Hilarion: There is a great deal of controversy and understanding about this. Because they can at times be of assistance to each other. That which is imagined, is that which is seen internally. It is the manifestation energy that one is working with from one’s own internal stimuli. Intuition is direct knowing. It is an attunement to that which is outside. You are bringing it inside where it becomes in resonance with imagination, one can amplify or strengthen. This can be very helpful when what one is working with needs that additional strengthening in order to be expressed or recognized.
An example of this might be if you were asked to give some scientific information from an intuitive source in an area of science with which you had no familiarity but opening to this you are then creating pictures. These pictures resonate with pictures in your imagination and so you might see the shape of a mushroom, or of a particular color. Describing this has no particular meaning to you at a scientific level, but the questioner, the scientist, understanding and working with this would certainly recognize this as a deeper association with certain sulfur compounds and their ability to form molecular shapes similar to that of this mushroom shape you are seeing.
So you see how the imagination can be useful. The difficulty comes when the resonance that is allowed to stir in the imagination brings up the issue of wishful thinking. An aspect in which, the imagination becomes so strong as to drown out the aspect of direct knowing, the awareness or attunement to the intuitive principle. The result is therefore the various levels of imprecision or difficulty that inevitably show up when working with any of these aspects in areas where accurate channeling, accurate information and accuracy in general with the intuitive process is necessary.
The key to this therefore is a way then in which the imagination is properly utilized. This for instance comes in various ways in which the imagination is utilized for deeper relaxation, imagining the components of the physical body, imagining the aspects of the sense of sleep or quietness, imagining various components that naturally give rise to a sense of openness or threshold phenomena where answers can come from any direction, the idea of sitting on a fence, sitting in a chair, sitting in space, sitting through space, sitting in an area of softness, etc. Thus, imagination is an important component of all aspects of human experience and must be properly utilized.
Unfortunately, most individuals will at times in working with the intuitive process attribute too much of what they are receiving to their imagination. That is unfortunate because so much of what would naturally resonate based on your own experiences, on your own memories, your own past life consciousness is that which is connected to imaginative experiences. Sometime one must work with these, accept them, play with them, getting used to the experience with time, then gradually, various opportunities to allow more and more of the direct knowing to come through.
In other words, under such circumstances the imagination is a jumpstart. A good place to begin. Children know this. They are often very intuitively easily connected and are told by others, “Oh! What a good imagination.” There isn’t anything wrong with that as long as it is encouraged. But when you are told that you are imagining things and what you are receiving is clearly information of a non-physical nature it is usually a shut down signal and will slow down the intuitive development of those children.
One of the importances of the Indigo Ray, is the deeper understanding of the very nature of intuition itself, many ways in which this would seem to transcend imagination. In distinguishing between these become easier as the indigo energies are utilized. You will then eventually find that some of the purpose of imagination is purely stimulation to bring the sense of it being fun. Of an aha! Of a deep and important discovery. This can be playful, or helpful in connecting to children. And all of this at a practical level becomes a useful tool but over time one is able to distinguish.
One often finds during the intuitive process that there is as if an entire level difficult to access that one can work with that appears to be entirely devoid of imagination. It will often be at the level of pure symbol; a sense of pure energy; an attunement or awareness of particular shapes, form, movements of the physical body, or sounds. Many other characteristics that have little in the way of the imaginative side to them because they do not connect to anything that you are already aware of, the awareness of this, increases with time.
The importance of this is to stretch and shift how you can relate to energies from the other side. These are eventually incorporated into your imagination and become a part of your natural vocabulary, to be expressed through art, music, poetry, dance, etc. These eventually become part of the collective consciousness as well and in this way many of the things that you imagine now could never have been imagined by humanity even as little as one hundred years ago. Many ways in which therefore you see the inter-relationships between intuition and imagination will become clearer with time.
And this brings us to the last part, the last component of your answer to this question, the way in which you can contribute. In answering this for yourself, sharing your own experience of this. How you see it. This can be very useful and very encouraging for others to understand and accept both parts of their own consciousness.
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