Creations Magazine

Talking Our Walk

Look at every path in life closely and deliberately and then ask:
DOES THIS PATH HAVE A HEART?
If it does, then this path is good.

~Carlos Castenada

With the August-September 2005 Back to School Issue, Andrea and I became the publishers of Creations Magazine. After ten years “in the books,” we have been the caretakers of this publication through more than a third of its now 28-year existence.

Learning an entirely new business in a field neither one of us had any background in, really was a “back to school” experience for us – more than twenty years after we had graduated college! Well beyond mastering the nuts and bolts of running the business, our real learning, however, is an ongoing process. While it’s certainly gratifying – and humbling – that our readers regularly thank us for the information and inspiration they glean from these pages, it is in fact, we who gain so much EACH issue from all our contributors – including those we are unable to publish! We are the ones who are educated, enlightened, inspired – and moved to share these gems with our print and online audience of 150,000. A full decade later, publishing Creations Magazine continues to enrich my life in ways I never could have imagined.

You do not hold a belief, a belief holds you.

What are today’s college students learning? Based on what I’m hearing on the streets – from highly intelligent young adults – it doesn’t appear to be original thought and critical thinking. Unfortunately, intelligence doesn’t always equate to consciousness. Seems many are being methodically conditioned to be the next wave of submissive followers, mindlessly parroting the Biotech and Big Pharma company lines: “GMOs will be the solution to eliminating world hunger.” “Most chronic / debilitating illnesses are inevitable. Arthritis, Diabetes, Dementia, Cancer, etc. – it’s gonna get you regardless of what you do.”

Really? Wow, these are chilling prospects. I guess I should stop eating REAL foods, throw out a healthy lifestyle and queue up right now for my multiple prescriptions, (drugs) which will NEVER CURE anything, but will most assuredly create a litany of new conditions (euphemistically referred to as “side-effects”).

This is what I’d like to see folks of all ages do: turn off the corporately-controlled TV news, put down the Left AND Right agenda-driven newspapers, and think for themselves. And, just as importantly, feel for themselves. Unplug ALL the noise (including great music) for an extended period of time every day, and experience some silence for a change. How many of you drive without music or talk? Who hangs at home with no background “enhancement?” It has become a rarity to see people NOT walking around looking at their hand-held device.

News is delivered mostly as sound bites, while graphics continuously scroll along the bottom of your TV screen. This constant rapid-fire sensory assault keeps us from carefully considering the information received, effectively eliminating critical thinking, and accordingly, accepting everything as absolute truth, without questioning any of it. It’s been drawn up this way, designed to keep us occupied and distracted, all day long. Sadly, the masses have been unconsciously complying for quite a while.

So what do you do instead? You go within. You access that “mysterious” ability (that only women are “supposed” to possess) called intuition. It goes by many other names: inner knowing, higher self, sixth sense, gut feeling. Regardless the label you ascribe, everyone can access this most useful tool when we quiet both our outer, and inner noise. You can choose from many forms of meditation or simply “be” in nature. Like any skill, it requires practice. And when it becomes a regular “practice” in your daily life, it will be well worth the effort, for your “higher you” always knows what’s best for you.

My educational vision in the shortterm, is for schools, at all levels, to evolve to curriculums of consciousness, emphasizing yoga, meditation, critical thinking, environmental stewardship, ethics, and kindness and compassion for all life forms. 1815 or 2015 – The Golden Rule is still golden.

In Peace & Gratitude,
Neil and Andrea

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