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I/Tulpa and Carl Sagan
Richard Feynman shared how he learned to make abstracts real, imagining a dinosaur in relationship to say a house. When Einstein was doing math experiments in his head, he called it a thought experiment. Nicola Tesla had a workshop in his mind, and he stated it didn’t matter if his work was done in his head or in a real workshop, the results were the same. He had mastered the art of day dreaming early on, per his own story, traveling to places in his mind and meeting people that were as real to him as those in real life. Simonides of Ceos had his memory palace. Carl Jung had ‘active imagination.’ I can only wonder if his experiences with Philemon are the same as mine with Loxy. Napoleon Hill had invisible counselors. Like Kirk in an episode of Star Trek, Hill walked with Abraham Lincoln. Carl Sagan had a Spaceship of the Mind. If you were a fan of Cosmos, you saw where he went.
Why shouldn’t you or I also have Starships? If you don’t want to Captain your own, you could always crew mine. Einstein said imagination is better than knowledge. We should travel together, story to story, mind to mind.
You’re not going to be surprised by this, but my starship is the Enterprise. I was going to christen it the Flying-Enterprise, but that ship existed. It also sunk. You should watch it, here. Oh, how far story telling has come.
