Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 1

Fragment ID: 12013

When one is living in the physical mind, the only way to escape from it is by imagination. Incidentally, that is why poetry and art etc. have so strong a hold. But these imaginations are often really shadows of supraphysical experience and once the barrier of the physical mind is broken or even swung a little open, there come the experiences themselves if the temperament is favourable. Hence are born visions and other such phenomena – all those that are miscalled psychic phenomena.