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It is common, after you’ve been working awhile, to feel a loss of contact with the Unified Field. You will notice when it happens: the flow will sputter into spurts, and you yourself, the small ego or I, will intervene to help, making up the words, advising the forms or colors, suggesting an additional chord or note. When this happens, as it will, stop what you are doing. Close your eyes and reconnect with the form.

Swami Kriyananda relates an experience of revising a paragraph, again and again, without being able to get the words right. He stopped to meditate, and the correct words came in a flash to him: words entirely different from the ones he had been trying to manipulate when he was less connected.

In Crystal Clarity: The Artist as Channel, he explains how he has written music that expresses the spirit of a certain place, such as the Holy Land:

If my mental definition was sufficiently clear, the melody has come, usually instantly, and has seemed completely appropriate not only to me, but to others who had visited those places with me.

If, on the other hand, the melody wouldn’t come to me, then instead of worrying at it from the musical end, I would work at clarifying my mental image. Once the image has been crystal clear, the melody has come of itself.

I have never known this method to fail. It is why I insist with so much faith that one tune in, artistically, to the reality to which one wants to relate, whatever that reality, and then give it meaningful expression.¹⁹⁵

You “hold” your idea “mentally before” yourself and keep returning to it as your act of creation “progresses.”¹⁹⁶ You ask yourself, “What is trying to happen here?” “What is trying to express itself here?” and “What is the center of it?”¹⁹⁷ You have clarity when you have “one-pointed concentration,” but “Nothing can be accomplished in the arts without complete attention, any more than a camera will take clear pictures if the lens is out of focus.”¹⁹⁸