The "glue" that makes us all average, normal, and clueless

After a great artist or scientist makes imagination into fact, others then gather around and analyze the truth of what has just appeared. But the cardinal happening was the invention itself.

Even more important was the capacity to make imagination into fact.

Power.

Flowing from freedom.

This is what crisis and threat and tragedy seem to blanket with despair. But that is an illusion.

Nothing can happen in this world that changes or diminishes your inherent power, unless you decide it does.

Staged crises are also an example of power. They are perverse art flung up on the screen of our perception, designed to make us feel we have to give in. Give in to what? To the sacrifice of our own capacity to imagine and create reality.

"Somebody else made reality for me."

That idea is also the hallmark of hypnosis. The subject, in a trance, accepts what is already real as the final summing up of his life. His only job is to adjust his actions to the world as it is.

There are many examples. Look at the mesmerizing tonnage of legend launched to convince the population of ancient India that the caste system was a cosmological necessity, given the rules of universal justice and the regulations governing reincarnation.

This "spiritual system" was, finally, a cosmic fascism. It was a work of art designed and managed by the aristocratic and priest classes, to cement their control over the population. In other words, these rulers invented a reality for the masses that thereafter commanded:

"We made reality for you. Your job is now to live inside it."

Likewise, in recent centuries, the rise of science was twisted and extrapolated into its own legend: materialism.

"There is nothing beyond particles whirling in space. That's it. That's what is real, everywhere. You live inside this idea. Adjust. Reject any thoughts that don't mesh with it."

And against all this is, if we want it, freedom. Power. The individual capacity to imagine and create reality.

How far does this power extend?

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