Oh how I hated this. I remember that every single vacation we went on, my parents dragged me to places I just didn’t want to see. Old churches, castles, museums and other buildings of history. It was so boring, I couldn’t stop thinking of going home and playing with my Lego’s. I got into quiet a few fights over this.
Let’s skip forward to last weekend. I went to a little town with my friends to walk around, do some sight-seeing and have a good time. We went into this old church dating back to the 12th century I think. My friends were running around looking at stuff while I simply froze. I was standing right in the middle of the church, looking up at the roof. I hope you don’t mind me not talking about all the beautiful details I found because I would have to get out a dictionary and do hours of searching for the English words
. Yet, my main thoughts were: What kind of great men build this?
Do you realize this, when you look out of your window. Everything you see that was build by humans was once upon a time just a thought in the mind of a genius. Yet, he united day and dream by making it real. We are artists and creators. If you walk through a castle, how can you not wonder what great men walked there before you, how they build and created and lived and fought?
Our mind is what creates this world, over and over again. When I went to the US for my high school exchange I basically created a new world for myself, with a new family, new friends, a new school, and even new hobbies.
So look over here, I am going to pull out two screens. They are both black at the moment. The one on the left is going to be reality; the one on the right will be the imagination. Now let’s assume we are talking about an animal here.
Look, the left screen now shows a forest. This is reality. Oh, look at the right screen! It’s a copy of the left one!
What point is there? Well, wait and see. On the left side an animal appears. It’s a potential prey! Now look at the right screen. It shows the animal eating the prey.
Now, where is the point? There are two aspects I want to show you. First one is: The imagination side was altered. It was altered by emotion. Emotions are like the weather in the real world to the world of imagination. They can be like rain (sadness), like the sun (joy), like the wind or like a hurricane.
The animal is certainly uniting day and dream now. It’s going to catch the prey. So uniting day and dream means changing reality into what your imagination shows you. This is action. Reality also alters your imagination, usually through emotions. This is a reaction.
What makes us human is our ability to alter the right screen, the imagination one, through thoughts. This leads us to abstract thinking. While for an animal a tree on the left side is also a tree on the right side, we can take this picture of reality, copy it on our imagination screen and replace the tree by, let’s say, the word “tree”. We replace the picture by a word. This is why we were able to develop language. We divide the two worlds, the reality and the imagination one and create abstract thinking.
Now this is where it backfires. An animal might not be able to alter the imagination through thoughts but we quickly loose part of our ability to alter reality into something that fits our imagination. The genius has to be able to do both. As the architect of this old church I was talking about created the church first in his imagination and then united dream and day, just like an animal would, by actually making it come true.
Pook describes this phenomenon also, but he doesn’t use the animal analogy. He uses a child.
Now this fear of loosing something is part of our abstract thinking. An animal has only the fear of loosing its life. We however, replace the picture of this car by the feeling of ownership. And everything we own, we can loose. Now we own lot’s of property, money, a huge ego, abilities, thoughts and a lot more. The more we have the more we can loose! Now if you realize that you have everything you need within your mind, that you can recreate the world whenever you want, then you aren’t afraid of loosing anymore! You can risk!
Now, let’s get back to my two screens for a while. If emotions are like the weather, then it can only rain (sadness) if there are clouds. What do I want to tell you with this analogy? That you can influence your emotions, your vulnerability.
Let’s skip forward to last weekend. I went to a little town with my friends to walk around, do some sight-seeing and have a good time. We went into this old church dating back to the 12th century I think. My friends were running around looking at stuff while I simply froze. I was standing right in the middle of the church, looking up at the roof. I hope you don’t mind me not talking about all the beautiful details I found because I would have to get out a dictionary and do hours of searching for the English words
. Yet, my main thoughts were: What kind of great men build this? Do you realize this, when you look out of your window. Everything you see that was build by humans was once upon a time just a thought in the mind of a genius. Yet, he united day and dream by making it real. We are artists and creators. If you walk through a castle, how can you not wonder what great men walked there before you, how they build and created and lived and fought?
Our mind is what creates this world, over and over again. When I went to the US for my high school exchange I basically created a new world for myself, with a new family, new friends, a new school, and even new hobbies.
Our mind is more powerful then we ever thought! So you must unite Day and Dream.
I shall go into a little more detail, so you can understand what I mean. This is going to get a little bit philosophical.
Shut up pook, I am not seeking philosophy as a refuge, but to make a point. Living philosophy is killing your life, not just talking about it from time to time (just don’t talk about it with women!)
So look over here, I am going to pull out two screens. They are both black at the moment. The one on the left is going to be reality; the one on the right will be the imagination. Now let’s assume we are talking about an animal here.
Look, the left screen now shows a forest. This is reality. Oh, look at the right screen! It’s a copy of the left one!
What point is there? Well, wait and see. On the left side an animal appears. It’s a potential prey! Now look at the right screen. It shows the animal eating the prey.
Now, where is the point? There are two aspects I want to show you. First one is: The imagination side was altered. It was altered by emotion. Emotions are like the weather in the real world to the world of imagination. They can be like rain (sadness), like the sun (joy), like the wind or like a hurricane.
The animal is certainly uniting day and dream now. It’s going to catch the prey. So uniting day and dream means changing reality into what your imagination shows you. This is action. Reality also alters your imagination, usually through emotions. This is a reaction.
What makes us human is our ability to alter the right screen, the imagination one, through thoughts. This leads us to abstract thinking. While for an animal a tree on the left side is also a tree on the right side, we can take this picture of reality, copy it on our imagination screen and replace the tree by, let’s say, the word “tree”. We replace the picture by a word. This is why we were able to develop language. We divide the two worlds, the reality and the imagination one and create abstract thinking.
Now this is where it backfires. An animal might not be able to alter the imagination through thoughts but we quickly loose part of our ability to alter reality into something that fits our imagination. The genius has to be able to do both. As the architect of this old church I was talking about created the church first in his imagination and then united dream and day, just like an animal would, by actually making it come true.
Pook describes this phenomenon also, but he doesn’t use the animal analogy. He uses a child.
The child unites day and dream without hesitation. As adults, we have this fear of doing so. We might offend somebody. We might get hurt, we might LOOSE something.
Now this fear of loosing something is part of our abstract thinking. An animal has only the fear of loosing its life. We however, replace the picture of this car by the feeling of ownership. And everything we own, we can loose. Now we own lot’s of property, money, a huge ego, abilities, thoughts and a lot more. The more we have the more we can loose! Now if you realize that you have everything you need within your mind, that you can recreate the world whenever you want, then you aren’t afraid of loosing anymore! You can risk!
You can’t ever live the life you want if you don’t risk.
Now, let’s get back to my two screens for a while. If emotions are like the weather, then it can only rain (sadness) if there are clouds. What do I want to tell you with this analogy? That you can influence your emotions, your vulnerability.
Our imagination also automatically influences the reality, even without us acting. And that’s why….
Yes, it’s that easy. You thought you weren’t good enough for women. You thought you were ugly, dumb, too small, too big, wrong skin colour, whatever it is. There is a reason why they say: If you have a problem with it, she has. For as you think you shall become. If you think you are unworthy, you will become unworthy.
