Where do creative thoughts come from?

My theory (and it's just a theory, mind you) has two parts. 

1:  that creative thoughts are constantly swimming around us in the ether or astral, depending on how you look at it.   They're like radio signals.  The person with the mind in tune with and most open to those thoughts receives them.  This would work especially where inventions and advances would be concerned.

2:  creative thoughts are incubated within the fertile darkness of the subconscious mind, and are synthesized/ assembled within the conscious mind.

Of course, it can always be a combination of the two.

Ever write poetry? For me, it's a dance (you got it, titmouse_) between my conscious and unconscious, playing back and forth with ideas, suggestions, emotions, all kinds of stuff. Most from "below" really, sometimes from "me" (ego?). I think there's more when important, world-changing discoveries are involved.

starling thinks he can rhyme
present shining words sublime
listeners throw eggs
and everyone begs
"Why don't you learn how to mime!"

That fits in with the first half of my theory.  I was actually thinking along the lines of technical stuff, inventions, etc. 

And like Capitan said, the ones that spring forth from our inherently creative subconscious minds are beyond control, so they're to be feared and squashed at all costs (according to the hive mind).

Man, creative thoughts don't come from anywhere... you think them, so they come from you.. I can't imagine anything or any thought for that matter that isn't creative, although some of us more than others do like to regard most things as rather sterile, dull, and unemotional.

Uncreativity has a source, creativity just *is*.

All thoughts are little packets of energy...created by the mind.  Like seeds they reproduce after their own kind.  They blossom and bring forth fruit..  From whence do these creative thoughts originate?   You will know by their vibration.  If not you will know by their fruit.

On a more macrocosmic level,  but still close to home,  the Ascended Masters have opened  the doors of the etheric retreats to souls who are ready.  Millions.  Those retreats exist in the etheric planes above physical locations on the earth.  Lake Titicaka is one of those places.  There are several others over the North American continent,  Luxor Egypt,  Arabia,  Himalayas,  and several others throughout the world.   In the distant past, many of these retreats were anchored in the physical plane during golden ages.  The ultimate culture prevailed where divine ideas were manifest everywhere.  Creative thought sprang from the well of the Divine Mother within a majority of the people and manifested as a beautiful culture full of inspiration.  Those divine 'citizens' walked the walk in communion with the inner Self and their spiritual teachers.  But by and by these retreats were withdrawn from the earth plane.  The people in those times gradually fell into a lower state of conciousness and slowly turned their backs on their spiritual teachers.

   So the law demanded that karma be their teacher and the Adepts withdrew.  And the focuses of light were withdrawn...  some to mountain fastnesses, some to etheric planes.  This happened to each in their time over a very long period.  The forces of division and strife had thrust their dark wedges into every area of life including science and religion [which were in harmony during the peaks of golden ages] until eventually great cataclysms destroyed the lands completely.  Atlantis was the most recent upheaval over 10,000 years BC.     Americans are those Atlanteans returning and some are bringing forth inventions from the Atlantean experience.  Many are bringing forth inspired literature, poetry, art, healing arts, medical discoveries[the good ones], breakthroughs in  psychological thought,  parenting,  systems and ways of doing things which serve the human and soul needs in everyone.  And lets not forget the personal breakthroughs in many areas of our own lives.   A lot of this creative thought is being inspired in us by visiting the inner retreats in the etheric octave as we sleep.  It is then remembered  in "dreams" and is filtering through from the inner/higher Self into our outer conciousness during waking hours as inspiration and guidance.  All this is the basis for a golden age to return to earth in America and the world. 

At the same time, the most recalcitrant Atlantean souls,  who caused the degradation of Atlantean culture and the wholesale destruction of society are also returning to embodiment in modern America....  Rebels who acknowlege no higher law, bar their own will,  people who believe they own their fellow travellers.  Where do their 'creative' thoughts' come from?  I think we've got a pretty good idea about that.  Our society in the physical plane is supposed to be the foundation of the pyramid of our life... upon which we can support each other as we rise in conciousness.    If that foundation is destroyed how can the edifice rise?    Creative thought is emanating from the all seeing eye which is again re-appearing in ourselves.  But how can it re-appear in society as a whole as it was in past golden ages?  The black hats say it can't and it must not.  We have to say that it will and prove it within ourselves, the true point of connection to the All God.