Imagination - the engine of life

Imagination seems to have a most powerful impact on our lives, although we seldom stop to consider it.

Every once in a while, random changes may turn out to work out as improvements. Random improvements work well as an evolutionary mechanism on a geologic time scale. For humans, our brief span of life precludes us from using a similar strategy for improving our lives. In order to establish a habit of continuous improvement, we must practice imagining better ways of thinking, organizing or doing.

The better we become at using our imagination, the more we can create a fresh world. When we respond in an unusual way to a stimulus, we typically do so by engaging our imagination.

Forgiveness also requires imagination and courage. Retaliation is easy - folks choose it because they can't imagine a better way of resolving their grievance, and it may be perceived to satisfy a sense of fairness or justice. Forgiveness is hard - it requires imagining a world in which an agressor may go unpunished. Yet, the forgiver may imagine ways of influencing the forgiven such that the aggression ceases, amends are made, and harmony is achieved. That is very hard. Many despair of it being achievable, and can't imagine it possible.

Imagine more of us would make a habit of saying "I have a dream" more often...

Why is our awareness bubble so small?

As humans, the focus of our awareness appears to be typically pitched on a small point in time and space. We seem to get wrapped up in this illusion of a body separate from the rest of the universe.

Can we sense only through our physical organs? Or could it be that our awareness may actually be free to sense directly as well, unrestricted by the physical body? Through the practice of meditation, the "no-mind" state may free the awareness to expand to a wider time-space n-sphere or tesseract.

Why is it that we get pushed into this illusion that constrains our focus of awareness so narrowly? Who benefits from this "division" and the relative interactions that ensue?

It's fascinating to see how modern research in quantum gravity suggests the possibility of timelesness - a universe that just is, with time as a derived characteristic. This idea leads to some interesting questions about the free will concept.

It gives an interesting perspective on: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." and "I am Alpha  and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come".

We are one.