The Sun is Not What we We Have Been Told....

[zenmaster]

Also when you are a child, that imagination is heavily distorted and uninformed. It is indeed pathological if taken into adulthood without the balance which evaluation provides. Still people will continue to glory in the shallow realm of vague and whimsical possibilities without taking their (adult) responsibility to balance.

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So then what is intuition and imagination?

e.g., some types of intuition incorporates a type of knowledge based on lived experiences... so there is a rational function to intuition... but experience crystalizes our ability to recognize patterns and make predictions. Perhaps a type of heuristic - a short cut, but one that needs to be confirmed/checked through our rational thinking bc heuristic may lead to errors (e.g., over generalizations and other cognitive distortions, even magical thinking). Imagination incorporates multiple levels of one's being and maybe integrated? So in all, they are dependent on a more holistic way of understanding life/self. That could mean rationality and intuition go hand in hand.

pretty much as cogently stated, but I'd say not just some types of intuited info incorporates knowledge-based experience, all types do otherwise there would be nothing with which to identify. Remember, with magical thinking there can be no errors by design and desire. What is merely perceived to be possible is actual and viable, esp because the magical notion serves to reinforce prejudice and offers unconsciously motivated perception of balance (rather than consciously determined).

Since you can't have experience without evaluation, and intuition can't function without experience - they are mutually dependent on each other. In the process of development here, there is a valuing meme where one begins to explore "interiors" or subjective nature of realty (I.e. which finally supports notions of relativism, egalitarianism, etc). Since this meme is a new reality for many, they are prone to use the intuition in an unbalanced manner, just as a child would indulge a diet of candy without care. The imbalance is not inherent to the meme, but to the individual and sub collective choices - as each meme offers opportunity for both healthy and pathological expression of its vibrational patterns.