Shamanism for the Age of Science: Awakening the Energy Body - Kenneth Smith 2018

Imagination
The Formation of Reality

In this context, imagination is concrete. It is not flightiness or something to be easily dismissed as not pertaining to serious matters. Imagination is necessary to solve problems, to entertain new relationships of every kind, and to provide the necessary charge for personal growth. Its home base is the second energy field. Imagination permits you to access and manage potential. This is found in both the conscious and unconscious aspects of your life. Through the imagination used in your daily, waking world the second field feeds into your first-field physical reality. What has been potential becomes actualized and what has been unconscious becomes conscious.

While imagination relates to directly working with the second field, being imaginative pertains to procedures of imagination, and imaginings are creations or inventions originating from the use of imagination. Imaginings may be first or second field activities. Buildings, automobiles, and scientific laboratories are first-field imaginings. Artists often speak of waking from a dream and penning or painting a masterpiece. Scientists may speak of the role played by imagination in their discoveries, as did Albert Einstein. The concepts that precede these manifested technologies and skills were imaginings residing solely within the second field. They were ideas floating in imagination until someone plucked them out and placed them in this world by being imaginative, by being able to stabilize their assemblage point within the second field and then bring that awareness into harmony with the physical world. Imaginings exist as potential until actualized.

One of the most powerful tools of human consciousness, imagination connects us with the world about us, be it of the conscious or unconscious realms. It allows the perception of potential and as such produces the worlds to come. How much potential may become realized hinges on a number of factors. Here we will focus on the disciplined use of imagination, something that provides a fundamental reorientation to self, society, and life.