THE MEANING OF THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION
MAY 8, 2006. In various ways, many people have influenced the state of their health, in a positive direction, through the use of their imaginations. There is much "anecdotal" evidence that this is so.
However, the scientists, in their zeal for repeatable experiments, overlook an obvious fact. Exerting imagination-power is not the same thing as dropping a stone from a rooftop to establish the existence of gravity.
The stone behaves very predictably. People don't. Imagination-power is a capacity, like singing or running fast or hitting a baseball.
Not everyone does it at the same level. Everyone could improve his/her capacity to affect the body through the use of imagination, but everyone is not operating with the same power all the time.
More importantly, if a person can help heal his body through his imagination, why limit the effects of imagination to the body? Why say that the body is the only physical entity that can be changed in this way?
What about the future itself?
What about events that have not yet occurred?
Why should they be relegated to the impossible category, whereas the body is accepted as changeable by "mind power?"
Why put any limit on the potential power of the imagination?
And once you admit that this field IS wide open with possibilities, why not explore it and find out for yourself?
In almost every area of human endeavor, pioneers have made initial breakthroughs that were criticized as fanciful and ridiculous. Over time, as the truth was seen, others have stepped in and CONTROLLED the exploration.
However, in the case of imagination, everything depends on the power generated by each individual himself. Therefore, there can be no external control.
This is a very good thing.
All the art school in the world can't give a student imagination (because he already has it), and at some point, the student must strike out on his own and create something on his own.
When he does, he feels power.
He also feels at odds with a society in which such explorations are rejected as useless, impractical, and impolite.
But he can get over this sense of alienation. He can grow up, in other words, and assert his own power and deal with the discrepancies.
Contrary to the diddle-daddlings of psychology and its proprietary definitions, the above description of growing up is real maturity.
In my own work as a painter, writer, and researcher into imagination, I have staked out a territory. But this territory has no limits. It has no limits for me and it has no limits for the people who do my workshops. I don't have any interest in imposing a fence-line around imagination. I'm only interested in opening up its power. When that happens, there are very, very good outcomes.
In a society such as ours, where technology is exalted, people are bound by several mind sets. They have ultimate faith in repeatable experiments (dropping the stone from the roof), and they seek to fit into the corporate structure that produces and sells technology. As we go forward, jobs become more and more specialized, and financial security begins to look more and more like an ant colony.
Working from these premises, people believe that they would be sacrificing a great deal by exploring and relying on their on imaginations.
Actually, the opposite is true. It is a fantastic advantage---the ability to use imagination.
But people look for external cues to guide them. If imagination is so vital and important, where is the consensus encouragement in this direction? Where is the parental and educational and occupational encouragement?
Where is the PERMISSION?
The search for this blessing is, indeed, a prime sign of IMMATURITY.
Not only that, permission does absolutely nothing for the imagination itself, which is a wildly independent faculty.
When you think about, it should be no surprise that the key to a more abundant and thrilling life---imagination, creative power, manifestatation---stands outside the stifling limits of the society. This key IS what separates us from domesticated animals operating in herds under the control of masters.
If we pay lip service to the concept of individual freedom, why not do what freedom is FOR? Why not step beyond the fence? Why not leave the herd in the pasture? Why not create in all directions with great power? Why not create what we want?
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
MAY 8, 2006. In various ways, many people have influenced the state of their health, in a positive direction, through the use of their imaginations. There is much "anecdotal" evidence that this is so.
However, the scientists, in their zeal for repeatable experiments, overlook an obvious fact. Exerting imagination-power is not the same thing as dropping a stone from a rooftop to establish the existence of gravity.
The stone behaves very predictably. People don't. Imagination-power is a capacity, like singing or running fast or hitting a baseball.
Not everyone does it at the same level. Everyone could improve his/her capacity to affect the body through the use of imagination, but everyone is not operating with the same power all the time.
More importantly, if a person can help heal his body through his imagination, why limit the effects of imagination to the body? Why say that the body is the only physical entity that can be changed in this way?
What about the future itself?
What about events that have not yet occurred?
Why should they be relegated to the impossible category, whereas the body is accepted as changeable by "mind power?"
Why put any limit on the potential power of the imagination?
And once you admit that this field IS wide open with possibilities, why not explore it and find out for yourself?
In almost every area of human endeavor, pioneers have made initial breakthroughs that were criticized as fanciful and ridiculous. Over time, as the truth was seen, others have stepped in and CONTROLLED the exploration.
However, in the case of imagination, everything depends on the power generated by each individual himself. Therefore, there can be no external control.
This is a very good thing.
All the art school in the world can't give a student imagination (because he already has it), and at some point, the student must strike out on his own and create something on his own.
When he does, he feels power.
He also feels at odds with a society in which such explorations are rejected as useless, impractical, and impolite.
But he can get over this sense of alienation. He can grow up, in other words, and assert his own power and deal with the discrepancies.
Contrary to the diddle-daddlings of psychology and its proprietary definitions, the above description of growing up is real maturity.
In my own work as a painter, writer, and researcher into imagination, I have staked out a territory. But this territory has no limits. It has no limits for me and it has no limits for the people who do my workshops. I don't have any interest in imposing a fence-line around imagination. I'm only interested in opening up its power. When that happens, there are very, very good outcomes.
In a society such as ours, where technology is exalted, people are bound by several mind sets. They have ultimate faith in repeatable experiments (dropping the stone from the roof), and they seek to fit into the corporate structure that produces and sells technology. As we go forward, jobs become more and more specialized, and financial security begins to look more and more like an ant colony.
Working from these premises, people believe that they would be sacrificing a great deal by exploring and relying on their on imaginations.
Actually, the opposite is true. It is a fantastic advantage---the ability to use imagination.
But people look for external cues to guide them. If imagination is so vital and important, where is the consensus encouragement in this direction? Where is the parental and educational and occupational encouragement?
Where is the PERMISSION?
The search for this blessing is, indeed, a prime sign of IMMATURITY.
Not only that, permission does absolutely nothing for the imagination itself, which is a wildly independent faculty.
When you think about, it should be no surprise that the key to a more abundant and thrilling life---imagination, creative power, manifestatation---stands outside the stifling limits of the society. This key IS what separates us from domesticated animals operating in herds under the control of masters.
If we pay lip service to the concept of individual freedom, why not do what freedom is FOR? Why not step beyond the fence? Why not leave the herd in the pasture? Why not create in all directions with great power? Why not create what we want?
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
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