What is imagination, and why is it so valued in today’s society? We abstract as pictures in our minds, our flesh, and somehow that is supposed to be a good thing. But then can it become a distraction in itself and what are we programming into our flesh as such imaginations and abstractions about things? After all, we become what we practice. Can it become so utilized that we no longer sense the wisdom of the togetherness of all things? What good is imagining something if we forget the togetherness of all things as creation itself?
I find from my childhood the stories I read and was read to, have tended to influence my seeing, meaning that I look for the stories in the world around me as though they have some form of value, which is an interruption from seeing what is that which creates as that togetherness of all things, which I would call real wisdom. How can I know that if I am imagining some ideal about how things should move, to end up forgetting how things move for real? Imagining is of pictures, while the togetherness of all things, the wisdom of things being in sync are of much greater fulfillment. One is like real food and the other a product that leaves one feeling empty and lost.
The real question is as to how one steps from being too much imagination and at the same time sharing the difference with others. Does one have to use abstract stories about things, to show the loss of remembering the togetherness of all things? It would mean patience and a great steadiness, one so stable there would be no question as to the difference. It is, at the end of the day all about focus. A projection is a flimsy thing, composed of spiraling symbols that generate a cross current in the chest, like that cross that is the cross of religion. A superimposed grid that spirals and has no real sustenance. What does it mean to master the focus of what one allows in the space that is here as what it is that we are in fact as physical life. And why are we so separated from the physical, so many systems separating us from the physical as public schooling and religious worship, all boxed systems with false lighting. I remember after the death of my husband I forgot to use my car lights at night on the roads. I was stopped by police twice to be told I didn’t have my car headlights on. I don’t remember needing them, I could see everything fine. I didn’t notice the difference. I have always asked myself that question as to how I did not notice that I didn’t have on my car headlights and yet could see everything as though the headlights were on. I had to reprogram myself to remember to turn on the headlights when day turned into night. But I remember seeing without them. Is this how far imagination is able to distract us from a natural ability to see? And how many other supposedly “ modern” products and things do we use that we don’t need? And how much of our freely given resources would we save?
It is that the pollution of thinking, the thin-king of belief has to be removed, and our focus, rather than being on spiraling images in a projection, has to come back down to earth, to life. The consequences of a loss of seeing here, are destructive. At the end of the day, the only way to fulfillment is to re-member the wisdom of the togetherness of all things.
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