Hi Mike,
I completely understand your point and thanks for making it as I hope it will add to further discussion and refinement. Your comment also focuses on the very point I was hoping to communicate: there is no such thing as "risk free" and so that imagination, thoughts, words and actions are all in alignment, or undistorted, requires a change in nomenclature.
I will add in the spirit of just sayin'...
Only by looking backward toward the moment before the Big Bang can we say that there was a potential for action. Because we take the unfoldment since that moment as self-evident we 'know' there was potential. But can we say that there was even time, or even moments, or even potentials pre-Big Bang? Was there even a consciousness that was aware of these things? Hard to say. This is, of course, the great unanswerable question: How do we have something from nothing? In the end, it seems we find ourselves in supposition/faith as any opinion about this is as good as anyone elses opinion.
With smiles!
Jason