“A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.” – Dan McKinnon

complexity and magnitude of international business questions, researchers must engage in scientific mindfulness to generate relevant ideas, themes and responses. This means taking a thoughtful approach that is holistic, contextual and cross-disciplinary; it is an approach that transcends the boundaries of traditional disciplines and features depth and breadth of idea generation.” 7 And Osho makes the point that mindfully living in the present moment better allows us to be imaginative – to explore the new, the novel, a world of possibilities – because we are not then tethered to the past. 8

experiencing of a new reality which hasn’t yet happened. We have the ability to move beyond where we are now.

Two dying men who share a hospital ward, become friends. One of them is inside the room near the door, while the other is positioneed at the window. Each day the man at the window describes

in great detail to his companion what is taking place outside. He tells of many things: a lake, swans, flowers, people, the weather, cloud patterns, changing seasons. And his friend loves and lives these commentaries. Then there comes a time when the man at

the

window dies. His companion asks to be moved to the window bed. When he looks out of the window, there is only a stark, unpainted, ugly, brick wall.

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Imagination Richard Tarnas points out a relatively new development in man’s thinking. He is referring to that dynamic mental capacity known as imagination. Imagination is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts in our minds when they are not perceived through any of our senses. This allows us to see hidden truth in myths and archetypal meaning, and make conscious our place in the universe – indeed, broaden our concept and understanding of reality. We do this naturally when we dream and active imagination in a wakened state is possible and desirable. 9 Creative imagination is simply the

“An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he’s in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” – Charles Kettering