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For this method I am deeply indebted to Swami Kriyananda, a.k.a. Donald Walters. He explains, “The most important thing at all times, when expressing oneself artistically, is to hold mentally before oneself the thought, or feeling, that one is trying to express.” Then one “should refer back again and again to this concept” during the act of creation.¹⁷⁷

The concentration must be complete, and the conception must be clear. Kriyananda says that thirteen Celtic songs came to him in two days and that if the process had taken longer, they wouldn’t have been as good.¹⁷⁸ He took three days to write eighteen melodies for Shakespeare’s poems and one day to write thirty-three melodies for his oratorio, Christ Lives.¹⁷⁹ In Crystal Clarity: The Artist as Channel, he says,

The relationship between a thing seen and the consciousness one experiences on seeing it cannot be a mental perception only. It must come from inner clarity, which involves one on deeper levels. The more clearly one’s whole being enters into the experience, the more crystal clear will be his expression of it.¹⁸⁰

In Writers Dreaming Isabel Allende says, “Books don’t happen in my mind, they happen somewhere in my belly.”¹⁸¹ We must become totally involved with what we want to express until we merge with it and at last become it, as Barbara McClintock did with her grain. She says that she identified so fully with her plants that she felt she had become one of their genes or chromosomes.¹⁸²