Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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the flow of a creators energy into something she creates, and why completion may be important

[laflamme]

Dear ArchDruid,
This is an exploratory question.
When meditating on the three druid elements, I was pondering over how with intention and imagination we can impart energy into an object. For example, charging water. I recalled reading in one of Caroline Myss’ books about a native American tribe that believed that when a person creates something they put some of their own life energy into the object. It was the tribal belief that to start a creative undertaking while ill or elderly was a very dangerous thing that required permission of the tribes medicine man’s, or medicine woman’s, permission, because if the person died before the item they were crafting was completed, they would themselves be incomplete, their life force would be somrhow sundered, and their spirit might not not find its way.
It occurred to me that even if a person does complete a creative effort, it is true that some of their energy stays with that object: yet if the object is completed before death, this is not seen as a problem.
To finally get to my question: what is so important about the act of completion, as far as keeping the creators energy / life force intact? Do Druid teachings or any of the other traditions you are knowledgeable in have anything to say on this issue?
Thank you,
Gunnar

Re: the flow of a creators energy into something she creates, and why completion may be important

[ecosophia]

That may have been true, for complex cultural reasons, for members of that tribe. As far as I know it's not generally true. Certainly nothing in any of the traditions I've studied supports that idea; rather, creativity isn't something you do with your own energy -- it's something that flows through you. The ancient Greek idea that creativity is the product of the Muses, who are goddesses, and who grant it as a gift to the individual, seems more relevant to me.