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Updated 09/10/20
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My Imaginal Gallery
“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.....”
― Howard Zinn
"The world is a dangerous place to live. Not because of the people who are evil, but because
of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.....”
― Howard Zinn
"The world is a dangerous place to live. Not because of the people who are evil, but because
of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein
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Seeing the world differently....
It's my perception that many positive and simple Life alternatives are emerging from the creative Imaginal Cells of a threatened world. |
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Nearly half a million Internet links popped up for 'imaginal cell', including a treatise
describing my own journey and experiences so well, I might have been the author: http://www.ourimaginalcells.info/an-imaginal-cell-analogy.html See About My Website: http://ourimaginalcells.info/about.html |
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"With imagination, one can solve a problem. More importantly,
one can skip ahead of the problem and render it null and void." https://outsidetherealitymachine.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/25-quotes-on-the-power-of-imagination/ “A confession of helplessness doesn’t earn you a gold star on the blackboard. There is no gold star or blackboard. There is you, there is your own power. And what is that power? It comes in two forms or venues. First, there is the ability to apply logic to events and information; to think rationally from A to B to C; to analyze. And second, there is imagination, the capacity to conceive and then invent realities that would never otherwise exist in the world.” https://web.archive.org/web/20190405123446/https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/individual-power-in-a-decaying-world-3/ About Jon Rappoport: http://nomorefakenews.com/aboutjon.html |
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"The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence." --- Albert Einstein |
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According to 'Keirsey Temperament Sorter', I'm a Rational Mastermind (INTJ).
Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging = 'introverted intuition with extroverted thinking' |
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For astrology buffs, I was born under the fire sign at the beginning of the zodiac
on the cusp of Pisces and Aries during the Vernal Equinox, occasionally qualifying as the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. |
IMAGINAL INSPIRATION |
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. |
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http://www.toinspire.com/author.asp?author=Sufi+Teaching
About ToInspire.com: http://www.toinspire.com/ See About My Website: http://ourimaginalcells.info/about.html |
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"Jefferey Jaxen is constantly working behind the scenes to spotlight
the untold, censored and under-reported stories of our time. His mission in life is to teach & empower others to take back their power .... An adventurer always up for the next challenge, he keeps his ear to the ground for techniques, ideas, & solutions to issues humanity currently faces..." Watch Jaxen's inspirational: “Following Your Virtue” https://youtu.be/nq6PpqChnY8 (3 minutes) About Jefferey Jaxen: http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/about.html "Individual Power in a Decaying World" “Solutions to private problems and public problems require the ability to think things through, logically, and to reject what is unworkable or biased-- but above and beyond that, a person needs to be able to imagine solutions that haven’t been tried before. He can’t keep asking other people to invent solutions for him. This is the hardest lesson. The habit of demanding that others come up with answers, that others find a way out of the tunnel -- this habit is based on the assumption that one’s own power of imagination is grossly limited, which is a lie. You might say it is the central lie....” https://web.archive.org/web/20190405123446/https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/individual-power-in-a-decaying-world-3/ About Jon Rappoport: http://nomorefakenews.com/aboutjon.html "Confucius Tells You How to Change the World for the Better" "One of the great dilemmas of at our times is the question of how best to apply ourselves in the quest to change the world for the better. Where is our limited time and finite personal energy best spent if we wish to manifest a world free of corruption and ignorance?" http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/12/04/confucius-tells-change-world-better/ About WakingTimes: http://www.wakingtimes.com/about-waking-times/ |
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How Should We Respond to Evil....?
"Buddha was well known for his ability to respond to evil with good. There was a man that knew about this reputation, and he traveled miles and miles to test Buddha. When he got in Buddha's presence he verbally abused him, he insulted and offended him. Buddha was unmoved. He simply turned to the man and said: "May I ask you a question?" The man agreed and said: "Well what?" Buddha continued: "When someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, to whom then does it belong?" The man replied: "Well then it belongs to the person who offered it." Buddha smiled: "That is correct." And then he said: "So if I decline to accept your abuse, does it not then still belong to you?" The man was speechless......and left." Buddha Sayings: How to respond to evil with good Published on Jul 30, 2014 Buddha quotes | The Fourteen Teachings Of The Buddha "Listen to buddhist meditation music for relaxing and read the fourteen buddha teachings." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKFSVs-mA6c (4 minutes) |
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"To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember
the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present....." ― Howard Zinn |
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Our Unsung Heroes ....
"Throughout history, we are often reminded of the people that have done heroic and outstanding deeds..... Here, are five brave people who did great things but have been overlooked by the historians – or writers who thought they just “didn’t belong” in the list of great men and women. There are many, many more, of course; this is just a sampling": https://web.archive.org/web/20170401114150/https://myfivebest.com/unsung-heroes-those-who-didnt-get-credit-through-history/ Examples of rarely discussed early American heroism: "Our country is full of heroic people who are not Presidents or military leaders or Wall Street wizards, but who are doing something to keep alive the spirit of resistance to injustice and war...." https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Unsung+Heroes.-a062685313 ― Howard Zinn The historians and mainstream media may well continue to overlook many deserving heroes among us -- but today we can utilize the Internet to help support and commemorate the unselfish and sacrificing. -- For example, my grandson was so impressed with the little known, small group of unlikely heroes who actually changed the course of history during the Normandy Breakout of the Second World War, that he created a personal web site: HILL262.org is dedicated to inspiring the rest of our world with his impressive findings. ABOUT Hill262.org: https://www.hill262.org/info/ -- This is an ongoing project, so please check back for updates. "We don’t have to wait for some grand Utopian future."
"The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." -- Howard Zinn See About My Website: http://ourimaginalcells.info/about.html |
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" 'He works hard and blows the coals -- and still has plenty of other irons in the fire',
said Aristophanes many centuries ago. Except for the era, he might well have been describing Dr. Leendert De Witte, a Senior Staff Scientist with Aerospace Corporation in San Bernardino, California." "A prolific author, Dr. De Witte has published more than 25 scientific papers in such diversified fields as applied geophysics, thermodynamics, numerical analysis, computer applications, electro-chemistry and physical geodesy. He holds ten U.S. patents..." "As time permits, he has an avid interest in the Pai Pai Indians in Mexico, among whom he has become something of a hero. The Pai Pai Indians, Dr. DeWitte explains, are a diminishing tribe of nearly pure strain who live in the Sierra de Juarez mountains, in an area between Ensenada and San Felipe on the Gulf Coast. He found them while exploring palm canyons in search of caves where he and other explorers hoped to find Indian artifacts." "He first became their mentor .... when he advised them how to save their water supply which comes from a small artesian well in a canyon above the plateau where they were struggling with crops." |
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(...... The above newspaper interview was published while I was Dr. DeWitte's 'Computress'
programmer for various Minuteman projects at Aerospace Corp, San Bernardino, CA, 1966-1969).
Inspirational Gallery ....
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“Primum non nocerum (First do no harm)”
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." -- Hippocrates "The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates changed the course of Greek medicine with his certainty that disease was not caused by gods or spirits but was the result of natural action." “The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hippocrates.html http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/248774.Hippocrates |
Einstein
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"The world is a dangerous place to live. Not because of the people
who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is." http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408 |
Mahatma Gandhi
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world"
-- Mahatma Gandhi "....My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty. This defense avails, though the whole world may be against the individual resister." Gandhi was also one of the first to recognize the actual futility and danger of small pox vaccination strategy: "Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, in defense of their conviction" -- 'A Guide to Health' on smallpox and plague vaccination by Gandhi, pub.1921. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/gandhis-anti-vaccine-views-ring-true-century-laterA http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898 |
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Van Gogh's
Starry Night
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"They would not listen ...... they did not know how ...... perhaps,
they'll listen now ......" 'Vincent' -- Don McLean's hit song inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting, captured this 1880's Dutch artist's lonely creative angst (only one of 800 paintings sold during his talented but short lifetime), and may strike some imaginal chords. NOTE, Van Gogh suicide and self-mutilation rumors have been debunked*. This Van Gogh art slide show displays dozens of paintings; includes the 'Vincent (Starry Starry Night)' McLean soundtrack with printed lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE (5 minutes) https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/donmclean/vincentstarrystarrynight.html |
Van Gogh
1853-1890
Van Gogh's Irises
Van Gogh's
Sunset at Montmajour
1888
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This gifted artist saw the world differently.....
and today, Vincent Van Gogh paintings are among the most valuable in the world, fetching tens of millions of dollars on the rare occasions one is sold at auction. "...His artwork is still altering the way mankind views beauty, persona, individuality, and style in art." http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/impact.html "If all his paintings perished tomorrow .... he would survive through the long series of letters he wrote to his brother Theo -- the richest literary work ever penned by an artist, a Dostoevskian novel of his emotional life ...." http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/27/1000-artworks-vincent-van-gogh Van Gogh's personal letters spoke of a passion to give happiness to the world through the unique beauty of his creative art: "The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism ..." "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed ..." "We spend our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words ..." Van Gogh's life in his own words: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/quotes.html (5 minutes) New painting discovered after 85 years: 'Sunset at Montmajour' "Van Gogh and the art of living forever" By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor, Sept, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/opinion/greene-van-gogh/?hpt=hp_t4 |
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* Legendary Van Gogh acts of self-harm debunked:
" .... Two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists' letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth." http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/04/vincent-van-gogh-ear " .... Nor, did Van Gogh commit suicide, as rumored after he died in 1890 at the age of 37, according to Dr. Vincent Di Maio, a leading expert in gunshot wounds..... Dr. Di Maio told two biographers long committed to the idea that Van Gogh didn’t kill himself, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, just what they needed to hear to prove their ten-year theory." "The painter’s fatal gun shot wounds did not look self-inflicted. At all .... " http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/185602 /Van_Gogh_didnt_commit_suicide__he_was_murdered_expert_suggests |
