I think emotions are mental constructs that begin with feeling, and then 
are heaped with repetitive experience memories and personality complexes. 
Very different than the pure feeling of the Sufi whirling. I actually have 
a copy of Sartre's: The Emotions, Outline of a Theory here. He was a better 
Existentialist than Phenomonologist. Dry stuff.

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 2:10:39 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>
> I was thinking, Molly, that some people hoard emotions and get very bitter 
> and twisted - the old 'stamp collecting' notion of TA.  One possible 
> thought on the autistic mind is that it is so sensitive to emotion it has 
> to cope by shutdown.  This is intense world theory.  I like this in 
> principle, but some suggested treatments are truly awful (stimulus 
> deprivation in infancy). There is also 'extreme male brain' theory, 
> applicable to females as brain structure is not simply gendered.
>
> Imagination has long been central to 'theory of mind' - autistics can lack 
> any clue other people think and feel like them.  The idea that they might 
> be under 'sensory attack' rather than deprivation would explain a lot of 
> what I feel amonst other people or even watching newsrooms.  I find people 
> in rituals particularly daunting as my first feeling is disgust.
>
> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 5:35:01 PM UTC, archytas wrote:
>>
>> You imagined the hurricane.  Butterflies are in pupal stage.  Unless the 
>> RAF is using them due to budget cuts.
>>
>> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 5:31:19 PM UTC, archytas wrote:
>>>
>>> Remember, in Flatland women are just lines, we men triangles and on to 
>>> upper-caste hexagons.  The problem is that the lines are sharpened to a 
>>> point at both ends and entirely dangerous.  Luud will only worry when you 
>>> sat something sensible, which as we know is profoundly non-human.
>>>
>>> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 5:08:33 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh understand the defect human subroutine..  i hope Luud never catches 
>>>> on..
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 6:03 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Embodied Imagination
>>>>
>>>> It's not a spellcheck error Allan -  you'll be running the 'look more 
>>>> like a defective human' subroutine.
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 4:55:12 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> lol  i think so ..  maybe that is the funny sound I keep hearing..  
>>>>> you would think they could correct the constant spelling errors..
>>>>>
>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 5:13 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Embodied Imagination
>>>>>
>>>>> Artificial Intelligence and more recent linguistics has reached the 
>>>>> same conclusion..  Do you find yourself beeping a lot these days Allan?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 4:02:55 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He sounds like a lot of people I have listen to over the years. More 
>>>>>> than a few have played it for the money angle, sadly.. for them my 
>>>>>> favorite 
>>>>>> bible verses are  "He went and hung himself . . . Go do thou likewise." 
>>>>>> Let 
>>>>>> see the first part comes from Judas betrayal of Jesus and the second 
>>>>>> part 
>>>>>> from the story of the good sarmeratan (sp). There is a lot of crafting 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> reach the desired goal as i tried to demonstrate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a lot of guidance for spiritual development... but i have 
>>>>>> problem with the every verse rhetoric..especially in english..  the 
>>>>>> reasoning is the english language structure is based off the paragraph 
>>>>>> or 
>>>>>> the complete thought. Often times the sentence creates only a partial 
>>>>>> idea. 
>>>>>> To many people try to justify their bad behavior and actions as 
>>>>>> spiritual 
>>>>>> guidance..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are good guidelines ten commandments. Jesus love your neighbor 
>>>>>> as yourself ..  stories demonstrating examples of proper behavior but 
>>>>>> not 
>>>>>> written step by step instruction. Recently the perspective came forward 
>>>>>> that there is a highway to hell and a staircase to Heaven.. that just 
>>>>>> demonstrates the expected traffic flow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For me spirituality is developing and demonstrating the soul's 
>>>>>> connection  with the Presence.. that connection determines your position 
>>>>>> within the mandala of the Totality of the Presence. Which is beyond my 
>>>>>> ability to comprehend. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Molly <[email protected]>
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Sent: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 2:31 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Embodied Imagination
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think much of what is in the public domain is crafted instead of 
>>>>>> created, and crafted to sell, so crafted to gain audience action (that 
>>>>>> converts to money for someone.) That takes skill, but little imagination.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I originally discovered Neville when I was exploring the notion of 
>>>>>> resurrection, and he wrote a lecture called Resurrection that is I 
>>>>>> think, 
>>>>>> his masterpiece and I have yet to understand. Like Hermann Hesse's Glass 
>>>>>> Bead Game, the culmination of his life's work.  I read it over and over 
>>>>>> and 
>>>>>> it means something different each time and I understand it more over 
>>>>>> time. 
>>>>>> My husband and I both then read the body of his work from beginning to 
>>>>>> end 
>>>>>> and could understand better the development of his life's work. When 
>>>>>> Neville moved from his earlier message that "Your Faith is Your Fortune" 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> "Immortal Man" he began losing his audience, at least those who were 
>>>>>> looking for get rich quick schemes or mind over matter techniques. His 
>>>>>> work 
>>>>>> moves his audience from duality (The Law) manifest to awareness of our 
>>>>>> infinite being, where life manifests for us very differently (The 
>>>>>> Promise). 
>>>>>> "All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within in your 
>>>>>> own 
>>>>>> wonderful human imagination of which this world of mortality is but a 
>>>>>> shadow."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The wonderful thing about Neville, I think, is that he puts out the 
>>>>>> notion that the Lord is our imagination. A bold notion that left him 
>>>>>> lecturing to the walls at the end of his career. Living in the world of 
>>>>>> Cesar, or mortality, or duality, (The Law) we are chasing the laws of 
>>>>>> cause 
>>>>>> and effect that govern us. Recognition is all that is required of 
>>>>>> immortal 
>>>>>> man for manifestation, or non-dual awareness (The Promise) and 
>>>>>> imagination 
>>>>>> is the instrument within us all that takes us there. Because Neville 
>>>>>> sees 
>>>>>> every bible verse as an instruction on using imagination for divine 
>>>>>> revelation, those that cannot grasp this are lost in the rhetoric and 
>>>>>> connotation of "religion." For him, it is about imagination, not 
>>>>>> religion. 
>>>>>>  Because I agree with him wholeheartedly on this one point, I find his 
>>>>>> body 
>>>>>> of work palatable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of the christian mystics that I've read see scripture as a 
>>>>>> diagram for living. Neville is distinctive because of his treatment of 
>>>>>> imagination. I recognize truth in this notion, because my own 
>>>>>> imagination 
>>>>>> creates and reduces to simplicity for my own divine breakthroughs and 
>>>>>> recognition. In sleep and waking life.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am certainly not advocating his work as the be all end all for a 
>>>>>> study or discussion on imagination. But this one idea of his may be 
>>>>>> critical to any intimate dialogue of the subject.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:56:54 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess my questions generally relate to critical absorption rather 
>>>>>>> than the passive.  We have to know more about why so much in the public 
>>>>>>> domain is so bland, copied,ice-cream, beer, pets - and what imagination 
>>>>>>> this feeds.  We might wonder where Habermas' communicative rationality 
>>>>>>> (whatever) shows up - where an imaginative lifeworld exists.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Much that many feel as imaginative is actually produced by a few 
>>>>>>> simple rules.  These can be embodied in machines, even to the point of 
>>>>>>> narrative generation. What can we imagine imaginative in the next 
>>>>>>> action 
>>>>>>> flick?  Was one war film made in 1943 and endlessly copied since?  The 
>>>>>>> mystics have had a long run and there is certainly a core.  I wonder on 
>>>>>>> potential free play, rather than institutionalized Utopia of 
>>>>>>> imagination 
>>>>>>> rules we embody in genre and machine, whether metal or 
>>>>>>> internal-organic. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:59:28 PM UTC, archytas wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's more that I prefer what you say and demonstrate Molly.  We 
>>>>>>>> have to hope in something simple, though it may emerge from complex 
>>>>>>>> work, 
>>>>>>>> perhaps the simplexity angle.  The imagination, in many childhood 
>>>>>>>> studies, 
>>>>>>>> is connected with deception and, of course, in the wilderness.  
>>>>>>>> Otherwise, 
>>>>>>>> without nanoprobes we will never get Allan up to speed as a true 
>>>>>>>> heretic! 
>>>>>>>>  Neville Goddard creates 'black boxes I don't need - they communicate 
>>>>>>>> quite 
>>>>>>>> well in a compelling logic but I'm left outside it.  You don't do this 
>>>>>>>> and 
>>>>>>>> are more like Abbott, with his sense of humour.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the film spoiler Allan - I did try it for 5 minutes but 
>>>>>>>> felt it lacked imagination.  I couldn't read Terry Pratchett or Harry 
>>>>>>>> Potter, even Lewis Carroll.  Autistic people often lack the 
>>>>>>>> imagination we 
>>>>>>>> use in understanding others and perhaps the feelings to work back 
>>>>>>>> through. 
>>>>>>>>  We don't all have to be singers from the same page.  Religion can 
>>>>>>>> build 
>>>>>>>> socially approved epistemic authority, but needs to leave critical 
>>>>>>>> space. 
>>>>>>>>  If we look outwards, much claimed as product of the imagination is 
>>>>>>>> dull 
>>>>>>>> copy.  
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 9:39:11 PM UTC, Molly wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You don't like many of my links, that's OK, don't mind. Yoga, 
>>>>>>>>> Vedanta and Kundalini, as mystical paths, all take feeling into the 
>>>>>>>>> higher 
>>>>>>>>> levels of consciousness. I don't think the practice of the path 
>>>>>>>>> matters. We 
>>>>>>>>> all have our own. I think that knowing the feeling, and returning 
>>>>>>>>> through 
>>>>>>>>> the feeling, is an important way to explore and return to the highest 
>>>>>>>>> states. I think the highest consensus state may be simple and silent 
>>>>>>>>> as 
>>>>>>>>> Allan suggests, and I agree that it is how it feels to me also.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:08:24 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think Neville gets nearly everything wrong, proceeding by 
>>>>>>>>>> repeated assertions.  He lacks a lot you have Molly.  Tony and Rufus 
>>>>>>>>>> is 
>>>>>>>>>> instructive on who is imaging whom.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:50:43 PM UTC, Molly wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> A state of feeling as the spark of life's continuity is worthy 
>>>>>>>>>>> of a lot of discussion and contemplation 
>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.feelingisthesecret.org/
>>>>>>>>>>>  and Neville Goddard based his life's work on the notion that 
>>>>>>>>>>> putting ourselves into a state of consciousness with feeling is the 
>>>>>>>>>>> mechanism for the manifestation of reality. You will have to 
>>>>>>>>>>> forgive, 
>>>>>>>>>>> because he is also a Christian mystic, siting biblical quotes with 
>>>>>>>>>>> the 
>>>>>>>>>>> interpretation that they were clues to this secret.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure it was such a secret. Every mystical tradition says the 
>>>>>>>>>>> same thing in some form. And science does seem to be catching up.  
>>>>>>>>>>> I am 
>>>>>>>>>>> ever in search of the original edition of Einstein's "The World As 
>>>>>>>>>>> I See 
>>>>>>>>>>> It" that was part of my university's rare book section and I could 
>>>>>>>>>>> often be 
>>>>>>>>>>> caught sitting in the isle reading it for inspiration.  There are 
>>>>>>>>>>> many 
>>>>>>>>>>> subsequent editions, none as good. He was a brilliant intellect and 
>>>>>>>>>>> spirit.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 12:04:56 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The philosophy of an imagination looking outwards is 
>>>>>>>>>>>> fascinating, though relies on rather behaviourist tricks in some 
>>>>>>>>>>>> guises. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Ludwig Fleck had some good stuff on what was out now being in, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> but whose 
>>>>>>>>>>>> is it questioning.  It's interesting we had Feynman (who also 
>>>>>>>>>>>> loved his 
>>>>>>>>>>>> bee, wacky baccy and womanising), Waddington, Medawar, Horton, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Soddy and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> many others while social constructivists told us we were 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 'heartless 
>>>>>>>>>>>> positivists'.  The wrong ideas on science still pertain, I think 
>>>>>>>>>>>> conflated 
>>>>>>>>>>>> with heartless bureaucracy and bossy versions of religion.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The 'state of feeling' is worthy of a lot of discussion and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> contemplation. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 2:43:50 PM UTC, Molly wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I've saved the paper to read after my nap, Neil. Thanks. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Scanning it made me realize how hooked I am on visual 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> organization with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> header styles, bullet points and all the other nonsense. And how 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ridiculous 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am for it. I'm also intrigued that the paper references Feynman 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> who I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> love, mostly because he plays bongos and loves his orange juice:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  https://youtu.be/2Ks8gsK22PA <https://youtu.be/2Ks8gsK22PA>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:11:15 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have an internal movie screen, though its presence is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> intermittent, sometimes glorious and once traumatic.  The way we 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> process 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> information has multiple logics, including the way memory is not 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accurate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in order to let us put different jigsaw pictures together for 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> multiple 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> futures.  The universe itself may be doing something like this, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with some 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> having time backwards.  
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In a more simple way, imagination allows us to think things 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> through, and personally I try what seems a reverse of Molly's 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> embodiment - 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that of the embodiment of the human in machine.  The idea is not 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to create 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> androids, but rather imagination that can take us past current 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> limitations 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and provide enhancement for human being.  Imagination is one way 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to test in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> virtual reality and not get one's fingers burned. There are 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accounts of how 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> experiencing a Van Gogh played a role in constructing the model 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> galaxy.  I even see similarities between Molly's treatment of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> non-believers 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and attempts to make the semantic web compatible in difference. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fascinated by kaleidoscopes as a kid.  Fascinated later by 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> how machines could repeat simple equations at vast speed and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> produce 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> patterns (fractals, chaos) doing something so mundane, yet 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rather like all 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7 billion of us putting different number values into 2x = y at 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the same 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> time and linking up the pattern.  Imagination has a lot to do 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with pattern 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> spotting.  If Molly looks to spiritual awakening, I tend to look 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for cosmic 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> code.  Her methods may be introspective, but what was more 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> introspective 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> than Socrates' claim the knowledge was already in there and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> could be found 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> through the right questions?  I look out, though suspect these 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> distinctions 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lapse in good sense, compassion and non-jealous integration.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tony turns some plumbing pipes and a mask into a static 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'creature' that 'moves' with perspective and focus.  I let it 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ride in my 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mind - though I could just hate him for his talent (I don't).  I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> more the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> kind of chap who would borrow any left over pipe to keep the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> washing 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine running.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any looking out is always experienced in the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> internal-virtual.  We think the universe is beige.  Space may be 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fluidic, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> elastic (more Hooke than Newton), potentially catapult-like so 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> we could 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> evade the limitations of space-time by standing still in  moving 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> space. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Imaging outwards was a William Blake theme - 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://ttj.sagepub.com/content/25/4/495.full.pdf -  dramatic 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unveiling of the inter- action of varied human personalities, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> with its 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gradual focusing of atten- tion upon the two major protagonists, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> its brilliantly skillful dis- closure of a symbolism which leads 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> imagination outwards in widening ...  experiments in gender, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> both socially 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and artistically, can remind us all of the constant bravery 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> necessary to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> force the universe of the imagination outwards.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Albert Einstein suggested that the elusive, additional 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> element needed for high achievement in science is a "state of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> feeling" in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the researcher, which he called "akin to that of the religious 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> worship per 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or of one who is in love," arising not from a deliberate 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> decision or 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> program but from a personal necessity. Others are more down to 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> earth. With 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eloquent simplicity P. W. Bridgman wrote, "The scientific 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> method, as far as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it is a method, is nothing more than doing one's damnedest with 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one's mind, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> no holds barred." But as good as they are, neither remark nor 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> occasional anecdotal confession is much help for discovering 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what we are 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after. Peter Medawar put it this way, though a bit harshly: "It 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is of no 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> use looking to scientific papers, for they not merely conceal 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but actively 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> misrepresent the reasoning that goes into the work they 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> describe... .Only 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unstudied evidence will do-and that means listening at the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> keyhole." 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Free paper here - 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://eppl604-autism-and-creativity.wmwikis.net/file/view/20013446.pdf/201762974/20013446.pdf
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Of course, imagining anyone will read so as to shake 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> themselves from non-participation is imaginary.  The 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> self-importance of the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> petty gossip may be rather like a rabbit hole world.  What we 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can imagine 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> has already been warped by what is so easy to soak up from the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'garbage in' 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> system, including not being able to get over oneself as the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> centre of the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> universe.  I was taught about the irrational and spasmodic 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nature of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> science from books written in and before the 60's.  Molly is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> closer to this 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> than the frauds pretending science is rational.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 12:02:58 PM UTC, Molly wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The idea of embodied imagination (Jungian) introduces the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> notion that through dreams, imagination presents us with a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> complete reality 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that is different from our waking reality, not constrained by 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> logic or 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rationality, and based more on our individual archetypal system 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of symbols. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> My latest thinking is that we carry this system into our waking 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conscious 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> life, but are less aware of it because of the constraints our 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rationality 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> imposes when awake. This system may be what calls us into a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> spiritual 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> awakening to more fully integrate all levels of consciousness.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Several years ago I was invited (all expenses paid) to the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lucidity 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Institute <http://lucidity.com/> in Hawaii for a month long 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> study in dreaming and consciousness. There have been a few 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> invitations I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> regret not feeling free enough to accept in my life and this is 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> one, but my 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mother in law was in hospice in our home and those love ties 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reign. Even as 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a kid I paid attention to my dreams and it has been for me, a 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> life long 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fascination. It has led me to understand that there are states 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> consciousness in both waking and sleeping that are the same 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> peak states, 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just the movie on the screen has a different tone, like the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> difference 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> between Brooks' Blazing Saddles and Polanski's McBeth. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think that imagination is the mechanism that puts the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> movie on screen in all circumstances.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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