Colleen Mauro: Spiritual Telepathy
When I looked at his original sources, and read the full text of each interview, I discovered that many of the people we call geniuses talked about their creative process in exactly the way it’s explained in the Wisdom teachings—that it is through the soul that they had access to a universal flow of information and inspiration.
One of his sources was a book called Talks with Great Composers, written in the late 1880s by Arthur Abell, an American violinist living in Europe. Abell interviewed Puccini, Brahms, Strauss, Wagner, and other well-known composers about the source of their creative genius. As I read though the book, I was fascinated by the consistency of their experience. Each spoke of the soul as the portal to a universal source of inspiration. Once they were connected to this source, ideas and images simply flowed into their brains. I included many of these stories in the book. I’ve also included the experiences of writers, painters, and scientists.
The Wisdom teachings tell us that the downpouring of energy from the soul to the brain awakens new brain cells, and that creative leaps and inspired thinking can occur. I think Einstein is a great example. His equation E = mc came in a moment of inspiration when, in his words, “a storm broke loose in my mind and with it came the answers.” A friend later said that he had “tapped into God’s thoughts and tuned into the master plan for the universe.” After his death, pathologists dissected Einstein’s brain, looking for anomalies that would explain the source of his genius. He probably thought was that hilarious—the brain is simply the receiver—not the generator—of this experience. His many quotes including, “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge. . . . All great discoveries have involved such a leap” and “The mystical . . . is the source of all true art and science”—made it clear that his inspiration came from a higher source.
