Since most of my early life was dominated by Judeo-Christian teachings, it is here that I turn first. Accordingly, there are two Biblical references that jump out: "...a person can move mountains..." and "...all that I can do you can do and more..."

Hmmm.

So why shouldn't we fundamentally believe in these challenges/promises as ongoing realities for everyone?

For instance, when they said, "...move mountains...," they didn't exactly tell us how to do it, but weren't they promising us that it can be done if we first give ourselves permission to believe? Perhaps they did not tell us the whole story in order to inspire us to dig deeper and uncover for ourselves the disciplines associated with engineering, finance, project management and real estate.

When it comes to moving a mountain from point A to point B, the idea of a guru or highly-evolved person sitting there going into a trance and moving it, while I don't rule it out, never really impressed me as much as the idea of collaborating groups, e.g., Realtors who inspire investment in a new development, "Hey the views will be better, each plot is tax deductible, comes with country club membership..." and/or the engineering teams who develop earth-moving machines and unions of workers to transfer the vision of a moved mountain from architectural plan to physical reality.

"All that I can do you can do..." is a biggie, especially following such footsteps over water. To many, this seems completely incomprehensible. However, to those with polar experience walking over water via frozen ice is not a totally far-out reality. Now I admit, I don't have a good explanation for how this walking on water feat takes place without converting water into ice. Yet, like moving mountains, I do believe that if we start with the idea we can then work backwards to learn the sciences and techniques to accomplish our mindsets.

Consider the intellectual revolution of the European 16th / 17th centuries lead by Bacon, Descartes, Kepler, Locke, Newton, Pascal, Philo Junius and many others, who encouraged us not to blame God for our misfortunes, nor to accept living in a world governed by superstition. Combined, the wisdom of these noble statesmen argued:

"... If a person should fall off a slippery mountain path during a rain storm and die, we should not ask God why does He let this happen ... We should marvel at the miracle of the law of gravity and know that God has given us this law to work reliably for all ... We should work to understand this law better and improve our mountain paths with fences, nets and other means ... But, we should not blame God..."

Throughout the ages we see how objective knowledge has replaced previous mystical assumptions resulting in contemporary, quantifiable explanations. These ongoing knowledge-expanded explanations are part of the reason why each generation thinks itself "technologically superior" to the generations before.

A scientist of today would laugh if enjoying a brew and conversation with a scientist of two hundred years ago, e.g., "Oh is that what you believed...Let me tell you what we've since discovered..." The understanding of science is an evolving one.

Yet the great mystic teachers of today would be totally in agreement with those of thousands of years ago from every corner of the globe, e.g., "Yes we are all one...Love is the way...Belief in self is necessary to realize potential...God is loving...We are spiritual beings having a material experience..."

Ultimately our scientist will catch up with the Great Seers and substantiate that which the Great Ones have been consistently teaching us throughout the eons.

Now let's zoom back to ancient royalty. Somewhere along the historical pathways, alchemy got a bad rap and became acquainted with wizardry foolishness. But as Paul Zane Pilsner points out in his book Economic Alchemy, the original Latin manuscripts of the alchemists show something very profound.

Alchemists were people who worked for courts and kings, in pursuit of global abundance for all in the kingdom. They reasoned, "If there truly is a benevolent force behind the universe, then He/She would have provided us with a way for all to get what we want and not have to take from each other. After all, the people in the neighboring village really want the same things as we want: abundance, friendship, love, peace, recognition, security, etc." Accordingly, they went about trying to convert the plentiful and ordinary which was around them (e.g., lead) into the extraordinarily valuable (e.g., gold).

While many will point to the foolishness associated with attempts to turn lead into gold, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and many other sciences were born from such noble pursuits.

What does all this have to do with creativity? Simple. Creativity is about discovering that which was previously unseen. Thus creating realities we dream forth is both a cosmic honor and a royal duty.   top