Imagination and Intuition

Imagination and Intuition

Monday, December 9, 2013

Our imagination is one of the most powerful tools we have as human beings, and strengthens our intuition. Without intuition we are virtually flying blind.  The Amethyst strengthens your intuition, and therefore your imagination, I call it the Swiss Army Knife of the Gemstone world as it is very important and has many beautiful qualities and benefits.

Our future creates our present. Our present has nothing to do with our past. Therefore no matter what has happened in your past, if you can imagine new futures, you can create the life you have dreamed of. There is a caveat to this, and that is you have to feel your feelings about your past so that you can release it. That is where the Feel and Flick technique comes in. Anytime I'm thinking about something that happened in the past, and I feel angry or hurt or frustrated, I remind myself that my power is in my emotions, and I hold my pendant with the left hand and feel deeply and flick it out with the right. It's a practice, and I'm sometimes so deeply in my story about how I have been wronged, or what I did that was so terrible, that I don't remember. But more and more I work on catching myself so that I can feel the emotions and take my power back from them, so I can imagine beautiful futures and realities for myself, my family and my world. 

I am a very independent woman, and only now have I realized that I'm not alone and I can ask for help. From my guides, all the Gods and Goddesses who are there to help and be of service. We live in a free will Universe so we have to ask. I have only recently understood that the world truly is a magical place, and all we need to do is ask.  Ask and you will receive. 

Best,

 Deborah

**Imagination & Intuition**

**There are few thing more powerful than to know that there exists a world around us, unseen by the five senses but immediate and knowable by the sixth sense. This Intuitive sense opens you to a much broader picture of “reality” which hitherto might have been referred to as Imagination.**

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Imagination links us to our intuition which in alchemical terms is known as the One Thing and relates to  the Soul. "How do I know if it is my intuition or my imagination?"   They are the same at their core but the first seeks realization into form and the latter will remain  in the ocean of possibilities. Only through effort will we come to see whether our dreams can reach fruition and on many occasions we may be surprised by the result at the cost of letting go of our perceived goal.                                    

~Christine Page, MD   Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal

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Mental imagery cultivation [imagination] is important in the training of a shaman with the goal of developing an "inner eye" in order to see things that cannot normally be seen. This technique of a visual portal cultivates an altered state of consciousness...the experience becomes a reality, rather than merely an exercise using the imagination.

~Richard Noll

Current Anthropology Journal

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What the Sufis call "science of the heart" involves creative imagination: entrance into the intermediate world through active imagination. By concentrating the active imagination one is capable of creating producing changes in the outside world. Detached imaginative meditation becomes an extra-psychic reality and forms a part of mystic perception.

The Sufis call "active imagination" a guide to mould sense perception and transmute sensory data into symbols. A distinction is  made between imagination and fantasy. Imagination is the magical production of an image which is the work of the Spirit.  While fantasy is the madman's cornerstone. Imagination is the intermediary between the world of pure spiritual realities, the world of mystery and the visible, sensible world. The imagination has metaphysical status.

~H. Corbin

Creative Imagination in the Sufism of  Ibn 'Arabi

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The most important thing in the art of invocation [affirmation] is imagination, as it develops "innersight" and raises awareness of other realms.

There are two forms of image-building: the first is the "creation of images" [imagination] where the mind is trained to intentionally construct some image; the second is the "evocation of images", where the mind is held by the will in a quiet and passive condition, and images are allowed to rise in consciousness[intuition]. Regular practice of both types of visualization will establish a channel by which many conflicts held in the unconscious may come to the attention of the conscious mind. These exercises are believed to assist the individual on the path of self-knowledge, and at times they engender highly emotional experiences that are thought of as a necessary purging process on the path. In addition to the sense of mental and physical well being that these exercises  produce, their more important goal is spiritual.

~W.E.   Butler

The Magician: His Training and Work

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“The spirit is the master, imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material.”

~Paraclelsus   

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover  and create."                                                                                                                                            ~Albert ~Einstein

There is another way of understanding new phenomena, and that is through the creative leap that Einstein claimed is imagination--and that I maintain is evidence for the role of intuition in scientific research.

~Ervin Laszlo

“You cannot depend on your eyes when your Imagination is out of focus.”

~Mark Twain

“Imagination is the halfway house between spirit (Intuition) and matter, which makes communication between the two possible.”

~Synesius of Cyrene, 405 AD

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“Medical research begins to at last reveal what indigenous peoples have always known: imagination ismedicine. There are no illness that are not psychosomatic: what afflicts soma always affects psyche and vice versa. For imagination to heal, to act as pharmakon and not as poison for the afflicted human body, the sufferer must be the agent...its source born from within.”

~Excerpt from Imagination and Medicine by Stephen Aizenstat

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Meditation is a Location: Imagination of mental images places you in the Meditation Sanctuary::

Shamanic training in vision cultivation often consists of a two-phase process: the two phases are not necessarily discrete and may be sought concurrently. First the neophyte shaman is trained to increase  the vividness of his visual mental imagery through various psychological and physiological techniques, and then to increase  the controllability of the image. The purpose is to block out the 'noise' produced by the external stimuli of perception and to attend to the internal imagery processes, thus bringing them into focus more clearly. Fechner described this process in 1860 when he said that  'in imaging, the attention feels as if it is drawn backwards towards the brain'.

~Lynne Hume

Portals - Opening Doorways to Other Realities Through the Senses

Note: Fechner is regarded as the father of Psychophysics, which is "introspection psychology".