Imagination
- Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
from Cultivating Hyperstitions
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think. T... See more
from IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness by Mary Martin
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- I don’t research when I write novels, because imagination is my asset, my gift.
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
lili added 3mo ago
We take the profound power of conjuring new expressions, interpretations, and constructed worlds for granted.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
from From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
from The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by walkerart.org
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
from This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph by David Nield
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
futures thinking
- When you apply possibility thinkingin your daily life, it can give you a powerful sense of agency. It can help you find innovative solutions to actually do what you want to do, in one form or another.
from How to use ‘possibility thinking’ | Psyche Guides by Constance de Saint Laurent
Mary Martin added 6mo ago
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from Daytime mind wandering is linked to dream content while asleep, study finds by Eric W. Dolan
Mary Martin added 10mo ago
dreams