And as with any child, its well-being demands that it be held.  Held in our dreams as we hold an infant in our arms.  And as an infant's smile reflects the home environment provided by its parents, so is Earth a reflection of humanity's collective embrace. 

Your relationship with your own body is a microcosm of your part in the collective and its relationship to our planet. To see yourself, your body connected - as part of the Earth - requires imagination.   Watch a child playing with leaves or with light bouncing on a wall, or feeling freedom in the wind. In those moments, where the imagination is charged the dream is on. In such times, you are for the Earth, a moment of calmness. The embrace is secure.

To laugh at meditation, to deny yourself time to contemplate, to ignore your experience while out of the body, to fear you own nature to see your path -- is to fear your imagination. And it is this fear -- fear of dreaming -- that disconnects you not just from yourself but from the whole.



John Fulton.