To make a prairie it
takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a
bee,
And revery.
The revery alone
will do,
If bees are
few.”
― Emily
Dickinson – American Poet
Today
I listened to Elizabeth Gilbert on Ted.com. She is a mesmerizing speaker
who wrote Eat, Pray, Love and her Ted Talk topic is on the creative process.
She explained that genius is defined in the ancient Greek and Roman
cultures as a spirit outside our human form that gives us creative inspiration.
About 500 years ago, genius became embodied in individual human form and
that we lost in translation the divine inspiration from a genius or spirit
outside of us. Elizabeth postulated that it created a burden on the
artist because the fear is that once a masterpiece is created, we may lose our
ability to create a work equally inspiring.
As I
began writing my blog Sacred Souls there was so much that I needed to pour out
of me. My thoughts and ideas of the past twenty-five years seem to have
become focused. I realize without my creative or "brilliant"
thoughts that propel me to another spiritual level, I feel quite ordinary and
uninspired. Those moments of inspiration now come less frequently and I
find what was so vivid in my mind, all the amazing connections and meanings,
quickly fade away. Elizabeth spoke of a poet who found if she didn't
immediately put pen to paper, her poems were lost to randomly rest in some
other poet.
Like
many other writers and artists, I love the creative process - the flight of
ideas and thoughts. Once I experienced the all-encompassing creative
process, I had a glimpse of the divine in all its glory. My beloved
Uncle Roy quoted Emily Dickinson’s poem Revery
to me when I wrote to him of my ideas about spreading spiritual communication.
