This statement is so vital in allowing imagination to flow, like a river unblocked. Old thought, repetitive thought is like harden energy, it wont move, it wont budge. It causes one to fall back in to what is safe. It must be moved. Saturation of imagining come quickly at first, one gets exhausted easily…we must empty completely at this. Actually feel empty. And then it fills… It acts like a sort flushing out. It is cathartic at first…but then images pour out and piece by piece put together a new reality. And one can walk into it and stay there for a while. There is a sun there and a moon and a sky and a atmosphere…but it’s quite different from here, because everything has a soul, spirit…it can influenced. A mood can change the color of a sky.
We must be afraid to think freely it must feel dangerous, it must feel like it is a act of subversion.
I have been in a ritual of preparing my studio in the last week…a hundred surfaces of varying size are ready for me, paint is ready.
I will commit my waking hours to drawing and painting, the slow discipline of my silver points, and a guitar.
The magic box with its never ending flickers of quick images must be kept out of the mind. It cannot interrupt the discovery of this new place I seek.
I must be selfish of being alone there.
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
-William Blake
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/are-we-living-inside-a-virtual-simulation/
Jon mentions author John Blofeld’s book “The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet”
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