Days of Creation

The Becoming of Man

 

Chapter Two ~ Imagination - Illusion or Reality :

    I know this chapter should have been the first one, but I wanted to challenge you.  Later on, I will share with you what I think is the most powerful and amazing key to a door that has many names and on which we are all knocking: TAO; GOD; UNIVERSE.   But first, you have to be prepared.

   To go through such a difficult process, as the one that I call Acknowledgment, it takes a lot of courage.  We are used to living our lives according to other people’s rules, so that in the end, what we really become is just a fake.  “Changing” cannot even become the subject of our mentalities anymore.  It does take courage to let go of our past and realize the fact that the only ones responsible for our life is us.  Judging, blaming anything or anybody else, only shows our weakness.  Our social life is not an easy task to control.  Many times we become controlled, even though we have the impression of being in control.  Please notice that I use the word “social” before life, because life - the way I understand it and as I said before - it is not the life we live as social animals.  The real life knows no boundaries or concepts. 

   It is a powerful energy that flows through everything.  It is an amazing strength and instant knowledge, generating a wonderful feeling.  It would really be a sacrilege to define life as being the social mess to which we have surrendered unconditionally.  Can you believe how paranoid we are?  Because of this social mess that we call life and because it’s such a hard and continuous fight, we even start to blame God for making it so!  Or even worse, the deeper we go into the shadow, the more we say that all of this is just karma, or destiny... and of course, we HAVE to accept it unconditionally and to pay.

  Think about it, my friend... do you really think that God - if he exists - created all your car payments, all your house mortgages and all the things that are so frustrating for you?  Don’t you think he made you out of joy?  Don’t you think you should enjoy life?  Don’t you think that you should change, and LIVE?  And if you don’t believe in God, then don’t you think you should enjoy life anyway?  However, there is no joy without freedom - within. 

   I think all people could be soul-free and everybody could be happy.  I think we all need to change.  We have only two choices: to give some value to our lives and change, or keep on doing what we are doing now, transforming life into a boring and flat routine. We live our life or just be lived by it.

   LIFE has nothing to do with what WE do to ourselves, and if there is a God out there, we are wasting his creation tarnishing and destroying it; counting maybe on an after-death existence.  And if there is no God, there is no after-death, so we are wasting it anyway, instead of being happy and alive.

   The choice is yours.  The life is yours.  Do you have the courage to gamble on it?

   As you read this book…you may be on the same wave with me or you may not.  You may be a very simple and open-minded human being.  You may also be a very strict and logical one.  For you, perhaps, one plus one will always equal two.  This is the reason I am writing this book giving both examples.  This chapter is about a tool that we all have, use and need at the same time - some of us more than the others.  But we all have it.  In equal “amounts” . . .

   There may be a God somewhere or maybe not.  Who am I to say which way is real?  I do have an opinion, as well as you have one.  We should respect each other’s opinions even if there are differences, and it’s better this way, because we may both be right or we may both be wrong.  In this way, we can never argue. In this way - there is no conflict.

   Let’s say for now, there is a God.  Think about God for a minute.  Imagine yourself in his place, eternities ago... when there was nothing except you.  Well, you, God for the moment, created the Universe, the Earth and Life - but how?  In order to create - and that means movement - you would've had to consider an intention.  If there is no intention to move and create, no movement or creation will take place.  Now, what does it takes to generate intention?  How can you intend to do something… anything… if you have no representation of that action?  You will think “it’s obvious”... it’s simple, yes, but it is not obvious.

   Look at a baby.  He wants to walk, but first he has to see it done by other people.  And not just see, but become in his own way, aware of walking.  With his little, gentle mind, he has to reproduce the action of walking in his brain.  At first, he watches people walking around and that is all.  Then, while watching people, he realizes that he wants his mama.  Next, he relates the two: Move - to go to mama; walk - to go to mama, faster.  From here, it takes courage and practice.  It is an on-going process because few of us today, know how to walk.

   So, let's go back to pretending that you are God.  You have an intention to create the Universe, but in order for your intention to exist, you need to acknowledge your own presence.  You need to become conscious about yourself, and that means who you are, what you are, how strong you are... everything.  Sounds familiar from the first chapter, right? 

   You are God; you become aware of yourself, as God; you intend to create the Universe and that means planets, stars, trees, humans, bugs and everything.  And you move; you manifest.  Through action, you create.  Didn’t I miss something?  A link?  To intend to create all this…“everything”, you have to imagine it.  Because there was nothing but you around, you needed to imagine.  So, it was your imagination, as God, that created everything around you.

It takes imagination for reality to exist.

   On the other hand, if there is no God, we don’t need to bother thinking about how everything was created or who did it.  We have scientists for that.  How about imagination then?

   Now if I tell you about a juicy steak sizzling on the grill and the aroma of blended herbs and garlic... A huge salad with all the good stuff in it, and your favorite ice cream, next to an exotic fruit shake... how would you feel?  If you don’t feel anything, then something is wrong with you, or you just had lunch.  Or maybe you just don’t like my choices; then find your own example and you will see my point.  You will actually feel it!

   If just a small quantum of imagination can make enzymes react and hormones tramp, it means that there is a lot of power in it, so why not use it?!  We have the ability to control the primordial and the most powerful tool that ever existed: Imagination.  There is no reason to deny it or refuse to use it, and still, millions of us are doing just that.     

   Close your eyes.  You will see nothing.  For a blind person, there are no colors.

   Cover your ears.  You will hear nothing.  For a deaf person, there is no music.

   Shut off your imagination.  You will enjoy nothing.  For an unhappy person, there is no life.  

   Look at all the kids around you, in your house, school, or park. The only thing they do is to imagine.  Their perception about life, and about themselves, is very different then the reality, as we see it.  On a daily basis, we try to educate them about reality.  Our reality and our limits.

   Interfering in their process of perception, we alter, most of the time, their ability to feel happy.  Not for the moment, but for later on, as “grown-ups”.  Children have to be allowed to discover for themselves.  They have the best way to do that: through imagination.  Conventional learning will just slow their thinking process and limit their perception of life.  Imagination is freedom, strength and growth.  Any world record, in any sports, happens because of imagination. Any invention happens because of imagination.  Your lunch, your socks, and car... all of them are imagination.  Music, dance, healing and emotions - they are all the product of imagination.  If I would have to define (although I know how limited words are) imagination, then this is how it would be:

Imagination is Life and Death.
Life and Death are just Imagination.

   Because of this definition, I challenged you in the first chapter to realize and accept who you really are.  Because this is the only way to begin the creation: The Becoming of Man.

   Using imagination, we can redefine ourselves the way we want to.  We can change our behavior; our life patterns if we want.  We can control our habits and make them happen or have them disappear from our lives.  It is a wonderful, powerful ability that we have, as long as we are alive.  An ability that has killed so many people, but also saved many others.  It could be used as a weapon, as well as a medical tool.  We just need to know, first, who we are. 

   I will focus of course, on the positive, creative side of imagination, but first I would like to point out some of the destructive ways we are using it, against ourselves.  One day, this could save you.


  To be ridiculed by our boss at work, or by some mean girls or boys calling us names when we were kids has happened to all of us at one time or another.  Remember the frustration you felt? Remember the pressure in your head, or your heart beating like a bunch of drums?  Is there anything - right now, as you read - that if you start thinking about it, you would feel the same way?  Something that bothered you so much, that it’s still hard for you to deal with it in your mind and it still makes you nervous?  Well, you just felt the power of your mind over your blood pressure and heart rate.  If you are healthy, these effects on your physical body become just accumulated stress, but if you are not, they are a warning.  In your moments of high conflict, imagination can keep you safe, but it can also provoke a stroke, because our brain controls all the functions in the body while at the same time, the brain is controlled by our mind and its perceptions. Imagination is the link between the brain and the mind, and we can have control over it.  Or we should . . .            

   Imagination is a powerful tool, used by all of us during our life. With training, we can learn to control it and use it to its highest potential.  I would like to show a few ways to protect our health through imagination.  Remember though, no matter what level of control you achieve, for many generations to come, we all have to give credit to the established medicine.  Alternative or complementary medicine comes to help not to replace.  For this reason I like to use the term “complementary” instead of “alternative”.  Saving a life is more important than the way used to do it.  Maybe this is not the place to do this, but I recommend that all the medical doctors learn as much as possible about all the complementary ways of healing, and use these modalities themselves or through practitioners.  On the other hand, of course, it would be helpful for all the other healers to know exactly what established medicine can do, and when it is the time to call a medical doctor and exchange information about their cases.  Soon enough, health practitioners will work together, regardless of their fields of training.  Soon - I hope - saving lives will be more important than making money and playing ping pong with the patients.  All this knowledge that human kind has accumulated during its history, should be gathered for only one purpose: so millions of lives could be saved.  Do you know what it takes to make this possible?  Abolition of vainglory.  All the actions, of all of us, are vital for so many other people on this planet. The more we grow as universal beings, the better this world will become.  But we need to imagine it first.

   Unfortunately, because of the rhythm of our society, humankind has less and less of a chance to adjust itself to the Universe.  The faster we live our social lives, the slower we grow as universal beings.  The faster we go the faster we become tired, losing energy and life.  The slower we go, the easier it is to observe, and after that, to adjust ourselves to the energies around us.  Running around like crazy will never help us find what we really are supposed to find.  Let me give you an example.

   Have you ever tried to catch a train while it was moving?  Or have you seen someone trying to do this?  Let’s say you are on the side of the railroad track and a train goes by really fast.  If you move back and forth, the train goes by and you never have the chance to jump on.  If you will stay still first, you will be definitely sure in which direction it is going. You will also be able to observe its speed.  Your eyes will target the movement of the train and follow it.  If you start running, the speed between you and the train will decrease and you will have more chances to jump; but if you start to run and forget why you are running, it will never go through your mind again to jump on the train, and you are lost.  Unless you stop and start again.  The Universe works the same.  It is the train, speeding next to you.  If you want to jump in, and become one with it, you need to adjust.  You have to observe its speed and power.  Imagination will be your run and you will jump. Forget about imagination, and you will go nuts.  Running and running . . .


   Because of my work, I have the opportunity to meet a lot of people with problems.  Some of them cannot walk, move an arm, or their heads.  Some of them have headaches or weakness in their bodies. Most of the time, they expect their doctors or somebody else other than themselves, to take care of their problems and to heal them.  If you are in some way injured or sick, you may not like what I am about to tell you right now.  If you are not doing anything to help yourself, healing will occur much later than it is possible to occur or maybe never.  Now, if you enjoy pain, I can understand you, however, if you are like me, and think of pain as something unnecessary, then you should learn to help yourself.  And for that, one thing is important: that you accept your ability to self-heal.  Once you have done that, imagination will be on your side.  It is you, this time, in control and self-confident.

   What is therapy?   The treatment of an imbalance.  Its purpose, according to our knowledge, is to fix something that goes wrong. So, a particular disease has to happen within the limits of our bodies.  The human body is a very complex mechanism, made out of many systems, all of them working together and independently at the same time.  We are running this mechanism from our brain, the organ that has the ability to coordinate everything, using energy.  Our brain controls 100% of our body and its functions.  It coordinates digestion, movement, moods, speech, breath and cell replacements.  It controls everything we know as “bodily” activity, through a continuous energy movement.  It is functioning according to the general rule that seems to make things happen in the Universe: transformation.

   Many times though, our brain starts to work at a lower capacity.  Things within our body are not taken care of at the right time or not at all.  It seems that somehow - for different reasons studied by medicine - our brain does not have enough energy to generate a permanent self-healing process.  As this phenomenon takes place, we all know what happens to us.  Can we reverse it?  I believe so, but we need to involve ourselves in this process to make it possible.

   There is something I once learned about knowledge.  Imagine you have a glass of water that is full to the brim.  The water inside the glass, is what you know - at this very moment.  Next to you, a spring is whispering, refreshing and inviting.  The original story says that in order to fill up your glass with the sparkling water from the spring, you would have to throw away the old water.  Here is how I changed that story creating a smoother transition.  You do not have to throw away the old water - old knowledge.  In our world, people are using it.  You might need it. The water from the spring though is something that flows.  It is spreading knowledge and it cannot be bottled, or it will lose its miraculous qualities.  Put aside the glass - knowledge you are holding on to - and just make a cup out of your hands and drink water straight from the spring. That is why it is there.  That is why you are there.  Once you drink, those qualities will be transferred into your body, into your life.  They will become you.

   Identify yourself with everything you do, with every move you make - physically or mentally.  With every word you say, and every thought you think.  Identify yourself with your own feelings. This is the spring, so drink from it and it will work for you. 

   Walk.  Identify yourself with your own walking.  Become conscious about it.  Be your legs and arms as you move.  In this way you will be able to adjust your posture.  In this way it will not harm you, but invigorate.  

   Talk.  Identify yourself with your own words until you will express only the truth.  In this way it will not harm you, but protect.

   Eat.  Identify yourself with the food, as you are eating it.  In this way it will not harm you, but heal you.  You will know what is good and what is not... and when to stop.

   Make love.  Identify yourself with your emotions and your partner.  In this way it will not harm your feelings, but help you grow and be happy.

   Whatever you are doing, identify yourself with it.  Because in
everything you do, energy is consumed, and that brings an imbalance within the body.  So, by identifying yourself with all of your actions, everything you do becomes therapy.  Do not search for healing.  It happens anyway, when you are total.    

Everything is therapy.

   Our brain controls our body, but to do that, it has to listen to the signals coming from the body.  When you identify yourself with your own actions, thoughts and emotions, you become total. When that happens, your brain receives and translates all the signals from the body, in the right sequence.  Its ability to control and interact with the body will increase, and from here, there is only little distance to a healthy and powerful body.  This is the translation of that famous Zen saying: here and now.  As long as you live within “here” and “now”, as a total being, you have all the chances to improve your condition - no matter what condition you might have.

   I could give you thousands of techniques for using imagination. You could try all of them.  But this is not what I want. There are hundreds of books on this subject and dozens of courses trying to teach it.  My intention, with this chapter is to show you a way of thinking about imagination.  Once you understand that, you will be able to create your own exercises if you need to.  You know better than anybody else what works for you and what doesn't. You will have everything you need to discover, because when you discover you learn.  But learning doesn’t necessarily mean discovering.  I will include a few exercises I practiced with pretty good results.  The main thing remains that you understand the value of imagination.  It is just a tool and you have the ability to use it.  That is all.

   I always had fun feeling myself within my skin.  You know, we could compare our skin with a sack.  It contains and protects us.  Imagine yourself within your own skin.  Move a little…stretch. Re-discover the process of movement.  You have a temperature.  Feel its quality.  Is it warm, or cold?  Feel the areas on your body where temperatures are different.  Move within your body.  Become aware of your muscles and organs.  Have fun doing it.  Be a kid.

   I said before that our brain is controlling our body and it is doing this by receiving signals from outside our body, as well as from inside.  It governs based on perception.  In school, we were taught that many functions of our brain are sub-conscious processes and we have no access to them.  They happen just like that because of a genetic formula.  We were taught wrong.  We have the ability to control any function in our body.  When I say control, I mean change the function’s parameters.  We can control metabolism, thereby increasing or decreasing it.  That means we can actually lose or gain weight at will. We have the ability to control our breathing.  Change the volume of air exchanged by our lungs.  If we can do that, it means we can control the pressure within the body.  Combined with muscle control, it will help us adjust internally and avoid unpleasant stress on our blood vessels.  That means no strokes!  Controlling ourselves, at this level, was never made part of our education, just because some people have never been able to do it themselves.  So they came up with theories about what we can do and what we cannot.  And we accepted and swallowed it, as usual. That doesn’t mean they were right.  If you can run but you cannot fly, it is normal for you to tell everybody that WE cannot fly.  You will generalize your limits as being universal although levitation is proved and recorded as a "paranormal phenomenon". We are so stuck in our system of beliefs that we call normal things paranormal or abnormal and limited existence as normal.  How can we expect to use our brain at 100% capacity, when we, the ones that control it - are programming it to "cannot"?  Our brain works at 5 or 10 or who knows what percentage... It all depends if you are a genius or not; a matter of numbers, as if anybody can measure something never understood…

   I have a test for you.  You read through the first chapter and eventually some lights started to blink in your mind.  Hopefully, you changed a little and you accepted yourself as you are, willing to become more.  To become what you want.  This is the test:

T H I N K   O F   Y O U R S E L F   A S   B E I N G   G O D

T H I N K  O F  Y O U R S E L F  A S  B E I N G  THE  U N I V E R S E

Say it to everybody you meet for one day.  Say that you are GOD. Say that you are the UNIVERSE.

Read carefully.  I said think, not imagine.  That means to identify yourself as either one. Dare.  See if you are able to do this for a full day - no matter what people you meet or what happens to you. If you can do this for a full day - no matter what people might think about you and your sudden and "weird" change in attitude - the odds that you will be able to control your brain at 100% capacity during your life time are in your favor.  It means that you are able to go through your own limits, to step out of a comfort zone and a routine.  To take charge.  And it makes sense. It is our brain. It just does not go through our mind to use it more than we are told we can.  It is a fake limit but very strong.  We are a power that created its own borders. 

CHANGE

   Sit down for a moment.  Create an empty space around you.  Create the stillness and the silence that allows you to be quiet for few moments.  Bring your attention within yourself and focus on your brain.  Feel its size and weight.  Become aware of its position and what holds it straight.  It has a pulse.  Find it. Connect with your own brain.  Acknowledge its presence.

   To go any further, you will need to be very relaxed and alert at the same time.  You can use any relaxation technique but here are few that I recommend and few that I do not.

   “Guided relaxation” - when somebody is leading you through a progressive relaxation - always seemed a little banal to me.  For me, those words - you are fully relaxed now - sounded very funny.  How can anybody say if I am relaxed or not?  Nevertheless, if you have never experienced a full body and mind relaxation, it might be something worth a try.  On the contrary, if you can control your own fingers, at your own will, then you can try the next exercise.

  Lay down on the floor. It is helpful to have a thin mat under your back, to avoid any discomfort.  For a few minutes, anywhere from 2 to 5, breathe normally.  It is not necessary to count or to start breathing as deep as you can.  Breathe normally, it is safer and more natural.  As you breathe in, be aware of your weight, pulled by the gravitational field of the Earth.  As you breathe out, allow yourself to sink in from head to toes.  You can slightly move your toes or fingers, at any time.  This way you will send signals to the brain, triggering a soft process of relaxation.  Keep doing this for a few minutes, moving your attention target.  Pay attention to your feet, then hands, then stomach and so on - you choose your own order.  Once you feel relaxed, or at least much more relaxed then when you started, move your attention inside your brain as you exhale.  Later, I will explain a different approach to relaxation, but for now this would be the simplest. At this point come to back where you started.  Feel your brain.  For a few minutes forget about your body.  Pay attention only to your brain.  Feel.  Palpate.  Connect. Our brain holds many surprises for us.  Discover and remember to have fun.  Stay a kid.

   Do this several times a day.  If you are at work and you cannot lie flat on the floor without an ambulance being called, then do this in your chair.  It will be less comfortable in the beginning, but more than likely, you will become used to it as with any body posture.  That's it.  Do it again the next day.  Take it easy, without rushing.  This is the most precious time you will ever spend.  It is actually a beautiful investment in yourself.  Enjoy it.

   The next day, or whenever you want, start in the same way and when you feel connected with the brain, imagine the floor - or chair you are sitting on, suddenly heeling to the left or to the right, like a boat on a very agitated sea.  Imagine your whole weight shifting toward left or right.  Observe how your brain reacts.  Observe the changes in how it feels and then relax.  A few moments later you can do it to the opposite side.  Later that day you can start having the intention of doing something, but never really doing it.  Think of raising a hand but with no muscle contraction.  Where in your brain did you feel your intention to move?  Think of speaking, but keep your lips together.  Where did you feel your intention to speak?

   Our brain reacts to our commands, and we have the ability to feel where all that information exchange takes place.  Once you start to feel this, you can do it anywhere you want: as you work, eat, read, talk and so on.  Be totally relaxed and observe where, inside your brain, everything is happening.

   If we want to increase or strengthen our muscles, we observe how they feel as we work out.

   If we want to “work-out” our brain, we have to feel it the same way.  We need to observe it and be aware of the changes taking place as we work with it.

   Anytime you decide something, anything, “feel” where that decision took the form of a thought.  It happens every day, within your brain, so be aware of it.  This way you will become able to control your bodily functions and reactions down to the cellular level.  It will take time, especially if you are going to practice only when you are in the mood for it.  But soon, it will become easier to control a flu and, of course, much more than that.

   I suggest that if you want to live longer and healthier, you start these kinds of techniques.  If you do not like mine, take time and discover your own - there are endless possibilities - but make contact with your body and with the brain that runs it.

   It is important for any living being to be in control of its own Life - once it become aware of itself.  You might think this is new age type of stuff.  In reality, the new age is a very old age.  We are so new that we can not remember anything older than a few hundreds years but the new age is ancient.  Controlling yourself is not a matter of being cool or smart.  It is about survival.  It is about the survival of the ones that will follow us.  When people will become aware of their strength, there will be no more fear from each other. 

No reason to fight.  Nobody stronger.  No opponent.
                                                              

   Imagination is the right tool for us.  It is a very complex phenomenon, taking place everywhere and nowhere.  That is because of its size.  I will tell you about another thing I do that makes me feel very strong and flexible at the same time.  It is one of my favorite techniques and it has a value that you will feel later.  I would tell you about it, but I really do not like prefab thoughts, so I will not give you any.  Just the plain technique.

   Stay in your room.  Wherever you are, watch the opposite wall.  With your mind, measure the distance between you and the wall.  After that, palpate, feel that distance.  Watch the objects around you, one at the time.  Feel the distance between them and yourself.  Close your eyes and project your mind through the window.  Feel the distance between the street and yourself.  Bring your mind back within the brain.  Relax.  Breathe.  Relax. For better results keep your eyes closed from now until the end of the exercise.  Later on, you will be able to practice this with your eyes open, staying still or doing anything.  In any case, after each projection, bring your mind (attention) back within your brain.  Project your mind to the sky - through the atmosphere, toward the stars.  Come back.  Project your mind to the sky.  Further.  And back.  And again.  Faster.  And faster.  Project your mind to the sky. And further.  Beyond stars.  To the infinite. 

Another word for infinite is unlimited. There are no limits.  Project yourself further.  Faster, deeper into the infinite and back.

Pulsate.

   I promised you at the beginning of this chapter a key to a door. I said it is the most powerful key I have found to a door leading toward the Universe, or God, or whatever you believe in.

   Some cultures on this planet had a similar approach and they were very happy and content.  Very appreciative of life, those ancient people used to acknowledge the nature around them as being the same as they were.  Form did not matter, only essence. A man, a tree, a dog, a pig or a fish, all had something in common: they were alive.

   I have used this key, as I call it, for quite a while already.  It works every time for me.  As far as I am concerned, this is a good key to access higher dimensions of this Universe and to connect with it. 

   When I was a kid, I always wanted to understand that advice given by people or books: become one with God - you are one with it, or, become one with the Universe - you are one with it.  Years later, abandoning myself, I understood how it works.  I struggled because of the way the information was distorted on its way from the Universe to people's minds.

   I think we live in a huge misunderstanding, and of course, there are major interests to keep us at this puppet level.  Unluckily for those pulling the strings, the times will change.  The times are changing now.  Well, this is the key:

   In your search and quest for the Universe and God, be free of human nature.  Be free of thinking human.  Feeling human.  Being human.  If you want to touch the Universe, you are too small and slow as a human.  Human - is an adjective given to an object that makes a perfect host and transport vehicle on Earth. Our ancestors were close enough to this truth but some of them wanted to rule over the others.  Those swelled heads had the superciliousness to declare that we, the humans, are some special unique creation and then they quickly created some rituals and rules for people to follow and obey.  To bow and fear their creator.  It is still happening, today...

   You have a life and there is nothing in between you and the Universe or God.  Respect this life and rise instead of bow.  Accept your power to imagine and create.  You are the Sacred artist creating yourself continuously as the Universe changes around you.  You are Life, not human.  Before I go to the next chapter, I would like to draw a conclusion and pass on some advice at the same time.  Too many times I have seen people become interested in meditation and such and they begin to do random procedures or exercises.  I like to practice techniques that are real and hooked into reality.  I am a real person.  I might be aware of only 1% of what I could really be, but that 1% is a very significant start for me.  It shows that I am alive, not dead.

   A lot of relaxation techniques contain instructions to be followed by the one practicing them.  One technique may start with something like - imagine yourself in a beautiful place, with white, little angels, and you feel relaxed, and safe...and so on, where is that place?  I know what I said about imagination, that it is the source for our reality, and that we have to imagine - in order to create.  But I would like to give some additional information on this matter.  It will bring you back to here and now.  Use your imagination to grow, to become LIFE, not just to escape social situations.
 

   One day, not a very long time ago, man used to watch the flying birds looping in the sky.  Watching the birds, man invented the kites.  Making bigger kites all the time his wish came true: man flew.  Now, we all can fly.  Take a look around you.  See the world.  Start from here.  Use it now. 

  People who misunderstood the value of imagination have created all the techniques that give you instructions about imaginary worlds.  The world around us contains beauty, as well as ugliness.  Music, as well as noise.  Love, as well as hatred.  Life and Death.  Use your imagination to palpate and feel the world around you.  Do not isolate yourself trying to avoid ugliness or noise.  They are part of the world, as well as you are. Isolating yourself, you restrain the power of the Universe from flowing through you.  It might feel good to imagine little fairies and worlds of eternal peace, but this is more of a hobby.  You can do this too, along with other things, so you can have fun.  But when it comes to your growth, grow from reality, otherwise you might become one of those misled souls with an angelic smile on their face.  And when something really shocking happens in your life, your smile will drop and you will drop too.  Some people use drugs to isolate themselves from the world. 

Some people join monasteries to isolate themselves from evil.

Some people paint, have sex or work  - to isolate.  Some people use imagination to escape a world of ugliness.  If that happens to you, my friend, go back to the first chapter, because there is still conflict within you.  Beauty and ugliness is only where your perception says: I like it or I don’t.  The Universe exists unaffected by your opinion.  And when you have such an opinion, you already have isolated yourself from the Universe, from being total.  Accept everything that’s out there, good or bad, for no other reason than just because it is.  Be part of everything and you will discover the true freedom.  Isolate yourself and you will be trapped by your own conflicts.  The only thing that counts is that you are - this is where your strength comes from.

   I hope you have - now - the means to live your life discovering it. I hope you found within you, the joy to search and to become. And if you did, share it with others by being yourself.  Before you go to the next chapter, stop for a while and enjoy life because it is the best thing you can do.  Live your own creation, as you are making it happen and smile like a kid playing the best game ever imagined.                                                                       

Exercises

                                                                    

“Those who want the fewest things are nearest to gods.”
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