A reader asks: Are you...
" a chronicler only, or have you had your own visions?....Can dreams be considered visions?"
Answer: It is impossible for me to be a "chronicler only". Yes, I have my own visions. And, Yes, dreams are probably the common visions.
I haven't any great visions, but some small experiences: an out of body float, seeming present at events that I was not present at physically, metaphorical dream/vision/delirium showing the morphing of the cultures, and another such seeming to emphasize the construction of presentable selves, ie: personae. Both these last experiences seemed to emphasize the impermance of forms and the pain of change.
In another sense, imagination is visionary. In my case my dreams are rarely informative but my imagination frequently is. Consider the phrase: Dream House. First we imagine, then we act. With scientists, this step is clearer than with artists, but is often forgotten.
What I'm hoping for is this: to help people see that the visionary/imaginative part of a human is an intrinsic part of a human. If a social system routinely denies this aspect while raising its young, the young will grow up atrophied. If at the same time the social system vitiates the individual will, thus blocking both the visionary and the possibility of willful action, this social system will raise its young to be doubly troubled, blocked in vision, blocked in action. Some from of explosive putrescence seems inevitable.
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