Kenneth Rexroth called human imagination "the organ of communion," and that seems right to me. I've come to think of imagination as the psychic nexus of the physical body, emotion, intellect, and spirit, but who knows? Artists and shamans have variously described it as a mode or state of participatory consciousness, extended identity, psychic simultaneity, voluntary incarnation. By any description, it denotes a realized connection between the Self and Other, an empathetic merging (however brief), a sense of shared immanence-basically, the predication for love, or at least a deep and true
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