Creation is a game with distinct but subtle rules.

Because of the mind’s subservient density within the higher dimensions, these rules are obscured.

Skipping steps and arrogantly reversing the direction of the arrows leads to confusion.

Randomly perceived surface success, especially in conjunction with the reversal of the arrows, leads to false attribution of expertise and idolatry (hero worship).

Transference and mimicry, however diligently synthesized and applied, rarely reproduces predictable results, and leads to contradiction of the central message.

Complexity takes center stage over the invitation to experiment, thus distracting and diffusing the processes in the mind of the beholder.

Materialism enshrined in the Problem (Mind) overshadows the abstract and expansive characteristics of the final column, when selfishly applied.

In transparent moves of densification rather than dimensionality, assumptions of causality are erroneously applied across the process, thus encapsulating the game’s mentality.

Clarity of desire, added to non-resistance, map perfectly onto the flow of rules within the game play of each human life, group, society, and the world’s dream.

Through all these lenses and rulebooks, we see life’s process as outlined below, inadequately to satisfy the material presumptions of the initial separation conditions.

Creation is by definition a process of deriving something tangible from something… not yet formed.

The thought-forms sourced for this purpose are nebulous, ever shifting on sands of interpretative, time-bound (the past), and limited experience.

Human beings are incredibly creative, but also myopic in our world views, so we should take care to respect the bounds of our creative freedom.

Synthesis is not creative mastery, but it is the process on the road to true inspired action.

Insight can be viewed as predictive error, or something ‘new’ arising from the ashes of the obvious.

The obvious, in unprocessed form, rarely demonstrates creative prowess to be noted.

However, most good ideas or innovations stem from the combining or synesthetic combination of two or more obvious (or commodity) ideas.

Expanding creative freedom involves sharing unformed ideas with others, expression of hunches, listening to differing views, and risking giving away our best ideas even as we seek to capitalize them for self-interest.

This fact is quite evident in the open marketplace of ideas and ‘free’ services in the information technology spheres.

To test and validate an idea, it must first be “put out there”, unprotected and exposed for others to copy and iterate upon.

This is why eyeball market share and walled gardens have become the de facto modality for the technology industry, a departure from the traditional copyright and patent protections of innovations of the past.

This knife cuts several ways, and has resulted in the explosion of the information and attention economies, but it is not without its pitfalls and limitations.

Those are up to us all to assess individually, as the benefits and shortfalls depend upon your relationship to technology as a provider, a consumer, and both.

It seems that whatever we desire today can be found somewhere and integrated or reflected with someone on the Internet.

Infinite permutations of connection, and the tools with which to multiply it further seem to be around every corner.

Yet, disconnection and discontent, mental health woes, and unhealthy competition seem to encroach on the simpler lives each of us took for granted, just yesterday.

Whatever we desire seems to be created, and this is the catch, “aye, the rub”, with no end in sight to where our ‘innovations’ can lead us.

But, lead us asunder they have the potential to do, just as likely as to ‘Valhalla’, and we know not what we do in passive consumption and mindless engagement within the attention economy.

To each, their own destination, I say.

However, if our aim is true innovation with a mutually reinforcing amelioration of human values, then the conversation may change toward a new economy built upon meaning and purpose, as defined differently.

This ‘different’ may highlight an active role in human-driven communication, rather than a focus on passive consumption, for one main point to be made; know thyself, and the game that is being played.

Results will be capitalized and manifested by desire and flow, rather than will and force, to the intended (and unintended) outcomes which will ubiquitously surround us before we notice.

We cannot notice the mass-scale adoption of mindset through our communication integration, just as sea creatures cannot notice the whole of the ocean, because they are immersed in its subjective and limited context.

Echo chambers prevent us from seeing the bigger picture and the flip-side detractions of the latest shiny thing, mesmerizing our will and desire, applying our default behaviors and ingrained habits along lines of resistance toward a perceived and mutually reinforced dream of benefits, both for today (short-term) and tomorrow (long-term).

But who, honestly, really thinks about the long game when they tap “I Agree” to something they haven’t even read or understood?

We turn desire into material form without so much as the blink of an eye without the agency of the seat we occupy.

This is why the game is only truly played by those who hold their awareness dear, of the game they are playing (and being played with) here and now.

BJ Palmer, a pioneer in the field of chiropractic said that “Nature needs no help. Just no interference.”

So, it stands to reason that we are not inventing something new with our newfangled contraptions, just interfering with the natural order, and thus deserving of no pat on the back, no accolades or reward on a human scale.

To truly master the creation game, it is essential to go against the grain and the prevailing ‘wisdom’ or default ‘taps’ of the day, in service of all those things that obscure and obstruct our humanity on its path of assumed survival.

We seek not to help it change with technology, but to maintain its essence despite our communication breakdown and enrollment into systems of control, always sold as efficacy.

The natural order of human creation is, don’t get me wrong, to observe the players playing the played.

But also to know which you are being, to do it authentically, and to do that one thing very well.

There is no new invention here, just as a sculptor does not add rock or clay to reveal their intended vision, they merely take away what doesn’t belong anymore to suit their vision.