Steven Pressfield

But the other side is that where do ideas come from?

They don't come from us.

They come from someplace else.

And so I'm definitely a believer that we live on the material plane here, but there's a plane above us.

And we're trying to communicate to that plane, and that plane is trying to communicate to us.

And our job as artists, like if we were in a monastery or something, the move from here to here would be called prayer.

But if we're artists, the move from here to here is like the invocation of the muse.

It's kind of saying, give me an idea.

Help me, you know.

And one, we on the material plane put ourselves at the service of this higher plane, of our illumined self or whatever you want to call it, the Jungian self, whatever we want to call it.

And

Try to channel it as best we can.

And our job here is to be, in terms of being a pro, is to sort of be ready to take that voltage as it comes in.

And like Beethoven could play on the piano what he was hearing in his head.

So that's our job.

We have to be able to know how to produce that in material form, whatever that is.

But it's coming from another place.

So I'm absolutely a believer that there are higher dimensions, and there's probably a lot of higher dimensions.

And I think the Greeks were really kind of onto something, and the ancient Greeks and their concept of the muses and the various gods and goddesses that are interacting with this material plane that we're on.

That's a way of anthropomorphizing it.