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we are not satisfied
with the world as it is
we want more
We are not heard
we are not filled
and we sure are not emptied
We want more
what more is best?
To fill ourselves
or to empty ourselves
to use up all our abilities?
To get all we can or to give?
To be heard down the eons?
To touch each other and live?

:- Doug.

This is about expanding our expanding eyes. Only a greater world will satisfy humankind’s expanding eyes.

:- Doug.

The next stage of evolution is choosing life: creation. This is imagination at play. We can, together, create a better world. If we do not hang together, we hang separately, we die. So it is a movement together, making use and celebration of our individual voices, to create the new and better. We must weave a better world, for is it right? Is it good? Do all benefit? Are all heard and made use of, celebrated? Even when they are, there will be improvement to be made, for there will always be love to be given.

:- Doug.

In Eternity imagining is perceiving
So says Genesis
For G*d spoke & it was so
And G* saw & it was good

:- Doug.

The next step in our conscious evolution is imagination, especially its group forms.

:- Doug.

Conscious evolution in our times = imagination
Imagination in large part = a group activity
Imagination therefore = conversation
Imagination = engaging the body
Imagination like time = has an arrow
Imagination = weaving calls for help, help, and people
Imagination = Creator
= G*d

:- Doug.

Imagination is not simply brainstorming. Such is the daydreaming of infants, when they have not the raw material. If we are prevented from putting it to work then we are stunting the work of imagination, we are holding people back, and that is the work of nothing, of evil: That is the work of holding back divinity and divine work. So there is a factor of putting the imagination to work, on the ground. It must enlist the body. It takes hands and legs and minds and hearts to make up imagination.

:- Doug.

Imagination is a far different thing from how we thought to use it in childhood—or maybe not. We played, we tried to see how large we could see. But we did not have the raw material we needed, nor the realization of the power of conversation. In middle adulthood we had the raw material, but we too easily got distracted with the grey cloth over our heads and so we saw nothing of the sun or the rainbow, but only the grindstone and the road ahead. Now we can see imagination and put it to work, flying high, carrying the load.

:- Doug.

As children we heard rumors of imagination
But we could not have known it
Till after we had come through
The befuddling waters of middle adulthood
Emerging on the other side

:- Doug.

Two directions of imagination
One facing the unreal
Leading to demons and monsters in the night
One facing real
Leading to coloring seeing creating life

:- Doug.

Humans have moved from creation to life to conscious life. We are ready to take the next step and that is to wake our imagination. That is done both individually and together. The together is conversation. Conversation is how we evolve to our next stage, it is the next stage. It is imagination to a higher power.

:- Doug.

Take the long view
Rush not
What could that look like
If I take the long view?

:- Doug.

The real is embedded in us. We can tell of G*d by telling of our most profound, essential stuff: We have a yearning for the greater. We desire to create. We need to love and be loved, to hear and be heard. Life grows on. All these things point to G*d. G*d points to us.

:- Doug.

Interesting: we moderns take a lot of our lessons from nature, elevating nature to the position of an incarnation of G*d.

:- Doug.

Who is working for the greater good?

:- Doug.

Ken Wilbur says that we cannot say things about what God is or God is not. So what if we worked a little on the comparative concept of G*d.

For instance, for me G*d is more open than I, more creative than I, more holy than I (but Jesus said Don’t fall down and worship me, be my friends; hmmm…). G*d is more friendly than I. G*d is less afraid than I, more willing to be vulnerable than I. Now that opens up some doors of perception, yes?

:- Doug.

Let us be about calling the conversation.

:- Doug.

Do the Work
See?
What happens!
See?
Who cares!
Do the Work!

:- Doug.

Ponder sits and if with her you enter not in
You see not all that she is doing
For with others she conceives and brings forth ideas
Ideas strong, weak, vig’rous, whispering
Together they raise, clothe, feed, clean them
To the day they meet action
Action brings them to fruition and fruition again
But if your eyes do not see you do not see
Into the sweet folds
Straight Action wants to go
Sometimes knowing that Fruit emerges here
Both Ponder and Action are necessary to bear Fruit
They must come together in fleshy joining
That there be Fruit aplenty and joy, happiness!

:- Doug.

Shalom = all good.

:- Doug.

Jesus forgave our sin, and for that he was killed. That is the forward way around.

:- Doug.

Whole is whole; lesser vision measures.

:- Doug.

What imagination do we have? What imagination will we put to work? For we cannot just administer—vision is the partner in the dance. If we cannot see something better, why?

:- Doug.