Imagination is indeed very powerful. There is yet another way to enter into the reality of the animate universe, perhaps more directly: through awareness of "what is" rather than by imagining the world "as if." This is what is taught by Eckhart Tolle. It entails replacing our thinking, conceptual mind with simply awareness. When we encounter the world through that perspective, the world is inherently alive and animate; there is no need to imagine it. I sense that this direct seeing is more closely the way our indigenous ancestors experienced the world. They weren't imagining it; it is the reality that is alive in the timeless now. For us moderns who have traversed through aeons of conceptual mind, to return again to the non-conceptual "Isness" brings an additional level of knowing: the awareness of being the awareness. Anyway, these are all words and words cannot convey the actual reality of being present in the now. I just wanted to share that there are various ways of returning to a direct immersion in the living, animate universe. Many thanks to Geneen Marie Haugen for this beautiful, evocative work.
On Aug 15, 2019 wally jasper wrote:
Imagination is indeed very powerful. There is yet another way to enter into the reality of the animate universe, perhaps more directly: through awareness of "what is" rather than by imagining the world "as if." This is what is taught by Eckhart Tolle. It entails replacing our thinking, conceptual mind with simply awareness. When we encounter the world through that perspective, the world is inherently alive and animate; there is no need to imagine it. I sense that this direct seeing is more closely the way our indigenous ancestors experienced the world. They weren't imagining it; it is the reality that is alive in the timeless now. For us moderns who have traversed through aeons of conceptual mind, to return again to the non-conceptual "Isness" brings an additional level of knowing: the awareness of being the awareness. Anyway, these are all words and words cannot convey the actual reality of being present in the now. I just wanted to share that there are various ways of returning to a direct immersion in the living, animate universe. Many thanks to Geneen Marie Haugen for this beautiful, evocative work.