TAKING IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL, PART 3
APRIL 7, 2011. To those who’ve made it this far in my current series of articles, congratulations. I don’t have two tickets to Hawaii for you or a new car, but I tip my hat.
Some long-time readers know what I’m going to say in this piece, because they’ve read it before—although I manage to come at the major idea from a variety of angles.
Others have no clue where I’m ultimately heading. They’ve come along for the ride because I’ve structured the articles as a developing mystery, and they want the punch line—which proves the precise point I’ve been making. And I expect them, once I take the lid off, to say, “Oh, that wasn’t so hot.” Or “I don’t understand.” Or “I can’t do that.” They will turn away and forget the whole thing.
But somewhere in the readership, there may be a few people who grasp the import, and they will see a kind of daylight that has previously escaped them. And they will take the reins and go for the ride.
Okay.
The obsession to discover What Exists is the greatest distraction known to humans. It goes a lot farther than mere curiosity. It swallows up whole lives.
The enduring hope is that what is behind the locked door will somehow immediately confer new power to the seeker, will forever alter his life.
When that doesn’t happen, instead of trying to figure out where the deception came from, most people embark on another mystery, another secret, with the same hope.
And so I offer this; part-metaphor, part-truth: The human being was placed in a universe that appeared to beg for discovery of its secrets.
The die was cast. Humans would forever try to satisfy that hunger.
They would never suspect there was another way. They would never graduate, through a fundamental shifting of gears, up on to another echelon.
They would never guess that you have to game the system that is rigged to defeat you.
You have to turn the con around.
If things (life) are designed to subvert you…BECOME A DESIGNER.
If art and artifice—universe and human psychology—conspire to make you eternally search for meaning…INVENT MEANING.
If What Exists proves to be an endless labyrinth, landing you, finally, back at the starting gate…INVENT WHAT EXISTS.
If reality is created to gobble you up in a voyage for answers and solutions…CREATE REALITY.
If all the elements of the Continuum hem you in…BECOME AN ARTIST AND CREATE MANY CONTINUA.
If your search envelops you in trying to understand the imagination that built the universe…IMAGINE YOUR OWN UNIVERSES.
If the physical universe seems to be so powerful it has a monopoly on expression of facts…INVENT AND EXPRESS YOUR OWN FACTS AND INSERT THEM INTO THE WORLD.
If the nature of reality seems to limit you to idle fantasies…GIVE VOICE AND IMAGE AND SOUND AND MOTION AND POWER TO YOUR OWN INVENTED IMAGININGS AND PROPEL THEM OUT BEYOND THE SPACE OF YOUR MIND INTO THE WORLD.
Turn the tables.
Move away from merely discovering What Exists and recognize the voyage was the primary reason you kept yourself in the dark about your own creative power.
Understand, once and for all, that every religion and spiritual system is another version of What Exists…they are murals you attach yourself to like barnacles on a ship.
Know that the further you travel on the road of IMAGINING AND CREATING AND PROPELLING WHAT YOU INVENT INTO THE WORLD, the more you will obtain, spontaneously, as a side effect, THE ANSWERS TO ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU EVER POSED AND PONDERED.
No one said it would be easy.
But it is doable.
Freedom is the platform from which imagination can spread out infinitely.
The universe is waiting for imagination to revolutionize it down to its core.
And since that is so, whether there are three or 50 or five billion quarks on the tiniest tip of an iceberg on a planet a billion light years from Earth is of no concern. Whether waves or particles are the basic elements of physical reality is of no concern. Whether a million people thinking the same thought can move a rock in the Arizona desert is inconsequential.
Coming: Part 4.
JON RAPPOPORT
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