Write with Impact
“The imagination is
our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see wholly—as whole and
holy—what we perceive as scattered, as order what we perceive as random.”
Austin Farrer (as quoted in Reversed
Thunder by Eugene H. Peterson)
Mythic is often acknowledged, or accused, as imaginary with
the emphasis on made-up impossibilities, or fantastical and unbelievable
stories for entertainment. But mythic imagination is actually visionary—a
strategy of seeing from a new perspective. It dares to ask the what-if
questions to the nth degree. It risks failure over and over again in the
attempts to make whole broken parts.
Mythic imagination permeates story and science, exploration
and cuisine, language and geography. It is priceless, peerless, and passionate.
It dares to dream beyond the reality it can see and touch
and feel. Galileo studied the heavens, improved the telescope, created an early
version of a thermometer, and set his world upside down in arguments by
proposing the earth and other planets revolved around the sun. For that he
faced a trial for heresy.
Three Persian astronomers, or wise men, followed a star
across a thousand miles to welcome a newborn king, born in a stable.
Known primarily for inventing a working light bulb, Thomas
Edison also invented the phonograph and a motion picture camera. With world
changing fantastical consequences. Madam Curie is famous for her studies on radium
and Albert Einstein for the “speed of light”. He is acknowledged as a genius
even though as a teenager he struggled in a school that demanded rote only learning.
One of his quotes states, "The
important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing."
Mythic imagination explodes with possibilities. It ignites wonder. It
sparks creativity.
Share: What
reality would you like to see re-designed? How would a new perspective change
its focus?
Read deep,
marcy
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