Here is the replay of the April Monthly Moments Live Stream, discussing the importance of understanding and using imagination in your life.
Show Notes:
What is imagination and what is not imagination?
Why is imagination necessary?
Living without imagination:
Mechanistic thinking
Quantifying everything
Solving isolated problems versus shifting ways of thinking
Hopelessness
Current examples of mechanistic thinking without imagination:
Politics -proving your right and the other side is wrong instead of creating solutions
Education system - data in/data out is leaving kids without a sense of purpose
Religious Institutions - 13% of westerners belong to a religious organization yet 95% reject the idea of materialism/reductionism
Steps to embracing the imagination:
Planned, unplanned time - get out in nature, do nothing, be where your feet are
Pay attention - attention is the greatest form of love
“I feel that a man may be happy in this world. And I know tht this world is a world of imagination and vision. I see everything I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser, a coin is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.
Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see nature at all.
But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.
As the eye is formed, such are its powers. You certainly mistake, when you say that the visions of fancy are not to be found in this world. To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so.”
-Letters of William Blake, 1906
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