The Imagination Problem And Our Reality
A reflection on the link between imagination, mental health, and spiritual warfare.
We have an imagination crisis.
This crisis is due to the significant influence of imagination and its role in our daily lives. The following video features this quote that echoes our sentiment:
Imagination shapes our perception of the world, and to us, that world becomes a reality.
If how we see the world is real, irrelevant to how the world really occurs, this piece of information becomes quite profound because, as we all know, we have a mental health crisis.
If we look closely at this mental health crisis, what exactly are we experiencing? We might be experiencing symptoms of depression, but more specifically, we're experiencing symptoms of anxiety.
If we narrow our focus to the issue of anxiety, which has become increasingly prevalent, we can attribute its pervasiveness solely to a problem of the imagination.
The problem is that our imagination runs wild, and it runs negatively. We imagine the worst possible outcomes. This is the problem.
This is a result of psychological warfare that has been unleashed on the population via the guise of movies, entertainment, news, and more.
Our imagination is fed images and situations that will likely never happen in our personal lives, but those scenarios are sown into our unconscious.
Thus, when something closely remote to that situation occurs, our imagination runs wild negatively, leading to anxiety, and so forth and so on.
Unfortunately, this problem is not treated appropriately.
If the imagination is a source of the problem, then why do we treat it externally with medications -- especially those that have been proven time and time to not be effective. And to add to the fire, we have no idea how these things work.
It's time that we need to start looking at reality from a different perspective, an unorthodox perspective because our current way of doing things is not addressing the root of the problems.
We have an imagination problem.
We have an imagination crisis.
We have a spiritual crisis.
We are undergoing spiritual warfare.
Psychological warfare is spiritual warfare, and we need to come to terms with that.
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We have the ability to distract ourselves from materialism.
We have the ability to limit our time on the internet - we have that strength!
We have the ability for "meta thinking" - think about WHAT you are thinking.
This is cognitive behavior therapy, except it's an ANCIENT concept. It is said that we have 6,000 thoughts per day - often simply REACTIONS. This is not good, especially if we are simply reacting to TikTok or News. It is possible to be DELIBERATE and have some WILL POWER and focus our attention on things that merit our mind's focus and deepen our understanding.
It is worthwhile to have a FIXED TIME each day for deliberate STUDY of religion and philosophy.
It is worthwhile to train oneself to remove as much NEGATIVITY as one can, and rid oneself of FEAR, even justifiable fear. It is worthwhile to learn how to calm one's mind and quiet one's thoughts. Eventually one will understand what the ancient mystics revealed: that thinking in a positive, unfearful way actually shifts reality - our thoughts place us in a mental space that allows us to align with a specific flow Divine energy and channel it into our world.
One can deepen one's imagination. If one seeks to maintain an empowering and transformative consciousness throughout the day, every day, and know the innate spiritual sense of one's soul, one must eliminate some of the distractions of modern life. Arizal, the famed Kabbalist, said meditation is more beneficial for the soul than studying, and seclusion meditation is a good. Through meditation, study and imagining, one gains a deeper perspective of reality, and through eliminating dumb
distractions one can create a deeper experience of real life.