Nov

True Imagination

Article by Tabitha | Filed Under Articles, Life

“Is it ok for me to make myself the king of 7 in my imaginary world?” my son asks.

“Sure, but king of 7 what?”

“King of everything that has 7 in it. Since I am now 7 years old, I thought it’s time for me to master everything with the number seven: 7 colours of the rainbow, 7 days of the week, 7 energy centres, 7 original planets,7 more years to go before I’m a teenager… oh, and by the way, I’ve decided not to cheat the police when I’m in 14 and pretend I’m old enough to drive because if they ever ask for my passport, they’ll see that I was lying”.

“That’s very clever”.

I’m imagining what it means to have mastery of 7 levels on a universal scale: mastery of the 7 Laws of Mind, the 7 stages of alchemy, the 7 soul cycles of the Man under the Law, the 7 years of plenty that precede 7 years of famine in the Bible..

What can a 7-year old know about Self-Mastery?

When I was 7 years old the “land that imagination forgot” faded from consciousness. My family moved to a war-torn, communist country where our awareness was assailed by the realities of abject poverty, disease, political oppression and the many injustices of this world. At the age of 7 I wrote letters to presidents and prime ministers demanding the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, urging boycotts of Soviet-produced exports to developing countries and asking whether the U.S government knew that the lie about putting a man on the moon was just that.

An energy healer tells me I have a tendency to lose my innate sense of balance and alignment whenever I move away from my centre by allowing people and situations to get me “hooked” on something.

“Isn’t it strange that I prefer sour-tasting things to sweet things?” my son asks. I forgot about this mundane expedition to the shop with my semi-autistic child; I was already exploring the realms of infinite creativity, abundance, knowledge, imagination and thought to look for the place where “the king of 7″ and I could meet.

I can’t help getting irritated when my son becomes just a kid again. When I was 7 I tried to live in the world of my imagination and resented every “hook” that pulled me back into the ordinary, man-made world.

“It’s not strange that you prefer sour things to sweet things. What is strange is that you snack on olives and your best friend doesn’t like chocolate.”

On the way back from the shop, we meet my sister who gives us a lift. My sister is telling me how annoyed she was at a bank security guard who would not let her use her cellphone while waiting to use the ATM. My three-year old nephew starts giggling uncontrollably. He imagines a security guard approaching his mother to tell her what the rule says: no cellphones to be used in the bank.

He imagines his aggressive, no-nonsense mother telling the security guard where to get off while pointing out that the ATM is not a bank. What we consider stupidity a three-year old turns into a joke.

“That’s the best story about bad customer service you’ve ever told” he giggles. He listens to us grown-ups complaining and expressing our disgust at the levels of bad customer service and he compares this security guard to the lady who wouldn’t sell me a belt because I don’t speak her language and the driver who wouldn’t accept the terms his clients set because he didn’t want to face traffic…and he finds this particular incident funny. Only a child’s imagination can sort events like this.

I am left wondering: if a three-year old can see the humour in his mother telling a security guard “the ATM is not a bank” and a seven-year old can easily move through the realm of imagination to a debate about what makes for strange tastes, why am I spending all my time recruting network marketing distributors, coaching young adults at my church, developing spiritual coaching material for executives and teaching myself to manage a house efficiently ? True Imagination shows me the “borderline” area between an ordinary excursion to the shop and my 7 year-old son tackling the vast subject of self-mastery (something I have only just begun to explore myself and barely understand!!) Icould probably accomplish a great deal more in my network marketing business, my coaching and my ideal of a “home executive” role if I trusted True Imagination to show me exactly where Light dispels darkness and illusions become Truth. If I could find this exact spot in the realm where my son is the king of 7, I would accomplish a life-long dream of teaching people the difference between fantasy and imagination.

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