A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

MR. O. There are two forms of wrong work of centres.(1) They may use wrong energy. (2) They may work with the lowerparts of centresMISS S. Do you mean by suppressing imagination, imagination that isused by someone writing music or painting a picture?MR. O. Mr. G. always strongly insisted that it was not imagination.There are notes for that period. He insisted that imagination cannot becontrolled If you control what you think is imagination, it is somethingelse.MISS A . If the centres should work properly what would it belike?MR. O. What it should be. Brain would think, heart would feel, stomachwould digest.MRS. K. In what centre does imagination take place?MR. O. Imagination takes from all centres. It may begin in intellectual,it may begin in moving, it may begin in emotional. But it's only thebeginning.MR. W. What do you mean by imagination? Day-dreams and fantasy?MR. O. Day-dreams are only part of imagination. Imagination can beimagining existing features, powers and qualities in oneself. This is amuch worse form. This is a matter for observation and you will seeseveral categories.MRS. W. How can you discriminate when you think that you havesome feature and you find that you have not?MR. O. Well, you see, I have met certain Theosophical people whoread many books and they believe all that they readMRS. K. A buffer is imagination, isn't it?MR. O. No, a buffer is something—like wood. And it is something thatcan be permanent in manMRS. R Does imagination begin to work early in children?MR. O Oh, yes, probably before they are born.MR W. We were told that fairy stories were very usefulMR O Some, yesMISS A When you speak of higher centres do you mean lower centresthat function properly or something quite different from them?MR. O No, YOU see, as long as lower centres function improperly thereis no possibility to think of higher centres And it is only when centresuse higher parts that this connection becomes real And these higher