| feelings parallel other illusions -- about your spiritual development, your character, your fulfillment, your sufferings, your state | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is where you must be concerned with your development, your growth, your search. When you come to | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| first step in this particular phase of your development, to ascertain the pleasurable aspect in your destructiveness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of liberating the inner powers that make the development a natural, organic, harmonious process. Thus destructiveness dissolves | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| hindered, and impatient with your own evolution or development, concerns envy. This is a much more important | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the individual at a certain period of his development. Could you explain this further? ANSWER: When people | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of the cosmic force due to lack of development? ANSWER: Yes, it is a lack of development | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| development? ANSWER: Yes, it is a lack of development, lack of awareness. Now, who bears the responsibility | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| -- as a result of considerable self-knowledge and development -- he or she clearly senses that these | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the other. Expansion represents the direct expression of development, while the restricting and static movements indirectly further | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| need now so you can proceed in your development without hindering yourselves too much. So, let us | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| must abandon for the sake of their spiritual development. Sacrifice and renunciation are the keys to spiritual | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Sacrifice and renunciation are the keys to spiritual development. We do not have to further elucidate these | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| these feelings are activated. When part of your development is arrested, you wait for another person, a | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dynamically growing and moving on a path of development and self-realization. When you thus become aware of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you know, necessitates certain very definite stages of development. I will say more about this later. The | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| select, decide, intend, in order to follow this development. It must be willing to learn from within | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of the world by his or her own development and growth than he or she can possibly | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| when you are much further advanced in your development. Anyone on this Path can experience it any | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| two forces must exist. Conversely, the higher the development of consciousness -- the more the individual being | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| help but experience at this state of your development as good versus bad. To the degree you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to the uninitiated and still self-involved, an unwelcome development that one cannot identify as growth. In reality | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| they come to a certain crossroads in their development. With some, the threat may be so great | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| point. This is why your technological and scientific development is out of proportion to your feeling qualities | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| everyone who struggles in her or his own development feels threatened by any display of the unchanneled | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| where you could be. Human beings whose overall development has readied them to realize their divine kernel | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| considerable degree this creatively unfolding process. An individual's development can be gauged by the extent to which | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| out but salvation has deep importance for the development of each entity. It then leads directly to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| as you know, the ego in its present development is very limited in power and intelligence compared | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the most violent and negative actions. Only when development proceeds further and the individual no longer wishes | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| act would be unnatural and incompatible with organic development. Its effects might be worse than giving in | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| understand, my friends, that this very pathwork, the development of your courage to look at yourself in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| our main emphasis is always on the general development and growth, for in that way you cannot | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| or feel. A good part of any self- development therefore always consists of increasing your sense of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| intelligence within you, as a result of your development and growth and after having deliberately set out | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| behind them. We can roughly indicate an individual's development from the point of view of his or | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| own willing and knowing. Any path of genuine development must bring all the confused and contradictory desires | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of consciousness, which expresses a particular degree of development. Human beings are, in general, free to a | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to the most significant aspects of your spiritual development. It applies to meditation, which must combine the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| other parts, still in a lower state of development, which also govern and influence your thinking, feeling | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| as in the individual, by differences in the development of the manifesting universal consciousness. Even though the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| is a much neglected yardstick for one's own development. Relationship with others is a mirror of one's | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| others may also be. When people whose spiritual development is on different levels are involved with one | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| or she will raise his or her own development considerably and spread peace and joy. The poison | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| explored in depth by the individual whose spiritual development is more primitive. He or she will render | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| a constant process at humanity's present level of development. It is indeed one of the most harmful | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| truth, their hypothesis becomes an experiential fact. The development of human consciousness is no different. In the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| humanly possible at any given stage of personal development. So let me try, once again, to find | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a deity, far removed from the individual. When development proceeds, and divine, creative spirit is no longer | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| This new consciousness is produced by beings whose development and connectedness is more profound than those of | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the scheme of things, ultimately contributing to faster development. It is always up to the individual what | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| drug experience an incentive to speed up personal development, or to indulge in it as the ultimate | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| overlook the neglected side. This makes for lopsided development. The next step in meditation is to reeducate | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| lower self. Such an attitude leads to balanced development, integration, and a deep, reassuring sense of your | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| them more tightly. This happens in people's overall development as well as in specific instances. Human beings | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of mutuality apply to humanity's present state of development? With respect to mutuality, humanity's development can be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| state of development? With respect to mutuality, humanity's development can be determined by three gradations. The human | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| less threat, or so it seems. However, when development proceeds a little more, the longing becomes stronger | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| where they are in their present state of development. All this excludes mutuality. The movement of opening | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| other is closed, and vice versa. Only steady development and growth changes this so that both learn | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| problem. Any work concerned with genuine self-search and development must unearth this inner negation and the reasons | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| consciousness. These states are very specific grades of development which I have not discussed before, but which | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| phase of our work. In the scale of development, the least developed state is that in which | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| will take place, and a new stage of development is reached. To the extent your conscious self | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| comes only at a later stage of your development. Therefore, the more you can perceive and observe | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This is why it is so important for development to proceed in certain rhythms. The safest way | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| above all else, purification. When purification precedes the development of spiritual and psychic potential and power, bliss | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| state of consciousness than your present state of development. Your reaching for this higher, more fulfilling state | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| needs of an adult? They are self-expression, growth, development, reaching one's spiritual potential and everything that accrues | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| variance with each other, expressing different states of development in the evolution of the person. Your state | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| at this stage. But every step of their development has a beneficial influence and thus teaches others | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| your personality can, at various stages in your development, use different approaches to meditation. Each approach can | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| they know it or not. The higher the development, and the more truthful an entity's thoughts and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| an inner guidance but wait and listen, tremendous development can take place following such periods. More unfoldment | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and attuned as a result of your accelerating development, you know that the reality of spirit is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| degree of awareness you have reached in your development. Take, for example, an infant. When an infant | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| degree of maturity on the road of human development. This same child cannot yet comprehend cause and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| recognized to some degree within your own human development. It has happened to all of you that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| why now, in these gatherings, due to your development, you first respond to the pure influx of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| go on from there on their path of development, or to choose to fortify, justify, and increase | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| can use it in your own path of development. Any philosophy that is not put into practical | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the reality of evil on this plane of development, in order to learn to cope with it | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| exists in the human consciousness. In the present development of human consciousness, both the pure and the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| them up, while the other part strives for development and self-purification. This dualistic state must cause crisis | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Whether or not in your current incarnation your development happens to be ahead or behind another's, to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| have different facets. In your present state of development, you can think one thing, feel another, will | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| liberating effect. There are particular phases in human development where an entity finds it almost impossible to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| be of immediate, practical value for your own development. Not only will it open you further to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| regions. Your own life, your struggle and your development, should be viewed in this light. Feel yourself | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| holds true. People who are advanced in their development may indeed have resolved residual feelings of hate | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| This will prove immensely helpful and further your development. Use your inner guidance about when and how | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| exercises, my friends, to practice for your further development. Love and blessings are being given to everyone | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| different in former eras and cultures? ANSWER: Humanity's development in former times necessitated a different approach. For | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your life that will facilitate your growth and development, the solving of painful problems, the fulfillment of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| meditation practice grows in the course of your development, turn inward to detect the nature of your | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| realm. How sexuality manifests varies according to the development of each human being. We shall discuss the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| still on a very low level of spiritual development and therefore severely blocked and split. The sexual | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| more or less on the same plane of development. This does not mean that every small idea | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| also a necessary help for each one's further development. Several qualities are required for reaching mental fusion | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| possible to the degree that a person's spiritual development has advanced and still continues to advance. Such | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| negative and therefore shamefully denied, both the person's development and the vitality of the life force are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and effect is an important aspect of personal development and self-confrontation. The greatest pain and dissonance in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| postulated that sexuality is a hindrance to spiritual development. At an earlier time in history, there was | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| restrain natural instincts. On the one hand, spiritual development proceeded, on the other, it also constrained humanity's | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| between what they call living and their spiritual development. They do not want to give too much | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the truth. Human evolution travels a curve of development from acting out negativity to the next step | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| to complete yourself. As in every area of development, here, too, are certain sequences and alternations according | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that repeats itself in many areas throughout human development. However, it is an ongoing law that all | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to disappear among you, my friends. In your development you learn to be real, to function without | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to discuss three basic stages in growth and development as seen from the point of view of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| total disagreement among themselves and whose state of development may vary widely. When the real self takes | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is no way around this aspect of spiritual development. All the seekers of spiritual growth who avoid | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| intensity and emphasis. You may differ in your development, in your openness and willingness to be in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| find exactly what you most need for your development. I have often spoken the words, Let go | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| as it may be, is simply an organic development of your inner state. First you must establish | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your life regardless of your present state of development. This lecture will begin by dealing with general | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| predicament at a certain point in the individual's development. For example, you may feel a rush of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| cannot even perceive at this point of its development. Each moment of time, to speak in your | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| not entirely impossible, in your present state of development, to occasionally experience the now point -- the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| now point is a result of slowly earned development will the new perceptions be truly yours. Otherwise | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the incarnatory process. At this point of your development on your path, this understanding will again be | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| isolated personalities. The combinations vary, the degree of development varies, but some basic components are applicable to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| fear in dying. Such fearlessness is the ultimate development of each human soul. That is the goal | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| necessarily contingent on attaining a high state of development. It is quite possible that a fragmentary personality | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| peace are not necessarily a result of higher development. The more highly developed personalities often have more | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| convenient way to delude the self, because spiritual development can become an escape, even though you may | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and states of awareness. There can be no development and no purification. For what would motivate an | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| states of consciousness. As in many areas of development, there is a similarity between the lowest and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| state of being. But on this level of development the state of being surpasses self-awareness. It has | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the preliminary stages of this phase of evolutionary development, you must eliminate the blind spots about the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beyond the human state. That is the organic development of this path. When I say knowledge, my | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to reawaken than in others without such previous development, who must still go through processes of growing | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| blotted out; it is forgotten. Whatever state of development you may be in, you start off with | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| flare up, at an early stage of your development, by themselves, without provocation from outside. These aspects | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of what the outer situation is. As your development proceeds, this changes. The negative aspects cease to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| done quite deliberately after a certain stage of development and purification has been reached. The focusing will | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| concept of faith in this era of humanity's development is that it is a blind belief in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| stages of faith. A person's faith undergoes a development in itself. The highly developed, integrated person will | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| giving you a potent tool for your further development. Do not close off to a truth I | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| degree the latter has been transformed through evolutionary development. In some spheres of reality the contrasts are | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| those that you inhabit in your state of development. In the most highly developed spheres and states | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| know, so that in your present state of development, the higher and the lower states of consciousness | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| are equally imperceptible. In the lowest state of development, evil is so strongly concentrated on the surface | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| an inherent divine nucleus. Only through eons of development does the nucleus finally become apparent, but only | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| apparent, but only very dimly at first. Human development is an in-between state. Beings in various degrees | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| an in-between state. Beings in various degrees of development incarnate and fulfill themselves in other states. These | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| fulfill themselves in other states. These degrees of development may seem to fluctuate considerably from your point | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| not necessarily indicative of an overall lack of development. It is often quite the contrary. Active, virulent | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| rediscovered. And that is the process of evolutionary development. These things have been said, sometimes in oversimplified | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| who are not yet ready in their spiritual development even to know that levels of reality exist | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| but is obviously the natural expression of your development. So a good number of the inner nucleus | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when you work in this fashion on your development will you come to a point when you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |