Are you a visionary? I think I am actually. Looking back in this blog that I started, almost in another lifetime, I was trying to communicate to my future in pictures. And also in pictures of things. No wonder it died out! When it comes to the future I guess already produced artifacts has too narrow bandwidth. And it was someone else´s baby already released into the world. It is weird looking for the future as a collection of others past. So even thought I love some things, and old houses, and I sometimes do think that pictures communicate well, I do want to expand on the therm visionary so that it encompass enough to keep interesting.
I think visions of future never has been more important than right now. But these visions are to me less like pictures and more maybe ways of being. Like, for example, how would it be if we lived only of what nature provides? That question can lead the imagination into so many directions. Some might think in the way of that we would have to go back to a more primitive way of living. I do not think so, although it always depend on the mindset of every individual who experience it. I think that everything would be more rich. Like a tomato that has ripened in the sun is so rich with taste, compared to the those where liters of fossil fuels has been spent on green houses, fertilizers and transportation that are so tasteless that they are better not eaten at all. There is something contradicting in that cheap/wasteful paradigm that we as humanity live in the western world. It is like everybody is convinced that we cannot afford not to waste.
Another thing that comes up as I discuss visions is their lack of value in today's society. The things already done has more value. The plan also has value. But the direction does not. It is okay to let the lowest impulses of human nature decide what the future will be. We call that inevitable, realism and sometimes even democracy. I also think that one of the problems is the categorical refusal to live here and now in 2018. Everybody is either developing an addiction to something (smart phones, gambling, sugar, alcohol, sex, trauma, drama, victim-hood, you name it) or are nostalgic over the 20th century, a time which they truly understood. I see many people living their life as if all good things has already happened and all the options left are either to go back as in looking for the glory in the old days. In the worst case where everything was homogenized romanticized nationalistic and ethnic way. The political parties are still identifying with their former fights of a long lost causes. And the culture is at its best retro cool. But the intensity of this very time is enormous! I am so grateful to be alive right now! This is the time when it is possible to for the first time really shake of the shackles of thousands of years of barbaric living! This is the time when it is possible to knowingly let your life be a quest of following your higher awareness. The repetitiveness of the unconsciousness, parental and societal programming and the linearity of rational thought no longer need to have hold over our future. All we need is a little, or a lot, of courage!
So how do I relate to the term vision today in September 2018. It is a sense of something that is still undefined, a space that has opened up as a result of your own inquiry. And as you move, choose and live your life you will sense if you are moving towards or away from that space. A willingness to be absolute surprised about what that space realized in this world needs to be there, as predictability not always walk hand in hand with the new. It is something that is created by your very own wonder, and as long as you still wonder this space will be ever expanding.
