Without your vision, we will perish

Time in solitude is essential for creativity and idea development.

A vision. So, where do you get one of those?

According to Webster’s Dictionary, the vision is revealed to you through an outside source.

Vision: a: something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy; especially: a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation.

So, if you rightly approach the outside source, will it convey to you the revelation Webster claims it will?

The single-minded focus of individuals, such as Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, and Marie Curie, drove forward the development of culture-changing inventions.

Human needs on a massive global scale, such as war and natural-created disasters, are met because people like Clara Barton, the American Red Cross’s founder, felt a compulsion to lend a hand practically.

But where and how did their vision originate? If you read their biographies, not much is documented about their spiritual mindset — although 1920s era inventors were often part of the New Thought Community or were Freethinkers — but most chronicle the affinity for solitude they had.

It’s wrong to say these great minds shunned public contact. Their creations were released on such a public platform and provided such wide-scale cultural improvement that a loner characteristic would have been at odds with their work.

Instead, the necessity for a distraction-free environment was the mother, which gave birth to the visions they developed.

And that’s primarily where the source of all visions is accessed — in the quiet flow of interaction between thought and the Energy, which releases inspiration of an image or idea at a time.

When a person indulges a curiosity, no matter how minor or trivial, and allows its nudging to propel them further, a shining vision more significant than the one they initially conceived will loom large and bright on the horizon.

Where and how do you generate your ideas?