Boundary Police

I’ve been wondering.  What else can I do with my mind? 

Maybe a better question would be what can’t I do with my mind?  

What are the limits?

Let me rephrase that.   

What you can do in your mind and with your mind may be somewhat different. 

How your mind affects your body, how your mind affects the world around you. 

The answers to those questions can only be known by experimenting. 

However, what you can do in your mind follows a general and straightforward rule. 

You can do anything in your mind that you can imagine doing. 

If you can imagine it, you can do it, so in that sense you’re limited only by your imagination. 

How a particular activity of mind affects your body or your world will need to be tested. 

I suppose I’m speaking of the difference between imagination and experience. 

In some ways they are quite similar and can be exchanged one for the other. 

In other way they differ, which can lead to disaster when one is exchanged for the other.

It’s a paradox.

You may think that what you just read is great news but many people don’t. 

Knowing that you have unlimited freedom of the mind may be very exciting to you, but to many it is the most terrifying news they could hear. 

To institutions and religions and governments, an unlimited mind is a dangerous thing. 

A lot of folks have much invested in their limits. 

Take a very hard look at education of any type and notice whether it is directed toward freeing your mind or installing some new set of limits. 

If you speak too loudly of freedom in an area of limits, the boundary police will soon come, and what they will do is not pretty. 

People fight and kill over limits not freedom. 

To be unlimited is to be peaceful.

But tonight… you can think every crazy thought you can imagine because I won’t tell, and if it is crazy enough I may even join you. 

Dreamtime is a wonderful place to explore! ~Author Nelson Zink The Structure of DELIGHT