notes on recall and second-hand imagery

Recall imagery is loaded with emotional energy, will overwhelm present awareness if not careful (cher - full, attentive from the heart, from one's very core). Second-hand imagery, imagery painted by words of others, written or spoken, has much less emotional impact, unless one has direct experience, pre-existing or called forth, of that imagery. Hence, spiritual (vertical) and political (horizontal) imagery are less impactful unless directly experienced by the person. That is why some are on fire and some are not. In my experience, the vertical realm trumps (but can lend energy to) the horizontal realm.