Power and imagination can lead to suffering and death but the ends always justify the means. Power can be a person having great influence or control over others. Imagination is the ability to form mental pictures in your mind. When all is said and done the ends always justify the means, whether it is realized or not.
After close examination of the story of creation, power and imagination play a huge role in the story. The story begins with God creating the earth and all her living creatures, including two humans, Adam and Eve. God gave Adam and Eve everything they would ever need, from fertile ground to grow crops to plenty of fruit trees. The only thing God asked of them was to not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, the tree of knowledge. In return (for not eating from the tree) they would have eternal life with God. .
One of the creatures God made was the serpent. He was a sly and cunning creature who slivered around on the ground. The serpent was the most deceptive and canny creature that God created. He used his brainpower to convince Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. God had told Eve that if she ate from the tree she would die. The serpent told her God was lying. The serpent also said, "You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God (ch. 3 line 4-5). .
While the serpent was talking to Eve she was using her Imagination to think about what it would be like to be and think like God. What it would be like to know everything God knows. Once Eve began to imagine the possibilities she decided to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. After she ate a piece she brought a piece to her husband Adam who also ate the fruit. .
Unfortunately none of them, Adam, Eve, or the serpent, used their imagination to consider the consequences of their actions. The serpent's punishment for being deceptive was that he was "cursed among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon his belly he will go, and dust he will eat all the days of his life.
Imagination encircles the world." ... Imagination comes before knowledge which makes imagination more important than knowledge. ... It is this act of recombination which underlies the power to imagine. ... Imagination has the power to give ordinary actions extraordinary meaning. ... Nash, Jr. is a conspicuous genius and also an exceptional example of knowledge having more power than imagination. ...
Human beings can be saved only as if have "manners, virtue, freedom, power"(8) 5. ... They lost the most important power of human imagination in the Romanticists' point of view. ... The fountain, also symbolizes as the product of imagination, can have the power to destroy the things around, and even human themselves. ... Kubla Khan is symbolized as having great power, while his power can be both destructive and constructive. ... In fact, to have imaginative power, is in fact, a major idea of Romanticism. ...
Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... The theoretical obstacle we face is that the imagination, like the bodies of our students, are subject to age and experience related changes and there could be no blanket curriculum to develop the imagination. ... By providing narrative context into your teaching methods you can enhance the power to stimulate and develop the imaginations of your students. ... Our students want to resist the a...
For imagination is a part of reality. ... Creativity is an expression of imagination. ... His trip to Kahani helps him see how reality contains imagination and restores his faith in imagination. ... As he sees it happening, he knows that he has just used pure imagination, through exercising his will power, to dismantle the dark ship and move the moon. ... Imagination is a part of life. ...
An individual's imagination can be considered the ability to create mental images. ... The perception of imagination is a creative power that has allowed humans beings to accomplish a great deal of art, productive ideas and help improve many aspects of human life over the course of time. This creative power of imagination allows individuals living in the same locality and under the same government to possess a distinct way of thinking. ... This is demonstrated in one of Bellah's examples, where Cecilia finds her identity through imagination. ... Cecilia's imagination and her "co...
Essentially, the Imagination is a mode of memory, a mode of perception, and a mode of projection. ... It has the power to "conjure" up images from the past in order to recreate the feeling or the experience in the present, "For our continued influxes of feelings are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings" (Wordsworth, Preface, 577). As the "living power and prime Agent of all human perception," the Imagination interprets and evaluates new images and information (Coleridge, 750). ... Thus, this definition of the imagination emphasize...
Collateral Reading The book I chose to respond to is "The Prophetic Imagination" by Walter Brueggemann (1973). ... He uses Moses as an example of the model prophet, and uses pharaoh and his government as the power elite. ... He points out that consumerism has co-opted the American church to the point that it has little power. ... Prophetic imagination in essence is imagining something before completion, or before it happens. ... The example for prophetic imagination is for people who "have been robbed of the courage or power to think an alternative thought" (44). ...
Says Paracelsus: "Faith must confirm the imagination, for faith establishes the will. ... ... Half, if not two-thirds of our ailings and diseases are the fruit of our imagination and fears. ... This term, she states, refers to a definite force or power emanating from "letters, speech or music"; thus we find an occult basis for the hold of ritual and music upon religious followers. ... The first task, of course, is to uproot the "imaginations and fears" that cause "ailings and diseases." ... If the day finally arrives when psychiatrists and psychoanalysts not only destroy "imaginations and fear...
Ultimately his imagination has the power to shift the perspective of others, even if he was not able to live in his made up world for too long. ... In their minds they can not trust him enough to read anything because his imagination has a powerful control over his mind, and with so much power there are many uncertainties that they fear he is capable of causing harm to others and himself. ... At first no one is trusting enough to encourage the growing imagination and there is a fear of the strength the imagination had on it's host. ... He does not fear the outcomes of his encouragemen...