Reality and imagination are not the ‘same’, but process.
certainly they are related.
The image is the process by which reality is ascribed, so the key difference sought should be between the image and the imagination in determining that process.
Whatever relation exists between the insribable processes of life, death, ego, helplessness, hope and hopeless, being and nothingness, sanity and insanity, reasonable and reasonableness, time and timeless, black and white and color, small and big, child and adult, project and interject, relevant or not, freedom and responsibility, cosmic and metaphor-mythic, either or or, conscious and unconscious, dead or alive, man or beast, beauty or the beast, …the list goes on and on and on and on…
Are all opposites related but not the same?
What is same?
The answer ought to be no thing is same. Sure, but …
Look at love. Are love and hate related or not? Are they the same, or having the same source in emotion?
Sure because hate fills the soul when love is ribbed from its cradle. It pains one who loves to have the object if it’s love taken away.
Love is a given, a gift which costs the lover pain to have that object of love taken away, and it also hurts the recipient.
What is love?
Is it related to an idea that we can define?
Or does it belong in a family of ideas subsumed into higher ideas to firm ideals?
Can we define these higher ideals as soul?
What is soul? Is it a multiplicity or a singular idea? Are a singular and a universal idea related or not ?
Does the soul exist or not?
If the soul is universal can it be defined as God, or not?
If not what, or who nihilized it’s existence ? Or what does nihilize it’s existence and why?
Does existence and it’s presence or past mutually incompatible or incontrovertible to form necessary propositions about them one way or another?
Or, it is a fact rather then mere impression relating to the fact that they are absolutely incontravertable?
Is it mere impression or factual opinion of that which impresses?
What or who is a man? Ant like or monkey like?
Is a monkey possesses by something call it a soul that it wants to better itself to enable itself to possess ideas and souls?
Or does the monkey really has no say in the matter of getting a soul or not? Is something outside the monkey that impressed it to acquire that soul?
Is the soul a given?
Or is the soul a begotten?
Is live and soul relative?
Are relationships relative primarily or not?
Or are they manifestation of higher order functions?
Is time a description of a past or a future event, and not one that can describe the present?
Time can’t exist in the past and future, therefore time dies not exist.
If time dies not exist, then none if the processes described above can exist in time.
If the above processes can’t exist then they are timeless and eternal.
What are we as men conscious of?