Introduction

In your quest for understanding you discover the grail of infinite knowledge. Every answer to every question is now embedded in your mind. A group of eager students sits before you, looking for illumination.

One asks you what the colour blue looks like. You explain to her that blue is one of three primary colours. “The other two are red and yellow,” you say matter-of-factly. Your mind is on fire, burning with enthusiasm, because this information must be passed on, interpreted by fresh young minds, and passed on again and again until millions of young minds have been set ablaze with the passion of learning. You must somehow muster enough energy to start a chain reaction that carries on long after your dance on this planet has finished.

Animated, you tell them that by mixing primary colours together they can make secondary colours such as orange, purple, and green. You can barely contain yourself as you explain how different colours are produced by different wavelengths—then you stop. All of the students look confused. One of them asks, “Yeah, but what does blue look like?” You now realize that some heinous practical joke was played on you. Outside the iridescent sun has turned ghostly pale blanketing the sky, trees, and flowers with pallid whites and gloomy grays. The brilliant colours of the universe are now confined, trapped within the black box of your memory.

You want to enlighten them but how do you explain blue in words? How do you express the feelings you get while looking at the sky in all its depth, majesty, wonder? Gravity pulls your chin and shoulders toward the ground. You feel like an infant without the language skills to communicate the emotions welling within. You would give anything to show these students a rainbow all woven in colour and light! But you only sigh as a dark sense of dread clouds over you. Is this your burden, your plight? What if all this magnificent information is forever trapped, suffocating inside with no oxygen to fan its flames? If only you had some kind of chamber to release the power of your incredible, colourful spirit...

When we look toward the clear sky we understand the colour blue and its many shades and tones. The antiseptic odour of a hospital can bring back painful memories of an illness. We know the sweet taste of chocolate, some of us with aphrodisiac sensations. The grand finale of a crescendo in a symphony that has purposefully elevated our souls toward the gods culminates in its final phrase and we are left deeper human beings for the majesty of sound. We exhale and say “Yes!” to the artist that reached inside and opened a channel to set those feelings free.

We all reside in a cosmic storm of emotions, sensory data, and information. Words, the proverbial light of our consciousness, can shroud us with darkness when ineffable experiences rise within and around us. Now more than ever we need to interpret, shape, and transform these experiences into meaningful knowledge so that passion, creativity, and achievement fill our lives. Then we can release the unique rainbow of our inner spirit into the world.

Too often the world shown to us through the mainstream media shrouds our brilliantly colourful spirits with murky shades of acceptance, trepidation, and dismay—terrorism; the proliferation of aggressive, violent, and anti-social behaviour in our schools; corruption in high levels of government and business; technology advancing mainly for the purpose of developing evermore sophisticated weapons of war…and on and on…

Even still, most of us have a distant sense of something special buried deep within our spirit; hidden treasures that have yet to be mined. Unearthing that great and uniquely personal part of ourselves we become more fully alive, fully human and our day to day schedules spring to life with interesting, even exotic activities. Naturally our lives become memorable, a fingerprint in time showing future generations that the world was better for our existence. But how do we find and release in peaceful ways that awesome power dwelling within each-and-every-one-of-us?

Your Creative Call to Action series, segmented in three parts, is the key to help you unlock and make accessible that elusive inner potential.

To get the most out of Part One find a quiet, comfortable place to read. Some relaxing music would be helpful; music without lyrics or words. Reserve judgment until the final page is turned. The information given in this part of Your Creative Call to Action can significantly improve your experiences on this planet. Wealth, personal power, and love will flow into your life as you discover natural ways to express and bring into the world those Great Inner Treasures.

Life is a dance. If you are smart, you learn the steps.
Anon. Yiddish Proverb