One Readers Imagination

I received this comment from a reader who had read my blog titled Faith in the Possibility.  I wanted you to read her thoughts.


"I remember Stuart saying that to you.  A way to understand would have been for him to say, “ you can’t imagine imagining that”.  As a Humanist, it’s likely he can’t imagine the notion of needing a God to explain our human existence on earth. Or to imagine a God to make promises about after death that no living person can has actually experienced.  I have the same feeling of ‘I can’t imagine” when I look at some of the things artists think of to ‘do’ when they create. The same with music - especially complex music.  So I think it’s important to name what we can’t imagine.  

Why do I think naming what we can’t imagine is important?  It’s magnificent that we all think so differently.  Sometimes we think we ‘aren’t that smart’ or someone else is ‘brilliant.’  But are they?  The truth is (for me) that others see things in ways that might help me, and I like to think sometimes I see things in ways that helps others.  When we see the ‘imagination’ in others we realize how many kinds of ‘smart’ there is.  When we marvel at someone’s imagination, we are given an insight we probably couldn’t ever come up with.  How narrow life would be without everyone’s imagination.  What a treasure we have in our own imaginations." 

A wonderful wonder — commentary —  on the extraordinary possibility offered by our imaginations:

Thank you for your holistic thinking.  It reminds me of my vision of a civil conversation.  Where everyone is free to share their thoughts, opinions and imaginations knowing they are respected for what they think.  Then honoring others with the same respect.   Through such conversation we can all come to a broader understanding — worldview.  

Listening is so key to this kind of being together.