Creativity In A Comfort Way

One definition coming close to creativity itself would be - creativity is "me outside of me" (can't resist to notice Verne Troyer's Mini Me ...). We used to call creativity that tip of an iceberg exposed in galleries, museums, private collections, design centers, but all of that is far from being truth.

Whether someone wants or doesn't, he is creative day and night, knowingly or unknowingly, artist or farmer. Because breathing in and out, spending word here and there, anything that person does - all that matters and creates our life. And is there any higher creation then making up someones life?

Coming back to today's very narrow perception of creativity that is usually concentrated around arts this is what interest me - why tangible results of all that artistic endeavour resemble each other so much?

Within each era you can just simply change a few details, colors and voila, you have so called "a brand new piece or design". Just take a look on cars, on houses, or even interior design, jewelry, ... The very same lines, a few standard samples, same imagination, just shifting and moving the peaces of puzzle around canvas and putting them together.

The last resort today to buy something "original", creative and chic usually rests in looking for something of designers brand name, style of his production house, collections. Someones name, or better his/her life or lifestyle is a merit to what to buy or not, to reproduce own style and artwork. There are, of course, business aspects to be considered as well, because various industries tend to immediately copy the best ideas that appear on the market and so contribute to the uniformity of design.

There are some ways to overcome that "paste and copy style" and walking the path you will find suggestions like - try various techniques, practise art, study masters, follow tradition, try alcohol or marijuana, tantra or yoga ... I like something else, something that was given as everything else and does the job for me by itself, as I have comfortable nature. - I know that Plantstones are not for everyone, as many prefer to have that feeling that only hard work makes you reach something, or that only teacher can show you the path.

Whatever you choose, your life is the only measure for your creativity and creativity is what enlivens your life.

Gently Behind Zen

A famous Zen story tells of a Japanese professor in the late 1800's who went to visit master Nan-in. First, the old master served tea. He filled his guest's cup to the brim-and then kept on pouring. The tea spilled over the sides of the cup, until the astonished professor could no longer hold his polite silence. "Stop!" he cried. "No more will go in!" Nan-in then quietly replied, "Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

It used to be interpreted in a way, that if our minds are clogged with concepts, with the debris of past experiences and worries about the future, how can we live freshly or fully, at work or at play?- Well, if that would be only the mind in question, we would have an easy job to do and any meditation would help to clear our that stuff within a few hours. Yes, life would be that easy, and Zen as well.

However emotions are our companions in this game and that means, as each emotion represents thousands of thoughts stored within various layers of our being (a small part of them is located in our head, sure ...), we could easily spend centuries cleaning out the stuff by pure meditations or other mind balancing techniques. From other perspective, it is a talk of contemporary man with his woman, talk of the thought with the emotion - I mean talk of one thought with thousand of thoughts and vice versa - responding to thousand of questions by one answer ... It can hardly work. Died trying.

As Heidegger put it, "Anxiety is there. It is only sleeping. Its breath quivers perpetually through man's being." Anxiety, loneliness, fears, feelings of rejections, ... - as a humans, we are one of most endowed with this treasure and rightly so, how could we otherwise become humans?

Pulse Essences do clean emotions that we can not handle and that are otherwise stored in our body, stored for years and decades. They also improve mood and do so fast. Nothing more and nothing less. I am saying this, because most of us tend to jump right into advanced lessons, complex laboratory work, interesting projects without noticing that treasure already collected and binding us down.

From The Laboratory

Recently on the Alchemystica News Group a fellow queried the following:

Hello Group,
First post. There should be many more coming. Have made a "basic seven" and wish to make another with absolute alcohol and salt calcined to a pure white.

OK. Here we go. This question involves Mr. Reid and the PON courses.

I want to make seven planetary spagyric tinctures. On the one hand (PON) we extract the tincture under the soxhlet. Then we calcine and leave the salts outside to draw back in the "flame of life". The next step is to combine the extract and the salts together and distill over (under vacuum). The temperature remains low, so in theory the flame of life isn't lost and the tincture is restored it's vibration or life force. Really fast method = time saved.

In Mr. Reid's course (much respect) he states (hope you see this big fella) that even under ultra high vacuum "the spark is destroyed".

THIS IS WHAT IS DOING MY HEAD IN. Mr. Reid says we work at mild temp only. Perfectly reasonable, if "under vacuum destroys the spark", is the procedure laid out by Mr. Dubuis wrong?

I guess what I’m trying to say is what's the difference between 33.5 degrees and 33.5 degrees under vacuum? Why does the spark of life go out under vacuum at a low temperature but not go out at the same
temperature under normal atmospheric conditions?

My Reply was this:

First let me state that I have the greatest respect for Mr. Dubuis, and his experience in the Art, he is most definitely an Elder Brother in the work, so I would not frame the question as me vs. him, we just have different thoughts on procedures.

While I will agree that vacuum work is faster, that does not mean it is better. For one thing many volatile components can be lost during the use of a vacuum, as one constantly has to release pressure until it is stabilized. The second and most important thing is time, just because a thing happens faster does not mean it is better. Time allows disparate things to come together, to blend, marry and unite. There is a reason why Paracelsus recommends circulating wine for three months prior to beginning any distillation work.

As to the use of soxhlet's to extract salts I think this is a waste of time also, as the higher heat will cause some particles that would not readily go into solution at room temperature to do so during the use of the device. Thus when going to the work of crystallization you will find a great deal more precipitate in your water than you do if just allowing it to extract at body temp over time. I suppose if one where to use a soxhlet under vacuum for the extraction of salts this would not be a problem, but then another principle can be missed. Water left in contact with ash for periods of time goes through a slight putrefaction process, which opens the salt more. This is one of the reasons that I advocate composting the plant residue after extraction of the essential oils, and fermentation of the plant body to make an alcohol.

In truth even plant work is a form of mineral alchemy, even though it may not appear to be so on the surface. Take a look at well-composted plant mater that has been thoroughly dried and ground, and that of dried earth. You will see very little difference to the naked eye, indeed we must follow in the foot steps of Nature, not supplant her work but rather pick up where she has left off. Many suppose this to mean after the plant has matured and been harvested. But a life cycle is usually drawn ac a circle and a circle has neither beginning nor end, we intersect with it where we choose. At each point of the life cycle we have the choice to do some phase of the work, but we must allow Nature her reign, and her work and then pick up where she has left off.

Liquid Herbal Plantstones™ Available in July

For those that like to enjoy that comfort of sitting and devoting their effort to work with intents and putting their ideas and dreams into reality through our customized Plantstones™, this article will not be of high interest, although they still may get inspired to try some of the following Liquid Plantstones™ just to preliminary get into better partnership and understanding with the individual herb.

Time and general style of today's life were somehow behind our decision to provide for our customers also Liquid Plantstones™ that will not be custom charged, but manufactured as a whole in the Golden Vessels. Intent and attunement will be provided by us and it will be in general line with the herb itself, whether it is for the purpose of uniting more with the nature, embracing personal life or with any other balancing vibrations.

Preliminary, we see the pricing around 25 - 35 % below our custom Liquid Plantstones™, production time will go down from 8 weeks to 3-4 weeks and first four items would be available in the second half of July 2008, namely Liquid Plantstones™ made from Rosemary, Hyssop, Damiana and Caraway.

We presume that this will be a very good opportunity for everyone without enough time to work with intents to test and enjoy pure strength and interesting properties of above mentioned herbs and later become eventually attracted to do some intent by himself/herself.

It may also resolve potential fear and uncertainty of some of you, who might not be that familiar and skilled with charging and attuning Herbal Crystals™, so from now on you still would be able to try some of the Liquid Plantstones™ and enjoy the energy of pure herbs with the comfort of receiving finalized product.

Follow The Path Of Nature

Although Fulcanelli said the following words about the colour (from pp. 113-114 of the French edition of the Le Mystere des Cathedrales) - '... Follow nature, then, and obey it as faithfully as you can.' - It is pretty common in many of other traditional texts that nature should be followed in close way to be successful in whatever human deeds.

The funny question is, as you can see below, who is following who. While we set some herbs and spices in our porch of the house where production of essences, elixirs and plantstones is going on, the nature in the form of a nice and courageous bird setting up its nest right in the middle of herbs is following our initial placement and positioning of the pot.

Or is it that the order of the colours to be followed is as above, coming from black, through beige and white, then her gentle heat of the red results into emerald green? There is for sure something more coming up in the next couple of weeks and I will be pleased to show the final result ...

Update (6/05/2008): work still in progress ...

Update (6/17/2008): life coated in the emerald green has changed into gentle pink beige ...

Update (6/24/2008): yellow is already here ...

Update (6/30/2008): the first red hidden in the black ready to fly ...

Update (7/01/2008): the last three of musketeers and finally our nest is empty the same day ...