dinkot said:
how I often really wish that those UNLIMITED / LIMITLESS possibilities and 'universe' in the movies & video games were real, ie: those 'cool' superpowers, magic abilities like in Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and I literally mean it: the literal magic. not just some metaphors again !
because this reality / real life / real world is so boring, mundane, pathetic, that almost everything only revolves around money & how to make money (or profits...blah!) , the "suit and ties" world ! how BORING is that !
does superpower / magic (like in the movies or games) exist somewhere else ?
does superheroes exist perhaps in parallel universe / dimension ?
or ... everything simply only exists in the human's Imaginations (brain) only ? ...
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dinkot said:
Hi everyone, I'm a 'beginner' truthseeker (& Starseed) from Indonesia. I do hope to learn more Deeper & REAL Truths from this board.
Especially I am always very curious about: where is human's IMAGINATION really come from?.. especially the 'artist/creative' Type's super-vivid Imaginations even 'other-worldly' Imaginations such as novels, movies like Harry Potter, Narnia, etc etc?.. surely they can't just simply come from the physical brain (as those scientists often said), right?..
hope I can learn more & Deeper Truths from this board about our 'mysterious' Existence & Everything!
thank you
-regards from a 'beginner' truthseeker (& Starseed) from Indonesia-
Hello again, dinkot. If you don't mind, I'll reply in a context which includes your other posts on the same subject area.
First, I'm wondering if all these questions really have a personal connection to you, or are you really just wanting to know why contents of your own imagination are more vivid and different from many people you know?
It doesn't surprise me that a creative person who strongly feels that society is so boring and pathetic would have an active imagination. That energy has to go somewhere. Could imagination be sort of like a protective mechanism for such a case? You wouldn't want to explode would you?
If you insist that your questions be taken in a more serious sense, then, as I have managed to do a lot of additional reading and studying after my last post to you, I can offer you this:
To the extent I can fathom it, human intellect currently appears finite and to go out of its depth on two noticeable occasions. That is, first, we seem unable to conceive of an absolute beginning to something in existence because as soon as we try, our mind comes up with nonsense like "well, what happened before that, or what was there before that, or whatever."
Additionally, we appear unable to conceive of infinity, except as a conceptual 'notion', because as soon as we try, our mind wants to 'stop' at some point so as to complete a conceptual circle so we can label it "infinity" and communicate it to others. But any such communicable notion of this sort would, itself, be limited and therefore unsatisfactory for that particular job, no?
So, I'm thinking that, currently, there may be only tentative, uncertain guesses to serve as answers for you, if that.
Since you appear to be struggling with this issue and you did ask if there were pointers to any gnostic works, or whatever, I would say I've studied various gnosis and have yet to run across 'imagination' addressed this way.
I believe that gnostics tend towards a foundation that recognizes we simply don't really know how it is that anything at all exists. Our cognitive and perceptual apparatus only penetrates so far. Plus, it seems we can build walls with beliefs and ways of thinking that can further narrow our perceptions and discernment. A route to gnostic individualism and a 'unified I' in Fourth Way psychology requires we personally struggle to identify and remove whatever personal limitations we can with a major goal of "seeing for oneself" and owning our own knowledge.
To help us get better acquainted with ourselves in order to get closer to answers we seek, there are many different ways to demonstrate our various limitations in many contexts and Laura covers much of that in the Wave Series. Did you say whether or not you've read it? Apologies if you did say and I missed it.
Finally, is this dialog an acceptable "purpose" for human imagination, i.e., to ask questions, explore possibilities within a knowledge framework of knowns and unknowns towards evolutionarily assessing better for all? Discover! Our human journey is a fascinating one, IMO.