The Role of Creative Meditation – As a Service to Humanity
‘. . . .Matter is impelled to creativeness which gives rise to forms of life. . . . ’ – para 304 Fiery World III, Agni Yoga Society
The development of the human being is a matter of consciousness. ‘It is a succession of expansions, a growth of that faculty of awareness that constitutes the predominant characteristic of the indwelling Thinker. It is the progressing from consciousness polarised in the Higher Self, Ego, or Soul, thence to a polarisation in the Monad or Spirit, till the consciousness eventually is Divine.’ – Initiation, Human & Solar p.213
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The Role of Creative Meditation – As a Service to Humanity
Meditation is a spiritual and transformational discipline that brings the soul, the Higher Self into relationship with its personality. Every human being has the capacity to ponder, reflect and consider and by doing this they are meditating. It concentrates thinking, which in time produces transformation and integration with definite personality achievement. Meditation is often carried on without awareness of its real nature, it is, in fact, a simple form of creativity as it has produced all the creative wonders of our modern civilisation. This demonstrates the applied art of creative meditation and the fact that ‘ . . . Matter is impelled to creativeness which gives rise to forms of life . . . ‘ – para 304 Fiery World III, Agni Yoga Society
So the main method for utilising the power of thought is meditation. In this sense it is not something purely intellectual or abstract, but is an effective means of inner action which can be used in two main ways:
The first being to bring about changes and transformation in ourselves.
As Djwhal Khul the Tibetan Teacher and Master has said: ‘Lives are changed primarily by reflections; qualities are developed by directed conscious thought; characteristics are unfolded by brooding consideration.’
And secondly as a form of service to the World.
Within the Ageless Wisdom teachings a call was sounded down the ages for a “united world group of disciples given to unanimous and simultaneous meditation upon the work of preparing the world for the new order and for the jurisdiction of the Christ [and] to establish the knowledge of and the functioning of those laws and principles which will control the coming era, the new civilisation and the future world culture. . .” – DINA II pp 231-39
This is the seed that has given birth to the Group for Creative Meditation. Dr Roberto Assagioli working initially with the help of Foster Bailey gathered an international team of co-workers to create a training programme in creative meditation working with the knowledge and functioning of those laws and principles which will control the coming era, the new civilisation and the future world culture.
These natural laws and principles bring to life the livingness of the soul expressed and applied in everyday life. Commitment to working with these gradually over time develops aspects of the will, along with an evolving awareness of the Self as it works in relationship with its three fold personality.As an act of service the higher mind becomes susceptible to the world of ideas and the intuition and the individual becomes a catalyst for change within their environment.
A Law can be considered as a set of values which give guidance and structure thereby promoting well-being.A Principle or Quality can be understood as an energy that heals, redeems and unifies.Relationships imbued with these laws and principles of the soul give rise to considerate and inclusive cultures and societies.
We are essentially psychologists learning how to live life more efficiently by experimental exploration. Relationship is everything and everything is relationship. Being in relationship with ourselves, each other, and with the beauty and splendour of nature allows us to come into relationship with the essence of spirit present in all that IS. This is the Law of Right Human Relations working out in daily encounters.
Working with this Law of Right Human Relations discloses the underlying and cohesive energy field of the Principle of Goodwill. In which the sunshine radiance of our authentic selves in relationship with all that is reveals the gentle touch of the compassion of kindness. We open like flowers to the presence of goodwill, and withdraw when it is lacking.
Our lives are spent in relationship with others, known and unknown to us. We learn by trial and error to become team players. Over time it then dawns upon us that a group is not just a gathering of people it is an evolving field of consciousness that gives rise to new ideas and ways of being. With this realisation our participation and contribution within the game of life moves from the ‘I’ to the ‘We’ of group endeavour.
This Law of Group Endeavour works its influential magic and we awaken to wider horizons. And as our vision of life grows, expands and deepens it reveals the networking interaction of relationships and groups. Realising this we come to recognise that we are part of a coherent, inclusive, team event. You, Me, the Many and the One Life is All.
Everything is spiritual that moves individuals, groups and the whole of Humanity onward towards greater understanding, towards kindness, towards that which is productive of beauty and which can lead each of us on to a fuller expression of our divine potentialities.
Gradually and slowly as we pursue the applied and experiential art of creative meditation we daily open to the new where knowledge is converted into our personal wisdom. We learn by doing as life for each of us is a journey of discovery and revelation, of spiritual growth and transformational wonder. So the Law of Spiritual Approach is at work within and around us.
The Principle of Essential Divinity and its healing, redeeming energy is revealed when we are touched by the beauty that surrounds and graces each day - the spectacle of a sunset, the glimpse of a shooting star, the welcome greeting and smile of another - our spirit responds and resonates with joy. These are joyful recognitions of the essence of all life. Showing us the wonder of a divine spark, that lives and shines forth within the heart and soul of humanity and all of creation.
The Way of the Disciple is the way of white magic which can be understood as the magical and transforming power of the soul. Working creatively with these six natural laws and principles safely and surely psychologically integrates the three fold personality opening the individual to experiences of group relations. Creative Meditation is used and applied as a service to humanity. For the problem of the individual is recognised as also the world’s problem, realising that they are not two separate and distinct processes . . . . For each of us is the repository of all humanity. We are the world and the world is us. If there is a radical transformation in the structure of an individual’s consciousness, it will affect the whole consciousness of humanity. For we are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Djwhal Khul the Tibetan Teacher has written to us and he has said ‘Let all students make up their minds in this day of emergency and of rapid unfolding opportunity to sacrifice all they have the helping of humanity. Now is the need and the demand. The urgency of the hour is upon us and I call upon all of you whom I am seeking to help to join the strenuous effort of the Great Ones.’ – TWM p.639
For as Roberto Assagioli, as student of DK has assured us - ‘When we meditate on these great themes of the Laws and Principles of the soul, we are joining on inner levels with others working for the same purpose. All know the added power of concerted group action, and realisation that we are part of a great meditation, subjectively building group counteracts the tendency of the isolated individual to feel ineffective, or become the victim of anxiety, negativity and even despair. The sense of isolation is, in fact, artificial; we all participate consciously or unconsciously and willingly or unwillingly! – in the life of the whole of humanity, and even more so in the Life of the Universe. The more we recognise this and tune in to and work with the laws of the larger Life, the more serene and effective we become, and one of the most practical steps in this direction is creative meditation.’
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein