has the creative impulse. It may not be a totally consciously chosen process but one which engages the green-ray open heart, the blue ray of communication and inspiration, the indigo-ray of faith and then to the contact with intelligent infinity which is the Creator moving through the creative process to produce whatever kind of artistic endeavor is native to the artist.
In this kind of spiritual process the artist is actually making a conscious or subconscious contact the with Creator within and the produces the fruits of that contact in one form or another, depending upon the type of art being produced: sculpture, paintings, poetry, prose, dance, music, or any creative combination of such artistic endeavors.
In the following quote those of Q’uo share the type of inspiration that can guide any creative process:
The process of channeling, creatorship, authorship or composer-ship is that of the tempering fire of circumstance, the quality, purity, intensity, crystallization and balance of the desires of the deep heart for the truth of the self and the truth of one’s service, and the quality of what this instrument would call alertness or awakeness. These are the tools which open the channels of creativity. There is a balance between intuition and guidance and the more artisan-like craft of learning, discovery analysis and synthesis which must needs find an inner bridge in order that the heart and the mind work together as a portion of an extended spiritual family, shall we say. We are that portion of your guidance that we naturally occupy by virtue of the shared soul stream. However, as we have often mentioned, our guidance comes more in the form of a kind of carrier wave that deepens and intensifies or sharpens in delineation the details of the personality shell’s own processes of dreaming, envisioning and seeking. Q’uo, December 19, 2002.
So Q’uo suggests that in any creative process that we might engage in we are either consciously or subconsciously accessing guidance from inner sources or even entities such as those of Q’uo to inspire us to expand our own creative abilities. It would make sense that our desire to create something of beauty and inspiration, whether a song, a painting, the creation of a garden, a dance, a poem or any other inspiring sharing of our energy, would be like unto a calling to unseen entities to aid us in reflecting the Creator in our work for others.
Here, Q’uo gives us another technique for awakening the creative process within our being:
As you continue asking for help, concepts shall come to you. We encourage you to trust them and to allow new ways and thoughts and strategies to roll around within your mind in a way that does not tag them and order them, but instead allows them to roll and to tumble together, for you are asking of yourself that which is illogical and paradoxical. These two elements almost guarantee that you are on the right track, spiritually speaking, but it does mean that you cannot apply the rigors of intellectual order to your creative process. Rather, let the concepts which arise play like puppies, tumbling and rolling and allow, rather than force, your strategy to unfold. Q’uo, October 20, 2009.
I would say that engaging in the creative process is definitely the work of the Player on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life.
This morning the L/L staff and a few friends finished the setup of the tent and in the house as well. I got our sign for “Diagonal Parking” put up next to the pet cemetery, and I used my backpack blower to blow leaves around the house into a pile so I could put them into a garbage can. I also got a bamboo privacy fence installed in front of the Porta Potty that will be close to the tent.
Our Homecoming Gathering will start at 5 pm this evening with a meal that everyone will share in the circle under the tent.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 26
The Spirit Of Love
I am the spirit of Him who comes in the name of the Lord.
All things dwell within the love of God. The love of God is a power which emanates from each living thing. Long before one reaches another person the two sendings of love have intertwined and greeted each other.
There are those whose sensitivity causes them to find pain in the contact with the love of the Creator and pain in the contact with other souls. For the love of God is a strong and vibrant thing and one which removes one’s isolation completely.
Yet even in the midst of isolated countryside, that consciousness which emanates and exudes as the love of the Creator is sent out by each creation of the Father, each flower, grass and tree.
There are some sensitive souls who must then seek the cave. There the emanations of stone, water and air are silent or at least quiet enough that the soul who works alone may find rest.
We urge each to open the doors of acceptance to the life of the spirit of love in people and places and circumstances, but even if we speak to one within a cave we know that the love of God in Christ shall work with you at your chosen speed.
Peace be with you, now and always. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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