Imagination

“Neuroscientists have found that all human brains are connected through extremely low-frequency electromagnetic waves. These subtle signals, far below the range of our normal senses, may form a hidden “neural network” that links human consciousness across the planet.”
~ Unknown author

The above was first posted on an anonymous blog, and then quoted or paraphrased on a Science and Astronomy Facebook page, and finally shared to the Jungian psychology group I belong to.

Initially, I added the following comment:

|”This is fascinating. If true, it would add some scientific substance to the concept of a collective unconscious, psychic phenomena, and the experiences of empaths.”|

The key phrase above being, “If true…”

As often happens on social media nowadays, at least several readers quickly responded that there is no verifiable, published, peer reviewed source backing this up, and thus it is fake, BS, and clickbait. Granted, I can certainly understand the cynicism online nowadays, as there is a deluge of misinformation and lies streaming through the feeds in the form of articles, memes, videos, music, and AI generated fabrications. I’m very cautious myself, not considering anything that seems completely unfounded, unlikely, or just simply ridiculous. Yet, I find it disturbing that so many readers quickly jump to the conclusion that there is no truth in anything they read, except for what aligns with their own personal beliefs, which often have many gaps or leanings toward conspiracy theories. For example, the belief that we never landed men on the moon, stolen elections, the earth being flat, hostile aliens on their way to earth, etc.

This was my subsequent response to the negative comments:

|Social media, including the world in general, has become an overly cynical place. There is a trend online, where many people won’t consider anything as possible, unless it is found in a published paper. Well, news flash, the so-called evidence found in published papers can be manipulated too, especially as AI infiltrates everything.

Yes, we are living in an age of misinformation and clickbait, and we need to weed through what seems plausible versus ridiculous, but there are ideas out there that are worth considering, even if not published. For example, I’m not going buy into the idea that the earth is inside of a black hole, not yet anyway, but the idea of electromagnetic energy being distributed between and through us is not such a crazy possibility, given that there is a wide spectrum of energy at different wavelengths, all around us and passing through us. This is well known to be truth, and it has been measured and observed with various scientific devices. If you want to peruse the evidence and published papers on it, then you will need to sort through all the material out there, but I don’t consider this to even be debatable, since this knowledge has existed prior to the existence of the Internet, as far back as my childhood, which was a long time ago.

Since this is a Jungian psychology group, then I assume that the members here take seriously the concept of a collective unconscious, despite there being no published, hard evidence for it. The idea of electromagnetic energy being shared or distributed between brains, is not such a tall leap from this concept of a collective unconscious that influences and connects all of us, and seemingly quite compatible with it.

Creative thinking and imagination are just as important as science. Science always begins with observations and ideas about those observations, before being explored and tested for validity or reality. Imagination sets the next stage for our knowledge acquisition. Thus, I caution people to not be so quick to consider everything as BS, rushing to judgments and conclusions, or having an over-reliance on so called published evidence, which can be manipulated like everything else. It is time that we begin using our own minds again to ponder the possibilities, rather than depending on AI bots and published papers for all our knowledge and wisdom.|

As a writer, I’m often straddling the fine line between the visible and what may exist within an invisible realm, including unconscious instincts and motives driving human behavior; disembodied entities—good and bad; unknown or little understood patterns, cycles, and forces acting upon us and the universe at large; spectrums of energy outside our range of human senses; disguised meanings in dream symbols; alien civilizations; fate; karma; God, etc. These are just some of the things whose existence cannot be proven or validated through studies and published materials, not yet anyway.

Poets, prose writers, artists, movie script writers, musicians, and “think outside the box” scientists pose the possibility of the existence of an invisible realm, through all manner of creative devices, such as subtext, metaphor, and the subjunctive. Of course, there are those who limit themselves to the visible and factual, including “some” documentarians, journalists, fact bound scientists, and the people who say BS to anything not appearing in a published, peer reviewed paper or journal.

What scares me, is the rapidly growing cynicism online, where the creative imagination is being lost and replaced with the limits of our current, verifiable knowledge. Will this cynicism leak into, and finally overwhelm, all domains of discovery? If so, the evolution of knowledge and wisdom may become static, no longer evolving, and recycled over and over by AI. The acquisition of new knowledge and the growth of wisdom begins with ideas, creative renderings, intuitions, and observations that contradict or fall outside our current pool of knowledge; all of which require the facility of imagination to connect the dots of possibilities, setting the stage for new discoveries.

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