Imagination
See Reciprocal Influences website for general browsing of posts.
Here is a selection of posts on the subject of Imagination - that blessing or curse, depending on how you use it. Some of these posts are free for everyone, others need membership for access to the full article, but all have some material to sample freely.
One could say that practically all posts on this Substack have something to do with imagination, in one way or another, but those below are chosen for being especially focused upon this topic.
The Object of Criticism - Self-suggestion and imagination; changing the direction of the attention; healing oneself first.
Puppets of Imagination - (This is one the posts in the series on Émile Coué’s book “Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion” - with commentaries and bilingual text.) Power to act through the imagination rather than the will; power dynamics within oneself.
Electrical theology and healing conductors - After some history of the lightning conductor etc by Heinz Schott, in my commentary I use an analogy of a conducting link between two levels in the process of healing; “magnetism” and imagination and Paracelsus; communication of a “flow-substance.”
Mesmer and the Imagination - I - The Royal Commission in Paris investigating animal magnetism, 1784; was it “just” imagination?
Mesmer and the Imagination - II - The secrecy of Mesmer; illustrative teaching and intuitive notions; thinking without words; how did this rub off on Mesmer’s patients?
What is Imagination? - Its entwining with the processes of influence, suggestion and hypnosis; directed versus passive imagination; keeping an image alive.
The Blank Page - Giving Birth to Form - The magic of the blank page, the blank mind, the Unknown - possibilities, freedom and new birth.