nobody knows what to do; its beautiful.

-Michael Myrthil, while questioning reality itself.

Here’s the thing about your journey that is the most important tool you will ever have in your entire life: PERSPECTIVE.

Every element of your chosen creative passion relies on your perspective and perception of the world around you. The people with disconnected, crazy ideas are usually not active in their current moment and place the FOCUS of their consciousness on an apparatus that can translate the thought-energy into art. This is like when something bad happens in your life and all of a sudden you can write a award winning thesis about your problem, fueled on the negative feeling and based in the same origin of hurt. maybe a visual diagram will help you understand .

Back in maybe 2022 or early 2023 , i received a tarot reading from my personal astrologist and she made a point that still sticks in my brain every time i open a new canvas. “IF EVERYTHING IS ENERGY, YOUR MUSIC CAN FEEL WHEN YOU HATE IT”

in other words, think about it like nurturing a life. maybe if you have pets or younger siblings you’ll resonate with this, but getting angry and disappointed at your current ability is the same as rejecting what you have worked hard to learn already. in other words: you serve to gain more from positive reinforcement than negative ones. your work will turn out to be what you felt while you were making it. mad produces mad, but patience produces polish. if you have the capacity to treat yourself like a kid learning to ride a bike, you realize hating on yourself WHILE you create the art will only make you doubt your own abilities further.

ABSOLUTE ZERO

the recommended state for uninterrupted flow in any creation subject. what is ABSOLUTE ZERO? i call this the “Vessel State”. Imagine you looking at yourself from the top down, like a 3rd person video game with the camera focused on the top of your scalp. now zoom out a bit and imagine a see -thru glowing amoeba with long tentacles that was actually controlling your body’s limbs this whole time. that is you. formless you, now imagine instead of creating based on thought, you did the opposite. pure creation, no right or wrong way to do anything , you just begin making. you’re curious to see what will end up in front of you, and you don’t stop for a second. do not contaminate this process with thought or thinking, continue doing until you hit a still point. THEN, and ONLY THEN, you look and review on what you’ve made. Instead of comparing your art to what was conceptualized in your head, you’ve now conceptualized first, completely skipping the judgement part of the human analysis behavior imbued in all of our egos. This is ABSOLUTE ZERO, when you stop thinking of yourself and start watching your hands move on their own, this is the “Vessel State”. I’ve made my best songs in this state, and still dont know how i knew to do certain things so early on. sometimes it hits you right thru the ETHER, its up to you to learn how to translate what the godZ think you can handle.

THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO CREATE. ONLY A METHOD TO KILL YOUR ARTBLOCK.

TRUST YOURSELF, THE ONLY KNOWN BEING IN YOUR UNIVERSE

TREAT EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE AN UNKNOWN FACTOR. THERE IS NO CLEAR WAY TO TELL WHO IS IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING, EVERYONE TRULY MAKES THEIR OWN RULES AND WE RESPECTFULLY ALLOW THEM TO IMPARDON THOSE RULES ONTO OUR UNIVERSES. IN OTHER WORDS, DONT TRUST PEOPLE WHO SAY “YOU CAN’T DO IT ON YOUR OWN” OR “YOU’LL NEVER BE GOOD AT THIS” BECAUSE YOU CAN DO WHAT-SO-EVER YOU PLEASE. THE ISSUE IS YOU WILL NEVER BE GOOD AT THIS IF YOU SHOOT YOURSELF EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A CHANCE , IF EVERY TIME SOMETHING FAILS YOU THINK

“IM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN,”

THEN YOU HAVENT TRULY LEARNED FROM THE EXPERIENCE.

YOU CAN DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. IT WONT BE AS FUN. WE CHOOSE OUR EXPERIENCES AND NO LIFE IS LIVED THE SAME AS ANOTHER. EVEN IF WE ALL MADE THE SAME DECISIONS WE WOULD GET DIFFERENT RESULTS, AND THAT IS THE TRUEST PART OF EXISTENCE. NOBODY CAN REPLACE YOU, YOU ARE INHERRENTLY SPECIAL, AND WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER. LET THE UNIVERSE SURPRISE YOU, YOU HAVE LESS FUN WHEN YOU ASSUME A RULE OF THE WORLD TO BE TRUE, I READ THAT IN A MANGA ONCE. TRUTH IS LIVED EXPERIENCE. WHAT IS YOUR TRUTH?