= What is Imagination? =
Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realized realised things and towards things realizablerealisable, and then to draw them by the projection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p40</ref> It is the power of mental formation, when one imagines something they make a mental formation, and depending on the quality and the power of the formation, some people succeed in making what they imagine real. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p25</ref> Everyone has in him, in a greater or lesser measure, the power to give form to his mental activity and use this form either in his ordinary activity or to create and realise something, for often, very often, in these mental imaginations there is a small element of will which tries to realise itself. We are all the time, always, creating images, creating forms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p9</ref> When this power is put at the service of divine, it is not only formative but also creative. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref> Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite, it is in its nature a substitute for a truer consciousness's faculty of intuition of possibility: as the mind ascends towards the truth-consciousness, this mental power becomes a truth imagination which brings the colour and light of the higher truth into the limited adequacy or inadequacy of the knowledge, it gives place wholly to higher truth-powers or itself turns into intuition and inspiration; the Mind in that uplifting ceases to be a creator of delusions and an architect of error. Mind then is not a sovereign creator of things non-existent or erected in a void: it is an ignorance trying to know; its very illusions start from a basis of some kind and are the results of a limited knowledge or a half-ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p24</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p25</ref> The mind has not the omniscience of an infinite Consciousness; it is limited in knowledge and has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p22</ref> But it is to be noted that through imagination the mind does receive a figure of truth, does summon possibilities which are afterwards realised, does often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on the world's actualities. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-cosmic-illusion-mind-dream-and-hallucination#p24</ref>
The == Imagination is really the power of mental formation. When this power is put at the service of divine, it is not only formative but also creative.in Children ==
Our surface imagination Children are not as "concretised", materialised in their physical consciousness as older people—as one grows up, it is as though one is a selection from a vaster coagulated and becomes more creative and effective subliminal image-building power of more gross in one's consciousnessunless through a willed action one develops otherwise.For instance, the majority of children find it very difficult to distinguish their imagination, their dreams, what they see within themselves from outer things. It The world is not as limited as when one is a substitute for a truer consciousness faculty of intuition of possibilityolder and more precise. And they are extremely sensitive within; they are much closer to their psychic being than when they are grown up, and much more sensitive to the forces which, later, will become invisible to them—but at this moment are not. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/30-december-1953#p3</ref>
= Why is Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite. Important? =
= Imagination Represents Possibilities =People who can open to a higher region, a higher force which, passing through the mental layers, comes and takes a form in a human mind and reveals itself in the world as new truths, new philosophical systems, new spiritual teachings, which are the works and at the same time the actions of the great beings who come to take birth on earth. That is an imagination which can be called "Truth-imagination". These higher forces, when they come down into the earth-atmosphere, take living, active, powerful forms, spread throughout the world and prepare a new age. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p7</ref> Men of science must be having imagination! A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the catastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's not yet realised, catching something there and drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and these things tend towards manifestation. It is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. It is one of the faculties one can develop in himself and render serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p40</ref>
Mind constructs figures which are If one didn't have the capacity of imagination he/she would not true make any progress. One’s imagination always goes ahead of their life, usually one imagines what they want to the outer experiencebe, and this goes ahead, and then they follow, then it continues to go ahead and they follow. They are Imagination opens for one the appearance path of itrealisation. Our mind People who are not imaginative—it is an observer of actualities very difficult to make them move; they see just what is there before their nose, they feel just what they are moment by moment and recipient they cannot go forward because they are clamped by the immediate thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/6-july-1955#p38</ref> One must have a lively power of truths not yet known or actualizedimagination, for―there is a dealer world in which you are the supreme maker of possibilities forms: that mediate between is your own particular vital world. You are the truth supreme fashioner and actualityyou can make a marvel of your world if you know how to use it. It doesn’t If you have the capacity to know everything of an infinite artistic or poetic consciousness; Mind has limited knowledge and it has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. . It does not, like the infinite Consciousnessif you love harmony, manifest the knownbeauty, it has you will build there something marvellous which will tend to discover spring up into the unknownmaterial manifestation. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p55</ref>
All imagination represents some form of possibilities. Perhaps a very different form of actuality. Most The power of them are unrealized because they do not enter mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the scheme of present reality or do not come within mind is put in communication with the permitted potential of Divine Will, the individual or do not accord with collective principle or are alien supramental Truth begins to descend through the nature layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of the current worldmaking forms it easily becomes embodied and stays as a creative force in you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref>
= Nature of Imagination How to Cultivate Imangination? =
Imagination which persist in A good deal of our life embodies the human mind, end often by self-fulfillment; individual thought formation can actualize themselvesproducts of our imagination. If there is sufficient strength Every time we indulge our imagination in the formation or in the mind that formsan unhealthy way, giving a form to our fears and anticipating accidents and misfortunes, it. Imagination can create its we are undermining our own potentialityfuture. In fact all On the other hand, the more optimistic one’s imagination represents possibilities, the greater the chance of one realising their aim. All human imaginations indeed correspond to some reality or real possibilitiesTherefore, though they may never be dejected and disappointed but let your imagination be quite inaccurate representation always hopeful and therefore inapt joyously plastic to express the truth stress of supraphysical realities. = Types of Imagination = '''Mental Imagination''' The one which comes from the mind. It includes ideas, imageshigher Truth, scenarios etc. This imagination is more of delusional in nature. This imagination has a common tendency to want to materialize. This is something so that every human beings possess. Ordinarily, our mental imagination is an instrument the latter may find you full of Ignorance. '''Truth Imagination''' The one which comes from a higher state or truth consciousness. Inspiration and Intuitions are powers of this truth consciousness. As the mind opens necessary formations to the higher regions, a higher force passes through all mental layerhold its creative light. It reveals itself as new truths, a new philosophical system, a new spiritual teachings<ref>http://incarnateword. This in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination prepare a new age. All #p1</ref> Stop imagining wrong things and your miseries will stop at the saints and great beings possess this capacity of truth imaginationsame time. = Sources of Imagination = The Mental and Truth imaginations have different sources<ref>http://incarnateword. Mental Imagination is sometimes coming from a variation of a memory in/cwm/15/wrong-thinking-and-illness#p1</or combination of actualities. It is a substitute for true conciseness faculty of intuition of possibilities. ref> The sources source from which mental imagination comes these imaginations come has nothing to do with the reason and does not care for any rational objections. They come either from the vital mind, the same source from which come all the fine imaginations and long stories which men tell themselves in which they are the heroes and do great things or they come from little entities attached to the physical mind which picks pick up any random suggestions suggestion anywhere and present it to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches he can see that a lot of irrational thoughts pass through mind. It is the vital mind, i.e. the mental faculty under the influence of ‘desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after life-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ which builds the plans and imagines. Ordinarily, the vital mind’s imagination is governed by or an unbalanced vital, and a weak nervous system apt to follow its own imaginations and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital will to steady or restrain it. Mind is not an original and primary creative power of consciousness; it isa derivative, an instrument, an intermediary creator. Our mind stands between superconscience and Inconscience (subconscience) and receives from both If one watches oneself closely one can find the these opposite powers. A higher Imagination or Truth Imagination As mind ascends towards truth consciousness, the mental power becomes a truth imagination. The mind then is able to receive inspirations most queer and seeing power of the mind develops. It is no longer constructing, imagining, fantasising, creating scenarios, but is a channel, a receptor of the higher knowledge, the truth consciousness. = How to Control Imagination = One can turn the imagination upwards extraordinary or downwards. Up above lies all inspiration of artistic and literary nonsensical things. This comes from another domain, not the mental-vital repository. The finer beauty and creativity can manifest through receiving light from above. One can be aware of all the thoughts happening in crossing the mind and choose to put them or peeping in their place, keep some thoughts, destroy some and focus all formative power on creating the images that confirms with one’s highest aspiration. Imagination is a faculty which can be disciplined, can be used at will, directed and oriented. It is one of the faculty one can develop it in oneself and be used for definite purpose. = Use of Imagination = Imagination can be used to create one’s inner and outer life. It is an elementary this way to creating and of forming things in the world. Our imagination goes ahead of our life. One can imagine what one wants to be and open paths for realizations. By using the power of imagination Usually one can project oneself into the future laughs or hardly notices and this helps the person in moving forward thing falls back to actualizing that potential. Imagination is useful in science. Without imagination humans will not discover anything. The more optimistic one’s imagination is the greater the chances world of realizing one's aimincoherent thought from which it came. = Imagination and Yoga = The power of imagination is very useful in yoga <ref>http://incarnateword. This power of making form is a stays as a creative potential form in oneself. When /cwsa/28/the mind is put in communion with the divine will, the Truth begins to descend through the layers between the mind -vital-being-and the highest Light. This often takes the form of vision, and its communion with the creative energy helps translate the seed ideas and imagination into manifested realities-vital-consciousness#p20</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword. = Misuse of Imagination = If Imagination is used in unconscious and excessive way without discipline, it brings negative consequences on the person. Most of the people give form to one's fears and anticipates /cwsa/31/accidents and miss fortunes. This undermines one’s own future. Stop imagining the wrong things and the misery will stop at the same time. = Practices = Imagining in detail about how one wants one’s spiritual and material life is a good practice to gain clarity and inspiration towards life ahead. Being mindful of one’s Imagination is helpful to understand oneself better. Dream journaling is also a good exercise to understand the content of one's deep unconscious mind.-possession-madness#p32</ref>