MEMORY AND IMAGINATION - EUGEN KOLISKO

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As a continuation of our series of lectures on the human being and his connection with the Universe, we will move today to consider memory and imagination . We can understand the being of man in its totality only if we are able to conceive flows of forces, of a polar opposite character, working within and on the human organism. Man is a very complex being and throughout his organism we find evidence of the work of great polarities. The eye, for example, is a sense organ connected to light and consciousness. The sense of touch, on the other hand, is connected with darkness, because here we come into contact with material substances. Everywhere in the human being there are polarities at work and one of these polarities is evident in the two functions of memory and imagination. Memory is due to the action of thinking . The impressions made on the soul through the senses remain in the human organism. Just as some concepts of an object arise within the soul, so it happens with memory, due to the fact that after an impression received through the senses an image of the object remains. It can therefore be stated that memory has a reproductive character.