Creative imagination is not identical to fantasy in the ordinary meaning of the word. Empiricists may criticise imagination in favour of facts, but creative imagination in its full capacity such as in the case of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Niels Bohr, has nothing to do with wishful thinking or delusions. Creative imagination combines the act of 'seeing' with the act of creating. It lives in a mental and emotional attitude which is both passive and active. Creative imagination is able to view the world in its manifold layers, and to extract something special form the world, according to its own trade and specific talent. By extracting something special, the imagination is able to respond to its time. Creative imagination is a human activity, in which various dimensions of intellect and senstivity merge into a work of art, a scientific or philosophical discovery, a dance or a song. Creative imagination is not a homogeneous operation of human intelligence. It comprises spontaneous intuition, abstract reasoning, pragmatic intelligence, instinctual knowledge, personal sub-consciousness and collective unconsciousness. A prerequisite for creativity is a certain fluidity between the various layers of human intelligence, notably between conscious and unconscious desires, images, smells and sounds...