Creating and the Void

by White Feather

Seeing through an illusion is one thing, but does that in and of itself dissipate the illusion? Can the illusion still be there after seeing it as such, and can it still have power? How do we overcome illusions, where they no longer have any power over us?

When we walk through life we set up the entire landscape which we walk through. It sounds easy to simply no longer give it energy, but we must also create a new landscape to walk through, or else the old one keeps popping back up. We see the old landscape pop up and we wonder why. It will continue to pop up again and again until it is replaced with a new illusion.

An illusion not only has the power given to it in the moment but also the collective power given it over time. An illusion solidifies for us when we have reinforced it over and over. If we keep giving it any energy at all, it won't go away. How solid is our new way of looking at our landscape? Our minds don't like to let go of our landscapes because it fears having nothing to walk through. The void is what we fear and that is why we create a landscape in the first place. But it is in nothingness where we connect with our entities, and it is from that place that our creative abilities are unlimited. In there we don't have to paint over existing landscapes. We have a blank canvas. That is why the void is the best place to create. Most create from within their landscape, and there is nothing wrong with that. It is just easier to create from a blank canvas and blank mind. There are no impediments and nothing to erase before beginning.

The truth is that all creation takes place from this void, but by the time the creation is materialized it is filtered through our existing landscape, so it can barely resemble the original creation. That is why so many creations don't turn out the way we intended. If we can get into the void and stay there long enough to allow the creation to be complete, we can then bring it right into our landscape. When it is brought in pure like this it becomes our illusory landscape, but it is an independent creation free of our control. If we are still in the process of creating and recreating it, then it is not finished and it still has power over our attention. Once we have finished a creation in the void and bring it into our reality, it is birthed and is no longer ours. The trouble is that we do not let it go. It is like a child we birthed, but once it is birthed it has its own life and we must allow it to have its own life. When we don't, then it gets stuck in our landscape and we can't seem to get rid of it when we want to.

So our landscapes are filled to the brim with half-completed creations and almost-completed creations that we won't let go of. We can see this, but until we let them go and go back into the void to create a new landscape, then nothing seems to change. When we bring a new creation into our reality we must immediately let it go. If it stays to color our landscape or if it leaves to find its own life, it doesn't matter. We can create a new landscape by going back into the void. We can create a new landscape for each new day--but not if we're still holding on to the things already in our landscape. It is not a matter of overcoming illusions, but rather a matter of giving life to the illusion and setting it free; of acknowledging the illusion's right to exist and acknowledging our choice to either hold on to it or let it go. These illusions are like lovers; let it free, and if it was meant to be, it will return to grace your landscape. If it doesn't, it wasn't meant to be a part of the landscape. We are afraid of letting our illusions go just as we are afraid of letting our lovers go; we're afraid we'll be all alone in the void. But alone in the void is where we can connect with our entity, and it is where we can continue to create. That is why we stop creating, because we are afraid of the void so we hold on for dear life to the creations in our landscape that we first began creating long ago, but which we will never grant completion.

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