The Act Of Creation

And the space-time continuum.

Sep 12, 2025

The Path Of Least Resistance

The path of least resistance to creating the future doesn’t lie in reaching for it. Paradoxically it directly related to our ability to lean into the present moment.

In other words: creation is a function of inhabiting what we want while living in what we have.

And yet, that’s the very part most of us question. How do you live in the here and now and holding a future that hasn’t yet materialised?

This is the challenge of the space-time dimension we live in.

The Paradox of the Present

Here and now is all we ever really have. And if you are anything like me, your relationship with it will be mixed - sometimes joyous, sometimes uncomfortable.

In meditation or deep awareness, I can taste the miracle of the moment - it’s sweetness and perfection and my own wholeness reflected back at me.

But around the edges of that magic, anxiety creeps in: about health, money, relationships, about wanting more for myself, my business, the world.

Even when life is good, part of the magic of being human is the promise of more. More possibility. More expansion.

The Doorway of Imagination

The work I do is about leaning into imagination. Imagination allows us to step outside the constraints of space-time where we are open to potentiality - all of it.

It takes practice, but imagination gives us the ability to move beyond the limits of past experience, the capacity to go beyond limitations we hold in our humanness. Imagination gives us the ability to inhabit what we don’t have.

It empowers us to build castles in the air - and if we stay with it long enough, it gives us the rope to pull those castles down into reality.

The challenge, of course, is the discrepancy. The gap between what is and what we envision. That gap creates tension. And like a stretched rubber band, tension seeks resolution.

Anchoring the Dream

Here’s the paradox: what resolves that tension isn’t chasing the future harder - it’s leaning even more deeply into the present.

Imagine your dream, a bright balloon floating in the air, a tether trailing down to earth. To bring it closer, you don’t float up toward it. You plant your feet firmly on the ground. You catch the tether. You anchor into the here and now with all your resources - material, energetic, emotional - to draw that dream into reality.

Imagination is the preview of coming attractions. The present moment is the ground from which creation flows. Without both there is no creative tension. Imagination alone becomes fantasy, while the present on it’s own is like fishing in an empty lake.

Creation happens when imagination and presence breathe together.

The Dance of Creation

To master creation is not to conquer time, but to master this dynamic: the interplay between vision and grounding, between inhabiting possibility and anchoring in reality. To recognise the present as a place to anchor in before it becomes a place to start moving from

The path of least resistance - the connection between where we are and where we want to be - emerges as we extend both capacities: the ability to imagine what’s possible, and the ability to live fully in the messy, imperfect, incomplete present.

Creation may unfold in the space-time continuum, but it is not a function of it. It is a function of us.

The Imagination Technologist

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