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Everything's coming up roses
As I have written before, so much mass media obsesses on answering the question, “What’s wrong?”
The news is mostly about bad stuff. Dramas, soap operas, documentaries, and even a lot of comedy shows attract people to flock to their screens to hear about the latest conflicts, conspiracies, scandals, rip-offs, and disasters. And this is training for us as we learn by example.
But people who espouse the law of attraction, including a growing cast of non-physical beings, instruct us instead to focus on what’s right with the world. It’s a real paradigm-flipper. It’s almost counter-intuitive because of all the training we’ve had compelling us to look for problems.
I'll take visionaries over snarks
Just fine, thanks.
I am an advocate of hope and change. I remember watching the special program put on by the Obama campaign just before the election. I was leaking tears at a phenomenal rate considering the activity I was involved in at the time: listening to some politician speak.
I can’t recall that a politician ever moved me to tears before Barack Obama did. And not just once. It was embarrassing how easily I succumbed to his message and charisma.
Hope and change resonates with me because I am creative and loving. I want to see diversity and harmony and innovation and inspiration in my country and on my planet.
Even before the election I realized that one of the reasons why I got so emotional during some of Barack Obama’s speeches was that there wasn’t much in all of Televisionland that spelled out visions of hope and (positive) change.
Continuing an exploration…
I have to wonder what my world would be like had I not been trained by cultural conditioning to be so fearful.
I am generally an optimistic guy. I like to look for the good in people. I like to look for beauty in the world. I like to find beauty in places people often overlook.
Yet we live in a world dominated by fear. I have already discussed the news and how it thrives on fear. Now let’s look at mainstream entertainment.
I was a broadcasting major in college and always wanted to be a screenwriter or a novelist. One of the lessons pounded into me as a student was that the essence of all drama is conflict. If there is no conflict, there is no drama.
In movies and novels, authors are encouraged if not required to put their characters through the wringer of conflict. If you don’t do that as an author, you stand an excellent chance of having your screenplay or manuscript rejected. So if you want to be a successful author, you learn how to master the portrayal of conflict.
When you read much about creativity or prosperity, you’ll quite often find bunches of material on how the conditioned mind keeps us from making our dreams come true. It’s often said in a jillion different ways that the universe wants to provide for us. It wants us to be happy. But we get in the way of ourselves through negative or self-destructive thinking which in turn attracts negative consequences into our lives.
It dawned on me one day when my creativity was on that when we keep ourselves stuck, it’s like being thrown into Idea Jail.
Of course the irony is that we throw ourselves into Idea Jail. We could walk out at any time if we chose to.
Idea Jail becomes a handy, easy-to-use metaphor for all the long-winded explanations of unconscious thought processes. It’s an easy way to wrap your mind around the whole concept of being stuck by turning off your creativity.
