Reverend Lesley Anne Curran: The Function of Imagination

In this meaningful talk, Reverend Curran points to the way that imagination enables us to step outside of ourselves and look at ourselves fully. With imagination we can take what we have experienced directly, what resides in our memory and what we haven’t experienced, and work with these to produce not only images & possibilities but also changes in our embodied and psychological experiencing. In today’s ‘post God present’, Lesley highlights the necessity of imagination as a vehicle for understanding and working toward a relationship with the Divine whether you call that God, the universe, the infinite or the soul. She offers a strong claim that imagination is God or, in a softer version, imagination is an aspect of our human being that makes us most like God.