The One Source
This month’s quote, taken from the 13th century poet and mystic, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi carries profound philosophical, spiritual, and even psychological meaning. For writers, artists, or anyone involved in creative expression, the quote affirms the belief our voice is not just an echo—it carries the resonance of something much larger. Our work, no matter how personal, taps into a universal current. As with most currents, it often shifts in response to sudden change or when awareness is reawakened within us.
When my mind is free of attachments and unnecessary clutter we often view as obligatory, I can focus on what matters most – life. Lately, the idea of writing again, and I mean bona fide, get back to the time when I was younger and wrote my little fingers off, has resurfaced in a big way. In many ways, the spaces I now write from were born from the same feeling: a contemplative but persistent call to create, even when the words did not come easy.
For me, writing has never been a straight path. It’s full of restarts, rewrites, and reframing. But over time, I’ve realized what matters most is not how polished my content is — it’s the willingness to begin. To say, I’m going to do this, even if my confidence is running low or my last attempt left me feeling stuck. The heartbeat of every story, no matter what its level of popularity, is the willingness to continue writing it because you believe in it, even though you are aware it may not go anywhere.
I have also learned resiliency is less about pushing through and more about returning. Returning to the page, to the process, to the parts of ourselves we have tried to tuck away. Writing will test and frustrate us—but it also has this way of holding up a mirror to show us how far we have come.
Our stories change because we change. This is not a flaw—it’s the point. The spaces where I write are a place for this kind of evolution. A space where the creative imagination can stretch, shift, stumble, and strengthen. A place where it’s okay not to have it all figured out.
This sentiment is one I have carried with me since I began writing creatively at the age of 12, which helped propel me forward and begin writing the first concept of what is now The Sy’Arrian Legacy Series. When I presented my first prologue and chapters to a co-worker at the first state agency I worked for in the year 2000, I was put on the path of learning what the craft of creative writing is truly about; presenting the familiar in a way which forces us to look at it differently, sparking our inherent desire to seek out new stories.
Along the way, I’ve taken the necessary time and embarked on appropriate side quests to refine The Sy’Arrian Legacy Series as I have sharpened my understanding of the craft from emotional, educational and spiritual frameworks. Although this may sound a bit clinical it is far from it. My life experience stems from the application of a wide array of philosophical approaches, which I employ on a daily basis to keep my mind healthy; Zen, the Tao, and the Toltec wisdom as I learned from The Four Agreements. If anyone has read even a small number of my blog posts at www.gregorydcurrent.com they know how such approaches influence our creative endeavors.
It has been three weeks since I took the necessary and very difficult steps to address my video gaming addiction. The first step began with admitting I have one, while the second put me squarely on the battlefield between what I knew had to be done and the it is not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be persona attempting to dissuade me by pretending to be logical.
The irrational mind disguised as rational fought me the entire time even after I permanently deleted and shut down my Steam and Uplay accounts, effectively erasing roughly 100 games I had accumulated over the course of a couple decades. This does not include time spent playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) beginning with Everquest, then moving on to Everquest 2, City of Heroes/Villains, Lord of the Rings, Aion, Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Rift. The sheer volume of time spent playing these games staggers me as I write this paragraph, yet I do not have regrets. Why, you ask? Because it is in the past and what matters is the present.
Let me be frank given the written word can sometimes paint a picture of relative simplicity, when it is hardly the case. I will not blow sunshine up your asses because it has been extremely tough. When we remove a piece of us, a habit, which has dominated our time and mind for so long, removing the instruments of our addiction is just the beginning. It is a small step, albeit a very important one on a path where the mind will attempt all sorts of cutesy pie shenanigans to convince you there is no problem. It will attempt one coup after another in its refusal to surrender. I feel fortunate to have already been practicing Zen and other practices, which focus on self-reflection prior to making the correct decision to put my writing first and take the very painful steps to rid myself of what has prevented me from doing what I love most.
Since reverting back to the time when I did not play video games, my creative mind, which had been perpetually blocked behind a bulwark of attachment masquerading as being in control, has burst from its imprisonment and the breakthroughs I experienced when I attempted to quit video games at the beginning of 2025, pale in comparison to what I have experienced recently. One of those breakthroughs is what this post is really about.
Much like me, the Sy’Arrian Legacy Series evolves over time, and rarely do I consider it refined to such an extent that is does not require fine-tuning. If anything, writing any story, especially with the scope of my series, demands self-reflection and implementing changes where it makes sense no matter how big or small. A key consideration with any change requires us to ask the question; is it worth it? In this situation it is, indeed, worth it.
Over the epoch of the Sy’Arrian Legacy’s creation, I have progressively cultivated my vision for how the Sy’Arrian’s touch the primary elements of fire, water, air, and earth with the fifth element comprising what I refer to as the binding component, allowing for extraordinary abilities to manifest in those who touch them.
In my original concept, under my previous title for book one to the series, The Dark Traveler, this binding element had been poeir, the French word meaning to be able. After further reflection and background development for the series, I settled on Akasha, which fit both ideologically and spiritually with how I see the Sy’Arrians using their abilities. This concept will now be changing one last time.
The One Source came to me as most significant insights do, through other sources who serve to inspire and support me in the development of the Sy’Arrian Legacy universe. During a recent visit, my ex-husband, Jared was mentioning some YouTube channels he was following, whose content I had always been interested in but never pursued because, well, I was always playing video games in my free time. Two channels in particular he recommended were Ask the Spirit Guides and Sterling Psychic Medium.
During the course of our conversation about these and other channels, he mentioned many in the psychic community and Sterling’s own channel mention The One Source, which is the ONE divine power from where everyone and everything originates and merges. This Divine power is an infinite mass of energy, the proverbial white light. The creator of all. We are all scattered molecules of this vast colossal cosmos. Nothing is outside and beyond this Source (Self, Soul, Spirit: The Source by Indubala Kachhawa). He mentioned in what I construed a casual way, it could be something I could put in my story, potentially replacing how I use Akasha.
I acknowledged his suggestion in my own casual way, saying it was a good idea and did not give it much thought for a few days, until I decided to conduct my own research and what I learned hit me squarely in all the dynamic interaction regions of my brain. What really stood out and ended up being one of the final considerations was a line in the Self, Soul, Spirit: The Source article linked below. In describing The One Source, the article mentioned, before and after our physical existence, this is our elemental, fundamental, and terminal dwelling.
So, April 2025 will serve as a point in time where I stopped using Akasha in the Sy’Arrian Legacy Series to describe the binding element of the other primary elements and adopted The One Source. For the first time since creating my universe, I finally feel confident and content I have picked the most accurate descriptor of this binding element. More appropriately it not only fits into how the Sy’Arrians view their connection to The One Source but my own as well. We are all part of the ONE whole, the Source. This fits perfectly into the lore and overall framework of The Sy’Arrian Legacy Series.
In closing, I want to circle back to the beginning quote, which flips a common metaphor. Instead of viewing ourselves as small and insignificant ("a drop in the ocean"), it suggests each of us contains the whole of something vast and powerful within ourselves—that we embody the very essence of the greater whole. I encourage you to take this to heart as life’s journey opens up to you.
Until next time, your moment of Zen is to talk less, do more and be humble. This will allow wisdom to take hold and give you the ability to help yourself, while being effective in helping guide others to take their journey towards living in the moment.
Be safe, be well and let us continue to hone the fine art of creative writing.
References
Ask the Spirit Guides
https://www.youtube.com/@askthespiritguides
The Four Agreements
https://www.miguelruiz.com/the-four-agreements/
Rumi Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
Self, Soul, Spirit: The Source (Indubala Kachhawa)
https://medium.com/spiritual-secrets/self-soul-spirit-the-source-6211ef985be2
Sterling Psychic Medium
