NEW ENERGY, OLD ENERGY
by Jon Rappoport
Today, I want to give you a perspective on my audio seminar, The Transformations, and the energy exercises contained in it.
An overwhelming amount of human activity is taken up with passing around old energy from hand to hand. Old energy, familiar energy, stale energy.
This becomes apparent to anyone with a shred of imagination.
It’s an odd habit that humans have. They allow their systems to encase, transmit, and re-transmit stale energy.
I’m not talking about oil or gas or propane or electricity. I’m talking about human energy, endlessly recycled for the purpose of communication, relating, etc.
The result of this habit is boredom on a massive scale and frustration that builds to a boiling point, at which time the boil is repressed and tranquilized in many ways. But at bottom, the frustration stems from the poor quality of the hand-me-down energy.
Human beings would prefer new fresh energy, but this requires imagination and invention, qualities which have been left somewhere back in childhood.
Authentic transformation occurs when a person finds it within himself to invent new energy. Immediately, things take on a different hue.
That’s what the exercises in The Transformations can lead to.
I sometimes think of them as the Saturday morning exercises—because many years ago, freed from school, as children, we woke up with the sharp sense of a New Day, a day of free and open possibility, and we jumped out of bed full of sparkling imagination, and we were ready to swim in the river of life.
There was no question in our minds about new energy. OF COURSE we had it. How could it be otherwise? Magic was everywhere.
This isn’t something you measure or explain with formulas and equations. It something you experience and know in your bones.
Later on, in adulthood, that sensation fades and we forget about it. We steel ourselves to work with old energy. We figure out how to do that and fight off the boredom. We lose the sense of being able to create something fresh and original and bracing.
But we can get it back.
That’s the whole point.
When you really think about all the so-called paranormal phenomena and abilities, this is what they stimulate—the jolt of experiencing, again, that lost magic, that lost sense of something that makes ordinary stale energy recede and diminish.
If living these lives of ours is a test, that’s what the challenge is: can we vault up on to a higher level where we invent new energy that makes us feel joy and ecstasy?
Magic isn’t simply the capacity to punch a hole in ordinary reality. It’s the improvisational and spontaneous creation of never-before, here-and-now energy.
Traditions decay because they come to embody dead energy. Reinstating the best traditions, like freedom, takes more than harkening back to a time when “freedom was new.” A person has to invent it now.
Not as a simulation, not as a cartoon, but as something alive.
The process begins in imagination, which never deserts us, which is always available, which we can trigger at any moment.
With all their machinations and experiments and weighty pronouncements, the best of the alchemists finally came to realize that their heralded and hoped-for elixir of life, philosopher’s stone, and quintessence were CREATIVE, and consisted of the one central transformative power, imagination.
Imagination is a curious and wonderful thing. It doesn’t have much interest in recycling stale energy. It doesn’t care about endless repeating of old action. It doesn’t settle for half. It has wings because it wants to invent/visit new places that never existed before. It wants the sense of being-for-the-first-time.
No matter how appealing various systems may be, imagination knows better. It nods vaguely at those systems and moves on. It already has spontaneous life, and it seeks to express it.
This is the road of magic.
If a few of you want to travel to San Diego, one of my next projects will be a live one-day workshop, Spontaneous Improvisation. No time and place scheduled yet. I’ll tell you this—it’ll be different.
Jon Rappoport