by Jon Rappoport
Consider that everything happening on planet Earth is an enormous stage play.
The mystery is: what is the theme? What is the payoff? What is the climax?
And even more deeply, what is the role of Self, the individual, in this play?
The key phrase is “in this play.” Because most people are, indeed, inside the play. They have roles. They may not be aware of the parts they’re playing, but that doesn’t change the situation or the dilemma.
How unusual would it be if, in a theater, in a city, citizens were led on to a stage to audition for parts—and the director said, “Well, we want you in this production, but we can’t show you the script. We can’t tell you your role. You’ll just have to feel your way along. Trust us, we know what we’re doing. And by the way, you’ll be playing your part for the rest of your life…”
Self doesn’t want this arrangement. Self wants something else, a way to see what the play is, a way to climb out of it.
Where to start? How to begin? What is the exit strategy?
That strategy depends on imagination. It can’t go anywhere without it.
The long-running Earth stage-play has severe limits. It tries to impose its energy-depleting plot-lines on Self.
But with imagination, a person can conceive of a new play, and create it, and centrally participate in it.
In fact, Self has been waiting for just such an opportunity. The cells of his body and brain, his thoughts, his energies have been waiting.
However, waiting doesn’t do it.
Connecting with one’s own imagination does do it. It initiates a cascade of ideas and emotions, which in turn feed back into imagination, making it even more powerful.
A new stage-play can come into being.
This is why I developed many imagination exercises and techniques for my collection, Exit From The Matrix.
Imagination is the source of possibilities which don’t yet exist, but could.
Imagination makes the as-yet unborn future real.
Imagination doesn’t feel hemmed in by what already exists.
A person, inspired by his own imagination, looks beyond his own present circumstances to inventing a larger future.
Imagination doesn’t ask for lengthy explanations. It just asks for a vision based on the desire for a great adventure.
The present becomes a platform from which to change reality.
Imagination says, “I understand you’re looking for different circumstances, and also looking for a different scope of operation. All that is possible.”
The individual has the capacity to re-energize his life by inventing a new future, and imagination is the key.
The permanence of the “ongoing stage play” and a person’s enduring role in it is an illusion.
Imagination proves that and proves that the beginning of liberation is just a moment away.
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)
Here are the contents of Exit From The Matrix:
First, my new audio presentations:
* INTRODUCTION: HOW TO USE THE MATERIALS IN EXIT FROM THE MATRIX
* EXIT FROM THE MATRIX
* 50 IMAGINATION EXERCISES
* FURTHER IMAGINATION EXERCISES
* ANESTHESIA, BOREDOM, EXCITEMENT, ECSTASY
* ANCIENT TIBET AND THE UNIVERSE AS A PRODUCT OF MIND
* YOU THE INVENTOR, MINDSET, AND FREEDOM FROM “THE EXISTENCE PROGRAM”
* PARANORMAL EXPERIMENTS AND EXERCISES
* CHILDREN AND IMAGINATION
* THE CREATIVE LIFE AND THE MATRIX/IMAGINATION
* PICTURES OF REALITY AND ESCAPE VELOCITY FROM THE MATRIX
* THIS WOULD BE A VERY DIFFERENT FUTURE
* MODERN ZEN
* THE GREAT PASSIONS AND THE GREAT ANDROIDS
Then you will receive the following audio seminars I have previously done:
* Mind Control, Mind Freedom
* The Transformations
* Desire, Manifestation and Fulfillment
* Altered States, Consciousness, and Magic
* Beyond Structures
* The Mystery and Magic of Dialogue
* The Voyage of Merlin
* Modern Alchemy and Imagination
* Imagination and Spiritual Enlightenment
* Dissolving Stress
* The Paranormal Project
* Zen Painting for Everyone Now
* Past Lives, Archetypes, and Hidden Sources of Human Energy
* Expression of Self
* Imagination Exercises for a Lifetime
* Old Planet, New Planet, New Mind
* The Era of Magic Returns
* Your Power Revealed
* Universes Without End
* Relationships
* Building a Business for Success
I have included an additional bonus section:
* My book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies (pdf document)
* My book, The Ownership of All Life (pdf document)
* A long excerpt from my briefly published book, Full Power (pdf document)
* My 24 articles in the series, “Coaching the Coaches” (pdf document)
And these audio seminars:
* The Role of Medical Drugs in Human Illness
* Longevity One: The Mind-Body Connection
* Longevity Two: The Nutritional Factors
(All the audio presentations are mp3 files and the documents and books are pdf files. You download the files upon purchase. There is no physical ship.)
What has been called The Matrix is a series of layers. These layers compose what we call Reality. Reality is not merely the consensus people accept in their daily lives. It is also a personal and individual conception of limits. It is a perception that these limits are somehow built into existence. But this is not true.
What I’ve done here is remove the lid on those perceived limits. This isn’t an intellectual undertaking. It’s a way to open up space and step on to a new road, with new power.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. 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, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
The Ghost Bards of Civilization
David Evans
The ghost bards of civilization cry out to thee
Down on that corner where drug dealers ply their trade
For once you were blind but now can see
Where the deals of the heart are made,
And in this furnace of hate
The back alleys scream the blues
‘Will this pain ever abate
After we pay our fleshy dues?’
The ghost bards haunt thee
Through the darkest hours of the night
They will give you the secret key
To escape your mortal plight,
And crossing the River Styx
You shed your ancient past
For just one more fix
Of those realms the shadows cast.
The ghost bards sing to thee
As the dew sprinkles the meadow
And the dryads dance around the old oak tree
On this god forsaken barrow,
For all is not lost and we must not thinkest so
For fate is on our side
As the winter sun glows
And the seeds of eternity joyfully abide!
The Ghost bards wink at thee
As this carbon phantasm rises from the starry mists
And the Archons of doom flee
From Imagination’s sacred kiss,
For new worlds will be born
As we shed our neurotic narcissism;
Though our pound of flesh be shorn
By the horns of our own hedonism.
The ghost bards cry out to thee;
‘Such a beautiful blossom on bloody thorn
With intoxicating scent so lusty and free’
From which the hungry soul is born,
Seeking redemption through the imagination
Beyond the resinous webs of cruel Urizen
Where the quanta of love achieve coagulation
Over hell’s hungry horizon
The ghost bards laugh with thee
While love’s paradoxical pantomime ever unfolds
As the Trinity dances in the breeze
And our sad story turns to gold,
They mock at the urchins of doom
That haunt the synapses of this dimension
Dispelling the persistent gloom
Of our guilt ridden salvation.
The ghost bards smile at thee
As you fight the good fight
Against Hell’s fiery breeze,
And in the long shadows of the fading light
You have composed a most beautiful tale
To move to tears the high Angels
As your blossoming soul sets sale
To the toll of liberty’s lofty bells.
The ghost bards laugh at thee
As you scurry down God’s beautiful green mile
Through the land of the free
On your hero’s noble trial.
Tho shipwrecked on the rocks of strife and woe
You seek your way back home
While Aeolus’ winds blow
Leaving you battered and all alone
The ghost bards cheer
As you slip the surly bonds of our damnation,
Shedding this flesh and bone bier
In your heart’s true adoration
For the gift of life bequeathed,
And dear Sohpia clutches us to her bosom
As we are with her love wreathed
In the rising dream of her wisdom.
The ghost bards of civilization fare thee well
For you have demonstrated the finest metal,
In facing the demons of hell
Where satan has his score to settle,
And tho held prisoner by his fetid algorithms
We sail beyond the pillars of the mind
And dance to those holy rhythms
That free us from the bonds of time.
Very good, ´´That strategy depends on imagination. It can’t go anywhere without it.´´
We are all born facing the great challenge of first equipping ourselves to navigate socially and relationally. After that, an even greater challenge is to differentiate the various components we have developed (attachments, opinions, personality traits) from the center of consciousness. Otherwise, if we understand these components to be “who we are” and unchangeable, or if we cannot even become aware of them aw separate constructs, then we are stuck with these childhood first attempts.
Imagination is the ability to create some distance between these components and to think freely without their dominance or interference. Unfortunately, schools do everything they can to keep this from happening. After we leave school, the workplace, government, medicine, religion, they all carry on this work. What they want is dependence or interdependence.
“Stage play” is an apt description of the the life of the undifferentiated self, stepping in and out of roles such as employee, parent, voter, etc. Another analogy that works is that of chemical bonding and reaction. People adopt a social facade that is like choosing to be a particular element, which bonds readily with other types or reacts in other ways. When when a person switches into imagination mode, he has his own laboratory of ideas and chooses his own experiments and desired outcomes. The “lab equipment” is now his own: the individuated components of his own self.
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