I was listening to a client of mine talk about how everyone can have a 'genius' within them. For myself I have a fascination with geniuses and like to spend some time reading their works (because if they were geniuses we certainly have a lot to learn from them). So in my previous posts I have often mentioned them e.g. Daniel (from the bible), to Emily Bronte the author of Wuthering Heights. So on hearing that I realised yes, perhaps everyone does 'have' a genius, but we just haven't nurtured it, cultivated it ... we probably will just allow it to remain dormant. If we don't use our gift, we can lose our gift, right?
As a child, I think many of us received inspiration which was never really harnessed or channelled into something that we say would become more productive or more prevalent in later year. With some children, however, their 'gifting' or 'talent' or 'genius' within them was cultivated, either by themselves, a teacher or a significant other (e.g. partner, parent, sibling, mentor, counsellor, etc). And that genius within them was allowed to flourish. Some of them became famous, others did not, but still like many of us the genius remains locked inside waiting for the 'key' to come and unlock it.
Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat, Pray and Love concurs that it's not about being a genius, but 'having' a genius. The Greeks called it Daemons (e.g. Socrates) and the Romans called it Genius (that is they acknowledged inspiration from another spiritual dimension). It's about ideas coming into us – as a source from the outside. Elizabeth believes it to be about a glimpse of God; personally I would not accept that everything is from God in the spiritual dimension, as there is light and darkness (Yin Yang principle if you will), but at least that wonderment and inspiration can have the germ of the divine within it, even if that germ only shows the wretchedness of man and his futile condition (as found in a lot of modern culture). This depravity of the human condition mystically shows a need for redemption and the need to rise above. Well, before I start losing you here I'll get back to the programme Elizabeth is on, and she says that the abilities we have are on loan to us, so use what we have got. Show the world your wonderment, have an olay olay experience. [Olay the Spanish word for cheering and applauding, coming to them via the conquests of the Moors who used the word Allah].
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