Is it me, or does John Lennons song “Imagine” sound a lot like the Communist Manifesto?
Apparently it does to some people, but I see it more from a Zen POV. Just like the world can’t be wrapped up by imaginary lines of longitude and latitude, Lennon talks of countries without imaginary lines dividing them. No religions too, etc. He could have been referring to the oneness of us all. Thinking that what we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body. And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Obviously a body requires air, and the air must be within a certain temperature range. The body also requires certain kinds of nutrition. So in order to occur the body must be on a mild and nutritive planet with just enough oxygen in the atmosphere spinning regularly around in a harmonious and rhythmical way near a certain kind of warm star. That arrangement is just as essential to the existence of my body as my heart, my lungs, and my brain. So to describe
