Imagination and Identification

Imagination and Identification

In esoteric literature, art and myths, one of the many personifications of the steward is Hercules. It is his role to make the ‘herculean’ efforts of resisting imagination and identification. The accompanying image shows Hercules fighting the Centaurs, in this instance, personifying those two aforementioned states. We are truly in a fight for life, conscious life.

We’ve addressed imagination and identification each separately in previous posts, saying that they are the natural state of the machine. Bear in mind that conscious evolution is not mandatory nor even required for life on this plane. So why are we addressing them together if we’ve already addressed them separately? The more we observe the machine, we inevitably arrive at the observation that imagination and identification produce negative emotions. Often just this knowledge alone can help with freeing oneself from the grip of an irritation or worse.

Of the two, imagination poses the biggest challenge for the steward because imagination satisfies all the centers. Daydreams, living in the past or anticipating the future are all characteristics of imagination. We are legends in our own minds, suffering the slings and arrows of an imagined outrageous fortune or we’re basking in the glory of a victory that’s about the size of a flea’s ear. The most pernicious imagination that can pervade our efforts is imagining we are working or that we are awake.

If the above sounds a bit gloomy, take heart. Firstly, there is this Facebook group that offers a modicum of outside help. For those few, those brave few, who need a school and know they need a school, we here are.

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Hercules Fighting the Centaurs Hans Sebald Beham 1542

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York