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[HydrogenBond]

Products from the imagination are not always individual in character but can also be collective. In tribal cultures, the special dream of the chief or witch doctor is for the entire tribe. Whether it makes rational sense to us or not the collective impact is there. This revelation is real in that it happened as a vision or dream and resonates in others. But it began in the imagination, since the imagination uses the same parameters which can defy cause-affect and probability. The only question is where did the revelation originate? Was it the unconscious mind or God?

Let me give a modern example of this affect; global warming. The first people to see this affect, did it at a time when there was not enough rational or empirical evidence in terms of solid scientific proof, to totally firm this claim. In other words, very few were ready to get on board the boat due to this lack. Maybe it began as 10% real, based on the state of art of the hard evidence, and 90% imagination stemming from a gut feeling or unconscious extrapolation of the then limited data. This pre-vision of what will be the future, was treated like a personal bias at its inception and was seen as another doom and gloom scenario. Bu this mostly imaginary vision of the future, compelled the visionaries and hit a resonance note in others because this vision was collective and turned out to be a vision of the future that was meant for the entire human family.

Revelation, no matter what the explanation of its deeper origin, works this way in that it enters the imagination from some source. It doesn't follow cause and affect or even probability due to the nature of the imagination matrix. It doesn't require the preponderance of the data for inception. Relative to its collective nature, the same vision is innate in a wide range of people, but stays preconscious until it is pointed out then it will resonate. Unlike the global warning revelation, which science was able to convert to cause-affect and empirical probability, to get a more 80% to 20%, proof to imagination ratio, there are other revelations that are hard to treat that way, yet they still create a resonance in many people.