This was a question posed by a friend on another forum ...
Another thread led me to consider the nature of imagination - from "imaginare" - to form images.
The issue I suppose is whether images that are formed in the mind have any reality outside that mind.
I recall reading of Tesla (discoverer of alternating current) who was supposed to have designed a machine in his head and operated it for perhaps 2000 hours in his head and then dismantled it in his head and examined the wear characteristics. When he had the machine built a decade or two later he stated in advance what the wear characteristics would be - and so they were.
So was Tesla's image-working connected to some external reality?
And what of image-based telepathy?
I recall many years ago that I was on the end of a long plank that had to be moved around in a tight spaces. I found that I could not give verbal instructions fast enough to the other fellow to achieve coordination. So I experimented and discovered that if I visualised what he should do, and not say anything, then he would do that and the coordination was excellent.
So did that image-working have some reality outside my mind?
What then are the proper roles of imagination and how might we achieve them?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
imagination is essential for creation.. all it requires after that is the apropriate energy (can be manual labor i.e.) to make it real (natural laws permitting)..
in case of mind to mind transfer (which is real btw) imagination can be used to transfer info without the annoying inbetween 3d step..
I sometimes wonder if Freemasons should pay more attention to their Intention and Imagination when at lodge meetings.
Are Intention and Imagination part of our creative work?
Is this a good reason why such emphasis is placed on leaving our worries, cares and grievances outside the lodge door?
If good thoughts can heal maybe bad thoughts can harm.
Are lodge energies amplifiers? They can amplify your good points (make good men better) but also amplify your bad points (make the aggressive and mean, more aggressive and meaner).
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
