Ideas, our most common angels

For me, ideas are angels, devas, shining ones. Beings who move around us and through us at all times, searching for human collaborators. Someone willing to take on the charge and birth the etheric nature of the idea into physical form.

I like how Elizabeth Gilbert talks about it: “Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us – albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual. Therefore, ideas spend eternity swirling around us, searching for available and willing human partners. (I'm talking about all ideas here: artistic, scientific, industrial, commercial, ethical, religious, political.)”

In my own life, I have watched ideas move within a group of people. Moving from my mind, and in my lack of courage or attention to speak on it, swiftly moves to implant itself in almost exact wording into the consciousness of someone else in the group, who then voices it, giving the idea life, bringing into form.

Another place I love to see the movement of ideas is in art. My latest observation below, where three different artists, each using similar artistic form, circled around my awareness to bring this teaching on the movement of ideas into perfect example. As I later researched, this artistic style is called mannerism, which is a “‘stylish style’ because of the deliberately affected exaggeration and bending of the rules of scale and perspective, rather than a more realistic depiction.” Other artists known for their mannerist style are Annie Lee, Bua, David Garibaldi, Kadir Nelson, Maurice Evans and Doyle.

I marvel at the richness of the vitality an idea can have, where she asks for many volunteers.

The idea itself being too big for one mortal to channel through.