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No idle comment: we catch a lot of social habits from America. Joyce Carol Oates (American novelist) observed that “Keeping busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.” Woman after my own heart – there is no creativity without contemplative stillness. Existential psychologist Rollo May says “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” There can be no more lonely aloneness than at the edge of the infinite, as we heard in reading of Isaiah’s vision. Here is one human, faced with the presence of infinite and eternal power. So easy to dismiss visions, especially other people’s, as ‘you’re just imagining things.’ How many of you, I wonder, have visions? And I don’t mean the kind you get from a bump on the head or too much wine! The ability to see beyond the expected, the material and the obvious, to see, as it were, around the corners of the infinite, is one of which we are all capable as humans. It is not, however, widely acknowledged or practised in Western civilisation, and this is partly due to the pejorative use of the word ‘imagination’. Yet imagination is a powerful tool, perhaps the only tool, with which we can begin to explore a metaphysical universe and realms of reality beyond our present physical knowledge. Einstein, who certainly stretched the boundaries of what we know, said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” So, in imaginative vision we stand on the threshold of the infinite, the eternal, and, like Isaiah, and, as you will hear later, Walt Whitman, we need to be ready to journey into it. Such journeying is a great source of power and creativity, for it leads us to the second ‘I’ - interconnectedness. We are so much more than just what we think. That is true, even in the hard-headed world of the media, whose version of imagination probably helps to give the word a bad name! Fred van Amburgh, once the highest paid anchorman on one of the most successful news shows in America, said: “The mind, without imagination, would be as useless as an observatory without a telescope.” In every field of human endeavour, imagination goes ahead of evidential proof, creating new possibilities and new pathways. Thomas Merton wrote: “Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.” From these interconnections spring all the inventions, discoveries and achievements which form our material reality. Or to put it another way, you have to see what is there and connect it to what it might be: “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” (Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, The Little Prince) But connections do not, of course, only exist between things or ideas. It is the intricate intimacy - the 3rd ‘I’ - of our connections with each other that nurtures communities and helps them to grow in ways that make them resilient, generous and adaptable. It takes imagination to perceive these relationships and to enable them to be expressed in a way which, as the Communion service expresses it, “builds up our common life”. The story of the rabbi and his dancing congregation tells us that these connections can be made without any words at all. That quiet listening and sharing let to true communion between people. Maybe I should have had 15 minutes community dancing instead of the sermon this year? But we don’t have room! The rabbi and his congregation shared their questions and their tension, but we can also share our dreams. Indeed we need to share them. The author of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ believed that “dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.” And our own home-grown wizard-maker, J.K. Rowling, agrees: “We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” Inside us, then is the 4th ‘I’ – that of immanence. Immanence is imagination in perceiving divine in the small, the immediate and the now – the moment when the micro and the macro are understood as the same thing – when 2 children offer a baby a blade of grass. Deep within ourselves is the inner spiritual imagination that perceives the God-light shining round the edge of things and enables the core of us to vibrate to the music of the universe. It is the turning
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