luka
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My reading of the Prynne line is that imagination, like perception, does two things, has two modes. One is to witness. In this sense imaginAtion is astral travel. We use the body of light to travel to another place and explore it.
The second mode is when imagination becomes what it perceives. That to imagine a river is to become a river. To feel that specific quality of movement and integration, that speed, that flow.
There are places which, for one reason or another, seem barred, temporarily or permanently, to the imagination. When we try to astral travel there we find ourselves shut out, resisted. This can happen as we travel back in time for instance, in our own personal history, in the history of our society, world, universe. It can happen at certain scales, microscopic to vast. It can happen at the level of material process, The formation of molecules for instance. Some things we can imagine without much effort, rock formed out of layers of sediment, sands, dead plants and animals, others are more opaque and dense.
The second mode is when imagination becomes what it perceives. That to imagine a river is to become a river. To feel that specific quality of movement and integration, that speed, that flow.
There are places which, for one reason or another, seem barred, temporarily or permanently, to the imagination. When we try to astral travel there we find ourselves shut out, resisted. This can happen as we travel back in time for instance, in our own personal history, in the history of our society, world, universe. It can happen at certain scales, microscopic to vast. It can happen at the level of material process, The formation of molecules for instance. Some things we can imagine without much effort, rock formed out of layers of sediment, sands, dead plants and animals, others are more opaque and dense.
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