It takes the imagination to see the kingdom. Without the imagination, we are simply theologically-inclined monkeys.
Can a person who "thinks" that belief is simply a function of imagination actually abandon their rationale in favor of believing?
Is "they eyes of the heart" simply another term for "the imagination"?
Is a mythic simply a person with an over-active imagination?
Yeah, I was thinking in the shower this morning that seeing is believing. It just is. But it's seeing a certain way.
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to a morning show on the radio on my way to work. This was about ten years ago. The movie Titanic had just come out, and they were taking callers who had been. One of the people who called in was blind. He said he absolutely loved the movie. He had gone with some friends. I had no place to file this information. That a blind guy would love Titanic had given way to "what in the world are blind people doing going to movies?" The hosts were fascinated with this idea, too, and began asking him all kinds of questions about his experience. He said that he used his imagination to fill in gaps between what he heard and what was happening. This guy apparently had lost his vision sometime early in life, so he had at least some reference for colors and the like. I will always remember one thing they asked him. They asked him what color Kate Winslet's hair was. Brown, he said. And you could hear the smile coming over the phone. He was enrapt by her beauty.
I almost started to cry when he said that, and I'm not sure why. Maybe for the pity of his lost sight. Or maybe for the solemnity of the moment when a blind guy saw more beauty in his mind than I did with two perfect eyes.
Without sight imagination is difficult. Without imagination sight is impossible.
I spent too long, regrettably, trying to convince people to believe what they could not see.
There is simply no way to believe all that we see without imagination.
If you can't see it you don't believe it, and her hair is still red.
"Brown." That's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHe probably winked as he smiled.
Without sight, imagination is difficult. With sight, imagination is nearly impossible.
Without imagination, everything is as it seems. With imagination, everything else is possible.
A thing cannot come to "be" unless it can be imagined ("without a vision the people perish"). A think has very nearly already come to "be" if it has been imagined.
A person cannot become something unless they can imagine it first.
ReplyDelete"Why can't you relax?"
The only honest answer is, "Because I cannot even imagine it."