With our thoughts, we make the world

These are the words of Buddha, and I have been thinking about them a lot lately, as I watch the world turning into our worst nightmare.
It seems we have seen it all before - over and again, we have watched New York and other cities being destroyed – whether by aliens, volcanoes, earthquakes or global warming. Destruction is a common theme that runs through so much of our `entertainment’ but when it actually happens there is no Bruce Willis to save us all.
I have read a great deal about `manifesting’ on the net – the modern idea is that you can visualise things into being – prosperity, your dream house, whatever. Art is visualisation – and filmmaking is visualisation on a scale beyond our imaginings – whatever you imagine, a filmmaker, with computer generated imagery, can make it so.
Our small visualisations seem puny against this kind of mass visualisation, but I think it is important that we do combat it in every way we can. Not by being sunnily optimistic in the face of overwhelming evidence that all is not well with the planet, but by countering the negativity, and using our art to visualise a better world, better solutions and better responses to tough times.
As artists, we owe it to a suffering world to spread healing messages through our art and writing. The artists of Lemuria understand this very well, but it seems to me we that maybe we need to stem this tide of negativity and hopelessness that is sweeping over everything. I am still formulating these thoughts, and am not sure where they are leading me, but it is maybe something that other artists can pick up and discuss here at Artists Without Borders.
``With our thoughts, we make the world.”