Mental images

Our immediate and instinctive reaction to an impact or explosion leaves a mental image of utter chaos and destruction. There may be a fascination with the power of such events, but our limited time resolution and limited pressure-sensing abilities cannot provide direct information on the underlying orderly mechanical, physical, and chemical processes. As with other phenomena not subject to direct examination by our human senses, the scientific descriptions of shock and explosion phenomena rest upon a collection of images of the processes which are derived from a range of experiences. The three principal sources of these images in shock science—experiment, theory, and numerical simulation—are indicated in the cartoon of Fig. 3.1. 

The mental images, no matter how well grounded scientifically, are individually and collectively biased, as they have been developed after considerable filtering. The filters result from the scientific training of individuals, available supporting information from other processes, existing theoretical methods, limitations of numerical simulation, and characteristics of experimental methods. 

Fig. 3.1. Mental images of shoek-eompression processes vary eonsiderably depending upon the baekground and experienee of the investigator. The scientifie images are ereated from inputs from theory, numerieal simulation, and experiment. The eritieal nature of the experiment in establishing reality requires unusually eareful study of eritieal aspeets of experimental apparatus.

Deseription Tangible quantitative The partieulate or molecular level aeeording to the atomie theory of matter. A depiction which may or may not be accurate but helps to provide a mental image. 

Pereeption Visible Cannot be seen with the naked eye, so mental image is based on deseriptions, diagrams, explanations. The model is a tool to help understand the real entity. 

They are often talked of as mental images projected outwards by mistake. But where an hallucination is complete, it is more than a mental image. An hallucination is a strictly sensational form of consciousness, as good and true as if there were a real object there. The object happens not to be there, that is all. 

Note the pattern of how the names of the decimal places to the right of the decimal are similar to the names of the place values to the left of the decimal point. Keep the mental image of the decimal point pairing up with the ones place to easily remember the place value names. 

In order to focalize more fully, the Neophyte may bold in bis mind the mental image or statement of "I Aid A CENTRE OF POSITIVE WILE" PERSONAL POSITIVITY. 

Do not undervalue the Occult Statement and the Occult Denial—they are powerful factors in Men taHsfn, in the direction of strengthening and vitalising the Mental Images. 

Hold this idea mind whenever yv practice Jff -taiism. ALWAYS STAND BEHIND YOUR MENTAL IMAGES, as the Light In the Lantern. 

Then, having your Mental Image impressed upon your imaginative lantern slide, direct and point ya r lantern, tube ups whatever abject i the ttutsiie world you urtjk. If it 1 a person whom you with to impress with your thought, mentally direct and focus your mental Magic Lantern upon him, just m... 

In this fourth-dimensional world, displacement will however have nothing whatsoever of a Euclidean nature. Indeed, as it must be remarked, such [displaced] atoms only provide a convenient hypothesis. Such atoms do not exist in reality they only represent different qualities belonging to the same physical continuum. The atom is a conception belonging to the kind of mind which isolates matter, and all of its attributes and all of its qualities. This mind conceives of the atom in its own image. Therefore, it could also make from this mental image a... 

Right. Just as we build up a mental image of our 3-D world, the Flatlanders have many ways to understand and survive in their 2-D world. You pause. But Abbott s book doesn t only discuss 2-D worlds. It also discusses the square s visions of a 1-D world called Lineland. The square says ... 

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