Spiritual concepts
Inspiration

Ideas, images, songs, tunes, and other data - information - may be stored in Memory but have been derived from the 5 senses.
Inspiration, on the other hand has been acquired by ignoring the 5 senses and going Beyond the Mind via spiritual experience.
The information so gained is also stored in Memory, but is not sullied by using the perceptions of the physical. It is, if you prefer, pure, direct from the source.
It may include tunes and music you have never seen before, or images and landscapes, views or worlds which are literally 'out of this world'. Never seen before .
This input is the very life blood of the poet, painter, writer, film director, games creator, and so on. This inspiration - a little glimpse into the realm beyond- gives them the impetus to create. What they create is thus inspired by what they have experienced, but they also have the gift to turn it into something we too can view and appreciate. Thus the people who are inspired are not the lesser for having 'help', they are more, as they have the gift of the 'seer' and also the creative and imaginative talent to turn it into a work of art - in its broadest sense.

Inspiration is spiritual, imagination is what we do with it.
Some ideas are gained by inter composer communication.
A bridge has been formed and unwittingly you have tapped into the mind of another. But where no bridge can have possibly been formed, you are tapping into a realm beyond the mind without any intervention from any other composer than your own.
As long as the image or idea is completely new to you, and is one you could not possibly have obtained via your 5 senses, then here we also have proof of spirit and proof of the existence of either inter composer communication or a realm beyond of functions, images and data.
It is virtually impossible to deduce which of the two are in operation as one person may - in an open state - 'receive' an image or some amazing glimpse of another reality, then go out and sneeze in your face, and a bridge has been formed and you pick up the same image. So we may never know how the idea got to us, it may wend its way on a long path from person to person, but if the idea is a total revelation, a view of a new and exciting realm, then the very nature of the input shows it to be spiritual.

By the law of conservation of data something never before seen or experienced must have come from somewhere. Star Wars, for example, may be actually happening.
But there may be a little boy somewhere who has tapped into this unfolding drama and whom George Lucas has cuddled and kissed and as a consequence, via the bridge he has formed with this little channel, is getting constant input. Both are spiritually open, both in a sense, inspired, but George Lucas can do something with the input.
Dante – The Divine Comedy – Purgatorio XVII
O faculty of imagination, which sometimes
Takes us so far out of ourselves, that a man
Does not notice though a thousand trumpets sound around him,
Who moves you, when the senses offer nothing?
A light which takes its shape in heaven moves you,
Of its own, or by a will which directs it down.
For details on How Inspiration works spiritually, follow the link.
The personifications of Inspiration within the Greek system were the Muses, again follow the link for more detail.
Observations
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- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 06
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 04 On spiritual experience
- Alain Danielou - While the Gods Play - Seers, rishis and the nature of inspiration
- Amiel, Henri - On inspiration
- Armstrong, Edwin Howard – The inspiration that led to the Superheterodyne
- Armstrong, Edwin Howard – The Vagaries and elusiveness of invention
- Arriola, Pepito - On the nature of inspiration
- Arriola, Pepito - Habanera
- Arriola, Pepito - I don’t want them to applaud me because I am a boy, but would rather have them come as real music-lovers to enjoy the music itself
- Arriola, Pepito - Music is, after all, only another kind of poetry
- Benjamin Rush on the diseases of the mind
- Beuys, Joseph - Backrest
- Beuys, Joseph - Head
- Beuys, Joseph - Honey Pump 03
- Bishop Campano – On the ecstasy of Marsilio Ficino
- Blake, William - Memory hither come
- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - The unsung Hero of Radio Communication
- Burt, Sir Cyril - Osses and blinkers
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 07 2
- Cardano, Geralamo - Wisdom, trance and going out of body
- Cassandra is inspired to write a poem that took the form of a lengthy epic
- Celtic - The gift of Awen
- Chuang Tzu - The Lost Pearl
- Chuang Tzu - The Prince's carpenter and the music stand
- Coehlo, Paulo - Aleph
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Preface to Christabel - On Plagiarism
- Count of St Germain - Music and painting
- Cyliani - Hermès dévoilé 1831
- Dawkins, Professor Richard - On inspiration
- Descartes, Rene - Causes of ideas
- Descartes, Rene - Discoveries in sleep
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - David Hume – The effects of inspiration
- Dickens, Charles - Hershman and Lieb
- Diotima – 02 Eros and his role
- Dr Kary Mullis - The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and astrology
- Dr Yang, Jwing-Ming – Qigong Meditation Embryonic Breathing - On the Shen
- Dunne, J. W. - An Experiment with Time – Dreams of the flying machine and its design he would invent twenty years later
- Edison, Thomas - Getting pictures of his inventions
- Edward and the compulsive, highly energetic mode that he calls his ‘painting frenzy’
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History - Reuse
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History - There is one mind common to all individual men
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Intellect - On inspiration
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Intellect - On inspiration and wisdom
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Intellect - The oracle comes, because we had previously laid seige to the shrine
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Over-Soul - Genius is religious
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - Inspiration, a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of its own nature, him it will suffer
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - Unlock your human doors and suffer the ethereal tides to circulate through you
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Antonio Pelotti and Baccio Ugolini
- Foo fighters - Saint Cecilia
- Foreman, George – Rebirth experience - 05 Hallelujah, I'm clean! HALLELUJAH, I'VE BEEN BORN AGAIN!
- Francis Crick - Discovering the structure of DNA via LSD
- Freddie Mercury - On inspiration and its source
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of Blake’s inspiration
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of inspiration
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of Keats’s inspiration
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of Kipling’s inspiration
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of R L Stevenson’s inspiration
- G N M Tyrrell - The Personality of Man – The nature of Wordsworth’s inspiration
- Genesis - Foxtrot - And a comment by Peter Gabriel
- Gnostic Gospels - Thunder [extract]
- Hadamard, Jacques - The process of invention
- Harlan Ellison on the nature of inspiration and on Frederic Prokosch
- Hobson, Dr Allan - Dreaming and its use in creative pursuits
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell - A familiar letter
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Yellow, Red, Blue
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Inner speech
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 12 Chapter Three
- Kay Redfield Jamison - Inspiration
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On the inspiration for art
- Koestler, Arthur - Janus - The nature of genius
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience - on to the gift of moksha and poetic inspiration
- Leibniz - A prophecy of our greater understanding of the systems of the universe
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 05
- Leibniz - The source of wisdom and inspiration
- Lethbridge, T C – ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The source of inspiration of Lord Rutherford
- Loewi, Professor Otto – Loewi’s dreams - The Discovery of the Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - And the controversy over La Vie des Termites
- Man Ray - Quote 02
- Mark Strand - The secret to flow
- Martin the child prodigy and the incredible states of bliss and awe whenever he surrendered to the inner music he felt pouring through his soul
- Montessori, Dr Maria - The Montessori Method - Modern science
- Mozart - Describing how he receives his inspiration
- Mudang spiritual experiences – Inspiration, improvisation and modification of a song to chase ghosts away according to the kind of ghosts
- Mullis, Dr Kary - The discovery of PCR
- Music Therapy - Nigel Hartley and the joy of improvisation
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - The Hidden Lake
- Nichols, Robert - Birth of a poem
- North Whitehead, Alfred – The nature of discovery and learning
- North Whitehead, Alfred – The nature of inspiration and rationalism
- Ouspensky, P D - Tertium Organum - On love
- Paul McCartney - Favourite Beatles' Song Came To Me In A Dream
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Illumination and the Light
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The role of intuition, inspiration and wisdom
- Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
- Philo of Alexandria - On inspiration
- Plagiarism - W B Yeats' story
- Plotinus - The Enneads - Train the inner vision
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Dream-Land
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Israfel
- Priestley, J B - Margin Released – The healing power of being engrossed in writing
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - The Mysteries
- Raikov, Professor Vladimir L - Psychic Discoveries – 11 Testing an aeronautics engineer- designing futuristically
- Riemann, Bernhard - On Inspiration and inner speech
- Rolling Stones - Behind The Song “Satisfaction”
- Russell, George William - The source of inspiration
- Rutherford, Lord Ernest - The process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art
- Sacks, Oliver - Assailed by colorful, sometimes violent, involuntary visual imagery
- Sacks, Oliver - Writing gave pain relief
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Imagination versus true experience
- Sales, Francois de - On free will
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Imagination and genius
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Inspiration
- Schulz, Charles - On inspiration
- Scott, Sir Peter - The process of inspiration in painting
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Trelawny describes how inspiration came to Shelley
- Sidis, William James - The Animate And The Inanimate - 12 Chapter Twelve
- Sikhism – Japji 36
- Sir Francis Galton - Hereditary genius
- Socrates - Describes Thoth
- Soddy, Frederick – Other examples of Soddy’s extraordinarily inventive mind
- Soddy, Frederick – Soddy's role as prophet - 01 Atomic energy, its enormous amount, its future release and its shattering impact
- Soddy, Frederick – The origin of the entirely new concept of isotopes
- Soddy, Frederick – The revolutionary thesis that atoms of the chemical elements were being changed into those of neighbouring elements
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan – A Theory of Inspiration and the need for Purification in order to obtain genuine Inspiration
- St Vincent - Talks about the teachings of Sai Baba & sings Actor
- St Vincent - Your lips are red
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The understanding of the ecstatic
- Stobart, Henry - A view from the Bolivian Andes – The inspiration from the sirens
- Stone, Ruth - The source of inspiration
- Tartini - Violin Sonata in G minor 'Devil's Trill Sonata'
- TED talk - Shekhar Kapur: 02 Transcript extract
- TED talk - Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
- Tesla, Nikola - On the source of inspiration
- The Divine Inspiration of Johannes Brahms - I and my Father are one
- The Healing Power of Sleep
- The Line of Intuition - Palmistry for all - Cheiro
- Traubel, Horace – Of Ecstasy, Bliss, Inspiration and Wisdom
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - The mystic force
- Tyrrell, G N M - The Personality of Man – Socrates and the nature of inspiration
- Voznesensky, Andrei - The poet is two people
- Watson, Lyall - Co-creation and evolution
- Watt, James - Discovering steam engine designs
- William Howitt - Happier far are those who are too humble for conceit and feel the guidance of angel-fingers
- Wim Wenders talks about making movies that matter
- Wordsworth, William - Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
- Yeats, W B - Anima Mundi - The source of inspiration and wisdom
- Yeats, W B - Per Amica Silentia Lunae
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Ego Dominus Tuus
- Yeats, W B - The Phases of the Moon - And now he seeks in book or manuscript What he shall never find
- Yerka, Jacek and Radoslav A Tsanoff – The Ways of Genius