What IMAGINATION really means

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IMAGE

a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. a mental picture or impression of something

Gin

a noose; snare.

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set GINS for me. ( Psalm 140:4-5 )

Jinn (Arabic: جن‎, jinn), also Romanized as djinn or Anglicized as genies (with the more broadmeaning of or demons, depending on source), are supernatural creatures in early
and later Islamic mythology and theology.


NATION

large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own:


The mind is Spiritual not Physical and the battlefield is in the Mind where the NATION of GINS/Demons fight us which is why Paul said


Ephesians 4:23-27 (KJV)

23 And be renewed in the SPIRIT of your mind


2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)

5 CASTING down IMAGINATIONS, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
 

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The mind is usually not spiritual at all, as Paul and others sent by Yahuweh showed clearly. KNOWING in spirit is something the majority of earthlings (those on the wide road to destruction) never experience.
The God Brain – Is Religion Hardwired? | Brain Blogger

How Our Brains are Wired for Belief | Pew Research Center

"Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.

Recent advances in neuroscience and brain-imaging technology have offered researchers a look into the physiology of religious experiences. In observing Buddhist monks as they meditate, Franciscan nuns as they pray and Pentecostals as they speak in tongues, Dr. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has found that measurable brain activity matches up with the religious experiences described by worshippers. The social, political and religious implications of these and other findings are just beginning to permeate the broader culture, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks, who has been tracking new developments in the field.

What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Are scientists as a group becoming more open to ideas of religion and spirituality? The Pew Forum invited Dr. Newberg and Mr. Brooks to raise these questions and share their insights with the journalists gathered in Key West."

 
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Not to destroy the mediation on the word "imagination", but the true etymology of the word is very interesting. It is correct that it starts with the root word "image" (a representation of some object). But then the suffix "ate" is added to turn the noun into a verb - imaginate: the act of creating an image. Next (and very odd) another suffix (ion) is added to turn the verb back into a noun - imagination: the one who imaginates.

So, as an alternate meditation, I think it's cool to consider the word in these terms:
image = us (per Genesis 1:27)
imaginate = we were created
imagination = God, our creator

We are the image of God's imagination.
 
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Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others?

Well, they kinda already do. Appeals to the authority of science are common. But I know that's not what the question is asking. It's asking if, for example, you could inject something into the brain to change someone's belief. Yeah, you probably could in many instances. What I doubt is that they would be able to produce a predictable result, i.e. change the belief in a specific way.

Are scientists as a group becoming more open to ideas of religion and spirituality?

No, yet by no fault of being persons trained in science. Maybe such studies would affect the beliefs of individual persons practicing science, but, again that's not what the question seems to ask. It seems to ask if this will affect scientific research with regard to religion. No, the method more or less excludes such things. So, as a fundamental principle of science, religious topics are out of bounds.
 
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