Divine Understanding and Human Imagination
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2024-01-13

Are we defined by what we imagine? Can we go beyond that? Can we engage the Unimaginable?

"Divine Understanding and Human Imagination: Face-to-Face by the Gates of Art" is my translation into English of a presentation that I, Andrius Kulikauskas, originally gave in Lithuanian at the conference "Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, and the Forms of Expression of Consciousness in Religion", on May 22, 2021.  

Read the text along with the slides
https://www.math4wisdom.com/wiki/Research/20210522UnderstandingImagination

This was an opportunity for me to think more about the big picture, the basis for the relationship between God and human. It also relates to my recent videos on the meaning of life.

Published on January 14, 2024.

1:35 How can we transcend the imagination? How do we transcend it with art? What do we understand upon transcending it?
2:00 Human imagination is the ruler of signs
5:00 Two faces or one chalice? We imagine only one way at a time
5:30 How much is one-third more and then one-third off? Imagination refuses to think step-by-step
6:55 Imagination does not appreciate that things are not as they seem
8:00 What can the imagination do? It shows how what seems to whom, but it does not show what actually is or is not.
9:20 Imagination governs all of a person's conditions. One transcends one's conditions with one's attitude.
10:50 To understand is to separate. For example, the unimaginable, unconditional God might wonder, is God necessary? ... It remains for human to understand that human is the one who lives in conditions, whereas God is unconditional.
12:55 How can I, a person in conditions, live as if there was not only me, but there was something more than me? I can take up the attitude that I don't merely seem to myself, but I truly am. 
14:20 Imagination controls a person through external connections. A person becomes free by taking those connections to heart.  ... The enlightened one is led by virtues - courage, hope, honesty. 
15:55 A person thus enlightened and liberated ever improves themselves, lives in leaps and bounds, rouses their consciousness, loves themselves. 
17:20 God's goal, and the goal shared by all enlightened people, is a culture in which everyone can develop freely and fully. For an artist, this is a serious challenge to liberate us all, to enlighten us, to gather us, and to ever enrich the concept of who we are.  Going from shared fates to individual fates to individual dreams to shared dreams
18:40 Rolling Stones magazine's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Times. The albums considered greatest are those which dare to say something more, which flow from their creators' sincere creativity, which offer hope that transcends the imagination. 

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