The great philosopher and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said that “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” So saying, he added his own affirmation to the postulate that inspiration comes from within. Just as your connection to spirit is an internal connection.

How else could it possibly work? Indeed society will try to instruct you that god or spirit is an anthromorphic manifestation that sits on a throne in the sky. So if god ‘wrote’  the bible,  just how did this work? He wrote it out with his own hand and tossed it down to Earth? Or did he sit with a cosmic megaphone, dictating it to some poor slob on Earth, shouting;

“IN THE BEGINNING…”

“Huh? What was that? Slow down please, I’m still om the first page of the begats…”

 I love Dr. Wayne Dyer’s analogy that, if god is like the ocean, then we are each a glass of that ocean water. If we are all part of god or spirit or consciousness, (whatever overburdened term you like) then we each have our own source and connection back to that spirit and that is the source of our inspiration.

Indeed, society will instruct you until you can’t see straight. It will give you memes and all manner of blocks and knots to keep you from your own inspiration. Then solitude may actually be necessary to still the voices of society and to hear your own inspiration again.

“When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer-say, traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep-it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and more abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.” W.A. Mozart.

I guess he would know.

We see that this is mostly consistent with the examination in the previous post but we have a new element introduced here; that of not forcing the ideas.

It’s clear that Mozart knew what frame of mind was conducive to his inspiration and it also seems he knew what situations would create this frame of mind.

The question then is; did Mozart not set a mental intention to write a new work of music prior to his inspiration?

Making his living as a composer it’s hard to believe that such thoughts didn’t cross his mind.

Did he think; ‘I want to write a new symphony,’ and then release this intention by deliberately turning his thoughts elsewhere, trusting that his inspiration would come?

Thus we come to the first lesson of Inspiration On Demand which is that the word demand, in this context in a misnomer.

You ‘demand’ things from Spirit by allowing them.

“…when we’re inspired, it’s because we’re back in-Spirit, fully awake to the Spirit within us. It was in-Spirit that our purpose was laid out, and it’s in-Spirit where our magnificence is absolute and irrefutable.” Dr. Wayne Dyer