Creating Every Day Thought by Thought
okay
let’s review creativity 101.
let’s consider this a software
update we’ll remove a few bugs
we’ll add a few features that makes you
a more conscious creator
of the rest of your life now
what do we need to know about creativity
in the very beginning
is that it’s simply the manifestation of
something
from nothing we cannot help ourselves
but be
creative because we’re children
of creation we’re sparks
of original light we’re incarnations
of original thought every atom
in our bodies was forged
in the big bang and i
am here to say that because we’re
children of the cosmos which is
ever expanding explosive creation
in itself that we by default
are creative and can’t help but be
creative
so what is the process of how to
get something real that was once
only a thought or an image
in our mind and that process
is a process of
mind body and spirit
so it’s a total engagement of our
total beings and
the process is first thought gets
implanted from you might
say intelligence at large thought enters
into our mind hundreds thousands of them
every day
you know you decide which ones you’re
gonna mess with
you’re going to engage with that one and
not that one
and we select that consciously
and then it moves down into the area of
our heart
where our emotions get involved and then
we begin to feel joy
and delight about the thing
that we’re going to be manifesting
and then we begin to speak about it
and our thoughts our feelings and our
words
actually propel that thing
into reality and you have all done this
millions of times in your lives so this
is just
remedial actually for you
but we run into a problem because when
we
enter the world we’re like lightning
bolts of imagination
we’re unlimited we’re we’re a raging
fire of possibility and then
well let’s just say we might have a
particular radiance like
a hundred watt bulb let’s just say we
all come in
100 watts bright as the dickens
and then people start messing with us
they’re shaping us how they want us
they’re giving
us their thoughts and we start
collecting this debris
from other people’s bad thoughts
that are inherited and that don’t belong
to us
and it looks like this our
100 watt bulbs down 80 watts
50 watts 40 watts you have all had lunch
with 10 watt people
and by now they’re not your friends
anymore
because life’s too short so how do i
know this
i know it because i’m born gay
people who are born gay know things
especially if you’re born into a
catholic family
into a homophobic culture
then your radiance gets diminished
over and over day after day
by sixth grade this kid’s trying to
figure out how to commit suicide
how does that happen how does it happen
that we have so many kids so many young
adults despairing
it’s because nobody knows how to clear
off their
debris we have to learn
you know great mystic said the process
of enlightenment
is a process of subtraction
not addition you don’t need to know
anything more than you know right now
to be on your path of enlightenment but
you have to get
rid of all those inherited thoughts
that don’t serve you
and that’s what you come to these talks
for
trying to get rid of bad thoughts you
know my mom
is one of the most creative people i
know but she inherited this thought that
she’s
not good enough for this or that she
says to me after her grandson
chad is born oh no by the time chad’s
old enough to care about my life
my childhood stories i’m going to be
dead
or to see now to remember them
so i say well write him a book oh i
can’t write a book
she says we all know that voice
i said well can you write him a letter
oh she goes anybody can write a letter
well then here so i schlep out my old
macintosh
computer give her this little disc
say put it in the computer type on this
type them up 10 or 12 letters and i’ll
help you
make a book
so she takes the thing home couple weeks
hibernating away
by the time she gives me the disc back
it’s got like
37 letters on it
and this is the book we made letters to
chad
memories of her being the oldest girl of
14
kids on a dairy farm in upstate new york
now she knows she’s a writer now she
knows she can write books
next thing i know help me with the
biography on your father
oh now i got to do the book on the
history of our family reunions
i was her publisher i had to tell her to
stop
i have my own books to write so this is
how it works
she had a thought it gave her great joy
to think about oh chad knowing the
stories of my childhood
she talks about it to me it gets
manifested
it sells out immediately at the family
reunion
by the time she died she’s in the fourth
printing
of course we only printed 25 at a time
but still she died an author
it’s just like these guys
they have an idea they talk about it oh
they feel it they feel it
they declare their independence they
write their constitutions
next thing you know we’re living in 50
states paying taxes
this is how it works thoughts
feelings talkie talkie reality
it’s just how it works because it’s a
biological process for us
just like trees and don’t forget this
because we’re nature
we’re nature and we’re just like trees
and you know from science class
trees have this magical ingredient
called chlorophyll helps them do this
magical turning of the invisible
sunlight
in air into food and nutrients for the
whole tree in the root system
well that’s what’s that called
photosynthesis
and what do humans do i call it
infosynthesis
because we’re converting thoughts into
reality all the time
it’s human experience and we turn it
into inspiration
for each other for the good of the whole
because we’re born for the good of the
whole
and what happens when we do that
is good for us it’s where we
derive our meaning
our joy and our sense of purpose
the more aware we are of how
we create what we experience
the more gifts we bring to the harvest
of turning our human experience
into wisdom it happens
for us this day
happened for me some years ago
outside of death valley when i see a
flock of
birds in their murmuration is what they
call it where
all these birds suddenly act in the same
way
at the same time and i was so fascinated
by that i get out of my car i parked out
were in the breakdown lane
get out of my car lean up against the
hood
of my car and start to videotape the
birds
next thing i know everything goes black
because somebody hit my car
from behind doing 75 miles an hour
so what happens is of course i get
thrown
far away into the heart scrabble desert
my car lands on top of me
and i’m unconscious and when i come
to i think oh my god
i’m going to have to shimmy out of here
so i just shimmy out
but what happens is i’m impaled
under the muffler this is death valley
in august
never go there under the muffler and i
can’t move
so i know now this is my last few
moments
on earth i try to be brave full of
anxiety
try to summon up the courage to let my
body go consciously just get to that
point
announce to whomever whatever
here i come here i come
and i felt it i felt my soul go right
out through the soles of my feet
this little sound then i hear the voices
oh my god is somebody there is somebody
alive
right back in i’m right back in my body
i’m going like i’m here i’m alive
where are you where are you i’m under
the car
i hear their feet i hear the sound i see
their skinny little legs they’re right
out in front of me
by my back tire wait there
wait there they say we’ll go get help
so this voice comes out of me unlike any
voice i’ve ever heard
says to them you are the help
just lift up the car
they look at each other no way man we
can’t lift up this car
you are the help lift up
the car next thing i know
the cars raised up like it weighed
like a feather two hands come out
pull my hands pull me out and those two
men
saved my life that day
but all they knew was all they
heard all their lives
helps up there helps out there
because nobody tells us because we get
dusty bulbs
because of bad thinking from other
places
but the reality is we are the help
we know that now you know it used to be
okay i grew up singing he’s got the
whole world in his hands
but it’s not appropriate anymore
because we have created a world where
human beings have the capacity to
destroy it
we’ve made this world with our thoughts
our feelings
our talk and so it’s not appropriate
to sing anybody else has
the world in his hands because it’s in
our hands so to think of ourselves
now like satellite dishes
to mind at large
to think of ourselves
as beings in a conversation
with creation itself
beings who are here
in order to protect and make
safe this world for the beings
to come because we
have that in our
creative power
so i say that
the spiritual issue here for us
is that our creativity
is our spirituality in running shoes
it’s what are you committed to
spirituality is
little to do with religion religion is
what you learned as a kid
it’s it was inherited it was a body of
doctrine that may or may
be moot for you now but your
spirituality is
something that you’re creating every day
based on your commitments
whether you take a stand for something
whether you are for justice or
for peace and how that’s
evidenced by your actions
that’s your spirituality
and so what we’re saying here is that
the only thing that we need to do
in order to create a the lives you want
to have
and be the world
we want to have
is to be conscious
about what we’re for
how we speak about it
and how we imagine ourselves
as peacemakers
and justice makers in this world
knowing that those steps
not only create for us a better life
but create for these kids to come
a better life and when they google you
in 10 years or 20 years
you want to hope there’s going to be
some evidence there
that you showed up
that you showed up for yourself as a
role model
of conscious creativity and created
the masterpiece you came here to have
as your personal life
and that you co-created with me
and all your co-creators here in this
town
a society in a community
that you can look back and say
this place looks like it looks because i
was here
that’s what we’re wanting to do
that’s the power of creativity
and this has been your software
update
amen