THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF IMAGINATION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR FREEDOM
THE OTHER PART OF MY WORK
by Jon Rappoport
April 6, 2012
I’ve received notes from readers asking about the range of my work. They see I’m doing investigations of medical fraud and political conspiracy. I’m exposing various kinds of mind control and movements toward world government.
Then they catch glimpses of something quite different. I also write about the creative power of the individual. Not just his freedom, but his ability to invent realities—beyond the supposed end-all and be-all of the reality we share.
The two aspects of my work are connected. In my new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, the connection is made obvious.
But what is this thing called imagination, and why should we think it’s valuable, when we are assailed on all sides by people who want subtract our freedoms and reduce us to ciphers in their Machine?
How could imagination deliver power to us, when it’s looked at, for the most part, as nothing more than a pleasant toy for children who haven’t yet learned how to cope with the world?
Like many people, my childhood adventure of imagination started when I found books. Stories, novels. I read them as if they were food laid out for a starving nomad.
After ten years or so, during which I left them behind, I found them again, at the end of my formal education, when I started writing and painting.
Eventually, I saw that imagination itself was a transforming energy that had no limits. This was my real jumping-off point.
Far from being a tool or a mere plaything, imagination was alive. It was electric. It was the Niagara, from which all new discoveries could be made.
Years later, I met Jack True, the brilliant innovative hypnotherapist I interview in THE MATRIX REVEALED. He was coming to the conclusion that huge areas of consciousness were cut off from people because they had put their own imaginations into a trance state—and he was waking up those areas.
He saw that imagination is where we store our deepest desires, the desires we believe can’t be fulfilled and made manifest in life.
Imagination is a kind of Potential, in the same way that energy not in current use can be assessed as Potential, waiting to be delivered from inertia.
This power can change a life, can change anything.
As a journalist, I came to the obvious conclusion that one goal of the global Elite’s agenda was to dampen the Spirit of populations. Homing in on that more closely, I realized that the target was imagination. And people were burying their own imaginations as well, and then they felt deadened. They felt small. They felt as if they were defined, and were simply playing out the string in life, following a way that had already been determined.
Jack True was treating patients from the assumption they were already, in the core of consciousness, in a trance, and they needed to wake up by accessing their imagination. He was having great success. In some cases, his patients were experiencing paranormal phenomena, and were intentionally exercising paranormal abilities.
Through our many conversations and interviews, it became apparent that the paranormal was one sub-section of imagination.
A different view of the world swam into view. Populations, in various and not-so-various ways, were cut off from imagination, and they were suffering the consequences. People were separated from their own extraordinary power.
What we call shared reality is a kind of default structure—what is left over after imagination is forgotten and misplaced.
During those conversations with Jack, (1987-1991), I was seeing things more clearly than I ever had. For example, I recognized that my investigation of pharmaceutical drugs was also an investigation into how many of these chemicals dampen and tranquilize the power of imagination.
I began, not just thinking about, but seeing the world as a stage on which a single play was being performed over and over. The characters might change, but their range of creative power had a built-in ceiling.
And the emotional and spiritual consequences of that, for the individual, were enormous.
I would compare what I was becoming aware of to looking at a painting in a museum and suddenly realizing the painting had several extra dimensions that had escaped notice.
We have this innate impulse called freedom, but what is freedom for? What are we supposed to do with it? The answer boils down to: imagine, and create. Without interference. And far from being a silly little preoccupation, imagining and creating reality, when unleashed, transform a life in the most profound way. And can transform the commonly shared reality, too.
I went back and started researching ancient myths from a different angle. The legend of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man, could be read as a story about “authorship.” The Olympian gods were trying to maintain a monopoly on inventing reality. Humans were supposed to be actors in the gods’ ultimate drama. Prometheus was breaking out of that shell, out of that cocoon, out of that defined monolithic space. He had found the truth and had given it to his fellow humans: the individual has unlimited imagination and unlimited capacity to invent.
The astrological signs of the Zodiac can be connected in a treatise about Time, sequential cause-and-effect time, and how a person, through imagination, can break through that confining dimension into the paranormal.
There are a number of these old philosophical systems, at the center of which stands the free individual, who can imagine and create with great power and heroically overcome the confinement of consensus reality.
We are so much more than pawns in an elite game, so much more than eternal victims in the grip of repressive forces. We are so much more than minds without imagination.
The deepest mind control on this planet has to do with the roles we ourselves choose to play. The truth is, we are meant to IMAGINE and CREATE and ENACT much greater roles than the ones we’re currently engaged in.
But if we’ve put our imaginations to sleep, how can we do it? If we think imagination is nothing more than a momentary escape from our daily lives, how can we achieve it?
If we accept the range of possible roles defined by our society and by the men who run it, we’re forever wandering around in the foothills of mountains we’re meant to climb.
So now you have a brief introduction to the other part of my work.
Jon Rappoport
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, and creativity to audiences around the world.