The statement is enough. It will be sufficient to linger for a while to consider what this means, how extensive the repression of imagination. Our imagination expands our world. The world is held conjointly, you and I in relation, even more, in company with all living and nonliving things.

Who is to say that a sugar molecule, that essential product of photosynthesis does not have a sliver of feedback with surrounding components of a cell? As strange as it is to say, how is that not consciousness? What exactly do we mean to mean by “consciousness”?

A pebble is conscious, in its own way.

Let us cease hostilities with our imaginations…  Untold generations of our ancestors understood that mind was everywhere! They were unashamed to have descended from animals or trees…

The only war that matters
is the war against the imagination.
All other wars are subsumed in it.

The ultimate famine
is the starvation of the imagination.

–Diane di Prima Poet 1934-2020