#promethea

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The Immateria

“There is only one Imagination.

There is a material world, and there is an immaterial world. Both worlds exist, but in different ways.

For example, chairs exist, so does the idea of chairs.

Most people assume that everybody’s imaginations are separate, with everyone having their own private mental space, just like their house is their own private physical space.

But the territory outdoors belongs to everyone.

If your mind behaved like a place, every time you follow a trail of thought, you are walking through a pathway in the Immateria.

Humans are amphibious. That means they live in two worlds at once: matter and mind.

Ideas grow like flowers here. Some are common ideas, found everywhere, but if you want the rarer ideas, the more exotic blossoms, you have to travel further.

Artists, scientists, philosophers, they are the pioneers of these territories.

The worlds inside and outside us have the same structure, the same pattern.”

From “Promethea“ #5 (”Weapon for Liberty”) by Alan Moore and J. H. Williams III (1999).

Different areas or zones in the Immateria can be interacted with by acting as though you are there. The Immateria must become more real to you than the material world, if you wish to journey into it.

At first you will be consciously imagining the location, but eventually it will start to “answer back” and change as required. This is a form of “active imagination”.

"Idea Space" and the "Mundus Imaginalis" ("Imaginal World") are other names for the Immateria.

See also:

"The Primal Grid".