What a wonderful essay ! And good luck for the launch on Friday. I’m sure it will be a huge success. (I’m also interested in the overlap between Blake and Goethe, with his alternative view of science)
Thanks! I don’t think Goethe knew Blake and Blake doesn’t reference Goethe. They do share common roots, though, particularly as those who pushed back against the worldview that sprang from Newton and was advanced by Locke. The imagination as an organ of perception, not virtual reality generator, is a key facet of that.
Goethe was influenced by Swedenborg, as was Blake. And I love your distinction between imagination as a type of VR and as an active perceptive organ, this was exactly what Goethe advocated.
Is there anyway to buy the book now NOT through Amazon? I'm willing to get it shipped from the UK because I really want to read it sooner than later, but I'm boycotting Amazon right now...
Doors of perception cleansed. Imagination is an organ of perception … where we seem to get into trouble is not questioning our interpretations of our perceptions. And our perceptions lead to our experience. In “Love Without End: Yeshua Speaks” Glenda Greene reports his engaging her with “innocent perception” which is free of interpretation. We simply are open to perceive what Is without particularly knowing what is. You could call it childlike.
It’s among the gifts of not knowing. Then This that Is is free to reveal Itself as what Is everywhere without divisiveness: inside outside, upside down.
It’s a pervasive unified field like space which we now know is both within our bodies as well as around us.
We can experience a unilocal dimension, hologrammic, in which everything is localized within a singularity of our being.
Is that imaginative perception?
Who’s imagining what?
Or when we are perceiving as a transparency without conditioned overlays, is what Is simply naturally available?
Clear seeing, seeing with the heart because what is Essential is invisible to the eye?
Children are losing their capacity to imagine. All their creativity comes through screens. “Let’s pretend…” the creative expressive life of Being is all we perceive when the doors of perception are open.
Children are told, “that’s not real, it’s just your imagination.” But perhaps their innocent perception allows them to sense what is invisible to those whose doors got closed?
So I remain curious about imagination. In one way it is seen and said that we’re all imagining all this. We imagine there’s ScareCity and we live there. We imagine there’s reason for ear. We imagine virtual realities that take us elsewhere. We imagine our partners don’t love us, or do when they aren’t really able to, too wounded and protectively closed off.
Imagination is a huge topic.
When true nature is found to Be self-revealing its “hidden treasures” as a universe and we found to be a species capable of perceiving and recognizing what we are perceiving … is that imagination? Clear seeing? Innocent perception wherein a child sees God, a man sees angels adorning an oak?
For those who don’t see it, perhaps the telling allows for imagining. That’s what a story-telling species enjoys, a good story well imagined that takes them beyond the known yet relates to their life experience.
The raven speaking is delivering a magic message as it comes directly from the void into our realm of infinite diversity. It’s function like an angel’s, delivering a message. Somehow some people get it. Others wish the raven would shut up already! Noisy bird!
Where and how we can live is opened by the doors being open. How does that come about? Wisdom traditions all over the planet have perhaps imagined their ways given how the infinite indivisible invisible made itself visible, self-revealing, within their capacities to perceive imaginally. The imaginal — being made in the image and likeness — not our self-images needing to be unlearned that darken and obscure our perceptual capacity.
What expresses its image, what Is perhaps has an incredible ability to visualize, make light into specific images, from sounds beyond hearing that say … “let there be light.” It’s necessary to perceive, see and hear for example.
Thanks for the prompt to explore. Imagine a world at peace. It’s said it’s easy if you try. Nothing to kill or die for …
If it’s all One without borders inside and out, the implications for how to live that … imagine … 😍
I think Mary Oliver might have also seen the angels in the trees
When I am among the trees
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, ”Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, ”It's simple,” they say,
”and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
https://cih.ucsd.edu/sites/cih.ucsd.edu/files/cfm/When I am among the Trees by Mary Oliver.pdf
Yet they forgive my wanderings, I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes
Of Man INWARDS into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity
Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination
What a wonderful essay ! And good luck for the launch on Friday. I’m sure it will be a huge success. (I’m also interested in the overlap between Blake and Goethe, with his alternative view of science)
Thanks! I don’t think Goethe knew Blake and Blake doesn’t reference Goethe. They do share common roots, though, particularly as those who pushed back against the worldview that sprang from Newton and was advanced by Locke. The imagination as an organ of perception, not virtual reality generator, is a key facet of that.
Goethe was influenced by Swedenborg, as was Blake. And I love your distinction between imagination as a type of VR and as an active perceptive organ, this was exactly what Goethe advocated.
Will the US edition have the same cover as the UK?
Yup!
Great! Then I’ll wait until September
Is there anyway to buy the book now NOT through Amazon? I'm willing to get it shipped from the UK because I really want to read it sooner than later, but I'm boycotting Amazon right now...
Sorry typing on the move….
I'm in the US and have pre-ordered your book!
Doors of perception cleansed. Imagination is an organ of perception … where we seem to get into trouble is not questioning our interpretations of our perceptions. And our perceptions lead to our experience. In “Love Without End: Yeshua Speaks” Glenda Greene reports his engaging her with “innocent perception” which is free of interpretation. We simply are open to perceive what Is without particularly knowing what is. You could call it childlike.
It’s among the gifts of not knowing. Then This that Is is free to reveal Itself as what Is everywhere without divisiveness: inside outside, upside down.
It’s a pervasive unified field like space which we now know is both within our bodies as well as around us.
We can experience a unilocal dimension, hologrammic, in which everything is localized within a singularity of our being.
Is that imaginative perception?
Who’s imagining what?
Or when we are perceiving as a transparency without conditioned overlays, is what Is simply naturally available?
Clear seeing, seeing with the heart because what is Essential is invisible to the eye?
Children are losing their capacity to imagine. All their creativity comes through screens. “Let’s pretend…” the creative expressive life of Being is all we perceive when the doors of perception are open.
Children are told, “that’s not real, it’s just your imagination.” But perhaps their innocent perception allows them to sense what is invisible to those whose doors got closed?
So I remain curious about imagination. In one way it is seen and said that we’re all imagining all this. We imagine there’s ScareCity and we live there. We imagine there’s reason for ear. We imagine virtual realities that take us elsewhere. We imagine our partners don’t love us, or do when they aren’t really able to, too wounded and protectively closed off.
Imagination is a huge topic.
When true nature is found to Be self-revealing its “hidden treasures” as a universe and we found to be a species capable of perceiving and recognizing what we are perceiving … is that imagination? Clear seeing? Innocent perception wherein a child sees God, a man sees angels adorning an oak?
For those who don’t see it, perhaps the telling allows for imagining. That’s what a story-telling species enjoys, a good story well imagined that takes them beyond the known yet relates to their life experience.
The raven speaking is delivering a magic message as it comes directly from the void into our realm of infinite diversity. It’s function like an angel’s, delivering a message. Somehow some people get it. Others wish the raven would shut up already! Noisy bird!
Where and how we can live is opened by the doors being open. How does that come about? Wisdom traditions all over the planet have perhaps imagined their ways given how the infinite indivisible invisible made itself visible, self-revealing, within their capacities to perceive imaginally. The imaginal — being made in the image and likeness — not our self-images needing to be unlearned that darken and obscure our perceptual capacity.
What expresses its image, what Is perhaps has an incredible ability to visualize, make light into specific images, from sounds beyond hearing that say … “let there be light.” It’s necessary to perceive, see and hear for example.
Thanks for the prompt to explore. Imagine a world at peace. It’s said it’s easy if you try. Nothing to kill or die for …
If it’s all One without borders inside and out, the implications for how to live that … imagine … 😍