loreta Page 18 - Reply #255 said:
A: We ride the Wave and thus are much "closer" than you can imagine. At the same time, imagination is the most direct way to comprehend that we are only a thought away.
Imagination is creativity. I remember now that Marcel Proust said about his creativity, his ideas, his personal vision of his masterpiece and of life, were not from his brain, or mind, or from him. He said that everything was coming from the cosmos, that everything, ideas, projects, creation of something, inventions, everything was already in someplace and the "creator" or us in fact, the humans, can pick it up. It is just a question to be "open", to accept, to listen, to be aware, to give permission to our imagination. It is the words of the C's: "we are only a thought away" that made me think about Proust.
Hi Loreta -
Sorry - I hope I’m not “nit-picking” here — because I think the example you’ve used about Proust creating by using his imagination makes sense — at least as is generally understood by most all of us, including me. So, I’m not dis-agreeing or criticising.
But your post triggered a question in my mind. I was wondering if the phenomenon Proust described in your post could be similar to the art of “channeling”?
The reason I ask is because I looked up the word “imagination” and it seems as if it is describing a somewhat similar, but not exactly the same phenomenon. I really don’t know. I’m actually a little confused about which is which and what’s the connection, if any. I may be mixing up the idea of imagination and daydreaming. I think we do use our imaginations in order to daydream.
But what Proust is describing sounds to me more like he’s tapping into what I might call the “Idea Universe” or “Information Field”. That he is “receiving” information rather than making it up in his own imagination.
But I can’t really say for certain. There may be a connection that I’m just not understanding yet. Ooops! Just had a thought. Might the “channeled” (for want of a better term) information go straight to the imagination mind (right brain) rather than be received by the logical mind? Could that be the connection?
I do know that when I have creative ideas, they also do not seem to me to be ideas I’ve created by my own mind — neither my logical nor my imagination minds. They just seem to come to me from somewhere outside my own mind.
But in order for that to happen, I think we all must be somehow hooked up to that Universe of Ideas and, at certain times, under certain conditions, and possibly in certain mental states, we hear the signal loud and clear.
Just wondering if you have any thoughts about this. Thanks — and Cheers!
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Wikipedia Definition of Imagination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination
Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations in the mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses.
Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process.
A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds”. It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may be described as "hidden" as it takes place without anyone else's knowledge. A person may imagine according to his mood, it may be good or bad depending on the situation. Some people imagine in a state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.
The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as “imaging” or “imagery” or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the “mind’s eye”.
Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Children often use such narratives and pretend play in order to exercise their imaginations. When children develop fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make-believe situation by acting as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.
But as for the rest of the forum members it looks like they rather make haste to criticize the movie than to make any constructive suggestions.
