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Living From The Sourceby Rowena Pattee Kryder, Ph.D.
The Source of creativity in my life is like a river that must run clean, clear, and full of light in order to keep me in continuous regeneration. The Source is ever pristine, waiting for me to find it within myself. How do I discover the Source? By living my life wholeheartedly regardless of anyone’s opinion, yet sensitive to who and what is around me. When I live from the Source I feel joy and a sense of outrageous gratitude. Whenever I struggle for existence rather live from a love of life, I let schedules, job pressures, fear of loss rule my life. When I live wholeheartedly, the Source founts forth within my heart and mind, and I create my life anew in unexpected ways. I don’t allow poisonous thoughts to harm me. I get in touch with my instinctual nature, my body, and sensitively reawaken my intuition. To get in touch with Source I need to go to my own depths and clear the dead thoughts and habits I unconsciously took in from parents and society. I ask myself: How can I live more and more from the Source? I need to ask simple, relevant questions regarding an issue or “problem.” I need to go to my core and depths and emerge with an awareness I never had before. I need to overcome fear, to become bigger than any negative emotion. I allow vital force to flow through my body, deep feeling to flow through my soul, and insights to come to mind. All this helps my health. One definition of health is for vital force to flow through all systems of the body, and creativity does this. I need to have the courage to see and say what no longer works, and to replace it with a creative alternative that is for the benefit of myself and the whole. I have experienced that creativity has five phases: receptivity, imagination, action, evaluation and release. To receive is to be open to inspiration, new awareness and ideas. To imagine is to work on those ideas and inspirations by imagining many viewpoints and possibilities of how to manifest. To take action is to have the courage to actually do what I am inspired by. To evaluate is to see what works and what doesn’t in a given situation, to detach enough from what I’ve done, to change it if need be. To release is to detach completely and pass on what I created, no longer attaching to having done anything at all. This may be passing it on to someone else, selling it, giving it away, or burning it. As I see it, these stages of creativity—working from the Source—are essential if a New Earth is to emerge. A consumer society aims at results, products, grasping for the money to buy more and better products or be more esteemed by others. But in the view I’m proposing, no longer are results the criterion for success. Grasping for results often leads to addiction, short-circuiting the process. I find that when I live from Source, products and esteem happen as a result of receptive opening—”sourcing”—which resonates to Life. When I am filled with joy my deep self knows what I need to do. If I have the courage to take action, the process brings about results that are unstoppable, because my actions come from the Cosmic River of the Source that cannot be dammed or dried up. By this wholehearted way, I have transformed a ruin into a temple, with almost no money. I have overcome emotional wounds, and I joyously lived in a tipi through the winter in Mt. Shasta. I have created thousands of works of art and created five animated films. I facilitate ten-day intensives by “sourcing.” Once I’m inspired, I use a natural language of color, sound, movement and form that the elements and nature express. I know this language. It is the language of spirit, art and science alike. It is universal and innate. The child within me knows it: Yellow is joyous; red is intensely passionate; blue is serene. Branches are for distributing, radial for broadcasting; spirals for generating and unfolding, circles for protection and storage. This isn’t just an artsy language. It applies to business and computers as well as flowers and stars. This universal language is a natural vibrational medicine. I find that it only works when I live from Source. The innate knowing of how to use color, sound, movement and form comes alive when I follow my joy rather than what before I was habituated to doing. No longer do I live from what I “should” do. The masculine and feminine balance is another aspect that I have found needs attention. I have both tendencies within me, though I was born female. In Taoist Yoga there is a reversal of the qualities of the subtle current up the back and down the front for men and women. The qualities are the same, but they are polarized in a complementary way. The qualities are defined as specific hexagrams in the ancient Chinese book, the I Ching. This book is an oracle, and true oracles are comprehensive world views that have access to Source. Oracles are a way of “sourcing”—of finding the fountain of Truth, Love and Beauty within. When I become a clear vessel of the Source I become my own oracle. We live in a time of extreme transition—inwardly and outwardly. The extreme polarization of our times—anomalous earth and weather conditions, political extremism, social violence—is a result of unbalanced tensions between yin and yang energies. It is now a time of healing and rebalancing. The poisons are coming out because the Source is coming in. Another way of exploring Source is to examine creation myths and cosmologies. These are not things only anthropologists and physicists do. We all have world views, and these world views are largely cultural heritages. I have examined creation myths from many different cultural perspectives, as well as those of modern cosmologies. What is the nature of your world view? How do you view “polarity,” for example? Is it from a place of opposition or complementaries? War or peace depends on your answer. Do you believe life has a terminal end, is a cycle, or is regenerative into something new? How you answer qualifies the Source as it comes through you. The vicissitudes of my life are washed away when I live from Source. Facing and compassionately embracing my emotional reactivity allows my pain to transform and transmute. I can then clear my conscience and steer my life according to my essence. This is Source within. To summarize, getting in touch with Source can be fulfilled by the following seven steps:
Once I know who I am and what my soul purpose is, I find that I am unstoppable if I apply devotion and work to it. The rewards are intrinsic. No fooling. Live from Source! |
