True creativity is tapping the livingness in life; tapping into the etheric where life lives, as yet unmanifest. True creativity is soul magic.

In creative moments we capture wild livingness, casting our net of human dreams and imagination, we corner a moment of dynamic tension. Then with the power of our thought, we slowly draw it in and down; into manifestation; into our hearts and minds as a beautiful idea – a painting or sculpture, an invention or piece of literature – a child of our soul-mind.

True creativity brings light; reveals truth, embodies beauty and inspires goodness.

Whenever someone tells you that they have never made a mistake, you are talking to someone who has never tried anything new.

You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only difference between people who are creative and people who are not is a simple belief. Creative people believe they are creative. People who believe they are not creative, are not. Once you have a particular identity and set of beliefs about yourself, you become interested in seeking out the skills needed to express your identity and beliefs. This is why people who believe they are creative become creative. If you believe you are not creative, then there is no need to learn how to become creative and you don’t. The reality is that believing you are not creative excuses you from trying or attempting anything new. When someone tells you that they are not creative, you are talking to someone who has no interest and will make no effort to be a creative thinker.

Source:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-thinkering/201112/twelve-things-you-were-not-taught-in-school-about-creative-thinking

Are you interested in knowing more about Triangles? What is it? How does it work? Want to get involved?

Three people using the energies of light and goodwill in creative visualisation can set up an increasingly powerful flow of energy for planetary healing.

If you live in Adelaide or are just visting, you are most warmly welcome to come to an information evening:
On – Wed February 22, 2012
From – 5.30 to 6.30pm
At – The Box Factory Community Centre, 59 Regent St South, Adelaide, South Australia

contact Caroline for more info: +61 0417 830 411 & see right sidebar, ‘Triangles Meditation’ on the front page of this website.

In the centre of the will of God I stand.
Naught shall deflect my will from His.
I implement that will by love.
I turn towards the field of service.
I, the Triangle divine, work out that will
Within the square and serve my fellowmen.

*The network of triangles being created in etheric substance around the planet. Image courtesy of Lucis Trust

World Healing Day, or World Peace Day is a moment of Oneness to dissolve the sense of separation between each other, and between us and the kingdoms of nature.

At noon Greenwich time, December 31, men, women, and children around the world gather to participate in a planetary affirmation of peace, and love, forgiveness and understanding.

At any hour, over this 24-hour-period millions of people will be in a simultaneous global mind link. The purpose: to reverse the polarity of the negative force field in the race of mind, achieve a critical mass of spiritual consciousness, and usher in a new era of Peace on Earth.

World Healing Day is organised under the umbrella of the Planetary Commission, a world wide non-denominational, non-political movement functioning as an extension of The Quartus Foundation. It is a grass roots cooperative effort to unite people in a common bond of love and bringing our planet back into balance.

You are warmly invited to participate, in the Global Mind-Link on December 31st this year.

If you have a meditation group to add, please email Quartus at quartus@quartus.org.

Reprinted from Souledout.org

http://www.quartus.org/WorldHealingDay.html

Link to other global meditations
World Healing Day page

The 22 December is the day, in the Southern Hemisphere when we celebrate the Sun’s intensest gaze on our part of the world. This means we’re bathed in light and warmth for the longest time of any day in the year.

On this day, we have the opportunity to most fully embrace what our Sun is really about: what is its purpose in our lives – other than the obvious physical ones of keeping us all alive? With a little insight we can see that there’s another, and equally important relationship we have with our Sun.

Since antiquity, we’ve known that our Sun represented the Purpose for our existence; that the Sun somehow harboured a secret about our ultimate raison d’etre. There’s a Hindu mantra called, ‘The Gayatri’, sometimes called the mother of the Vedas because it’s the foremost mantra in Hinduism. Its meaning can be interpreted as, “May the Almighty God illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path”. The mantra is also a prayer to the “giver of light and life” – the Sun (savitur).(1)

O Thou Who givest sustenance to the universe,
From Whom all things proceed,
To Whom all things return,
Unveil to us the face of the true Spiritual Sun
Hidden by a disc of golden Light
That we may know the Truth And do our whole duty
As we journey to Thy sacred feet.(2)

Today, take a few minutes to re-connect with the source of our life; the giver of bonhomie, of meaning and ultimately, of direction. If we think about it, we’re all travelling onwards and upwards in one way or another. None of us stands still as it’s against the laws of nature – everything is constantly moving and changing.(3)

It’s the Sun that gives us this energy to keep going. Every atom of matter in our bodies, relies on the Sun’s blessing, its prana or solar fire; the energy we need to keep up this constant movement and vibration. In human terms it’s called our evolution, learning, changing, growing, maturing.

So today, let’s rejoice in our Sun’s will-to-live that brings to us so much joy, and of course also conflict, crisis and difficulty. The eternal duality of life on our little planet. It’s the journey we’ve all undertaken, whether we like it or not, by hell, fire or brimstone, by love or simply placing one foot after another. By whatever means, we’re all returning to the sacred feet of ‘Thou Who givest sustenance to the universe’.

Sources:
1. http://www.eaglespace.com/spirit/gayatri.php
2. http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/e_mantrams/the_gayatri
3. http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=120

‘The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.’

Kurt Voggegut

Labour 1: Aries (21 March to 20 April) The Capture of the Man-Eating Mares

The story of Hercules’ labours has been interpreted by Alice Bailey in terms of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Hercules represents the seeker within each of us.
We follow Hercules’ experiences and exploits as he passes through the twelve signs of the zodiac, and gradually we realize that each sign represents a part of Hercules’ character that he now needs to transform so that he can travel further along his path. Each story, if pondered deeply, can give us insight into our own natures, and offers guidance in what we can do to be stronger, clearer, wiser and more powerful creators of our lives.

This month is the first story in Hercules’ journey. In the month of April we are given the opportunity to get in touch with the qualities of Aries. Reading about Hercules’ labour in this sign can give us insights and inspiration to work with the higher levels of this energy to assist our spiritual development and our service to humanity and the planet.

“The first great Gate stood open wide. A voice was heard: ‘Hercules, my son, go forth. Pass through the Gate and enter on the Way. Perform thy labour and return to me, reporting on the deed.’

The Teacher turned to Hercules and said: ‘Labour the first is ended; the task is done, but badly done. Learn the true lesson of this task and then pass onto further service to your fellowmen. Go forth into the country guarded by the second gate and find and take the sacred Bull into the Holy Place.’”
This labour concluded with what may seem like a harsh reprisal – the lesson was done, but badly. As in many of Hercules’ labours, he rushes into the job without meditating on the deeper meaning of the challenge, and so he bungled his first attempt. But he persevered and finally succeeded. Perseverance on the Way is a mark of the true spiritual warrior. The Teacher finishes by reminding Hercules that the second labour awaits him – in Taurus.

However, before Hercules was ready to master his lower desires in Taurus, he had to learn about the power of his lower mind signified by the man-eating mares in Aries. We all need to use our mind to master our astral desire body and thereby our physical body.

For the mass of humanity immersed in form and following the path of illusion and appearances, the lower mind is not something given much thought – it’s just there. Hercules, the seeker after the soul, following the true Way and reversing the usual path is now going against the tide of the mass consciousness. He’s learning about who he is and why he’s here – the particular reason for his incarnation on Earth. He now wants to make a difference, to serve and to make the world a better place for his passing. So he’s received instructions to undertake the twelve labours and demonstrate his capacities.

Aries represents the stage of re-orientation and renewed effort on this final stage of the evolutionary path. Setting out on his first labour Hercules didn’t yet realize the magnitude of his quest. He was impulsive, enthusiastic and unprepared for failure. He had been equipped with divine powers but didn’t yet know how to use them so he continued to rely on his trusty club.

In this labor Hercules was told that Diomedes, son of Mars the god of war, possessed a large herd of brood mares. They were running the countryside, doing a lot of damage and eating humans. The mares were also breeding war horses in great numbers and no one was safe. King Eurystheus ordered Hercules to capture the mares and although many had already attempted this task and failed, Hercules rushed in with glee.

Having caught the horses Hercules made a mistake: he asked Abderis to hold them because he was too proud for such a menial task, underestimating their strength and savagery. The mares turned on Abderis and killed him. The brood mares represent our lower mind with its selfish love of unkind gossip and criticism; its constant birthing of erroneous and false ideas, and its cruelty which have their origins in our uncontrolled astral/emotional natures.

Not realizing what he was dealing with – the crafty, deadly and amoral capacity of the lower mind – Hercules, representing the higher self, gave the mares to Abderis, representing our personality which doesn’t have the strength of wisdom or insight that the soul has. Both the soul and personality together are needed to control the unremitting power of the lower mind which wants to have its own way until death if necessary. Consider the many wars – global, national or in so many homes – fought in the name of an ideal, ideology or point of view that has been bred by the lower mind for its own ends.

Aries is the sign of beginnings, of creation and once we’ve captured the brood mares of our lower mind we can use it, or become its master, rather than the other way around. Then on the path of return, the Way, we change our desires from wanting to create only for ourselves – for our own comfort, security, family, status, power and prestige – to the inspired aspiration to use our mind to serve others and the sub-human kingdoms.

The energies of Aries give us an opportunity each year, to become more aware of how we use our minds and to then practice controlling our thoughts, redirecting them to self-forgetfulness, harmlessness and right speech. We no longer partake in the breeding of war horses, but rather we use the insights gained from meditation to illumine our lower mind helping to draw back the veils of glamour that weave themselves across humanity’s path in a gauzy haze of illusion.

The seed thought for Aries is: “I come forth and from the plane of mind, I rule.”

1. Adapted from Labour 1. For the full story refer The Labours of Hercules, Alice Bailey, Lucis Trust, p. 27-38.

April 2011

Some quotes on soul purpose:
• Aspirants and disciples* are preoccupied with their own little affairs and with their own small efforts, instead of relinquishing everything in an endeavour to unite on the needed appeal and activity. They are contending for their own interpretations of truth, and for their pet ideals of peace, living or work and – like Nero– they “fiddle whilst Rome burns”. All their lives they have fought for an ideal and a dream and they love that more than they love humanity. Yet – all that is needed is such a deep love of humanity that it works out on all levels of activity and all life effort.(1)

• If the idealists of the world would realize the situation as it is, they would relinquish all that they hold dear and come to the rescue of humanity, and thus snatch the helpless masses back from slavery and death. They would battle for the freedom of the human soul with every weapon in the armory of mankind. They would hold back the forces of aggression by force itself if need be. They would aim at clear thinking, and thus clear the channel for the infow of spiritual force. The major pre-requisites today for world service are an overwhelming love of humanity and a sense of proportion. The only requirements today for disciples and aspirants are:
- Clarifying the mental life in the pure light of the soul.
Disciples live too much in the world of feeling: hence the
clouding of their vision.
- Cooperation with humanity’s higher purpose*(2)
• Not ascetics, not fanatics, not the superstitious, but those who know the Yoga of Fire are the ones who will choose not to abandon the rudders of life. Their sacrifices will be great. They will constantly be confronting new explosions although they could have chosen a calm existence. But rest is not a property of fire, for fire must constantly destroy in order to create. Such fiery strivings test one’s feelings, as in a crucible.(3)
• Success in life can be found both by those who with particular clarity understand the essential nature of things and also by those who have accepted their own very distorted perception of things. The difference lies only in the consequences. Those who have realized the nature of things are not attached to them, but the distorters are slaves to them. If someone finds no success, it means that he has remained at the fulcrum of the balance rather than placing himself in either cup. The measure of whether things are understood is whether one’s life has changed. If nothing has changed, it is because there has been no action of thought. The majority of people are dragged down by their own weakness and inertia. Life is like chains to them, whereas life should be a conquest. The guarantee of success lies in action.(4)

*Aspirants and disciples are those who aspire to, and those who have pledged themselves to, serve humanity.
*The Hierarchical Plan and Purpose.

1. Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, Lucis Trust, 1957, New York pgs. 310-311
2. Ibid
3. Agni Yoga, Agni Yoga Society, 1929, New York, pgs. 185-187
4. Ibid

Creative Change Makers celebrated its second birthday on 11 December 2010

Welcome to Issue 1 of the Creative Change Makers newsletter.
Two years have passed since our website was launched in Stirling, South Australia.

Creative Change Makers are practical idealists

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No matter what shape or colour our personality may be, when we’re humming along feeding our hearts and minds, then it’s soul-to-soul conversation.

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What’s Your Reason?

Creative Change Makers are everyday people who have taken the initiative to create positive change. In their own way, they are heroes.

No matter where they live, in ways big and small, creative change makers are taking personal responsibility for making the world a better place.

There is no particular person who’s a creative change maker. That’s because creativity and change come in many forms.

The things they all share are passion, instinct and a fire in the belly that drives them to leave their positive, healing footprint on the world.

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