imagination

Grow up, kid – there’s no Santa. And Mickey and Bugs, they aren’t real either. In doing so we become big fat liars and kids know it. If we lie about Santa, why would they believe anything we say - ever?

Beliefs are realities. Beliefs predispose and organize the body and mind in predictable ways.

TTF board member, Andrew Papageorge, a world leader in large system innovation, recently interviewed Michael. Together they explored what it means to be creative and innovative, both critical topics in our brave new world of accelerating challenges and change.

How storytelling develops imagination. Imagination goes much deeper than make-believe play and storytelling. Imagination is a mental field, a swirling flood of impressions, a movement of the immediate present blending seamlessly with the distant past.

Words are symbols or triggers that stimulate a subtle replica of the original experience within the brain.

In subtle but profound ways the brains of our children are different from ours. The way
they access and process information has changed.

If much of what we think and do this moment is not intelligent, what action can take place right here, right now, that will break the pattern that keep creating the problems that are crushing us? How do we access and gather the energy and attention necessary to transcend and transform the normal states in which we live?

I described at the conference how media, and by that I mean video and computers, diminish our sensitivity, especially of our deepest, most essential nature.

Einstein didn’t Einstein didn’t watch videos as a baby. His genius did not come from knowing lots of information. In fact, baby Einstein spoke very little before the age of four. Einstein’s genius was not based on what he knew. His genius grew from his capacity to wonder and imagine.

Looking at my own family system was where I discovered normal wasn’t healthy. How the socialization process itself here and what I call the excited States of America may be normal but it’s not healthy.