This is a bit of imagineering for you in the form of an award acceptance speech. I wrote the first version of this in response to a challenge given to me and the other attendees of a personal development seminar in 2003. The challenge was to envision receiving and celebrating an award for our own future work done in line with our vision and purpose.
Why go small? I went big! I imagined I would receive the Nobel Prize for Peace for my work in completely reforming and freeing the educational system of North America. In my vision, the complete educational system overhaul eventually caught fire as a grassroots movement, spreading to other parts of the world. My speech was one of five chosen to present to all of the seminar participants. The speech was a hit. (Plus everyone was strongly encouraged to applaud and cheer loudly in celebration for a deeper imprint of our visions.)
I first wrote this post a while ago, and I’m sharing it now because it has come up often recently, and now is such a time of change. A couple of months ago, someone asked me these questions (paraphrasing):
This post is a different mode of expression from others recently. It’s an original poem that expresses in broad strokes my journey out of dark night back to inner-guided life.
Someone presented this cartoon recently on one of my favorite groups. Aside from what kind of cookies we all liked to “medicate” with, our dialog went like this…
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.