Interview with Arupa Tesolin | Sound Authors Radio

November 27, 2008

Dr. Kent: Welcome back to the show. Today is July 4th, it’s an Independence Day show and my next guest has a great thing called The Spark. It’s a good thing for today; we’re all thinking of sparks, explosions, and fun noises. Tonight we’ll see the fireworks. Welcome to the show Arupa Tesolin.

Arupa Tesolin: Hello, how are you?

Dr. Kent: Very good. Now your book is called Spark: Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity and Create Anything. Tell us about that.

Arupa Tesolin: Spark is kind of a different book in the sense that it’s a book about personal innovation, which means how we actually create things and the role we play in creating anything. That’s why the title is raise your mind to the power of infinity, because that is the backdrop of the creative process. The spark is actually what happens when you start to create anything and you set about a chain of events in the world around you to start bringing you what you imagined you want to create.

I was very interested in looking at that side of the creative process because we know a lot about what goes on outside that creative process, but that first spark, which is the most creative thing we know less about. By being more conscious about it we can actually leverage different kinds of results.

Dr. Kent: What do you do on a daily basis? I know you coach and consult, what does the spark have to do with your daily practices?

Arupa Tesolin: I operate an innovation training company so we’re doing training for organizations on innovation and intuition skills and a lot of the skill sets that deal with the creative side of human beings as they gather together in a business enterprise. So we conduct spark training programs and another set of programs called TING Training, which is after my intuition book and surprisingly if you listen to intuition you do business better called TING. So that’s what I do. I’m more of a consultant trainer speaker than anything else. The coaching comes in through the consulting process.

Dr. Kent: Your website and the book itself are so bright. The spark is whether a sunflower on the website or the bright orange of your book. Is it a positive thing for people? How does this change a company’s life? A person’s life?

Arupa Tesolin: Well we have to realize that there is an immense power that we have literally at our fingertips with engaging the creative process. It affects everything that comes after and that’s what’s so exciting about it. I was interested in how the creative process works since I was very young. I used to have a creative laboratory hidden in the bricks in the wall outside my room and in that creative space living laboratory I could create different things. And I realized I didn’t have to just create one thing or another, I literally had an imagination laboratory and that’s what the book spark is advocating.

We have to take hold of the power, whether we’re ourselves individuals, whether we’re going after business or having our own careers and literally we look at other people that have different lifestyles and maybe some inventors or creative people who seem to be quite adept at creating things and we long for that sort of thing. So by taking a look at what’s actually happening inside the creative process, we can start to take on parts of it for ourselves and do better with it. That’s got a big payoff in organizations who are interested in doing more innovations because that adds to their bottom line.

For people, it’s a thrill to be able live the life you conceive of because most people cant see after tomorrow. Their tomorrow looks exactly like the day before and the day after but once they realize, hey this is actually being creative because of my thoughts today, then something clicks in and I think we’re mature enough as a society now to really start looking at what’s happening inside the creative process. There were great people that preceded us in the guise of different masters, different gurus, and different spiritual leaders who always said, we have all this power and we’re starting to look at it. And through other people and books like this starting to look at what this means for us and how to use it.

Dr. Kent: What exactly is this spark? Let’s say a family celebrating the 4th of July; dads got the day off work; he works in a business somewhere; what’s the spark for him?

Arupa Tesolin: What the spark for him is “what do I really want to be doing and how do I create that?” It can happen right at this moment when you’re listening to this program you can actually decide that this is what you want and to take the spark process. As soon as you make the commitment to something, everything starts off as an image, a vision, and as soon as you make a commitment to it, the heart enters in and says yeah, that’s what I want, I’m committed to this. But you have to in the spark stage, that first step actually determines all the outcomes. It determines the complete construction and destruction of what you’re doing.

It’s important to hold a fully finished image. In other words to envision that you’re already there. That you’re already doing what you want to do or having what you want to have. It’s already there; it’s just like you go to the tap for a glass of water. You turn on the water and you know that waters going to be in that glass. That same level of certainly when you’re creating an image in knowing that in that point in time which we call the spark, that you literally set a change into motion in the universe, beyond form, to start forming around that image, that thing.

Dr. Kent: Tell me a little, the spark of course we know so well. We always talk about every fire starts with a spark. There’s so much attached to that in culture and obviously that’s the core of the theory. Talk about the beginning.

Arupa Tesolin: That spark, that’s the ignition point. When you start your car, without the spark the car doesn’t go anywhere. All of the adventures you have after your car don’t happen unless that ignition goes off. In a similar way metaphorically that spark is that beginning point. That beginning point and what I’m advocating with the book is that we start doing it consciously. That we’re conscious when that spark happens and we put ourselves in a space where we can create in the greatest way with awareness and intelligence at that time.

Then that phase actually ends pretty quickly and you kind of have to let go of things. Most people they’re either telling themselves either the reason they cant have a certain thing or they’re re-imaging the day before yesterday so it comes into their life tomorrow. And spark is all about teaching people to look at what’s really real. If we know that everything our eyes see, everything we perceive through our senses is actually attached. That spark state where you only see an image in your imagination, that’s a living presence and understanding that requires a real reorientation to the way we think and the way we expect results to happen.

Dr. Kent: What are the five senses? You write about the five senses; what role do they play?

Arupa Tesolin: Hearing, seeing; what the important thing is what you see is already dead. You’re seeing the skin on the outside of people’s faces; that’s dead skin, its coming off. The real growth is happening inside. Same thing if you look at an organism’s tree. The real growth is happening inside, it’s literally invisible and that’s the same thing metaphorically as with our spark point.

Its invisible, you can’t see it yet. It’s going to come out later and it’s learning to work with that. And then there are different stages that happen after the spark and you learn to sort of be patient while you cant see anything but if you continue to expect that its going to happen, it makes it a lot easier over time. It’s more about conscious creating.

Dr. Kent: Let’s talk a little bit, I only have about 30 seconds left, but on Fourth of July my favorite things were sparklers. Can you make a metaphor about sparklers with your book?

Arupa Tesolin: Mine too, I remember. Sparklers, little ideas from sparks. Basically to set a goal is to limit infinity. That’s a good sparkler. And I hope if nothing else you remember that. To set a goal is to limit infinity. In other words you can have anything you want, as soon as you limit infinity to that thing that you want.

Dr. Kent: That’s a lot like when I read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It says, “It’s easy to fly. You just fall and miss the ground.”

Arupa Tesolin: Yeah, that’s a good analogy.

Dr. Kent: It’s just a different way of thinking about it.

Arupa Tesolin: Exactly.

Dr. Kent: It’s been an honor speaking with Arupa Tesolin. Her book is called Spark and her website is intuita.com, and if you go \spark, you’ll find out about the book. Thank you so much for being on the show.

Arupa Tesolin: Thank you for your invitation. Have a great independence day.

Dr. Kent: You too. My next guest on the show is actually a good friend of mine. Its an honor to every once in awhile to be able to indulge in that opportunity so come on back, we’re going to listen to just a little bit of a song that he recorded. It’s called Tina, and it’s from his album called Ilijic. He’s a Serbian pianist and here’s a little bit, actually a full track from that album called Tina.

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