For five decades, literary journalists, psychologists and biographers have tried to unravel why Ernest Hemingway took his own life, shooting himself at his Idaho home while his wife Mary slept fifty years ago today.
There is a price to being creative that can drive a person to kill themselves; rarely do writers kill others, except with bad writing. Pain causes the living to want to die. The Talmud-Book of Law says, the pain of the spirit world is 60 times the pain of this world.
Being creative means, being connected to the spiritual reality that animates creation; bringing the spiritual world into the physical dimension through the channel of an writer able to interpret an inner vision into words accompanied by music in the form of cadence.
The conduit between heaven and earth is the creative person; the reward for being this conduit is pleasure – the essence of life is in the heavens and essence of heaven is pleasure. There is a distinct pleasure in being creative, a pleasure akin to sexuality.
Once having tasted the pleasure that flows unabated through the mind and heart of the creative person, all other pleasures are diminished. The spiritual world is vast, but to God the physical and spiritual are one – creation. God has great pleasure from creation.
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