A question after my own heart!

Gilbert's theory is also close to how it seems to me. I used to think that I created ideas or works - now I think that you RECEIVE ideas or works, and that those ideas or works are basically created by the asking of mass consciousness. So if some people are like "I wish there were a book about this, or that feels like this" (I don't know that people are asking for that in a specific way, or if it's an accumulated, vibrational asking... I'd guess the latter) then I think that thing comes into being in the vibrational realm and is out there for artists, who have their own accrued vibrational askings, to receive if they line up with it. So a book is a manifestation of both the artist and the audience! You as the artist are the channel through which the audience's manifestation can come into the world, while at the same time it's also your own satisfying creative manifestation. It's "I want to read a book that feels like this" meeting "I want to write a book that feels like this".

I am in a phase of something like writers block right now, I've stopped fighting it and am trying to just observe the process of change. I have noticed that when I'm in an aligned state, sometimes little pieces of work will stream in my head. It's like I can hear it being read aloud? I'm definitely not "writing" it or making it happen. At the moment, it typically vanishes if I turn my conscious attention to it. And I can't at all generate that state intentionally by sitting down to write. But I can dimly see how eventually, if you're in an aligned state enough of the time, you could essentially connect to the stream and take dictation.

I think artists in this flow state are receiving the complete, fully realized form of the work. But I think your own life experience and aesthetic preferences and skills all contribute to what you're able to align with and receive. Does that make sense? I think that an artist who is able to understand her own work is going to line up with "better" (whatever that means to her), more exact work than someone who is sort of receiving the work as a savant. I don't think that necessarily anybody could receive and write anything, or anyone could receive any painting, I guess is what I'm saying. (Although maybe it's just my belief that makes it so, and I could be a concert violinist if I didn't believe that it requires training and effort!)

I think everything exists as a fully realized thoughtform. It is a matter of tuning in. Bashar is pretty clear on this. http://iasos.com/metaphys/bashar/#Receiving Why should it be any different for artistic ideas?

Anyway, this thread reminded of:

A writer who sits down and writes a novel does not "think up" his story and his characters. He simply puts himself in the position of someone who is going to write a story, then he observes the thoughts and ideas that cross his consciousness. On and on they come and he rejects them, until finally there comes an idea which appeals to him. This idea he takes unto himself and examines and then accepts. Now...he is in the position of writing a story about a man who is alone on a desert island....on the stream of thoughts come...and now he is writing a story about a man who is marooned on a desert island by pirates. And so it goes...in no case does he "think them up." His entire story, once assembled and written, is simply evidence of the thousands of choices he has made from the thoughts that have streamed through his mind. He has not thought up a thing; he has simply exercised choice. His story tells you what he has accepted; nothing will ever tell you the millions of ideas and thoughts which he has rejected. - from Three Magic Words by U.S. Andersen

thoughts are in information
highways, as the winds blow them
our way some are able to
focus them into thought form

the idea is from the living one that you are. only the darkness(fear , ignorance, lack of knowledge) stop you from knowing this. the problem when you try to plant the idea in this world is the soil some time it will grow other time not. sometime you will make some choice when you plant your idea, you will ask good and pertinent answer, should I plant it here? is there plenty of light? will it grow? is the soil good enough? is the water good enough and is there plenty of water for this kind of seed? some time you lack knowledge since you never tried something new and you need to try it to see if it works.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear

Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times.

Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop--thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.

as for you son and daughter of man you should also decide how you plant your seed and how you water it, this will determine the kind of kingdom you live in.

as for other living one having the same idea then you have it will happen some will plant the same seed as you or similar seed that you plant. after all we where all created from the same image in the beginning and we all live in the creation of the creator. some time the world is not ready to receive and some other time it is. and some time only a fee can receive amongst the many.

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.

the well is deep and the worker are fee. do not be surprise that many are thirsty.

when one enter the wilderness and find is desert the place of solitude to be at peace, and with faith seeking the truth he can work on is own water and clean is cup inside, out. when the darkness is remove in the reflective part of the water he shall see the light. the light shall guide him in to all truth until both becomes one. then he shall be born again of water and spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbBmpaDBizA

Let there be light, be the light that you can, be experience and enjoy.