I've been a musician my whole life, since I was 7 years old. I hated it at first then when I was a teenager I started to play my favorite music and write my own music. I started to get into it. Fast forward a couple decades and I've sold a few million CD's, recorded over 60 CD's, written the score for over 100 TV, Film and Broadway plays. In the last 7 years I've received 6 Grammy Award nominations and numerous other awards. I'm love nature and am a passionate environmentalist and am a proud recipient of the Environmental Leadership Award from the United Nations. I get up at 5 in the morning happy to greet the sun and start a new day. There's nothing like being present and in the moment and nothing like spending a couple hours watching the sun go down and the stars come out. My music speaks for itself . . . check it out at www.peterkater.com . I don't check Tumblr much so if you want to get in touch with me, do so through my website.
Wishing you peace and love,
Peter
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Something from nothing, No-Thing
Peter,
I too have been blessed with creative & problem solving abilities. I do think that much of it is reflective of were I have been in life’s journey, this life and who knows maybe a past one as well. The thing that I know about creativity is that it does come from the God within us. The essence of whom we are. The stillness, the space, the nothingness.
But when I say nothingness I do not speak of “nothing” in the way we were conditioned to think of nothing, as in no value, but rather indescribably NO-Thing. When I am inspired to create, it is a feeling that is directly connected to Source. It is Source manifesting itself. The manifestation of the un manifest. I have had moments of inspiration that requires me to drop what I am doing and write what is being given. Sometimes so fast that I cannot hardly read my own writing until the cool down and refinement.
I consider creativity sacred and do not feel the need to change it much, but rather accept what is, as is. But there are other times that allow it to be an evolution or a sculpting of sorts. I look at my creativity as affirmation of Source & I as being one.
Every life may just be a well of creativity in it’s distinct unique way! Certainly when the I in me is in sync with Spirit, then my creativity reflects at higher degrees. I think that recognizing/celebrating your own creativity and that of others is recognizing and knowing what and who we are. Life! When I watch a sunrise or sunset or watch a bug or look at a rock, I am to a degree creating how it appears and what it means to me. But when I am present and aligned with spirit then what it means to the I in me is profound, clear and true, compared to what it means to the me.
Creativity is like the Native American flute, you don’t blow into it, you don’t try to play it, it draws your breath and when that happens, it plays for you. Our job is to be present, so it happens and that the I in me, the God within can experience all of it in its manifestation into form, from the un manifest formless, No-Thing :)
Thank you for your creativity :)
Carlos
