thank you very much
it's good to be here in Boston and thank
you very much for coming here tonight
hi hi yeah I teach film I make films
um
I would like to know I'm not a meditator
what does meditation can you say
anything about how meditation might
connects to your creative process or to
the might help the creative process of
my students or myself yes I can
will you yes I will
tonight's talk is consciousness
creativity in the brain
and if you have a golf ball size
consciousness
when you read a book you'll have a golf
ball size understanding when you look
out a golf ball size awareness and when
you wake up in the morning a golf ball
size wakefulness
but if you could expand that
consciousness
then you read the book more
understanding you look out more
awareness and when you wake up more
wakefulness
it's consciousness
and there's an ocean of pure vibrant
Consciousness inside each one of us
and it's right at the source and base of
mind right at the source of thought and
it's also at the source of all matter
and marishi Mahesh Yogi teaches a
technique called Transcendental
Meditation it's a simple easy effortless
technique yet supremely profound that
allows any human being to dive within
experiencing subtler levels of mind and
intellect and transcend and experience
this ocean of pure consciousness
this pure Consciousness is called by
modern physics the unified field
it's at the base of all mind and all
matter
and they now say modern science says all
of matter everything that is a thing
emerges from this field
and this field has qualities like Bliss
intelligence creativity Universal love
energy peace
and it's not the intellectual
understanding of this field but the
experiencing of it that does everything
you dive within and a transcending
experiencing this field of pure
Consciousness and you enliven it you
unfold it it grows and the final outcome
of this growth of Consciousness is
called enlightenment
and Enlightenment is the full potential
of all of us human beings
and a side effect of enlivening this
Consciousness is negativity starts to
recede
when I started meditating I was filled
with anxieties filled with fears
kind of a depression and anger
and I took this anger out on my first
wife and after two weeks of meditation
she comes to me and she says what's
going on
and I was quiet for a moment because it
could have been any number of things she
might have been referring to
um I finally said what do you mean and
she said this anger where did it go and
I didn't even realize it had lifted now
these negative things like anger and
depression and sorrow
their
beautiful things in a story
but they're like a poison to the
filmmaker they're poisoned to the
painter they're poisoned to creativity
they're like a vice grip if you were
super depressed you can't hardly get out
of bed let alone
think ideas have that creativity flowing
so
it's money in the bank to get that
beautiful Consciousness growing which is
Flowing creativity the ability to catch
ideas at a deeper level intuition grows
this field is a field of pure
knowingness you dive in there you sort
of just know how to go you know how to
solve Solutions it's like an ocean of
solutions and you you can just feel this
thing growing but the ultimate thing for
me is the enjoyment of the doing the
enjoyment of life grows huge
I love making films now more than ever
before ideas flow more everybody has
more fun on the set
creativity flows there's no people look
like friends and not like enemies it's a
beautiful beautiful thing and it's us in
Vedic science this field of pure
Consciousness is called Atma the self
the self of us all at that level as Dr
John haglin would tell you at that level
of life we are all one we're one
diversity up here Unity down below
it's it's a you'll it's a great thing
for the filmmaker
thank you
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