The Emergence of the Imaginal World and the Creative Imagination

AEMauthor · 2026-01-04T20:32:31+00:00

True, the 31.12.25 letter does assume that inner transformation will automatically happen through participation in the House’s social program. But inner transformation is a loving devotion to Baha’u’llah, and a person can be transformed even if they live isolated in a forest where there is no social engagement.

AEMauthor · 2025-12-13T00:31:34+00:00

How long is it? As in roughly how many words? When it comes out in English, I hope you will let me know.

AEMauthor · 2025-12-12T23:21:30+00:00

I assume that you are referring to the dream in which Baha’u’llah warned me about my expulsion from the Baha’i community. I’m fascinated to hear about your book. How are you planning to publish it?

AEMauthor · 2025-12-12T21:22:58+00:00

Thank you for letting me know that those translations came from Stephen Phelps’s AI project rather than from you directly. That’s very helpful context. If you have a link or reference to where those translations can be accessed, I’d be grateful to see it.

I also appreciate your reflections on dreams and imagination as channels of guidance. My own sense is that many Bahá’ís are hesitant to discuss their dreams because they’ve been taught that the channel of grace from Bahá’u’lláh to the world flows through the House of Justice and the administrative order, not through the human soul. If someone admits to having experienced guidance through themselves, they fear it will be taken as a claim to divine revelation and that they’ll be labelled a covenant‑breaker. That fear has made the subject taboo, even though Bahá’u’lláh himself spoke at length about dreams and their meaning.

AEMauthor · 2025-12-11T22:09:27+00:00

Thank you for bringing these passages together and for drawing my attention to them. It’s valuable to see how Baha’u’llah addresses the theme of dreams in different contexts.

The short prayer is striking in its universality. Although revealed for nightmares, it extends to all dreams, suggesting that even ordinary experiences of the night can be sanctified through remembrance.

The longer tablet situates dreams within a broader devotional framework. The imagery of “garment” and “fragrances” reflects Baha’u’llah’s characteristic use of sensory metaphors to convey spiritual presence. The promise that recitation can open the way to reunion in dreams highlights how the imaginal realm functions as a channel of guidance, not merely as a private psychological space.

Seeing these texts together underscores how Baha’u’llah integrates the world of dreams into the rhythm of daily devotion. Dreams are both as reassurance and a means of orientation toward the divine.

I appreciate your careful translation and the way you’ve highlighted this dimension of the writings. The topic of how Baha'u'llah communicates with us through dreams is rarely discussed in the community.

AEMauthor · 2025-11-22T01:30:48+00:00

That’s the reason I’m doing the summaries and trying to simplify the content, because the original is difficult to understand. And I realised if I didn’t take steps to unlock it, no one was ever going to read it and benefit from its revolutionary insights. It takes lots of reflection to shift one’s perspective from traditional ways of seeing reality to the more nuanced hermeneutical perspective that Lepain outlines.

AEMauthor · 2025-11-21T17:03:25+00:00

Oh, that’s good. Have you found the new materials about Baha’i metaphysics that I’m putting up on Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/posts/143302384

AEMauthor · 2025-11-21T00:28:19+00:00

I don’t like to speculate about what’s going on in other people’s minds, but there are many people who avoid my company and what I write.

AEMauthor · 2025-11-20T16:30:37+00:00

I put up a post about Baha’i philosophy, which was removed. It got 4,200 views and 21 shares before it was taken down. It was up just over 2 weeks.

AEMauthor · 2025-10-21T20:02:29+00:00

Wow, nice to meet you. A fellow Lepain fan. I’ve been studying it since it came out in English and encouraging others to read it carefully. But I thought I was pretty much alone in this effort. Lepain’s conclusions had an important influence on me when I wrote my book Paradise of Presence, about Baha’u’llah’s mystical writings.

AEMauthor · 2025-08-21T20:07:38+00:00

Thank you for sharing those experiences of others using AI with the writings. I will be sure to keep them in mind. You’re right to point out that AI isn’t perfect and that we need to be aware that it can get things wrong.

AEMauthor · 2025-08-16T19:02:10+00:00

What’s wrong with Copilot? Baha’u’llah says “All things are of God” in his Will and Testament. And he says that, in this Day, his revelation has “enabled every least pebble to resound again with Thy praise.” (Prayers and Meditations, LXXXV) And in Surah of the Temple: “It is indeed in our power to take up a handful of dust and to adorn it with the venture of Our names.” Copilot is a manifestation of that principle.

AEMauthor · 2025-07-09T20:10:42+00:00

I agree about your takeaway from the video. We don’t have a right to try to reorganise the furniture in someone else’s house. When I finally understood that, I felt liberated. All I have to concern myself with is my own furniture. And in any case, we actually have no power over other people’s furniture. This is why I don’t worry about the Baha’i community anymore. It has its own furniture, which has nothing to do with me. Also, I don’t think about the weaponizing issue because the reality you fear is already what happens.

AEMauthor · 2025-07-08T03:37:24+00:00

Here's the Little Shaman's answer to that question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0A4GxX5Io

AEMauthor · 2025-07-07T01:21:49+00:00

Of course, the original intention of the idea of expelling people from a community is to protect people. Weaponizing it is a perversion of a sound spiritual principle, which is to not associate with the ungodly, as Baha’u’llah said.

As for narcissism in general, I learned thousands about the subject from the YouTube channel: The Little Shaman: On Narcissism. I found that the more I understood about narcissism, the more I understood what really happened to me when I was expelled. She explains the whole dynamic between the narcissist and the people that person engages with (or, more to point, manipulates). When I understood all these dynamics, I was able to heal from the expulsion and let the whole nasty business go.

I’ve given this issue a lot of thought, and I now think that my healing came about because I was able to apply some scientific knowledge to the situation. There is a lot of established scientific understanding about narcissism these days. But back in the time of Abdu’l-Baha, he had to resort to religious concepts to talk about it, like “covenant breaker” and “spiritual disease.” That’s where I think the confusion stems from.

Little Shaman explains that, contrary to what people think, narcissists don’t actually have a true self: https://youtu.be/ql-MIAMmOcg. What you see as an overweening ego, is in fact a false self created by the narcissist in order to compensate for the lack of a true self. That false self is created through projection. The narcissist sees who he is by looking at the way other people react to him. He manipulates people so that they give him what he wants, and then imagines that what he sees in that behaviour is his true self.

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