IMAGINATION
  1. the recombination of things one has sensed, thought or intellectually computed into existence, which do not necessarily have existence. This is the mind's method of envisioning desirable goals or forecasting futures. (DMSMH, p. 14)
  2. the ability to create or forecast a future or to create, change or destroy a present or past. (Scn 8-8008, p. 7)
  3. if you take the word imagination apart, you will discover that it means merely the postulating of images or the assembly of perceptions into creations as you desire them. (SA, p. 158)


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