Published on: August 29th, 2025

Dr. Mehan on the Imagination: The Raw Material for Thinking

The excerpt below is taken from the HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive, a podcast by The Heights Forum.

Properly understood, the imagination is not something you escape to; it’s something you draw upon every day to make decisions, understand events, and communicate.

This week on HeightsCast, Dr. Matthew Mehan explores the purposes of the imagination and the habits of wit and wisdom that help us insightfully process our world. We may think of the imagination at odds with reality. But, he says, cultivating the imagination actually makes us more capable, “wittier” thinkers about reality.

Read more about Dr. Matthew Mehan.

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