It is, in psychological language, the region of autistic as contrasted with realistic thought.[85] That is to say, it is the agent of reverie and meditation; it is at work in all our brooding states, from day-dream to artistic creation.

Such autistic thought is dominated not by logic or will, but by feeling.

It achieves its results by intuition, and has its reasons which the surface mind knows not of.

Here, in this fringe-region--which alone seems fully able to experience adoration and wonder, or apprehend the values we call holiness, beauty or love--is the source of that intuition of the heart to which the mystic owes the love which is knowledge, and the knowledge which is love.

Here is the true home of inspiration and invention.