Dear Wisdom:

Thank you for posting these last posts and asking me the questions you asked. I will go point by point:

1) “do you think it’s important to share our creativity? like, is it a necessary thing to do? i usually refrain from it because i always feel like something would be taken away from me and then given more credit if someone else tried to translate what i was trying to convey.do you think anyone is capable of taking our brainchildren away from us?”

I think I used to think this way… I no longer do. I am thinking about this right now… I used to think that things I was thinking, things that occurred to me were special in the sense that no one else was thinking it. I did think that I was the only one with this or that idea. But then I found out that I was not. I found out that if I think it, someone else already thought it. And later I found out that there are different levels of knowing something and when you know it deeply and then share it, the person reading it doesn’t get it on the same level. They may say: “I know this already”- but not know it deeply. Or they may say: “I never thought this”- and although it is something new to them, they soon forget about it.

So, no, I really do not think your creativity can be taken away from you, nothing that you think can be taken away from you. Any “brainchild” you have, once you express it, you will give birth, figuratively, to more brainchildren. So in sharing a brainchild, not only will it not be taken away from you, but you will have more.. and more brain children as a result of sharing the one!

2) “or maybe if you hold on to something for too long, would god take that as we’re not using it and then gift it to someone else?” No, I don’t think god will take your brainchild away and give it to someone else, not at all! But if you don’t share your brain child, that one brain child will not multiply and become more and more brain children. Sharing one will give birth to more, as I often share myself: the more we see, the more we learn, the more there is to see and to learn.

3) “and what would you say is the signifigance of dreams? would you say they are foretelling or a hodgepodge of what’s left over in our minds?” No, I do not believe dreams foretell the future, not at all. Of the two options you brought up, I say: hodgepodge, definitely hodgepodge.

4) “and are other people rewarded better than others? sure there’s people that are less fortunate, but i believe there are gifts even in that.” Rewarded by god? No, I don’t believe people are rewarded or punished by god. As you know, some honest, kind people suffer and bad things happen to them and other dishonest, cruel people can have fun and good things happen to them. This fact eliminates the reward/ punishment by god argument for me. On the other hand, when you choose to do what is effective, reasonable, wise… you will most likely experience positive consequences for having done it. When you choose to do something ineffective, unreasonable, unwise, you will most likely experience negative consequences.

Please do post again with your thoughts about these four points. Lots of material here, so take your time…

anita