Week 20: Nine Virtues: Vision

This needs lots of polishing, but it works for right now.

Vision: The ability to broaden one's perspective to have a greater understanding of our place/role in the cosmos, relating to the past, present and futureOur Own Druidry

vision1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.3. an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present,often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision.  Compare hallucination (  def 1 ).4. something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.5. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.Dictionary.com

Vision is being able to see the connections between things, both as a function of cause and effect and as a hypothetical. Vision and a sense of history are required to see the effects the past have on the present and future. In large part, vision is the ability to have that sense of history. History enables us to realize the results of actions: the Treaty of Versailles ending World War 1 in 1918 was one of the direct causes of World War 2. World War 1 itself can be traced as a cause of much of the current unrest and fighting in the Middle East. Vision shows both the causes of climate change and the effects in the short and long terms. Its all about connections. Similarly, we can envision a world without or partially mitigated climate change and find the causes/ actions needed to bring that vision to fruition. We see ourselves in the past, see each other in the present, and project ourselves into the future. Vision is history and empathy and self-awareness all rolled up into one.