COACHING THE COACHES,
PART 17
by Jon Rappoport
Copyright © 2011 by Jon Rappoport
When you look at the lives of most people, you see they’ve settled in. Which is to say, they’ve subconsciously established limits and boundaries, and they live inside that space.
When you look at a machine, you can see it’s designed to function within specified limits. For instance, a plane can only fly so fast. And if it slows down below a certain point, it ceases to stay in the air.
If you want to extend the capability of a plane, you apply knowledge to it; using that knowledge, you re-build it so it can go faster.
But a person is different. What lies beyond his boundaries is not so much knowledge as it is his own imagination. That’s the key.
And imagination invents the not-yet-seen, the never-before.
Many people feel more comfortable with technology, with machines. Thus all the science fiction about societies where robots have been harnessed to provide the essentials and the luxuries. This seems doable. This seems interesting.
Machines, though, are not alive. No matter how many possibilities are imputed to them, they don’t think independently. They follow instructions. They obey embedded principles and systems of calculation.
Imagination is alive. It exemplifies life. Its energy is living.
We are at the point where choices will be made about what kind of civilization we are going to have. Will it be all about technology? Or will individual imagination finally receive its due?
Scientists, by their very nature and training, tend to believe the brain (which they assert covers the entire waterfront of mind, imagination, psyche, soul) operates according to algorithms. Discovering these instructional formulas would put us in control of the brain. The holy grail.
This is a delusion.
Whatever can be induced by making chemical and electrical alterations to the brain simply trades one sensation for another. Whereas imagination creates realities and futures.
Whenever an individual decides to live through and by imagination, he incidentally adds to the possibility of a more positive society.
Spinning off from quantum physics, the rise of wild theories like parallel universes and multiple realities suggests that some scientists are actively looking for ways to escape the trap of no-imagination. But instead of searching for novelty within themselves, they export it to the cosmos.
What does all this add up to? A person and a civilization can find all sorts of ways to avoid and postpone an era of imagination. But if you look at the tremendous amount of energy employed for such avoidance, you obtain a clue. Burying imagination is hard to do.
It’s here to stay.
So why not admit it and use it in copious quantities?
Why not end the old era of limits?
As a coach, you certainly can’t assume your client is aware of all these factors, but you can be aware of them. And that inner surety can propel you to accomplish important breakthroughs in your work.
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.