Training The Imagination
The most important thing in the world
Everything in the world that we enjoy or benefit from is the product of human imagination. Imagination is indeed the most important thing there is and without it life as we experience it would not exist.
I type these words sitting in a reclining chair. A big old La-Z-Boy. I’d still be sitting in a hard wooden chair had someone not imagined the idea of a recliner. Heck, I’d be sitting on a rock had someone not dreamed up the idea of a chair.
My little dog is laying across my legs. I’d be without her had someone not imagined that dogs could be domesticated. And let me tell you, Augie Dog is darn glad to be domesticated, she much prefers hanging out on the sofa to a short and brutal life in a primeval forest.
I’m typing these words on a computer. A fantastical device, something straight from science fiction. A device that could not exist had not someone daydreamed about it first. And had someone else not imagined the typewriter first, the computer wouldn’t exist in its present form.
These words aren’t being saved on that computer, nor are they being served to you from it, I am inputting them into the cloud, and you are pulling them down from there. This certainly would be impossible had someone not imagined such a thing as the cloud first.
Imagination is everything.
Kids are born with amazing imaginations. We can see this if we spend time watching them play. We might even remember it from our own childhoods.
But our society does all it can to beat this imagination out of our young.
As I’ve written elsewhere:
“Parent’s generally work against imagination. Think about all the times we hear the words: ‘Pay Attention!’ Schools are even worse. ‘Sit down and shut up you little bastards!’ Maybe not those words exactly, but you know what I mean. Heck, these days schools, parents, and medical doctors quacks even medicate the crap out of kids to suppress imagination.”
This is not a good thing.
Every single advancement in human history is the product of human imagination.
We need to cultivate it, not suppress it.
Tarot is a superb tool for that cultivation.
We lay out some cards, and seeing them we allow our imagination (with the help of our intuition) to create a story. A story as brief or as generalized as we desire; a story as long and detailed as we want, it’s our story, bounded only by our imagination and our intuition.
Doing this over and over again strengthens our imagination. It strengthens our mind. It strengthens our intuition. In exactly the same way that lifting weights over and over again will strengthen our body.
We always do well when we take the time to exercise our imagination and Tarot is the perfect tool to do just that.
Reading an astrology chart requires intuition as an inspiration to find the hieroglyphics meaning that will convey the needed message. There are so many things we can say about a sign and a sign planet pairing but there is one that meets the moment. I also read tarot and I like the Rider Waite deck because all the symbols are on that and they speak to the intuitive or psychic receiver. I have lots of other decks, but keep going to the symbolic when an important message is needed. Where would I go if someone hadn't imagined a deck like this?
I think they did a study that identified "genius indicators" in early childhood that were present in highly successful people. They found that most people possess the level of creativity and imagination required until entering the public education system, where upon repetitive testing the pool of individuals drastically dropped off. I need to find that...