Have
you noticed that when you sit silent for a few moments and you mind goes off
wandering to some distant shore dreaming up things. How it always seem to
climax into the past?
Our
mind is an amazing thing, with powers beyond measure. We can live, die,
procreate, decimate, grow, shrink, travel, anything inside our heads. There is
nothing that we cannot do or create or visit inside our heads. With all of the
permutations and combinations of universes and existences that we can imagine,
almost all the time our mind always comes back to the past.
We
are all anchored to our past. We dream of the future yes, but even when we
dream the roots of that dream sprouts from our own pasts. We all want to be
rich, because in past we have had felt the sting of poverty. We all want to
look attractive, because in past all of us have felt a bit average compared to
others around us. We all want to be intelligent, because in past we've been looked
down upon as ignorant. We all have our own needs and desires. And nearly half
of them are something that we had lacked in the past; or something that we
imagined/known in the past.
I
wish there was some way that we could just cut off the cord with the past so
that our minds may simply go ahead and take us to the worlds unknown to us.
Places and sights that is so strange for us that the very notion of them would
be exhilarating.
For
example, look at all the popular alien movies and books we see. All of them
have limbs and eyes and consciousness. Whenever I imagine of alien existence, I
think of some specie that do not have a body. They don't have need for eyes to
see, nor any measure of right or wrong. They are alien creatures with alien
needs and powers. Why should they ever even imagine being anything like us?
In a
way, they reason the movies and books make do with such portrayal is not
because they cannot think of weird beings. They do, a lot. But they still to
sell their product better they feel they need to tone it down. In other words,
they are saying the masses are not capable of imagining let alone accepting
anything too out of the acceptable limits of unfamiliar. I feel that is sort of
insulting.
There
is this popular American show of the 70's called Cosmos. It is a
semi-scientific documentary series about the universe telecast during the Space
Race. It is quite good, some of the graphic might seem to campy by today's
standard but honestly I find them a lot more open to imagination than a lot of
other stuff we are shown or taught.
It
is a popular belief ancient Indian scholars could calculate and predict
eclipses, distances between the planetary objects and satellites etc just by
looking at the stars. These scholars researched human body and universe out
there by just imagining the whole way it functions. The whole science of
astrology was an output of this imagery.
I
love our strength of imagination a lot. I enjoy the sense of freedom that it
gives us. I only dislike the way our imagination is limited by our known world.
Today,
I am going to add a really weird alien creature to my horror story.
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