This is brilliant & full of healing potency. This man is a mystic, along with researcher/scientist. Like George Washington Carver, Swedenborg, Helen Keller & William Blake. The divine imagination which Blake perceived. Yay!
@@wildimagination2020 Thank you sir! No worries. I actually call even pur dear majestic merciful God "Sir," when i write thank you letters to God. It just conveys deep respect as you said
I listened to all of this & truly participated in the exercises, but didn't find myself in any strange or altered state at all. It just felt like the ordinary, everyday imagining we do as we go through our days. I remained fully awake, aware of the 'real life' around me & never lost track of where I was, the rain outside etc. It was simply common-or-garden daydreaming / remembering vividly a lovely spot on a walk & recreating the experience. I still fail to understand what 'hypnagogic' actually means, or in what way it isn't 'simply made up' (or re-called-up from memories.) Looking it up, most of the first page of explanations reassure the reader that this state doesn't necessarily mean psychosis / mental illness etc! :-o But why would it? It seem to be just conscious imagining & daydreaming! V normal & peaceful - though sometimes it might involve preparing oneself for worst-case scenarios. Mine could certainly bear cognitive interpretation about 'the road ahead goes on & on ...' + other lines from poems & songs, my need to 'move forward' in life, combined with nostalgia for lovely walks years ago, etc. A pleasant, though mundane, experience to indulge in, but nothing new, different or 'healing' in it for me. I know I must be somehow missing your point. Sorry!
No worries, thanks for the comment. And i think you've got it about right - the hypnagogic state is NOT different from ordinary everyday states of consciousness. What i'm saying is that the 'real world' is imagined. However, most often this is not appreciated and we fall into and get stuck in habitual imaginings that seem real and intractable. As you say, my 'waking dream' method is all about making this a 'conscious imagining'. Once we learn to notice this in-between imaginal perception, possibilities for re-imagining self and world arise. Go Well, Allan
@@wildimagination2020 Yes!!! Thank you so much for replying. I agree totally with this: our individual views of our world are indeed largely constructed via imagination ... the way we piece together sensory input & make sense of it, according to past experiences, expectations, fears, hopes, beliefs etc. Owen Barfield called this 'figuration'. What a brilliant idea it is & for you to encourage awareness of our own agency in this (mostly subconscious) creation of our mindscapes ... & the fact that we can develop our abilities to amend them if they're not serving us well. I hope I'm interpreting you correctly! I shall try to practise increasing my awareness of how I imagine things; of my part in forming how I 'see' my inner landscape / situations; of how I define things to myself. What a great new method to overcome my tendency to chronic depression & anxieties. Thanks very much again. 🙏🙂
Thank you. My feed of this lecture was punctuated regularly and intrusively with ads. Interrupting sentences, you name it. Wonder if ads could be managed to occur at beginning or end rather than at random intervals. Ruins the experience. Just saying.🙏🏻
Sounds horrid! I never see ads on here. I added AdBlock years ago & it works seamlessly across all my sites. It's free! I just forget about it & never get pestered. It's given me no problems at all for many years. Good luck.
This is brilliant & full of healing potency. This man is a mystic, along with researcher/scientist. Like George Washington Carver, Swedenborg, Helen Keller & William Blake. The divine imagination which Blake perceived. Yay!
Well thank you, sir! I like it. Especially the mystic / scientist tag. A synthesis is what i'm after, so glad you noticed. Go Well, Allan
Whoops, just noticed i may have misgendered you there 😝Apologies, but please take 'sir' as a generic term of respect!
@@wildimagination2020 Thank you sir! No worries. I actually call even pur dear majestic merciful God "Sir," when i write thank you letters to God. It just conveys deep respect as you said
I listened to all of this & truly participated in the exercises, but didn't find myself in any strange or altered state at all. It just felt like the ordinary, everyday imagining we do as we go through our days. I remained fully awake, aware of the 'real life' around me & never lost track of where I was, the rain outside etc. It was simply common-or-garden daydreaming / remembering vividly a lovely spot on a walk & recreating the experience. I still fail to understand what 'hypnagogic' actually means, or in what way it isn't 'simply made up' (or re-called-up from memories.) Looking it up, most of the first page of explanations reassure the reader that this state doesn't necessarily mean psychosis / mental illness etc! :-o But why would it? It seem to be just conscious imagining & daydreaming! V normal & peaceful - though sometimes it might involve preparing oneself for worst-case scenarios. Mine could certainly bear cognitive interpretation about 'the road ahead goes on & on ...' + other lines from poems & songs, my need to 'move forward' in life, combined with nostalgia for lovely walks years ago, etc. A pleasant, though mundane, experience to indulge in, but nothing new, different or 'healing' in it for me. I know I must be somehow missing your point. Sorry!
No worries, thanks for the comment. And i think you've got it about right - the hypnagogic state is NOT different from ordinary everyday states of consciousness. What i'm saying is that the 'real world' is imagined. However, most often this is not appreciated and we fall into and get stuck in habitual imaginings that seem real and intractable. As you say, my 'waking dream' method is all about making this a 'conscious imagining'. Once we learn to notice this in-between imaginal perception, possibilities for re-imagining self and world arise. Go Well, Allan
@@wildimagination2020 Yes!!! Thank you so much for replying. I agree totally with this: our individual views of our world are indeed largely constructed via imagination ... the way we piece together sensory input & make sense of it, according to past experiences, expectations, fears, hopes, beliefs etc. Owen Barfield called this 'figuration'. What a brilliant idea it is & for you to encourage awareness of our own agency in this (mostly subconscious) creation of our mindscapes ... & the fact that we can develop our abilities to amend them if they're not serving us well.
I hope I'm interpreting you correctly! I shall try to practise increasing my awareness of how I imagine things; of my part in forming how I 'see' my inner landscape / situations; of how I define things to myself. What a great new method to overcome my tendency to chronic depression & anxieties. Thanks very much again. 🙏🙂
Thank you. My feed of this lecture was punctuated regularly and intrusively with ads. Interrupting sentences, you name it. Wonder if ads could be managed to occur at beginning or end rather than at random intervals. Ruins the experience. Just saying.🙏🏻
Sounds horrid! I never see ads on here. I added AdBlock years ago & it works seamlessly across all my sites. It's free! I just forget about it & never get pestered. It's given me no problems at all for many years. Good luck.
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