other on your solar plexus, breath into your solar plexus, empty your mind, feel
into any pain or deficit you feel in your body. You will probably find the attention
needs to be shifted to the thyroid-throat area and the liver so put your hands over
these, put your attention there and breathe into these areas. The Visioneer’s bath
is useful both to increase the space and energy to invite visionary capacity, and for
metabolizing and adjusting to extreme revelatory chemistry, ecstasy and the bliss
of “hurricane season.”
Trust in Thyself
The reality of the universe is not confined to our limited human laws, which
in our hubris we think we can know as fact. The universe and nature is composed
of infinite laws of increasing subtly and complexity. And the sooner we humble
ourselves to realize this, the faster we will grow away from species suicide toward
an unimaginably exultant future. The only limit is our imagination!
Paolo Lugari the founder of Gaviotas, a 40 year old ecocommunity in Colombia
said that generally people have been hypnotized into thinking that a degree is more
important than knowledge, but if the child is raised to be creative, he doesn’t
need a degree. He decried the fact that world has too many specialists and that
we need more generalists, who can see all the connections and possibilities. Paolo
complained that people don’t learn how to think and that their curiosity is blunted.
He believes that students should be taught through a hands-on village-wide
apprenticeship in the carpentry shop, the factory, hydroponics, the tree nursery
and even the hospital. Paolo stressed that through an experiential education within
the community of the imagination (enlightened society), we teach our children
that the world is one big opportunity.
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy
is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing
corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but
he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried...Trust
thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. The magnetism which all original
action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust...We lie in the lap of
immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.”
ESSAY II Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People
by Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein
Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein,
Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
The Seer’s Handbook: A Guide to Higher Perception by Dennis Klocek
Gaviotas, A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman