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.
