MYTH AND THE FORCE
OCTOBER 14, 2011. I keep saying this over and over, because I have to. So here we go again.
A myth, any myth, holds a fascination for people because it is a work of art—and art is the compelling force.
Most of the human race want to enter a grand museum, where myths are displayed on the walls. They want to choose one and then WALK INTO IT AND TAKE UP PERMANENT RESIDENCE THERE.
Of course, any painter worth his salt would watch this and fall down laughing.
The painter knows something that escapes the attention of the throngs in the museum.
A MYTH IS THE PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION.
The product.
The outcome.
Of course, when you obscure this fact, all you are left with is products of imagination. That’s all you’ve got. So you choose one. You say, “This is the best one.”
You say, “This feels like the key to the universe.” Or, “This is the way the human race will survive, by believing in this one.” Or, “Let’s get everyone to accept this one.”
But behind it all is imagination, which can generate, among other things, an infinity of myths.
I explore these issues in great depth in my book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies.
Once you recognize the existence and power of imagination, YOUR imagination, then in some very real sense, you are on the cusp of becoming an artist. What you need to do then is USE your imagination.
You want an exercise? Here it is. Spend the next year inventing myths. Write them down. At the end of the year, you’ll have a whole different perspective about myths. You’ll know in your bones the difference between living inside a myth and creating one.
And you’ll have a power that was always yours to begin with.
I write this piece because myths are deployed as ruling entities. They shape what people believe and what they do. They are used to coalesce societies and civilizations and run them—and we have reached the moment in history where this is no longer necessary. Where we can all become artists. AKA magicians.
But…the fascination with myths lives on. People want to believe (and so they do) that finding one particular myth might unlock the secret of life.
The secret of life is unlimited and unbounded imagination and creation—BY THE INDIVIDUAL.
Lately, I’ve started the Magic Theater as a way, a vehicle for expanding the imagination and allowing people to use it and use it powerfully, by improvising many, many, many roles in dialogue.
And when I say imagination, I mean infinite imagination.
And when I say roles, I mean any role that can be imagined.
History can be viewed as the struggle, battle, and conflict between opposing myths. And as we all know, this isn’t merely an intellectual war. It is also a blood-and-guts war.
It’s a shell game. “Where is the one myth I can point to and choose that will open the door to all the fulfilled promise I seek?”
This can be restated: “Which product of imagination will lead to triumph?”
When you see it that way, you know the game is exposed, and you can go, instead, DIRECTLY to the force behind all myths: imagination.
You can create—without limit.
NO PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION IS THE ANSWER.
IMAGINATION IS THE ANSWER.
IMAGINATION IS MAGIC.
MAGIC IS IMAGINATION.
Jon Rappoport
The first workshop of the Magic Theater will be held in San Diego on December 10 and 11. To inquire: qjrconsulting@gmail.com