William Marts: Imagintelligence
In Imagintelligence William Marts has made an up to date
summary statement of the central place of imagination in personality functioning and spiritual development.
The faculty of imagination, where all that is created beyond
mere awareness, is the level where a person can intervene between the stimulus of the environment and the suggested emotional
response by the body.
William Marts
Marts speaks of his revelations of a mind illuminating divine
experience and of a resulting science which led him to a simple new thought process which leads to enlightenment.
Unfortunately, we develop thought processes that suppress our
true potential. The power of negative thought is the undoer of everything we try.
Humanity, he says, has avoided the fact that imagination is
the first manifestation of the order of thought, which has placed both religion and psychology at the disadvantage of continually
denying and suppressing the true nature of the mind.
With the new millennium approaching, scientists, psychologists
and the heads of religion must distinguish the imagination as the primary manifestation within the natural order of mental
activity… No greater step can be taken for the benefit of humanity than practicing imaginational intelligence…This
is the key to the collective consciousness of mankind evolving as a whole. We have made a quantum lead in technology, yet
have neglected to realize and control the primary manifestation of mental activity, imagination.
Marts goes on to say that imagination has run haywire, and that
remarkable changes can be brought about by the control and development of the primary source of mental activity, the imagination.
Marts argues that the imagination is always functioning, at least in the background, of every sensory activity, forming an
image every 2/5 of a second of what appears to be present.
Imagination…is the faculty by which our mind creates thought--through
imagery, the substrate of our mental process. Emotion…is the direct chemical result of our image creation.
Marts sees negative imagination as our chief human problem resulting
from experiences of fear and pain. At the level of imagination, man is still free to choose to stop the negative spectrum
of thought, the fight or flight response, and to choose the bigger picture of love.
Marts quotes Einstein as saying that "You can fill a man with
knowledge and all you have is a man filled with knowledge, but spark his imaginative powers and he can conquer the Universe."
Marts argues that negative imagery is a disalignment from the God-Mind, and that we can choose positive imagery and change
our behavior. The use of attention is an important factor.
He reports that the human brain can store up to 280 quintillion
bits of memory but can only pay attention to 126 bits of information per second. When our attention is preoccupied with fight
or flight imaginings, we are stuck. Since we speak 45,000 words per day to ourselves internally, we had better monitor our
inner speech and be aware of the fact that we create 144,000 mental images per day. Imagination and these mental images are
the key to all other human faculties, and determine the chemicals that are released in the body Negative imagery produces
negative chemicals and positive imagery produces positive chemicals.
Marts adeptly illustrates the necessity for vigilance in aligning
the imagination with the indwelling God force in numerous ways so that negative experiences are replaced with positive outcomes.
I appreciate Marts repeated statement that "You are a powerful, spiritual, divine being."
