Willy Wonka, Moshe and Imagination

When I hear the word “imagination” my mind immediately takes me to Willy Wonka as he sings “come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination…”. In the movie, they’re first entering the Chocolate Room when he begins his song. Wonka imagined this whole room full of chocolate rivers, edible grass and candy tea cups. He visualized it and it came to be. Wonka’s imagination brought about this entire chocolate and candy wonderland into existence. A room that will “defy explanation” as he puts it. And he is right. Everyone that enters is marveled by what they see.

Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Room is a great, albeit fictional, illustration of a positive manifestation. But manifestations can go both ways. One example of this can be seen with Moshe. Shortly after Moshe hits and kills an Egyptian man who was harming a Jew, Moshe sees two Jewish men fighting. He intervenes only to be questioned, “Will you kill me like you killed the Egyptian?” The Torah then says Moshe was scared and commented that what he did was now known. The next pasuk says that Pharoah heard what Moshe did and wanted to punish him. How did this come to be? Moshe’s fears were so strong they affected reality and manifested in Pharoah finding out. Moshe’s fear was not unfounded as now Pharoah wanted to kill him. Here, Moshe’s negative thoughts led to negative consequences. 

Manifesting can work in either direction. Positive thoughts bring about positive happenings and negative thoughts yield negative occurrences. Wonka’s positive thoughts amazed people through confections. Moshe’s negative thoughts put his life in jeopardy.

Wonka’s song continues, “Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it”. Wonka knew all about the power of one’s imagination. Through manifestation, we have the ability to change the world, do anything, create magical things. Even something as crazy as Wonka’s Chocolate Room, his room of “pure imagination”,  is possible through manifestation.

Your mind is a very powerful tool. So I ask, what are you imagining? What do you want to see in your world? How are you going to “defy explanation”?