Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” There have been many millions of words written about the creative process, few of them very illuminating. The reason is not hard to find. The process is intimate and personal and characteristically takes place not at the level of full consciousness but at subconscious or preconscious levels. It has been inaccessible to study largely because we have not yet found any means for controlling it. Many effective scientists and artists have learned a few techniques which may reduce interference with it, but no one to my knowledge has discovered any means by which one can set it in motion at will. It is probable that the fundamentals of the creative process are the same in all fields, but in those fields in which an advance in knowledge is sought, there is an additional requirement—or rather, one requirement receives particular emphasis. This is the need for a large store of knowledge and experience. The broader the scientist’s experience and the more extensive one’s stock of knowledge, the greater the possibility of a real breakthrough. The creative process involves a scanning or searching through stocks of stored memories. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

There seems to be a rather sharp limit to the possibility of very significant advance through voluntary, logical scanning of these stores of memories. For one thing, they vary enormously in their accessibility to conscious recall and in the specificity of their connections, so that reliance upon conscious, orderly, logical thinking is not likely to produce many results at this stage, however essential such procedures become later in verification. This scanning is typically for patterns and complex associations rather than for isolated units. It may be, however, that a small unit acts as a sort of key to a pattern. What seems to happen, in creative efforts in science as well in every other field, is that the individual enters a state in which logical thinking is submerged and in which thought is prelogical. Such thought is described as random largely because it typically tries seemingly illogical and distantly related materials, and it often makes major advances in just this way. It is not fully random, however, because it is goal-directed and because even in this preconscious work there is appropriate selection and rejection of available connections. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

This stage of the creative process is accompanied by generally confused or vague states of preoccupation of varying degrees of depth; it is well described as “stewing.” It is this stage which apparently cannot be hurried or controlled. Although termination of this stage (finding a solution, or “getting insight,” as it is often called) quite frequently occurs in a moment of dispersed attention, it apparently does not help to induce a state of dispersed attention in the hope of provoking a quicker end to the process. It should be added that, while insights do frequently occur “in a flash,” they need not do so, and that the process is the same whether or not the insight turns out to have validity. To acquire the necessary store of knowledge requires long and difficult application, and as science advances, the amount of information to be assimilated becomes greater and greater, despite increasing generalization in the organizing of the data. Obviously, as more experience is stored and as the interconnections become better established and more numerous, the scanning becomes more effective. Such interconnections develop more and more readily as the process of acquiring experience takes on significance in the light of theory. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

This process requires not only the basic capacity to assimilate experiences but very strong motivation to persist in the effort. If one is to continue with a search which may for a long time be unproductive, strong motivation is also required. Motivation of this kind and strength derives from the needs and structure of the personality. Its sources are rarely obvious, although they can sometimes be traced. They do not necessarily derive from “neurotic problems,” although they frequently do. When they do, it is no cause of dismay. They ability of the human being to find in a personal problem motivation for a search for truth is one of the major accomplishments of the species. If past experiences have brought about a compartmentalization of the storage areas, so that some portions are partially or wholly inaccessible, obviously the scientist is limited in one’s search. Compartmentalization of particular areas may even result from personal experiences of a sort that lead to neurotic structures generally, or it may result from specific cultural restrictions, such as political or religious indoctrination. The extent to which such indoctrination will inhibit creative effort, however, depend upon how close the inaccessible areas are in content to the problems at issue. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

We have fairly conclusive evidence that political indoctrination need not interfere with inquiry into mathematical and physical science. Religious indoctrination can interfere strongly at any point, as history has documented very fully for us. The conclusion is no different from the basic principle of therapy: the more areas of experience there are accessible to conscious and preconscious thought, the better are the prospects for creativity. Once an apparent answer to the scientist’s question has been found, there is still a long process of pursuing and checking to be gone through. Not every human who can produce new ideas is also good at the business of checking them, and of course the reverse is also true. It is in the utilization of such personal differences as these that a “team approach” can make sense. If independent learning is implementation of fascination with imagined possibilities, then we must be concerned with the imaginative mode of experiencing. We already know much about the perceptual mode of experiencing, but imagining the “imaginative consciousness,” is less fully understood. To imagine means to transcend the here-and-now, to shut off the perceptual mode and invent new possibilities that thus far cannot be perceived by anyone. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

The possibilities exist in the imaginative consciousness of the experiencer, and it is for one to “real-ize” these and make it possible for one and others to perceive in actuality what before existed only as one’s image. The free imagination, like freedom itself, is a threat to all status quo. The free imagination appears to make intentional learning (rather than passive, associative conditioning) possible. The learner, even in a schoolroom, is animated by an image of a future, possible being that is not yet attained. A good pedagogue will seek to vivify and intensify this image—the image of what is will be like when one can read, or count, or play the piano. “Can you see yourself as the life of the party? Would you like to be? Then enroll now.” The dull child, the one who resists teacher’s efforts to teach, is often the one whose imagination has been turned off because the possible being it could disclose is frightening. Or one’s World is so threatening one must stay in the mode of perception, lest a danger appear. Imagining is dangerous because it means a cessation of vigilant scanning. The teacher who turns on the dull pupil, the coach who elicits a magnificent performance from someone whom it could not have been expected, are people who themselves have an image of the pupil’s possibilities; and they are effective in realizing their images. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

Good leaders, who have a vivid image of possibility, produce followers in whom this image is awakened; and the followers achieve remarkable feats, on their own. The art of challenge needs to be better understood, but it does seem to entail the ability to awaken a sleeping imagination to fascinating possibility and the possibility of becoming fascinated. Good models are able to awaken the images of desirable lifestyles to make a productive attractive. Good gurus are able to awaken the imagination of possibilities in the experience of their followers. Beyond awakening the image of the possibility, the good guru is effective at challenging a person to commit oneself to realize the possibility. It is often a long and discouraging voyage, to make an envisioned possibility actual. A friend, parent, teacher, or guru may help the independent learner make one’s way by offering courage, encouragement, and support in the face f blind alleys, setbacks and failures. Many people have the capacity to imagine possibilities, even fascinating possibilities; but they stop their pursuit after a failure or two. The helper will offer the support which keeps the seeker seeking and trying. The seeking is what is applauded, not solely the successful attainment. Many people will neither imagine nor try, because they cannot be guaranteed a visible success. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

Where are the Gurus? People who relate to others in a confirming, authentic, challenging, and encouraging way seem to be agents in fostering independent learning in others. Likely, too, they are themselves independent learners, animated by imagines of possibility that they are themselves actualizing. Imitation of admired role-models (hero worship) is certainly an influential factor in everyone’s development, and we should not underrate the importance of this in our deliberations. Indeed, how admirable, heroic, growing, and seeking in fascination are the available Others in our society?  Who wants to be like one’s father? One’s mother? One’s schoolteacher? If the young people of today are any illustration, they seem to be hell-bent on pursuing an image of a possible being that is portrayed for them by the publish of GQ magazine. The human who has the latest fashions, expensive watches and cars, date exotic models seems to inspire independent learning (of how to look like one and behave like one) than do the professors of introductory psychology, or the teachers of third-grade social studies. The suave and debonair GQ model is a false messiah. He may not be an authentic guru; but he turns people on. So, of course did Billy D. Williams, Chico DeBarge, Brad Pitt, and Shawn Mendes—but Jesus awakened people too! #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

If the Establishments in society can tolerate gurus, I wonder? If schools, homes, industry, politics, and business will permit people to be turned on to projects of their choosing, I wonder? Independent learners rock the boat. True education, as opposed to training (which is essential), is by definition subversive. Education liberates individuality: it frees and strengthens autonomy. training constricts: it reduces variance; it diminished freedom and lessens autonomy. We cannot ignore the fact that education is a political act, or, better, the embodiment of the politicization of youthful minds. However, it is also a tool essential for enlightenment. Every society needs educated people, and gurus; or it will shatter from its own rigidity. Do we have any? Do we have enough? And are they honest? There are two ways whereby help is given by a master to one’s disciples. The first is a conscious one whereas the second is not. And it is the second, the apparently less important way, which is really the commonest one. Just as the Sun does not need to be aware of every individual plant upon which it sheds its beneficent life-giving growth-stimulating ways, so the master does not need to be aware of every individual disciple who uses one as an example. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

Yet each disciple will soon realize that one is receiving from such activities a vital inward stimulus, a real guidance and definite assistance. This result will develop the power unconsciously drawn from the disciple’s own higher self, which in turn will utilize the mental image of the master as a channel through which to shed its grace. What the master gives by way of personal example and verbal precept is only the beginning and not end of what one can give. The silent inward transmission is even more important. To the extent that the teacher helps in the growth of a disciple’s inner life, one shares in it. Teacher and student share each other’s World. When the impact of one’s physical presence is absent, the power of one’s spiritual presence may become plainly evident. The gracious image of the master will reappear constantly before one’s eyes. And one would rather have its magical presence, together with the rebuke that may come with it, than not have it at all. One feels vividly at some moments, but only faintly at other moments, that the master is in the background of one’s life. One will not only feel the master’s personality as if it were somewhere near or close together with one, but will also absorb inspiration from it and add some of its peace to one’s own. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

One draws into one’s very being these noble influences emanating from the master. Wherever one may be, the intelligent disciple can create inner contact with one’s master by finding the latter’s mental image within oneself as a deep vivid and actual presence. Mystic Union of Master and Pupil: The best way to follow a teacher is to possess yourself of one’s spirit. The rest will take care of itself. When the disciple’s maturity meets the teacher’s grace, the path to spiritual attainment is really opened up. The disciple is bound to the guide with a bond of inner attraction which, without the consent of destiny or the guide oneself, one cannot break! How the mind depends on the will—this is true in a special manner with the will (spirit, heart). We have already noted how the will is totally dependent in its functioning upon the contents of the mind (thoughts, feelings). It is not possible to choose, which is the function of the will or spirit, except in terms of thoughts and feelings. The will is hemmed in by what our thoughts and feelings actually are at the time of willing. However, now we need to develop further the idea that our thoughts and feelings also have a crucial dependence on our will, on out choice. The soul will lead one by stages to itself. Hence it may lead one to reverence for some scriptural personage or to a stronger devotion to God. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

The attraction to a teacher is usually someone’s yearning to meet someone who can lead the closer to God. God can be reflected in some people because the divine’s existence opens a channel to His power. The notion of pure spirit inspires people to focus their thoughts on something worth aspiring towards, something that is immediately recognizable as a path to salvation. Our yearning for God is the prime value of the human ideal. What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish to seek and feel. The condition of our minds is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set. There is a kind of back and forth here, which is very important to understand for our purposes of spiritual formation. Obviously, the thoughts and feelings that the will depends on in any given moment of choice cannot be changed in that moment. However, the will or heart can change the thoughts and feelings that are to be available to it in future choices. It is because of this tat we are responsible for our character. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Our character is that internal, overall structure of the self that is revealed by our long-run patterns of behaviour and from which our actions more or less automatically arise. It is character that explains why we use credit reports and resumes and letters of reference to make decisions about people. They do not just tell what someone did, but they reveal what kind of thoughts, feelings, and tendencies of will that person habitually acts from, and therefore how one will act in the future. However, character can be changed. And that, of course, is what spiritual formation in Christlikeness is about. It may be, for example, that in a certain situation I have injured someone (possibly a loved one) by speaking or acting in anger. Domestic violence is a sad fact of life and is found in many forms the World over. However, in a reflective moment I also may be remorseful and ask myself if I really want to be the kind of person (have the character of one) who does such things. If I do not want that, it will be necessary to change my thoughts and feelings. Just resolving “not to do it again” will be of little use. Will alone cannot carry us to change. However, will implemented through changing my thoughts and feelings can result in my becoming the kind of person who just does not do that kind of thing anymore. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

Of course we must, if we would change, be in possession of whatever those thoughts and feelings are that will enable us to choose to change precisely those thoughts and feelings that brought us to abuse our loved one in the first place. And if they are to be adequate to our spiritual needs, the former thoughts and feelings ultimately must come with repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The remedy to the human situation must come from the impact upon the human mind and will of the good news of Jesus Christ under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The human mind and will must be transformed through interaction with thoughts and feeling deriving from the Word and the Spirit. This will make it so that the Infinite Power does not seem too inaccessible nor too exalted to be mindful of human needs, and make our Lord more approachable. Focusing on the Word and Spirit of the Lord will also allow us to more quickly get help from the God within. Here will arise the need of a Symbol, to which our hearts can yield loving devotion and on which our minds can practise intense concentration. When we focus on God’s will it allows us to detect our true self, and hear its voice in conscience, sense its presence in intuition, as the infinite wisdom of God personifies it in the body for our convenience, inspiration, and assistance. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

Everyone needs affinity with God for He embodies the disciple’s conscience. Jesus is the Door to our Heavenly Father and salvation. When we focus on being more Christlike, this established a properly controlled, wisely directed imagination which is a powerful assistant in spiritual exercises. We will be determined to live as we are meant to live, and to be as we are mean to be. Truths are decayed from among the children of men. As from one man’s face many likenesses are reflected in a mirror, so many truths are reflected from the one divine truth. However, if we speak of truth as it is in things, then all things are true by one primary truth; to which each one is assimilated according to its own entity. And thus, although the essences or forms of things are many, yet the truth of the divine intellect is one, in conformity to which all things are said to be true. The soul does not judge of things according to any kind of truth, but according to the primary truth, inasmuch as it is reflected in the soul, as in a mirror, by reason of the first principles of the understanding. It follows, therefore, that the primary truth is greater than the soul. And yet, even created truth, which resides in our intellect, is greater than the soul, not simply, but in a certain degree, in so far as its perfection; even as science may be said to be greater than the soul. Yet it is true that nothing subsisting is greater than the rational soul, except God. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

“And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words unto Nephi, and to those who had been called, (now the number of them who had been called, and received power and authority to baptize, was twelve) and behold, he stretched forth his hand unto the multitude, and cried uno them saying: Blessed are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom I have chosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your servants; and unto them I have given power that they may baptize you with water; and after that ye are baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost; therefore blessed are ye if ye shall believe in me and be baptized, after that ye have seen me and know that I am. And again, more blessings are they who shall believe in your words because that ye shall testify that ye have seen me, and that ye know that I am. Yea, blessed are they who shall believe in your words, and come down into the depts of humility and be baptized, for they shall be visited with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and shall receive a remission of their sins. Yea, blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

“And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God. And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. And blessed are ye when humans shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; for ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in Heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to the salt of the Earth; but if the salt shall lose its savour wherewith shall be thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of humans. Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Behold, do humans light a candle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house; therefore, let your light so shine before the people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfil; for verily I say unto you, one jot nor one tittle hath not passed away from the law, but in me it hath all been fulfilled. And behold, I have given you the law and the commandment of my Father, that ye shall believe in me, and that ye shall repent of your sins, and come unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit. Behold, ye have the commandments before you, and the law is fulfilled. Therefore some unto me and be ye saved; for verily I say unto you, that except ye shall keep my commandments, which I have commanded you at this time, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, and it is also written before you, that thou shalt not kill, and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment of God; however, I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with one’s sibling shall be in danger of one’s judgement. And whosoever shall say to one’s brother, Raca, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if ye shall come unto me, or shall desire to come unto me, and rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee—go thy way unto thy brother, and first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I will receive you. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

“Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with one, lest at any time one shall get thee, and thou shalt be cast into prison. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence until thou hast paid the uttermost senine. And while ye are in prison can ye pay even one senine? Verily, verily, I say unto you, Nay. Behold, it is written by them of old time, that thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery already in his heart. Behold, I give unto you a commandment, that ye suffer none of these things to enter into your heart; for it is better that ye should deny yourselves of these things, wherein ye will take up your cross, than that ye should be cast into hell. It hath been written, that whosoever shall put away one’s wife, let one give her a writing of divorcement. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away one’s wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whoso shall marry her who is divorced committeth adultery. And again it is written, thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths; but verily, verily, I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by Heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the Earth, for it is his footstool. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

“Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair black or white; but let your communication be Yea; yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever cometh of more than these is evil. And behold, it is written, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, that ye shall not resist evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to one the other also; and if any human will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let one have thy cloak also; and whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with one twain. Give to one that asketh thee, and from one that would borrow of thee turn thou not away. And behold it is written also, that thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy; however, behold I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven; for he maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Therefore those things which were of old time, which were under the law, in me are all fulfilled. Old things are done away, and all things have become new. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

“Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in Heaven is perfect,” reports 3 Nephi 12.1-48. As the day wears on, keep before my eyes, Shower of the Way, the path of the Holy Ones, that I may not forget that it is to them that I have dedicated my life, so that every action may be an offering to them. O Lord our God, bestow upon us the blessing of Thy festivals for life and peace, for joy and gladness, even as Thou hast graciously promised to bless us. [Our God and God of our fathers, accept our rest.] Sanctify us through Thy commandments, and grant our portion in Thy Torah; please give us abundantly of Thy goodness and makes us rejoice in Thy salvation. Please purify our hearts to serve Thee in truth. In Thy loving favour, O Lord our God, let us inherit with joy and gladness Thy holy [Sabbath and] festivals; and may Israel who sanctifies Thy name, rejoice in Thee. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who hallowest [the Sabbath and] Israel and the seasons. The tears of the dawn still sparkle on the grass as I begin my day. God of beginnings, please bless my beginning. Please open paths before me, make easy the way. May I go through the day with ease and end in thankfulness. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

Mills Station at Cresleigh Ranch 

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Residence Three at Mills Station boasts 2,394 square feet in this expansive two story home. There are three bedrooms, with the option for adding one more bedroom, two and a half bathrooms, and a two car garage plus workshop! The charming front courtyard welcomes you home and the high ceilings and thoughtfully designed floor plan let you know that you’ve made the right choice with Cresleigh. You can fully embrace the indoor/outdoor lifestyle so organic to Northern California with a covered patio located right off kitchen with sliding glass doors on all three sides.

The den on the first floor provides a private office if you work from home or play room for the kids to be nearby while offering an option for a bedroom on the first floor.

The kitchen comes fully equipped with a large eat-in island, stainless steel appliances, and quartz counters. The openness in the design allows the Great Room and kitchen to interact with each other seamlessly. https://cresleigh.com/mills-station/residence-3/