The human imagination is almost an extension of the visual faculty.
Imagination is something that one beholds,
the imagination is actually a kind of window onto realities not present.
A future that might be. It is taking the raw data of experience and giving it,
a maladaptive spin. Program or be programmed, Hacking possibilities.
By slicing into messages of McKenna from books,
images, articles & lectures, mind-bending coincidences emerge
that otherwise would have remained invisible
Where is the imagination appropriate?
It is most appropriate in the domain of human, creativity.
That in fact separating art from imagination is simply
the exercise of separating, cause from effect.
Art, sculpture, poetry, painting, dance is like
the footprint of where the imagination has been.
its not about the process, the process is about making, being, the act of creation.
What the rest of us have been left with is,
a husk, a tracing, something left behind which says
“Imagination was here, imagination acted in this place,"
and this is, this is what it left.
The great bridge between art and science that was supposedly built in
the 20th century hinged on “What is the imagination?”
is a different way of asking the same question
“What is the origin of consciousness?”
There is below the ordinary surface of space and time,
ruled by relativistic physics there is this strange domain of
instantaneous connectivity of all matter, of all phenomena.
It raises the possibility then that the imagination is, in fact,
a kind of, organ of perception. Not an organ of creative, of unfoldment,
but actually an organ of perception. And what is perceived in the imagination
is that which is not local and never can be.
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