COACHING THE COACHES
PART 10
By Jon Rappoport
Copyright © 2011 by Jon Rappoport
You go to the author of a play who, after writing it for ten years, is dissatisfied with it—and you tell him to change a few commas and exclamation points.
How well will that work out?
There is only one reason he’s dissatisfied with the play. In an odd sense, he’s forgotten he imagined the whole thing. If he remembered, he’d realize he could make all the changes he wanted to and that would be that.
He needs to bring back the flexible, adventurous, wide-ranging, powerful, go-for-broke imagination he was originally using, and resurrect it.
There is no way to measure “the amount” of imagination that requires.
Fifty tons? An ounce? Two pounds?
When a person digs a hole for himself and jumps in, and that becomes his life, how deep is the hole?
Who knows?
Imagination is magic. Sometimes the faintest whiff of this elixir is enough to wake a person up.
I’ve seen it happen in an hour. I’ve seen it happen in a year.
Regardless, a person does need to bring “a great deal” of imagination back into his existence, in order to build a different future.
Imagination is a non-material capacity. It isn’t brain cells or electrical transmissions or circuits. It affects the brain, but it is a higher aspect.
What Already Exists is but a tiny, tiny fraction of What Is Possible. All we need to discover is to be found in What Already Exists?? No. That is a fundamental misconception.
Mythologically speaking, we need to replace “the treasure hunter” with “the artist.”
If you staged a horse race between perception and imagination, and you somehow opened up every possible channel of perception along every possible track, perception would still finish second.
Which is to say, imagination and invention can always go farther.
This opens up a new view of metaphysics.
Imagination always deals with what the conventional mind considers impossible.
This is why the exercises I design move a person into imagining “impossible” things. Or as some would say, absurd things.
Which brings me to this: if a person’s view of what he really desires in life is born out of a highly limited imagination, who knows what desires might lie on the other side of those limits?
This is yet another reason why immersing one’s self in imagination is so important. The process reveals desires-for-futures previously obscured.
This is the great adventure.
Jon Rappoport
A former candidate for a US Congressional seat in California, Jon has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. He has written articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. The author of The Ownership of All Life, Jon has maintained a consulting practice for the past 15 years. He has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, and creativity to audiences around the world.