Powers of Imagination

Powers of Imagination

Generating False Memories

"imagination can induce false autobiographical memories."

Source

Imagination can create false autobiographical memories

http://goo.gl/MDYG2K

Maximizing Human Potential

If people "paint imaginary pictures of themselves achieving desired goals, these people will 

formulate a deep identity with their images. The most intense identification with these 
images is formed with the mind and the body creating a psycho/physio-interaction. "

Source

Creative Visualization Maximizing Human Potential

http://goo.gl/kDNMmq 

Increasing Mystical Experiences

"prayer which uses the imagination...cultivates the inner senses, and that this cultivation has consequences [These Consequences Include] Mental imagery grows sharper. Inner experience seems more significant to the person praying. Feelings and sensations grow more intense. The person praying reports more unusual sensory experience and more unusual and more intense spiritual experience."

Source

Prayer as inner sense cultivation: An attentional learning theory of spiritual experience

http://goo.gl/WRDVo0