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There is a profound factor that influences all human behavior, thought, and emotion. Often unrecognized and unacknowledged, it seeps in, as a person lives his life, as he repeats the same actions over and over, as he unknowingly focuses on the same thoughts colored by the same attitudes. His space stagnates. It also shrinks. He becomes imprisoned in it. But what he once experienced as the electricity of being alive fades away. If he is to renew himself, he will need to do it a number of times during his life. The answer comes from understanding that what already exists in the physical world and in his mind does not supply inspiration forever. What already exists becomes tedious. Predictable. All-too-familiar. Therefore, he is going to have to invent something new. It will not drop down to him out of the clouds. Fortunately, although most people don’t perceive it, the individual is outfitted with an astonishing capacity to invent. L Frank Baum: “The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster Saul Bellow: “All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ec*tasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!” Henry David Thoreau: “This world is but canvas to our imaginations.” Here and there, down through history, there have been a few places where people not only deployed imagination but taught it, by offering a series of exercises and techniques. One such place was early Tibet. It was perhaps the most profound locus of all. Taking cues from those practitioners, from Richard Jenkins, an extraordinary healer with whom I worked in the early 1960s, and from hypnotherapist Jack True, with whom I collaborated 25 years ago, I’ve made a place of my own. I was originally prompted by a whole set of unanticipated experiences that occurred in the fall of 1962, when I began painting. In the space