Consciousness, Imagination, and Peace
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein
Hi friends, imagination is one of our most powerful tools to work with in our daily lives, especially in times when outside events and power structures want to limit what it is possible to imagine.
Consciousness helps us have the ability and permission to imagine something outside of what was previously seen as all that was possible.
Read on for this week’s article.
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Your imagination is one of the most powerful parts of you
Everyone now alive on this earth, and for generations before us, has lived during a time of war.
Since we were all very small, we heard stories, saw news reports, movies, and TV shows about war. We read about war in our history books, we know people in the military. War has, quite literally, been a part of our lives.
We have been affected by the existence of war on earth in ways we can’t even imagine. We are programmed from the start to imagine war, and to believe that we have no power over its inevitability. Throughout your life and mine, wars have always existed somewhere, and even if we personally felt detached or removed, due to our fortune at being in another part of the planet, we are all affected by that vibration. We have all had lifetimes of war, playing different roles in each one.
We prepare for war, the USA has a government Department of War. There is no government sponsored Department of Peace. We are not taught to live in peace or peacefully. This affects how we are able to imagine the possibility of peace existing in our lives.
Many people living in the U.S. and other countries experience daily wars in their lives, in the form of institutionalized racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, homophobia, and bigotry of all kinds. Misogyny is a war against women’s right to choose their own autonomy, religions have declared war on the human rights of anyone they deem sinners. There are great numbers of people who cannot afford to eat, live, and have healthcare, in one of the wealthiest countries on earth. This is a state of war.
The way that war comes about is not an accident, it is an event planned for and created by one agenda or another. Everyone is affected by war, there is no ‘over there’. Nobody wins, not even those who are, as ever, cashing in on this opportunity.
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin
Consciousness is a state of waking up, becoming aware.
Unconsciousness is a state of not being aware, not knowing something, whether through innocence, ignorance, or refusing to look. Unconsciousness has a way of shutting down one’s ability to imagine something different.
On the other hand, becoming conscious makes it easier to allow ourselves and others the freedom to be as we are.
When we do this, when we choose to look, to see, and then to do the emotional and spiritual work required to forgive, let go, and heal ourselves, we are doing our work. It gets messy often! It may not seem like a whole lot to you when you think about doing your own personal work, because it’s your work, and nobody can do it for you. However, you have a huge effect on the energy of others, and therefore on the energy of the planet, when you decide to wake up and do your work.
Sometimes it’s scary, hard, painful, and you’re angry. Sometimes others get angry because you unmatched from an old agreement you were in. Think of all those wars much closer to home, where people stop talking to each other because they will not forgive. Or within, when we don’t forgive ourselves for a mistake or unfortunate set of choices.
This is different from consciously deciding to be done with old energy and stepping away from it. Letting go of what was makes it easier to imagine something new.
Imagine a conscious peace
While it has become very easy to imagine war, it’s a more difficult exercise to imagine what real conscious peace looks like. A conscious peace does not happen accidentally. We have to work at it, and one of the ways that we do this is to become conscious about the wars we run through ourselves.
The peace you create simply by being conscious of your own spirit has a great effect. When you do the hard work of going within and healing yourself, you are giving to every other living being. You are able to bring the healing you have become to the rest of us, simply by showing up.
By finding the peace within yourself, you become peace itself walking in the world. None of us has to do this perfectly every day, but it helps to remember that we can.
I believe it would help enormously if we allowed ourselves a daily check in with our imaginations. What am you allowed to imagine? What if we all imagined peaceful healing beautiful fun things, as a daily practice? A different way to live? The trick is not to get caught on how this will come about, the key is imagination. You are far more powerful than you might imagine.
“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.
“Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
-Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass
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Inspiration for the Imagination
This year so far, I’ve been reading a whole lot of fiction, and watching as many movies as I can. I’ve also been finding new (to me) music. All of this stimulates my own imagination. Here’s a few of the fun and interesting things I’ve seen and read.
I’m a fan of the Deborah Harkness Series, The Discovery of Witches. Here’s the most recent book in the series: The Black Bird Oracle.
I loved Conclave and was happy to see it this week on a big screen! My past lives as a priest were lit up while watching this one, lol. This film may still be out in theaters, but is also streaming online. Well worth seeing, it’s visually stunning.
Jocelyn Pook’s ‘Untold Things’ came out in 2001, and I just learned about it this week. Beautiful, ethereal, emotional, and healing to listen to. Find it here.
Thank you for being here, for reading and sharing. I appreciate you. Much love, Kris
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
― Francis Bacon