Imagination – “The Unifying Faculty”

       The imagination is the faculty that connects the inner with the outer, and the macro with the micro. It’s the inner core that expresses the outer reality as being of the same nature. Our inner patterning as archetypal qualities are used as a filter for taking an impression, re-imagining it then expressing it.  It’s our natural ability through an innate faculty to take a universal idea and interpret it into a personalized experience.  It takes an archetypal theme, filters it through our soul’s essence, restructuring it as an analogy that is of the same essence (quality & likeness) as we are, applying it to our current life conditions, circumstances and level of personal development making it ideally suited as a natural composition of basic elements into a new variation of itself.  Anything that we are capable of imagining is a by-product of our soul’s potentiality for creating patterns of itself for expression.

       The subconscious mind which does not have the ability to choose or create new behavior needs a pattern in order to structure behavior.  We can only do – create the behavior for – what we can imagine ourselves doing.  This is at once revealing our souls essence for possible expression, while simultaneously demonstrating our interpretive style based on our innate programming, or indigenous filter for interpreting objective reality by restructuring it.  The imagination is the faculty of the mind/body system that takes neutral, objective information and reinterprets it by creating personal realities out of it as an expression of the qualities and level of development being expressed by the soul in the present moment.

       The imagination is the reality generating faculty of our mind.  It creates mental constructs out of feelings that allows for a perception to be linked to a pattern for behavior.  It takes a feeling as a vibratory frequency containing an archetypal patterning and through a natural creative process turns it into a reality that becomes a blueprint for experience.  The reality is completely congruent with the soul’s essence in terms of its primary models of meaning, beliefs, values, morals, preferences, attitudes, desires, etc., that serve as the energetic structure of the mind/body system forming a series of natural correspondences.

       The imagination is what allows us to constantly recognize in very intimate and profound terms our soul’s essence as our inner nature’s ability to self-express as external reality by reinterpreting it.  Imagination is the stop-down process in which subtle energy as feeling impressions become fully developed structured reality as a detailed thought-form of an emotional nature that creates the appearance of a believable reality that forms the basis for experiences that are thematic and congruent. 

 Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt., RMT

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Sexual Energy as Creative Force

       The creative energy which manifests all life is the passionate, exciting and arousing energy also known as sexual energy. This is the fueling and motivating force of the body that sets everything in motion. Inspiration and enthusiasm create excitement which is very motivating in a positive way. Positive emotions expand and increase energy. They generate by regenerating. 

      Inspiration – which means to be one with spirit – and enthusiasm – which means to be one with God – what arouses us with pure excitement demonstrates our alignment with Gods Will. What we are meant to do in life, we have a desire for and feelings of enthusiasm around. We feel passionate for them because they cause us to swell inside when giving them attention, filling us with intense pleasure through deeper meaning. The type of meaning we give things is what determines the nature of our experiences.  

       When our personal will is aligned with the greater Will, we experience a kind of “quickening” as a rapid flowing sensation that feels like we are in a strong current of energetic flow. A rapid flow that is spontaneous and automatic as a harmonized state of equilibrium. Feelings of desire, inspiration, passion, enthusiasm and excitement increases energy to motivate intention. Positive emotions used as the natural expression of love greatly accelerates the spontaneous fulfillment of desire. Sexual energy arouses the other energy centers of the body with a quickening that expands and fills us with a euphoric quality, increasing the feelings of pleasure. This is pleasure that is experienced mentally, emotionally and physically as a form of harmony and alignment called “state-of-mind”. 

        We experience a desire, which initiates fulfillment. We then form an intention which creates a fulfillment as an outcome. Then, using our will, the arousing, motivating, active energy we fulfill the desire by taking action as a pathway provided by the intention. Sexual energy creates passion by balancing the masculine and feminine energy in our being through a unified act. The masculine energy which has the qualities of aggression, action, singular focus and decisiveness, motivates the feminine energy of appreciation for beauty, intuition, gentleness and nurturing. All creation is the harmonious interaction of our archetypal masculine and feminine energy fulfilling a pattern of love, of evolution as the alpha and the omega.

       All art and great creations are achieved through the harmonious balance of masculine and feminine energies in a unified expression. This behavior, sexual behavior is inherent in all of life as the Life-force energy. Always aroused, excited and in motion, growing, expanding and being pulled into itself while experiencing the Divine pleasure of becoming. To understand the nature of sexual energy is to be able to greatly enhance your natural creative abilities in all areas of life. Sexual energy and creative energy is virtually the same thing. They are the same energetic principle and operate as the same Universal Laws.

Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt.

Teacher and Mentor for Sacred Sexuality & Personal Transformation

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Imagination & Reality – “Imagining Reality”

      When we pull back and look at what we refer to as reality, experience or what is deemed factual, we can see the true nature of our most fundamental creative faculty called the imagination. In our society the imagination is often referred to as visualization, yet this term can be misleading as it tends to indicate picturing something in your mind, seeing a picture or vivid movie like image. While seeing is apart of the imaginative process, it is only one aspect of an entire process. The imagination is the full use of the mind-body system, or what is known as the three-minds that are aligned to create a unified experience called “subjective reality”. Subjective reality not only indicates a reality in which we are subject too it – being acted on by it – but also a reality ultimately of our own making in which we are the centre around which everything revolves and evolves out of.

       All reality, even what we call neutral objective reality as the original creation – the Earth as a conscious sentient Being in which we habitate – which sets the stage for personal experience to take place, has to be interpreted in order to be experienced. Our mind is what creates a unified illusion we call reality as a personal experience. Even though we all see the same tree, and can take a photograph of it, each individual perceiving the tree will have a somewhat unique and personalized experience of it. We are all ultimately responsible for our own life experiences because we are actually the ones creating them. It is only a question of whether or not we are doing it consciously with awareness, or unconsciously by default or based on taught memory that simply become a theme of repetition.

       The imagination is the faculty of the mind where we take energetic information as primal intelligence and decode it by restructuring it into sensory terms so it can be seen, heard, touched, felt, tasted, smelled and so on. We then call it “reality” and we further define it by describing it with words, first internally as dialogue, then externally as a story “about” it, making impressions into sharp, crisp concepts as mental constructs. We then become attached to our own creation as mental constructs that are formed out of preferences that we then use as a form of memory. Memory provides us with a default system of previously constructed ideas and realities that serve as templates for instantaneous references and association. These mental constructs as templates are used as a form of “energy conservation” that allow instant perceptions in new and on-going environments, that serve to create the same type of experiential realities over and over, forming our personal style for creating. After awhile, we can’t seem to see anything else but our habituated tendencies.

       Just like the Scientist that is originally inspired to pursue truth and knowledge, that encounters a true mystery and with an open mind tries to understand it, and be able to describe and explain it, develops a theory, falls in love with their own creation through the process, then their whole attitude becomes only seeing and bringing into the equation evidence that serves to support their theory, and exclude all the information that is still readily available that disproves or contradicts their theory. After awhile they can only “see” their theory and fail to perceive the mystery itself out of which a selected theory arose as one of many possibilities, because they package everything using their favorite design as a preferred structure for ordering all experience.

       Imagination in its most primal function is used to interpret all of life creating our experience of it. Our experience is a correspondence or analogy of our soul’s characteristics that perceive out of archetypal clusters that form our basic personality, which births our identity, which ultimately births our ego. This is a spontaneous and natural unfolding of a living organism as a growth process of Becoming. At all points along the way, the potentiality as the expression possible is of the same nature – this is why we say (in psychology) that if you can’t imagine yourself doing something you can’t produce the behavior for doing it. It exists outside of your identity, basic personality, and therefore not a creative possibility for self-expression. This isn’t something to be struggled with or defied, trying to make something happen that’s not meant to be, that’s not natural, it is rather something to be recognized, honored and understood.

       All of our possibilities as probable experience exists naturally within our imagination and arise spontaneously as the stories we most commonly have a desire to tell. Our soul’s essence can be seen as what inspires us with ideas, activating a desire for something and the thought processes that naturally marry the desire as a way of creating a living concept that will create a systematic structure like a blueprint or program for acting it out as a story that forms personal experience of a common theme. Our character always tells a certain type of story. The character and the story it tells is initiated as an expression of the soul’s essence (vibratory patterning) and is birthed in the imagination “moment-by-moment” forming continuity as an ongoing process of becoming the expression of the nature that is continuously birthing it.

 Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c)

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Creative Imagination as Divine Power – “The Drama of Opposites”

 “God created man in Its image, and with Its likeness”

       The Creative Imagination has the natural ability to take an inspired idea, which usually comes as a feeling or notion, and serves as a channel for that energy to come into the world as a personal expression. The imagination creates a conceptual model out of a vague impression that can be expressed, lived or acted out to produce something real and valuable outside of us. Subtle energy as living forces forms a series of correspondences that expresses as a physical reality of a similar nature. Creative Life force orders, organizes and structures matter as a living composition that we “experience” as reality.  The finished product, like a painting, is a congruent expression of the identity and mood (state) that births it.   

      All of our personal experiences are created in our own image (through our imagination) and are of the same nature. What we perceive outside of us in our environment, is a reflection of our self. We see our self in everything we perceive. Our only method of perception is through our “model” or habituated style for interpreting neutral events to form a common theme that supports and simultaneously creates our “sense of our self” as a specific type of person by causing us to feel a certain way. All of our stories emerge as an expression or spontaneous correspondence of our identity.

     Many people feel powerful so infrequently that when they do they try to hold on to it, possess it. But energy in all forms intensifies and gains power through flowing and gaining a form of momentum. By holding on, we stop the flow which closes the pathway. It doesn’t go out, but nothing comes in either. It stagnates and withers. We can only hold to power by becoming a channel that consistently discharges it . . . . by expressing it. We become the means through which spiritual power works in the world. God as Life Force, living power can only work through us. We are the conscious, thinking connecting element. Just like electricity must be harnessed, channeled and connected or attached to a fixed object in order to be  useful and of value, Divine Power which is present all around us, needs to have a channel through which to flow, by becoming focused into a limited idea. Until then, it only exists in its potential state (unformed) and has no intrinsic value.

     When power is only stirred or increased within us due to being a spectator of some external event, we find that when the event ends that triggered the excitement, the energy diminishes with it, resuming its latent state. But artists, teachers and scientist find that the power increases and intensifies over the course of a lifetime the more they discharge it into physical reality. In this sense, all knowledge and power that is obtained only for personal use and not given or put at the service of others and channeled into the world, diminishes, subsides and becomes lifeless.

     Occult sciences are revolutionary because they teach the ability for direct salvation, in this life time, currently, through your own efforts. But this ability requires not only secret knowledge, but the commitment and discipline to practice. We were led to believe that Magicians, Wizards and Shamans had to make strange deals that involved selling their “souls” to the devil in order to gain extraordinary personal power. No one seemed to notice that the devil is a Christian God, and does not exist in a meaningful manner in other spiritual traditions. This image was partially conjured up from the Magicians who went underground and practiced in private which only served to pique the imagination of curious onlookers who whispered of secret societies, but also from the Church who saw the Magicians as competitors who dealt directly with the spirit without going through the priesthood. In order to eliminate the competition they created stories that justified their right to murder them. Occult practices, like Wicca, do not have a concept of the devil. They simply view the polarity of all electro-magnetic forces which exist in opposition while interacting in a complimentary fashion. In most spiritual traditions, God is viewed as “all of nature” and pure consciousness that is living intelligent (expresses through dynamic patterns).

      In order to perceive God as having qualities and characteristic, we had to first form an image (concept) of God, then one of  Its opposite. Because Spiritual forces shape and create what we call human characteristics, we created an image of God in our image and with our likeness. These humanistic characteristic are represented by what we have come to call Archetypes. Archetypes can be viewed as qualities that produce natural tendencies that lend themselves to specific “roles” that have inherent stories or themes in them that express through a specific genre. Because of this, we tend to form an idea of God, as being human that is the embodiment of love, kindness and compassion. Her opposite, the devil is viewed as being mostly animal like, aggressive and primal. Because God originated as dominantly Feminine, we tend to see God as passive, while the Satan is active. Because of this tendency, unfortunately, we often view the Devil as having more power in the physical world than God does. We even create mythologies that we are born basically bad, and have a lifetime to struggle in an attempt to become good.  Drama . . . after all, is necessary for an interesting storyline that engages us through intense emotions that keeps us guessing as to the ultimate outcome.

 Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt., RMT

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"Some people say they have not yet found themselves, but the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."      Thomas Szasz

When most of us think of creativity we think of the classic forms of expression such as the arts - painting, music, acting, writing, dancing, sculpting - but creativity flows through us in various forms of expression whether it be business, gardening, raising children, healing, problem solving, all are simply channels of expressing the creative life force within us.

The entire universe is made of creative energy, consciousness that shapes reality. Like art it channels energy from invisible to visible forms. The only function, act or ability of the mind, or consciousness - is creative. Every thought you think, every feeling you experience, every story you tell, every meaning you assign to things is channeling your creative energy out of yourself and into the world as an expression of "you."

Creative energy, like a surging river, "must" be released, it must find expression - it seeks to move from an internal feeling/thought out into the world becoming an external effect, that can be experienced as "form." Whether we call it creative energy, sexual energy, life force, or personal magnetism the dynamic nature of energy demands release, it must be expressed. All artist have an abundance of life force energy and feel the dynamic force with a special sense of urgency - and find channels that allow an abundant amount of life force to flow through them and into the world through creative expression of various sorts. When an artist paints a picture, the subject is somewhat irrelevant, as it simply expresses the feeling nature of what is being expressed, what is important is the "emotional quality" of the piece as well as the actual experience of creating it. The more the piece lends itself to interpretation, the more fully it engages the creative energy of the person viewing it. All art forms have to be interpreted in order to be understood, or as a way of perceiving the "feeling quality" that motivated the artist who channeled it.

Creative energy is like a double sided sword as illustrated in the fable of "Excalibur." Because creative energy must be channeled, if it's not channeled constructively it turns destructive. Creativity flourishes in an environment of inner security & confidence which is what allows an individual to open up and be willing to experiment with new ideas, take risks, or stepping off the beaten path into the unknown - which means being different, strange, unusual or perhaps outlandish by conventional standards.

Creative energy can best be realized by tuning in to your emotional energy and fully embodying the "feeling state" of your thoughts or ideas. Find the feeling in your body, bring your attention to it, and be present with the feeling and begin expressing what the feeling seems to be about -  stories will emerge that form a path of expression that allows the energy to be channeled into reality. Creative energy is experienced and realized as emotions. Emotions motivate, compel us to do something,  and have "action" inherent within them. 

When we fully engage consciously in channeling creative energy through various forms of self expression we enter the "flow" of life and experience, perhaps for the first time, euphoria. Our bodies are hardwired for pleasure. Life when experienced in the present moment, in the state of "flow" is joy in it's most instinctual aspect. Joy comes through channeling our "SELF" into the world through expression, releasing the creative life force within us, and a creating a "sense of our self" as something beautiful and eloquent.

The only purpose to living, is self creating & self expressing. Bringing an aspect of the whole into existence as a unique, individual entity and creating a whole within the part.

Linda Gadbois, CCHt., RMT

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"All great discoveries are made by those whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."      CH Parkhurst

Expression, like various forms of creativity can be used positively- to uplift, instruct, inspire, bring beauty into the world- or negatively - to belittle, demoralize, tear down and even destroy. Expression takes many forms whether it's the spoken language, body language, a sermon, acting out in a state of emotional drama, any time an individual is active, or doing something, they are "expressing" themselves.

Humans express themselves every moment, through every feeling, thought, word, or the attitude they walk through life with . . .  with the metaphors they use, what they reference as examples, the story they tell about things, about themselves . . every form of "action" is creative. Bringing an internal state into an external reality of some sort. All we are capable of doing is projecting our "self" onto our environment. Every thought, meaning, and perception is experience "through us" as us. Our models serve as filters used to perceive the world as something unique and special.

This day and age, the "age of communication" we have lost the art of "performing ideas" - transmitting information by developing skill at expressing it. Yet, it is the emotional quality of the information that provokes action, that motivates us to do something, to act based on the "feeling quality" of the information we have been given. This is the true art of "inspiring" people. To inspire is to take a standard goal or desired outcome, and perform it in a way that engages people emotionally in personally identifying with the goal in a way that compels them towards it, creating a desire in them to "do" something to make it come true. To act in a fashion that supports and creates a physical reality motivated by the "feeling quality" of the idea as it was communicated. We all seek to be apart of something that is greater than ourselves. The greater the emotional quality of the expression, the more clearly we relate to being apart of what's being expressed. If, by relating to it, I feel . . .  "courageous, powerful, able to serve, compassionate, caring, sexy, valuable" etc. - whatever the feeling, if it feels good, it will attract people who have that "desire" inside of them that is being provoked into reality by the emotional quality of my communication- which creates a path for expression. All great artist, communicators and leaders understand this.

To be a great artist, a great leader, you must stir people's desire, touch them inside with emotions that compel them into action. Not because they should or it's the right thing to do . . . but because they must! Creating and transferring emotion, creates a powerful desire to do something as a result of your performance. By activating the right "state of mind" you can not only influence people towards a common goal, but bring out peoples magnificence in the process. When people feel moved by something, usually the best part of them, the part that is passionate comes forth and becomes more apparent. This passionate "presence" is what performs the action. When people act out of passion, they own and harness their personal power to self actualize. When you have the ability to trigger this response in people intentionally you literally bring out the genius in common people, at will. What you see in them, they see in themselves. What we reflect we are projecting. When we become invested in the fun of exercising our power to bring out the best in other people, we simultaneously experience the best in ourselves. To empower others, is to experience yourself as powerful. In order to express it,  you have to have it.

To bring beauty into the world by expressing it, is to become a conduit for attracting it, a channel through which beauty can flow. Focusing your mind on drawing beauty to you, filling yourself up with it to the point of exploding into existence - you become the living, breathing expression of beauty. Your cup runneth over. It becomes your experience, your common every day reality!  You are, by virtue of your nature . . . beautiful.

Commit to expressing it (purpose) and you will attract it (identity) when you receive it, you will have it to give (path) . . . . thus you will "become" the living embodiment of that which you are!  :) :0     !*%$##@&       What?

Feel it . . . . Think it . . . say it . . . . make it real!

Do it NOW!! 

Linda Gadbois, CCHt., RMT

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