The Process of Creation

One idea I've come across many times is that

Creation is a continuous process.

I would have a difficult time coming up with a statement more profound. This simple statement can be interpreted in many ways:


- Creation is ongoing
- Creation repeats itself in an endless cycle
- Creation spawns creation
- The universe is continuously recreated from moment to moment
- Creation is unlimited
- Creation is a contiguous, unbroken process

In fact, ALL of these interpretations are correct. And if we look at them more closely, we can find deep meaning in our existence, and the exciting revelation that our destiny is one of infinite, dynamic growth.


In "Science and the Akashic Field" (a recent inspiration for Deepak Chopra), Ervin Laszlo rationally explores the idea of a sea of energy and knowledge that is the wellspring of our physical reality. It is equivalent to the so-called quantum vaccuum or zero-point energy field that is gaining credibility in the scientific world. Laszlo's "A-Field" represents a more fundamental level of reality. One that is infinite and enduring. It explains all the unexpected connections we see. (Laszlo calls this "coherence.") It explains several important things:

- Everything is connected in a very meaningful way.
- There is a permanent record of all happenings in the universe.
- Because information is preserved, the universe always proceeds forward. There is unending dynamic growth.

These are joyous revelations! We can rest assured that our soul is eternal, and one with a greater existence, and that we personally, and as part of the whole, have unlimited creative potential for new experience and growth. This may simply be an affirmation of your own inner truth. I think most of us realize that nothing truly has meaning unless it is infinite and enduring. It is comforting to realize that in the deepest level of reality, no experience, no knowldege, no act of kindness, no expression of love is ever forgotten.

The process of creation itself is something few people have a firm grasp on. Most of us believe that to create something, we start with nothing, and add on what we think needs to be there in order to realize what it is we set out to create. This is exactly the opposite of what really happens! When we consider that we each contain infinite divine potential, then we realize that creation happens by starting with everything possible and then subtracting to create what we have imagined. Bernard Haisch, a prominent astrophysicist, explains this idea in his book "The God Theory", using the metephor of a slide projector:

"Turn it on without any slide inserted and project the pure white light onto the screen. That white light contains the potential to create every image you can imagine -- your Thanksgiving family gathering, your trip to the Rockies, your high school graduation. Every one of these images, and an infinite number of others, are contained in potentia in the formless white light flowing from the bulb to the screen. All you have to do to project the picture you want is to put in the slide that subtracts the proper colors in the proper places. The white light is thus the source of infinite possibility, and you create the desired image by intelligent subtraction, causing the real to emerge from the possible. By limiting the infinitely possible, you create the finitely real."

Haisch goes on to propose that consciousness is also infinite, and our brains work like a filter, subtracting from the infinite potential to produce what we experience as our own individual consciousnesses. Haisch cites cases of brain "impairment" through injury, drugs, or a meditative delta-wave states, where new, incredible perceptions and mental abilities appear.

There is evidence all around us of a universe that works by limiting the inifinite potential to create the reality we experience. It works on every level, from the subatomic to the entire universe itself. In quantum physics, particles exist in every possible state at once (in what physicists call "superposition"), until an observation is made, at which time they "decohere" to a specific, measurable state. Physicists are now trying to harness this capability to produce "quantum computers" that have the promise to be infinitely more capable than today's classical computers.

Recently, the well-know physicist Stephen Hawking, and Thomas Hertog proposed a model of the universe that is exactly like quantum superposition, but on the level of the universe itself. Basically, the universe exists in all possible states until we observe it. At this time, the universe "collapses" into a measurable state, with a history compatible with our observations. The universe is thus recreated from instant to instant. It also implies that the present creates the past, rather than the other way around!

The same process works in evolution of all kinds (biological, evolution of thoughts, technological progress, etc). Out of an infinite potential of ideas, a "selection" is made that is most consistent with what "works" or what we imagine to be the truth. This process of creation works every day when you form a vision of what you'd like to accomplish. You explore many possibilities to achieve that goal, work hard, and reject everything not consistent with that goal, keeping you on the right path until you achieve your vision. This is the "crudest", most physical approach to creation, but it works just the same.

A more esoteric and graceful approach is to once again realize your divine potential. All possibilities, all knowledge, already exist for you. You do not have to work hard to find them because they are already a part of you. By creating a vision in that context, you create an expectation for the universe, which collapses out of infinite possibility to meet that expectation. You may have heard of this before, explained as the "law of attraction." It is one and the same process. It is the process of creation.

It is very easy to deny this process, even when it works. This is because when the universe of infinite possibility collapses into an observed reality, it always does so in a way that is consistent with our classical notions of cause and effect. So, when we observe the final outcome and the chain of events leading up to it, everything will appear to have a perfectly reasonable explanation! It's no wonder that the "law of attraction" is hard to observe, even when it's happening all the time. However, when we open ourselves up to the grace and ease of creation that is part of our divine nature, so many good things "happen" to us that we must attribute it to more than good luck.