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RE/THINKING RELIGION 10: Cognitive Science & the Imaginal in Spirituality

The Integral Stage

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The Importance of the Imaginal

I really appreciate the idea that the imaginal plays an intermediary role between perception and prediction. I'm highly interested in the use of imagination in particular inner practices where you try to inhabit it very specifically just as an imagineer or even as a sort of imaginal version of yourself. There's also a sense in which a number of esoteric traditions believe you can develop a kind of imaginal body, subtle body body of fires. So my key area of interest here is how do we use these, how do we using a deeper cognitive understanding of how the imaginal permeates all these aspects of cognition?

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