The biblical history of Genesis gives an excellent metaphor for inner growth and how creativity relates to perception. In this sense, creativity relates to all that we “create” whether in the world of projection, in our daily lives, or in society.
The word perception relates not to a picture we have of something (on which our fear has often done a photoshop) but perception in its purity – through the eyes of emptiness.
There is a miracle in every moment. Take some time and space. Allow yourself to be here, now. Wait. There will be a second when you are suddenly not here-now. A blink in perception. And here you are again, now. Another blink. Like a split second of sleep. And here you are again.
The Here and Now seems not to be a continuum – but a pulse of perception. Yet if we explore more, we can find that the whole perceptive process is seen. The incoming and the outgoing of consciousness and awareness. It is seen to be that which is neither Here or Now, but which allows the happening of both.
What is this pulse, this circulation? What is this perceptive movement from formless into form and back to formlessness? What does it say about the miracle of life?
Living Secrets of Genesis
The vibration arising through the wilderness of pre-creation is one of allowance: “Let there be light” is an allowance (‘let it be’), a permission.
Yet it is also an active utterance – a finely assertive movement to allow. A lifting of a veil. Let it be. As if, in answer to a need – a need which is perceived.
The creator “divides” the night and the day, the waters above from the waters below, woman from man. Polarity arises. And there is above, and there is below. And there is night, and there is day. And there is male, and there is female.
And as creation unfolds, each cell divides from itself. In the first splitting into polarity, there is the sword of consciousness. There is also a rupture of separation.
Yet these creative acts are each day affirmed with a disentanglement, a stepping back into pure perception. The creator: “saw that it was good”.
This energetic affirmation allows polarity to exist in an “and-and”, beyond paradox.
The paradox is allowed because of the seeing of the creator, which is one behind two opposites. Just as we as parents are able to totally “see” both our children.
Of course, this act of disengagement and pure perception reaches its culmination on the sacred seventh day – the Sabbath. In which there is a cessation of all creation. A contemplative day. A day of stillness. A day of pure perception.
These formulas of creation and expression of being are with us moment by moment in meditation, in sleep and in our daily lives. In a sense, in the here and now, beyond the mind.
All seven days are metaphorically happening simultaneously. And the seeing – the stillness of the sabbath, is a continuum behind all activity.
We suffer when we ‘forget’ the 7th day, as then we begin to believe ourselves to be truly ensnared within polarity – the either-or, the me-or-her, the kill or be killed.
This creative movement, and the natural disentanglement into peaceful affirmation of the whole, is so naturally part of our living that we have forgotten we are the creators, who in unity with the whole, are now responsible.
These layers of Genesis are ours to cultivate and allow in order to enrich our precious time within the experience of physical life.
They are the shapes of being; the instruments of consciousness; and the expressions of authentic humanity which affirm the perceptive unity that can allow and celebrate all diversity.
We are at ONE, in form, and yet at the same time (or from behind time) formless.
We are individually unique, and yet (within a temporary division of infinity) in unequivocal unity.
