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Tevai
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Date: May 07, 2019 04:09PM
Roy G Biv Wrote:
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> There CAN be a connection between nature and more
> advanced thought/insight, and most truly creative
> and/or mystical people tend to realize this at
> fairly early stages in their creative (etc.)
> lives."
>
> I understand this well (as you wrongly assume)
> because it happens to me all the time, from an
> early age to present, as a songwriter, arranger,
> musician, artist, designer, engineer, etc. I'm
> filled with creative thinking, and as you said, it
> just happens. My best songs, designs, etc. are
> the ones that come out of no where and seem to
> write themselves. I see this as nature...what I
> was born with. I also see it as having nothing to
> do with a god or a walk in the woods being some
> how equivalent.
>
> For me it just happens. Why do I need to assign
> another source for the inspiration I experience?
It is not [necessarily] a source, but a venue, and a practical working method [which is sometimes available, but not always].
When I worked for the teen fan magazines, I had to go to many concerts I had no personal interest in, but my assignment was to write appealing stories about the artists who headlined those concerts, and what a "groovy" experience it was to be able to experience (talk to, breathe the same air as), in real life, those rock stars--and what totally appealing human beings they were. ;)
I particularly remember a concert where the featured act was The Who. For me, that concert was unbearable: it wasn't my type of music, and it was over-the-top loud (even for its market segment), and I felt like I was being physically tortured.
So I went out to the lobby and sat down, and I "listened" to the concert there. Mr. Gibb (the father of the BeeGees, who were the secondary act) happened by, and he sat down, and we spent the rest of the concert in conversation about all kinds of things, some of which were useful later, in down-the-line articles into which I had some input.
If "you" had to do something which required the ability to think with concentration (creative work, your tax returns, studying something you needed to learn but were not fully prepared for, etc.), "you" could not have done it in the auditorium of that concert--even if you actually LIKED the music of The Who.
There is an inner rhythm to doing certain types of brainwork, and once you get into that rhythm, you write [or whatever] exceedingly better than you could have if you were sitting in that auditorium during that concert.
This is what [certainly to some creative people] nature can provide: it can be a positive creative venue in itself, and it can also become a "progressing" "vehicle" by which "you" are able to make contact with the creative resources which exist deep within your own, inner, creative abilities--but which are usually, in normal daily life, not available to you.
This same "process" (of utilizing nature) applies equally to how to solve the difficult practical problems of your daily life, or understanding(s) which can be accessed through some kind of spirituality disciplines (concentration, etc.).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2019 04:56PM by Tevai.