Welcome to the EarthCare Module on "Imagination."
- Demonstrate an understanding of our power of imagination as a transformation and creative spiritual power.
- Identify ways to engage imagination in expanding our connections with each other and our planet, and to be in service to our common life.
- Engage our power of imagination to evoke new, creative, and powerful expressions for sustainable and vital living on a climate-changing planet
Divine awareness reveals the Power of Imagination at work as me and through me for all. Imagination fuels the flow of good, healing and peace for all beings.
I enter into an awareness of God present here and now in me and as me. Ideas of God flicker through my heart and mind. I am centered and calm, all fear dissipates. I Am one with Divine Imagination….creative ideas guide me in all ways. I Am one with Divine Love which is working through my imagination to bless many. I Am Divine Imagination empowered with a vision of good for all.
An Affirmative Prayer for the world’s good. I now acknowledge that Source Divine activates my imagination to behold the next beautiful, good, and sacred reality for my life, and for the life of the planet. I am grateful to be a conduit of God-light and be the Presence of Divine inspirations and ideas to support myself and those around me. Imagination, creativity and celebration unfold through me now, and I give thanks for an enduring love relationship with our beautiful planet Earth.
An Affirmative Prayer during heat waves: I feel the fever of the Earth and allow the heat of the changing climate to awaken my mind and encourage me to action. The Spirit of Life is my Source of energy, and the Christ Presence allows imagination, love, understanding and wisdom to guide my actions. I love and cherish Mother Earth, and I move to bring balance to our world, for the well-being of all its creatures, in all ways.
Bible: “Knock, and the door will be opened.” –Luke 11:9
Imagination to Meet Our Challenges
By Rev. Kathy Harwood Long
Ms. Elizabeth Ellis, a professional Storyteller and recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award in 1997 from the National Storytelling Network, describes a time in her childhood when polio ravaged the world, crippling and killing many children. Her mother kept Elizabeth and her siblings ‘locked indoors’ throughout their summer vacation; wild ideas about what was ‘attacking humanity’ led to extreme measures. Elizabeth suggests this is an example of imagination linked to fear which had its own horrible consequences. Fortunately, imagination was also linked with possibilities that were bubbling up in Hilary Koprowski and Jonas Salk who designed the first vaccines. And imagination ensured those vaccines were distributed across the globe and saving millions to this day.
Today some people question the use of vaccines. Some people question the use of ideas such as electric vehicles designed to reduce carbon emissions affecting our climate. In every questioning mind we can come to understand that imagination is at work. Imagination linked with our divine design of interdependence compels us to ask, “What are the consequences of today’s choices and today’s solutions to our problems?”
Ms. Ellis suggests that inactive or repressed imagination occurs when we depend on other folks’ views, self-gratifying ideas, or fear. Our own Imagination power can become hostage to the vivid imaginations portrayed in dramatic videos, films, and social media. We in Unity and New Thought, we who dedicate ourselves to spiritual practices and living, discover the great Power that is God in us. This Power is realized in our minds and hearts through prayer, meditation, and contemplation. Our spiritual model for living is our liberating answer to worldly influences. Each unique and individualized creative idea realized in conscious awareness, each imaginative foresight of interdependence in the building of ideas, is of absolute support as we meet our challenges across the earth.
Lesson Engagement
This pre-recorded talk is available for your personal use or for viewing in your congregation (in-person or online). The speaker is Rev. Frank Castro-Wher. He can be reached here.
Content by Rev. Frank Castro-Wehr
Content by Rev. Eliasa Sabogal
Due to intentional recovery and restoration efforts, what was once Latin America’s largest landfill, located in Brazil, is now a thriving mangrove forest with many species returning to the habitat.
Podcasts
The Light Ahead is a podcast that uses speculative fiction to explore the question,
"What would 2030 look like if the USA had an economy that truly worked and cared for everyone?" Through eight stories, co-created by next-economy leaders and Hollywood screenwriters, listeners are invited to expand their economic imaginations by dreaming into a tantalizing array of possible, more beloved, futures.
Stories for a Living Future. These stories are both simple and radical, simple because they describe what is already around us, the wind in the trees, water flowing over stones. Radical because they point to a fundamentally different quality of consciousness, which belongs to both our distant past and our possible future. Presented here as a series, these stories are an opportunity to become immersed in this landscape, physical and imaginal, and through this shift in awareness to be able to walk towards a living future.
Articles
Revisioning Community, by Beth Remmes, Deep Times Journal.
Videos:
Bellingham, Washington - A Local Living Economy
Climate: A New Story with Charles Eisenstein (2020)
"I Dream," by Lisa Firestone
Quotes
“Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let the beauty we love, be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” -- Rumi