Intent is the generative impulse that streams from the unmanifest into the manifest through the gap in time.
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Intent has two complementary aspects.
One is the originating aspect, which is concerned with initiating the new.
The other is the fulfilling aspect, which is concerned with bringing to fullness that which has been created.
The table below provides more detail about the two aspects.| ELEMENT A | ELEMENT B | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Originating aspect | Fulfilling aspect |
| Responsible for | Initiating the new | Bringing it to fullness |
| Coin analogy | Heads | Tails |
| Realm | The unmanifest | The manifest |
| Concerned with | Possibility: what could be | Actuality: what is |
| Associated creative powers | Imagination Conceptualisation | Materialisation Realisation |
| Radio metaphor |  Aerial / Antenna | Earth / Ground |
| Christianity, Islam, Judaism | Heaven | Earth |
| Talking with Angels | Creating world | Created world |
| Taoism | Yang | Yin |
| Hinduism, Tantra | Shiva | Shakti |
| Cosmology | Big bang | Evolution |
| Metaphysics | Eternity | Spacetime |
| Epistemology | The unknowable | The known |
| Breath | Inhale | Exhale |
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External websites
If You Say ‘Science Is Right,’ You’re Wrong, by Naomi Oreskes, on Scientific American website
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