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INSPIRATION
Writers and visual artists have also reported this
experience. As Ralph Waldo Emerson explained in
his 1844 essay The Poet, “It is a secret which every
intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the
energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he
is capable of a new energy . . . a great public power
on which he can draw . . . by unlocking his human
doors . . . he is caught up in the life of the Universe.”
And Leonardo da Vinci stated that “The painter’s
mind is a copy of the Divine Mind,” and “the painter
has the Universe in his mind and hands. . . . Where
the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no
art.”
We also have examples of this experience in the
business and scientific worlds. Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita, one of the world’s
largest manufacturers of consumer electronic
products, believed his extraordinary success was
due to his ability to access kongen, a Japanese
term meaning the “the root or origin of universal
energy.”
Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 came in a moment of inspiration when, in his words, “a storm
broke loose in my mind and with it came the answers.” Einstein, a friend later said, had “tapped
into God’s thoughts and tuned into the master
plan for the universe.” After his death, pathologists
dissected and probed Einstein’s brain, looking for
anomalies that would explain the source of his genius. But Einstein— who wrote, “There comes a
time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge. . . . All great discoveries have involved such a
leap” and “The mystical . . . is the source of all true
art and science”—made it clear that his inspiration
came from a higher source.

The bridge between the
soul and the lower mind is
built through the practice of
creative meditation.
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The bridge between the soul and the lower mind is
built through the practice of creative meditation.
As we project our attention upward day after day,
we anchor small threads of energy that will eventually, thread by thread, form a bridge to the subtle worlds. When we have the ability to bring the
treasures of the subtle worlds down to earth, we
join the ranks of those people we call “geniuses.”
Imagine the inspired writing, the beautiful works
of art, the groundbreaking inventions, and the new
healing techniques we will bring to the world as the
soul in each of us unfolds.” This is the future that
awaits us, a future where each of us will become an
“everyday genius.”
This material was reproduced by permission
of Quest Books, the imprint of The Theosophical Publishing House (www.questbooks.com)
from  Spiritual Telepathy  by Colleen Mauro. ©
2015 by Colleen Mauro. Colleen Mauro was the
founder and editor-in-chief of Intuition Magazine. She can be reached at http://www.spiritualtelepathy.net