Short Mythical Story : The Imagineers

This short thought piece is inspired by Key 13 of the Tarot. The Death card is often misunderstood and misrepresented. It merely refers to the cycle of life and death. One cannot happen without the other. The driving intelligence behind it is that of Imagination. The creation of life from stardust is the act of the Imagining Intelligence. Imagination is hard-wired into our DNA - use it wisely.

Transcript

Key 13,

The Imagineers.

One interesting aspect of any new idea is this.

It is not only based on ideas that came before,

But its implementation often signals the death of the ideas that were its progenitors.

The 20th century was not perhaps so significant as an age of scientific revolution,

But as the century that imagination was allowed to run free.

Humankind looked at the stars and went there.

In 2012,

The Voyager 1 space probe,

Which was launched in 1977,

Left the solar system and entered into stellar space.

At first,

What was possible was seeded by the imaginations of science fiction writers.

The filmmakers then showed us a vision of what it might be like.

Then it happened.

Imagineers like Walt Disney,

Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas showed us a sneak preview of what was possible.

Disrupted minds,

Of the like of those possessed by Alan Turing,

Bernard von Braun and Steve Jobs,

Asked what if and why not.

If you are one of the lucky owners of a smartphone,

It is the product of infinite and wicked imagination.

It is based on the communicators first used by Captain Kirk and his Star Trekers.

The intuitive user interface encapsulates all that is good about Apple,

Seeded by some of the bright sparks at rank Xerox.

The GPS satellites that tell you where you are,

Whilst also giving away your location,

Were put there on a technology designed originally to kill thousands at a distance.

The exact time clock that these satellites run to is ever so slightly different from the clocks down on Earth.

This anomaly was predicted by Einstein,

Who imagined what it was like to ride on a beam of light.

Bring it on,

You bright young things.

Reviews

I love this!!! Thank you so much for this fun meditation!!!

444th listener and my word for 2020 is Imagineering 😍 thankyou for the opportunity to connect deeper with the infinite of imagination.

Love how you make the mind think. Interesting indeed. Thanks 🙏🏻

Thought provoking as usual, Tom. Great examples of the positive and negative sides of progress 🙏🏻

Great scientific and inventor name drooping Tim! Lovely short nuggets.Beautiful, thank you 🙂

Brilliant perception… Observation of what is and what can be… Imagine and it’s so with the appropriate actions taken!

There is so much to be excited about, thanks for the reminder!

As a lifelong Trekker and Star Wars fan, proud member of the Young Astronauts program in the early 1980s and pupil of my state's Teacher in Space representative (who knew Christa McAuliffe as a result and suffered greatly when she and I watched the Challenger explosion together that cold January morning), I have always been intrigued by the possibilities, both imagined and as-yet-undiscovered. I'd planned to become an astrophysicist, but Life has a way of redirecting you at times. 😆 I still stay read up in all these areas out of sheer love and interest in the topic. I have long pointed out the origin of the smartphone (the original flip cell phones, actually, as described by the initial inventors as having been Star Trek-inspired) and the actual real-world use of medi-beds by the US military, also based off Trek concepts. Gear I used myself in the military seemed to me to have a quasi-Trek/Star Wars similarity.

All of which is to say that this, by far, my most favorite of all your thought talks, one that grew my smile even broader as I listened, and brought back both fond memories of my earlier years and served as a reminder to renew my daily check-ins with a few science news sites I used to frequent daily. Recent surgery got me out of the habit (hospital time is like a wormhole at the best of moments, a black hole beyond the event horizon [theorized] at the worst), but while still in recovery, now is a perfect time to review and renew my selected habits.

Thank you so much for sharing these thoughts with us all here in the Insight Timer community. I bookmarked and downloaded this talk - always good for a pick-me-up should one start feeling a bit discouraged. The stars are out there and are also are us ourselves, literally. This is why I see the light in us all...we are made of the stuff of stars, and shine brightly in our own ways. And as always, I see the light in you, Tom. 🤲❤️🤲😊

Another wonderful tale! 🙏

Wow thank you Tom 🧡

Very good description of how one thing progresses to another and the end of one thing is the birth of a new idea.the power of progress