Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00846)

Dear Leon

The Imagination I was thinking about was not three dimensional, but the imagination created by abstract thought. How do you imagine Dharmakaya, How do you imagine Nirvana? e.g. I read that the "Planetary Spirit of Gautama can pass at will into other bodies (non physical I presume) of more or less etherealised matter inhabiting other regions of the Universe. Gautama arrived at the gates of heaven as a perfectly ethereal (non spiritual entity) - a planetary spirit - formless. He renounced merging into Mystery (beyond the veil of primitive kosmic matter) One step removed from the Universal and Spiritual world essence - the anima mundi of the greeks, the christian personal god".
This is the imagination I was referring to, to be able to imagine non material-three dimensional existence.
Cass

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:


In a message dated 01/19/05 7:03:22 AM, silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

>That is my question.
>Cass

Depends on what you are capable of imagining -- based on how well developed 
is your power of imagination. 

I could imagine in 3D and color since I was a young child. It started me 
drawing in 3D and perfect perspective (that amazed my family and teachers) before 
I was 7 years old. Most of the students I met, when I studied art in my 
teens at a special school for talented children, also had that capability. Some 
of us could even draw in 3D from our imagination and even with our eyes closed 
or not looking at the paper. (In fact, that was one of the tests for entry 
into that school.) Such a skill came so naturally to me, that I couldn't 
imagine that anyone else couldn't do it -- until I tried teaching such drawing 
ability to all my untalented neighborhood friends. :-) 

I still believe it can be trained, however -- since, in later years, I was 
successful in teaching others to visualize in 3-D. Incidentally, only one of my 
brothers had a similar talent (and he became a well known comic book 
illustrator, and later, an animation and film production designer)... Although, none 
of my children showed that same early talent. Incidentally, my intuitive 
understanding of how we see and imagine in 3D depth, helped me invent 3D Comic 
books in the early 50's. See: http://www.ray3dzone.com/LM.html 

So, perhaps, for those born with it, it's a talent that was developed in a 
previous life. (And, therefore, could be trained in this life.) I know that 
after some years of meditation and visualization practice, I am able to imagine 
forms in 4 and even 5 dimensions. For example, I can see a 4D hypercube or 
tesseract, and even a 5D hypertesseract in my minds eye... But, I can't describe 
such images -- except, possibly, as a 2-D or 3-D line drawing... Vide, my 
chakrafield diagrams -- which symbolically, represents an imaginary cross-section 
of a 7 or more dimensional sphere. Also, look at how a 4D tesseract is drawn 
in 2D and animated in 3D at:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/Tesseract.shtml

Enjoy your imaginings,

Leon...



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