All Are Creators: A remembrance for those learning to listen, speak, and become the Word

“Are all creators by virtue of being created?”

— from my undergraduate essay on Hinduism & creativity

There’s a sacred truth that’s been whispering to me for years — through books, through breath, and through the quiet call to speak what hasn’t yet been said.

I used to think of creativity as something to be practiced — a talent or a pastime that could be cultivated. But slowly, through study, teaching, and lived experience, I’ve begun to see creativity for what it truly is: a sacred force. A divine inheritance. A remembrance of who we truly are.

This truth was already emerging in my academic writing years ago — whether I was studying Hinduism, teaching creative writing, or writing a thesis about aliens and homelessness. Reading it back now — and revisiting Maharaj Raina’s article, The Character of Creativity: The Vedic Perspective — it’s clear that my soul was trying to speak through footnotes and frameworks.

Now, as a channel, guide, and teacher of intuitive development, I’m returning to those early insights with new eyes. What if creativity isn’t something we do — but something we are?

And if we are creativity itself, how can we live creative lives that manifest a beautiful world? 

We remember it.

Vāc: The Word That Created the World

In the Vedic tradition, Vāc is more than “word” — she is the Word.

She is goddess, vibration, spell, and spark. She is Saraswati before Saraswati. The Vedas say that Vac preceded creation, and through her, the cosmos was sung into form. All speech, poetry, mantra, and sacred utterance are echoes of her original sound.

To speak, in this view, is not just communication. It is co-creation.

“Poetry becomes the paradigm of the creator creating universes”  — Raina

What struck me even in my early research is that every human being is a product of Vāc and thus contains Vāc. If we were created by divine sound, then we carry that same vibration within us. We are not only made — we are also makers.

But are we always makers, or only potential makers until we take conscious action?

Creativity as Sadhana, Tapas, and Yajna

The Vedic texts describe creativity as a spiritual discipline — not just inspiration, but sadhana (practice), tapas (inner fire), and yajna (sacred offering).

This isn’t the kind of creativity that happens in a neat schedule with coffee and deadlines. This is devotional creativity. Wild creativity. The kind that burns you clean and births something holy.

In the Vedic view, the true creator is one who pours themselves into the fire of transformation — giving everything, not for recognition, but for remembrance.

“Yajna is re-creation. A person through annihilation of ego is reborn” — Misra

Creativity is not egoic expression but ego dissolution. The act of creating is the fire, and the artist is both fuel and flame.

In other words: You don’t perform creativity. You become it by dying a little each time. And in doing so, you make way for the Source within you to remember, speak, and create.

Dhi: The Flash of Intuition

Where Western traditions often speak of the “eureka moment” or “aha insight,” the Vedas give us dhi — the flash of intuitive vision that precedes speech, even thought. This is where channelling begins. This is where I meet the voice that isn't mine, but also is.

Dhi is sacred seeing. It’s not mental deduction, but perception from the inside-out. The Vedic poets didn’t invent their verses — they saw them, heard them, and received them.

“The poet… had the clearest and most enlivened access to an already existing yet perhaps unformed vision” — Mahony

Poetry becomes the paradigm of the creator creating universes. To speak clearly from the heart, to name truly, is to create. Words aligned with source generate — they don’t just describe.

This is why when we speak from the heart, act through love, and wish with sincerity, our creations arrive with greater speed and depth — because they are already aligned with truth.

Teaching Creativity as Teaching Remembering

One of the great joys of my life now is guiding others to access this state of sacred creativity.

It’s not about producing perfect work. It’s about receiving truth.

So now I realise that teaching channelling and teaching creativity are one in the same thing.

When I teach channelling, I guide my students to release their ego, release their mind, detach from thoughts and personal feelings and opinions (even if they remain present on some mild level) and amplify the feelings of love and peace within themselves. What this achieves as a first step is to help the person feel the presence of their truest self, which is always aligned with Source. Because there’s no such thing as separation (no such thing as time or space) this alignment with Source is always a remembering – no matter which being you may credit the words to. 

When teaching creative writing, I used to teach the frameworks, the expectations, the clashing of seemingly unrelated symbols that I considered to be creativity itself. But what I was really doing was creating little rules and tracks to allow the ego to let go and surrender: as if the mind can say, “Oh, well I ticked that box, stayed in those lines, so now I can flow from here”.

As any of us faced with a blank canvas understand, having no prompt and no rules can feel annihilating. And that annihilation can lead to “creative blocks”.

And it's the same with learning to channel: when you have steps and protocols, you have these neat permission slips to bring through the divine force. But it's always possible to live in creative, channelling flow.

So, if we stop resisting that existential angst of the white space, and give ourselves permission to be creativity itself, then that annihilation is precisely what takes us deeper into flow, into Source. Indeed, I think the best things I ever wrote, I wrote while "out of my mind" in flow.

Creativity, in this context, isn’t a skill. It’s a birthright. It’s a pulse of the cosmos waking up in you, because creativity is a divine mirror of cosmic creation where every act of creation mirrors the first act — the creation of the cosmos.

The Vedas treat human creativity as a fractal echo of divine will. The poet, artist, or visionary becomes a channel — not the originator, but the realiser of what's already latent in the field.

Thus, creativity is an act of sacred remembrance. It’s not about making something new but about re-constellating truth into form.

The Listener as Co-Creator

In the Vedic vision, creativity isn’t complete until it is received. The concept of sahrdaya — “the one with heart” — describes the sacred role of the listener, the reader, the witness. The one who feels the truth of what you’ve spoken and brings it alive again. Creation, then, is not a solo act. It’s a conversation between the seen and unseen.

This is the kind of communion I believe we’re here for — not performative art, but co-creative awakening.

I’ve seen this unfold again and again — in the comments on a video that felt divinely timed for someone’s awakening, in the energy of a group call when someone is brave enough to speak up and others feel it in their bones, in the quiet shiver that comes in a reading when I’ve just spoken someone’s secret dream out loud.

The receiver is not a passive audience. They are a participant in the re-creation of the sacred.

And so I ask you gently:

✨ Have you felt the call to move from witness to channel?

✨ Have you sensed there is something ready to speak through you — not as a performance, but as an act of devotion?

✨ Are you ready to stop asking for signs… and start becoming one?

We are not only made of the Word. We are here to become it.

Conclusion: All Are Creators

To create is not a privilege of the talented. It’s a remembrance of your essence. To speak from your soul is to let Vāc rise again. To listen with your whole being is to become a sahrdaya — a sacred witness. To walk the path of devotion, imagination, and surrender is to become the flame in the fire of creation.

We are all creators — not in spite of being created, but because of it.

Circle of Light

If you are ready let go and release the Word, you are warmly invited into Circle of Light — a living space for those ready to remember how to speak with the divine. Here I teach channelling in a practical group space of loving witnesses and creators.

And for those called to go deeper — to walk the devotional path of mastery, expression, and service — there is Crown of Light. You'll know if this is your next step.

In the Vedic tradition, Vāc is more than “word” — she is the Word.