MAGIC AND ULTIMATE REBELS
by Jon Rappoport
On the plains of Hercules, under the watchtower of a State agency, beside an abandoned factory, in a future where every identity was captured on records stored in underground cities of machines, one man walked, staggered, and fell.
He knew he was going to die, and his only remaining task was deciding what to think as passed out of the world. Because he considered it might be important, as if that thought would linger on the air and float to some unknown place where other souls could pick it up in a net of consciousness and keep it safe.
A ridiculous idea, but it possessed him, and so he gave into it.
He lay on hard-packed ground and felt his senses dimming out. He struggled to stay awake. He searched for his final thought and then, miraculously, it came to him:
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO IMAGINE.
As he died, he knew it was a good thought, because…anyone receiving it would possibly RESIST its meaning…and then…there would be more life. There would be more imagining, and the world of famine and thirst would be built upon, and a new period of creation would ensue.
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO IMAGINE.
He died.
And in the same way, people pass on every day in a teeming world of seven billion, thinking this thought. But they aren’t trying to leave a legacy of hope and rebellion. They’re summing up their existence. They’re surrendering. They’re reaching the logical conclusion of years of adaptation. Their last thought fully defines adaptation.
But one contrary spark—there IS something to imagine—restarts the force of a non-system that has no name, can’t have a name because it is outside and beyond every cause-and-effect sequence in the universe.
Plots, conspiracies, revolutions come and go. In most cases, after the dust clears, things are the same. Or, as time proves, worse.
Revolutions need brilliant leaders who can articulate and nail down the principles upon which a new society will be formed. In the absence of that, you get mobs and opportunists and high-flying rhetoric and crime with no purpose.
The revolution I’m talking about occurs on another level. It involves individuals who can see that the universe is not going to dispense answers to existence. The universe is set up as a kind of organic system, within which changes happen and energy flows.
The universe, as I’ve written many times, is waiting for imagination to revolutionize it down to its core. THAT is the ongoing revolution. It is not destiny, but choice. The choice is taken or it isn’t. The universe has no say in the matter.
People who can grasp this interest me.
The two key questions are:
WHAT DO YOU TRULY AND DEEPLY WANT TO CREATE?
ARE YOU CREATING IT?
Which returns us to imagination, that capacity to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before.
There are billions of people on this planet who believe, in one way or another, that a beneficent force is going to hand them ultimate consciousness and harmony. They hope for this, they live for this, and they wait for this. They consider any other approach fascistic and inhuman, although they might not admit it.
Those believers will go their own way, as long as they want to. Years, decades, lifetimes, millennia.
I know why people come and go from imagination as if it’s a department store. Imagination doesn’t operate on its own forever. You employ it, you immerse yourself in it—and then when you’re done with it for now, it fades into the background. If you want it again, you call it up. You re-immerse yourself. You re-imagine imagination.
This effort is too much for most people. They prefer to say, “I’ve hit a brick wall. Nothing there.”
Which is like saying, while you’re in the car on the road, “This map is supposed to show me where the picnic is, but we’re out in the middle of nowhere. The hell with it, let’s go home.”
Except the picnic is your life and your future.
In my audio seminars, Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations, I describe profound exercises that can increase your ability to access your imagination. Other seminars of mine offer more such exercises. These techniques aren’t little tricks; they’re practices that can give you access to areas of your own innate power that, in ordinary living, aren’t required.
What psychologists analyze as “negative patterns” of behavior and thought are actually opportunities for graduating up on to another level, where you begin to re-imagine your future and take over the reins of possibility.
Our society has become an effort to label, embed, and slice and dice all the reasons a person can’t move forward, can’t fulfill his desires and wants. Society—its so-called experts—makes hay out of these pronouncements and, in the process, hammers in the bolts of the status quo.
However, in the long run, deep desire is the gateway into magic, because in order to satisfy it, imagination must come into play, and once that happens, creative force knows no limits. This is the road to magic. Desire is where it starts.
I’ve been on this road for decades now, and I’ve learned many things. The way isn’t easy, but it’s there. Most people want easy, and if they can’t get it, they turn to other things. That’s the world we live in. The latest self-improvement best-seller, the latest novel about the “mystical quest” arouse great enthusiasm, and then that energy fades out, until the next heavily advertised end-all and be-all appears on the scene.
Politics follows the same curve. The new leader—then the scandals and the disappointments—and then another leader takes the stage. It’s a game of artificial stimulation. A drug.
Imagination has no truck with any of this. Imagination is simply infinity waiting to be called on.
Nothing we are taught confirms this. The impetus has to come from the individual.
And when he does choose imagination, he is the ultimate rebel. The one who not only sees through the illusions of so-called reality, which is the status quo, but who blazes his own path and invents new spaces in which he operates. Then hope is transformed into the fire of creation.
Jon Rappoport
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