We
are taught many matters in
school, but all too often, this
is linear learning, textbook learning. I can bear in mind sitting in school
rooms as a child staring
aimlessly out of the window at passing clouds. The teacher's verdict used to be I was once wasting my time, but
who is to say that daydreaming is less precious than
memorizing a list of facts?
Thomas Edison was a daydreamer.
He pondered, "What if there could
be light in a small bulb powered
by means of electricity?"
Non-creative frequently overlook how essential unscheduled time is for a writer. This appears specifically true
of those who hire writers. Hollywood in the early
days when writers had been stored
at the action picture studios in
offices, they have been supposed
to be writing all day long. In fact, there is a story of Louis B. Mayer - then
head of MGM - mechanically strolling through the doorways of
the writers' wing, his ear to the door to see if the typewriters were clicking!
Sometimes the first-rate writing
occurs when the writer is now not bodily writing.
Once I used to be stumped whilst writing an original comedy characteristic for Universal Studios.
I knew what but now not the how. So I did what has become my process: stopped writing. I
went swimming instead. About the eleventh lap with my mind completely
blank, the solution appeared. My
mindful thought may want to not locate the answer to the story, so I let go, and allowed the idea to go with the flow and dream. The solution seemed like
a present from the invisible, allowing me to go returned to the desk and make my deadline for the Studio.
Like dreams, creativity arises from the unconscious. We have to create an empty
house in our aware minds for the unconscious to
emerge with its gifts. Our conditioning prods us to rush in with interpretative
meaning, discovered meanings,
which may also serve solely to flatten the actual value of what arises naturally from within. Mental grasp might not necessarily exchange us. To be transformed
requires something more than
rational questioning or
sentimentality. The conditioned way of mental
knowing regularly strengthens the ego at the price of the soul. In fact, mere intellectual understanding might
also be overrated today.
Andy Warhol, who started as a photo fashion designer for
advertising, targeted his art on American icons or photos that have emerged as signposts for an era.
Images as Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, and Campbell Soup Cans, all bespeak
America. What makes them work as artwork
is that the audience
identifies with these images.
The soul of writing comes thru
the photograph - what Keats called "soul-making." Images
are indeed the language of the
soul. They integrate mind, body,
and spirit, and thereby serve a healing
function. When Shakespeare writes, "Out, out brief candle," he is the
usage of the language of metaphor or imaging. He no longer says, "Out, out brief life." The metaphorical or symbolic photo lifts the reader above the gross
degree to a realm of poetry where picture and soul reign. This is the place transformation occurs.
Metaphor is the language of the soul. Look for metaphors in both waking and dream states. Awaken
that phase of the idea that generates the images. Dare
to explore the unknown regions of the psyche, for therein lie
innovative gold. Well-chosen pics can assist us integrate
thinking and feeling which in today's culture have been broken
up asunder. Write with your senses, feelings, and invisible wonders.
Write tales that serve the soul.
There is no higher direction than the path to wholeness.
Even earlier than there are
stories, there are images. Each lifestyles
are shaped by using its unique image, a photograph
that is the essence of that lifestyle
and that calls it to destiny. To find
out the image of our
theme or foremost character, we should enter the invisible world and allow it to elevate us. Intuitive photos
occur, we cannot make them. All
we can do is get out of the way, thereby inviting them to come through.
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