Book | Series 9: The Imagination

Description

The course teaches you about how the imagination works. The imagination informs our daily activities and acts as a creative space for us to experiment with ideas. We explore the ability of the imagination to unite people or divide people.

INTRODUCTION

This course explores the imagination. In this series we discuss the utility of the imagination and how it is experienced by mind. An imagination can be experienced by oneself as either real or imaginary, so in this series we discuss the implications and consequences of both.

Imagination results in various kinds of human behaviour, that behaviour is either coherent and orderly, or incoherent and disorderly. In this series we discuss the requirement for imagination and order, and discuss the distorting factor that causes the imagination to produce disorder.

The imagination as a means to seek solace from our problems is also discussed.

We explore the phenomenon of the imagination producing a sense of division. For example, in the case of loneliness, where the lonely person perceives, and operates upon, loneliness as if it was something separate to themselves that they can escape from. We discuss the imagination as the  factor that fragments oneself, and fragments society, as in the fragmentation of nations, religions, and so on.

Finally, we provide an appendix lecture that discusses how the imagination intensifies overtime
and distorts perception.