Mccoy i understand that there r many rules to follow on the spiritual path...yet I believe each of our paths is unique in the sense that we often have to use creative ways to make our own personal contact with the divine. Nobody proved this more (to me) than Brother Bhaktananda. He definately used creativity in his personal sadhana.
Handel said the gates of heaven opened to him when he created the Massiah. Beethoven's ninth was, in fact, was composed around the poem "Ode To Joy" written by German poet Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803. The poem is a tribute to God and the wonders and joys of life. Beethoven found great inspiration in the poem which led him to write his ninth sympony around it.
This forum was created with one main aim: to bring together people with similar spiritual aspirations to help our spiritual unfoldment.
Creating has brought many spiritual revelations to me.
Once a women who was a professional psychic for the police saw me perform a song I was very inspired to write
and she told me I did not write the song. She proceed to draw a picture of the angel/spirit that wrote the song who was standing behind me as I performed it.
Another time I was performing in Grand Rapids and a women who had automatic writing ability presented poems to me that she said she did not write but rather channeled. There were a couple of lines she let me use for a song I 'channeled' called 'Demian'
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=stevehydonus&sm=1In many ways this song became a portrait of my life's search conveyed in word and images.
Demian was a dreamer he searched
the symbols of his life.
Each one told a story...
Revealing thoughts that formed
and then came to life.
Now the colors are blending.
Stars are mirrored in your destiny.
Is the sky gently moving?
Clouds drift by. Who can you believe?
Let the stars be your guide.
Damian held facination
at how the fog would fade
and in its place.
There would stand every outline
while the shadows sail on violet haze.
Here we are all together.
it seems our lives have crossed paths.
Where will we be tomorrow?
Still we try to be here today.
All our lives we've been searching.
Trying to find some meaning.
To this life we've been thrown in.
Clouds drift by.
Let the Master of the Mystery...
be your guide...
So yes... for me creativity was part of God's plan for us to express spirot to others and ourselves. Through creativity we find our relation and onenemy with the divine working thru us.
