In the name of God, I am at your service for the presentation of the fifteenth article; an article under the title "The Illusory Mind, the Imaginative Mind" or in the continuation "The Visionary Mind". Prior to the text, let us remind ourselves that the mechanism of thinking in human consists of two stages. The first stage is shaped experience or practical experience, meaning you enter the Shaped Space, you can exert influence and receive influence. The next stage (second) is rational experience in which you perform the extraction of concepts from shaped data. How do we say a mind is illusory? Or imaginative or visionary?
Text of the Article
The mechanism of human thinking consists of two stages: First, the stage of experiential interaction with forms —that is, practical engagement within the realm of forms or Shaped Space, where the human being both influences and is influenced by external phenomena. Second, the stage of rational experience, where the mind engages in the extraction of concepts from Shaped Space data, reflecting deeply on the meaning behind sensory and situational inputs. The illusory mind is trapped in habitual and imitative practical experiences. Its interactions with the realm of forms are repetitive, unquestioned, and often driven by external social norms or emotional conditioning. This mind imposes ready-made conclusions on life decisions without passing through rational filtering or critical analysis. It suffers from incomplete shaped experience and a lack of rational conceptualization. Such a mind leads a narrative-driven life, where events are interpreted and retold within the limits of memorized patterns and external assumptions. When confronted with analytical or philosophical questions, the illusory mind typically responds with avoidance, delayed reactions, defensive justification, or outright dismissal.
The imaginative mind possesses a planned shaped experience in the stages of action and reaction. This is conceivable due to the presence of an active rational experience in this mind. In contrast to questions, the imaginative mind responds with enthusiasm, welcoming, and follow-up. This mind experiences a novelistic/discursive life (hadith-like). To do this, using purposeful shaped data, it brings about a new space in the mind for investigation and rational experience, and also has a plan to present results in the Shaped Space.
The visionary mind is a mature imaginative mind that, due to constant use of both practical experience and rational experience, reaches such a level that it experiences inspirational revelation within its imaginative space. This mind is capable of foreseeing or envisioning the stages of its future life, even after the conscious mind has detached from the realm of forms.
Explanation of the Article
An illusory mind is a mind that when it performs shaped experience, this experience which must lead to the processing stage—meaning rational experience—suffers from a stroke (interruption). Consider an individual who wants to perform shaped experience; they must arrive at an "if this, then that" proposition from this shaped experience, so that its result is a rational analysis. Minds become illusory when this "if this, then that" proposition has been transferred to them by an observer and companion, without explaining a plausible reason for this relationship. Now if that individual accepts this collection of propositions and contents themselves with them, in the future their action will be an imitative action; meaning without having entered analysis themselves and learned how this processing is performed, they merely imitate that "if this happened, then that must be done". This becomes their habit; the imposition of results for decision-making in life is shaped in this way.
This state is like a child, adolescent, or youth who also enters the Shaped Space and experiences the same influences; but when they want to examine the results, they refer to those around them and they tell them that if this event happened, they must draw such-and-such result; the result is what we say and you must obey us, imitate us, just as we reached it. You see that shaped experience and ultimately arriving at rational experience is incomplete here; because even if we accept that the child needs guidance in the beginning, but from an age onward, another stage in training and accompanying them must begin: they should allow them to also raise freely their personal results that they themselves have obtained, and those around them guide them with sufficient rational reasons.
An illusory mind experiences a narrative-driven life. Meaning if someone refers to them and asks where they got these works from, they only retell the narrative: "In such-and-such place they said this, we also do the same work." When such a mind is confronted with analytical questions (questions in which there is an initial experience behind them and they have not performed any analytical work about it) its response is delayed: "Let me sit down and think, to see what should be done." In the worst case, the response is a dismissive response; meaning because they do not have the capability to perform this analysis, they delete your question altogether; or if they bring reasons, those reasons are justificatory and cannot convince anyone.
If we want to summarize: many of us live in a gray life, in shadow; many of the works we perform every day we pursue out of habit, without really having thought whether another method can also exist. It has certainly happened that you confronted individuals who have other methods; but often accepting those methods has been difficult for you and you tried not to pay attention to them, delete them, or bring a justification why you are not willing to also examine those other methods. But imaginative minds (which are few in number) have another point: they plan. This word "planning" can also be linked to the previous discussion; illusory minds do not have planning, because planning needs analysis, needs a space of freedom where you can return to your experience, repeat it and get diverse results from it; even have the courage to set aside some of the previous beliefs. Owners of the imaginative mind have a mind that plans for every work; whether they want to receive influence, or exert influence. While individuals who have an illusory mind also experience problems in exerting influence. When you ask them what was your opinion and why you did this work, you see that the word they raise is not accompanied by planning, analysis, or results that they have predicted in advance. But imaginative minds possess planned shaped experience; they have a plan both for exerting influence and for receiving influence. We call this "active reason"; an active reason is seen in this mind.
It is interesting that they are always looking for questions. See the difference: the first group, illusory, run away from asking questions, from saying "why", from "how" and "quality"; they have no interest at all to be present in a gathering where "why" is going to be raised. But imaginative minds are exactly looking for these questions; their response is enthusiastic; they welcome with eagerness, they follow up, they are happy that you raise a question so that they themselves can say why they have such planning in their lives; they are even happy when you ask a question that they themselves had not thought of, because this is an opportunity for them to go, follow up, and have fresh planning to discover other corners of the topic.
The life of imaginative individuals is a discursive/hadith-like life; meaning when you confront them, about any topic, they raise the history of that topic: where it began, how it reached this point, and they even narrate the issues for you from different angles. They use shaped data purposefully; their Shaped Space is ready for rational experiences and they also have a plan to enter the Shaped Space. Visionary minds are very few indeed. These are the same imaginative minds with an additional feature: constant use; meaning they are thinking for a large part of their lives. Perhaps unlike many people, they have a kind of distancing from the general public; for the reason that they need space and opportunity to sink heavily into the roots of the topic and work. This is where we get close to the subject of philosophy, as it were; philosophers are also like this: by distancing from the surroundings around them, unlike ordinary people, they give themselves the opportunity to think about a topic from very different aspects. They sink so deep into the imaginative mind that they experience inspiration; that same discussion we raised earlier: they get so close to abstract concepts and are drowned in them that they get very close to the shapeless unconscious mind, they become adjacent to it. They feel they hear many things, they see things that others do not see—of course, "dream" (roya) depends on "vision" (royat); meaning they see things that ordinary people are unable to detect. These minds look so deeply at issues that predicting becomes one of their traits; they see what events are ahead in the future.
I hope this article has been able to complete the previous article; the same division of the mind into illusory, imaginative, and visionary that was raised in the previous session. I hope you too are among those whose mind is imaginative.