header for earthfolk.net
 

sacred sexuality

Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

Table of Contents

B-Seer

Table of Contents

C-Belover

Table of Contents

Part 2 - Resources

Table of Contents

 

Creative imagining is a peculiar characteristic of humans.

A sojourning alien notes that humans have imagined many types of worlds.

At one time they imagined a world of wonder where they simply lived as hunters and gatherers. Their imagining expressed itself in physical creations—simple huts and tents, a cluster of tools, weaving and hearth based arts, and ways of domesticating a few animals. It expressed itself in emotional creations—living in small numbers, nurturing a family and kin-based society, the care of children and the burial of the dead. Spiritually, it can be inferred, they lived in awe of the moon and sun, looked to the stars for guidance, and respected and honored other life forms as they hunted and gathered.

Around the world, today, there are remnants of this imagination, but we mainly know about it as another imagination "discovered" it—the Warrior's Quest—that could not imagine that this way of life was real or worth living and so destroyed it wherever it encountered it. This clash of imaginations—which is still happening in remote jungle areas—reveals, to Earthfolk, the power of imagining.

Historically, the Western explorer Christopher Columbus exemplifies how one imagination could not imagine another. When he—and other European warriors—landed in what is now the West Indies, he met the Arawak people. Their way of life was so unimaginable to him and his soldiers that he judged them fit only to be slaves. Others of his kind could not see their humanity and so set about robbing, raping, razing villages and committing End of Time horrors upon the Arawaks, who were eventually obliterated as a people. The insight here is that humans can imagine and create their worlds. The Warrior's Quest imagination is an option as was the Arawak imagination.

Creative imagining is the way humans tell their meaningful stories—commonly called myths, stories of origin, theories or Big Stories. In these stories how humans want to think, feel and act is envisioned, expressed and determined. By exploring the currently dominant Big Stories and their mythic stories, Earthfolk prepare the way for clarifying why they creatively imagine as they do, namely, imagine the vision of Sensual preciousness.

 

Home | Scribe | Links | Glossary | Contact

Copyright © 1999-2014 Earthfolk™ All Rights Reserved.