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The imagination is the only thing we can really be certain isn't imaginary.
You seem to have a simplistic man-on-the-street concept of the imaginal realm, Clark-bot. It's much more than that. 'Active imagination' is a meditation technique wherein the contents of the unconscious are translated into images, narrative or personified as separate entities. It can serve as a bridge between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, and it includes working with dreams and the creative self via imagination or fantasy.
The 'imaginary worlds' you despise so much in fact do exist, insofar as they are translations of unconscious contents. That is how you can loathe something that doesn't "exist".
I await your automatic rejection and armchair criticism of this meditation technique. Carry out your prime function.
Denial isn't quite the same thing as refuting. You haven't refuted anything, you've simply stuck your fingers in your ears and trolled.
originally posted by: Aphorism
I do hold a common sense view of things, that I will concede.
I don't have a world view, nor have I claimed to.
I have yet to see the entire world, thus no world view. Anything beyond that is silly and conjecture.
Quantum mechanics has only refuted determinism and the view that the world is a giant machine built by a watchmaker—all views that imply a maker at the beginning and the end. Google it and copy and paste a quote to serve your purposes, but there goes your religious narrative. I've never held any of those views. Besides, it is math refuting math, and still everything runs as it always has.
originally posted by: midicon
a reply to: TheJourney
Perhaps this link might help.
www.jung.org...
originally posted by: Aphorism
a reply to: BlueMule
Consider me flattered. I never thought that I I would have developed such a fan. But I must ask: is this an obsession?
originally posted by: preludefanguy
you both have more in common than you think, but it is not in your knowledge of the world, it is in you conviction about your view of it, and your love of life