Managing your Inner Fire
“If Alchemy is the art of fire, and Alchemists are “artists of fire,” then the alchemist must be able to know all kinds of fire, all degrees of fuel, sources of fire, fuels of fire. And the alchemist must be…
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The Voice from within the image
The image has its own existence. It affects us and we affect it. Each image has a unique voice, that is ever-changing as we are. Below is the image speaking. The white zone wants to suck in the landmass, wants…
That Which Appears
Current Images from our explorations with moving into the phenomena of the space within the images.
Resonance with Red
Our art group meetings have recently been focused on color…One of the recent “invitations” for contemplation, prior to working, was to try to sense a color that “speaks” to us, in some way, that stands out for us, calls to…
Illuminating Our Inner Color
Do the colors of everything we have encountered make up the colors of ourselves?
Color lights up Memory
Another report from our group! Connected, supported, a caravan of strong wise women…artists, thinkers, poets… travelling through the Imaginal World.ExcitedOpenIn wonderListening…A story, a memory, an ah ha!another chapter in the Great Mystery
Inquiry into Elemental
A Report from one of our lovely group of artists. Beginning with the invitation to recall a childhood memory of color, pictures of my distant past return in vivid detail along with the sensual impressions of all that I felt,…
All That is Still Living in Us
Images Below are from an exercise in finding memories in childhood where one really felt color as presence. We discovered the longing for color, the awe in us was revitalized.
Experiencing Color
In our class last week, Kat introduced color as a way of honoring our personality as it is in service to the divine source. This aim is the superexistence of the higher personality, attained by reunion with the individual’s own…
Temples For The Numinous
I am certain of nothing but the heart’s affection and the truth of the imagination John Keats The image is a lens how you see the world. Art is a perspective. What is it like to be in a temple…
Presences, Reveries, Meanderings
Things will tell you who they are, if you listen, surrender to them like a lover. Henry Corbin
Air
Imagination is air. Plotinus Each week, I will be posting our lovely intimate group’s art images from the imaginal world. Imagination is incapable of generalities and desires for specific focus. The group is on the west coast of the United…
Water’s Subtle Body
” Our subtle body is intimately tied to image-making power: the imagination.” Gregory Shaw I have not posted in quite some time because I have been experimenting with a group of artists. From the start of my Embodied Imagination training,…
Messenger
by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is…
The Roar
A tincture from a dream worked by Kat Taylor, the dreaming created this landscape. The images speak their language, leaning into to hear their voices. communal square so so quiet.descending stairsbare feet on cold tileenclosed narrow realmsforward speed towards black…
Presences
In our approach to resonating with dream images, we regard the images as Presences that have arrived in the dream zone from the Imaginal Realm…The Presence is cloaked in surfaces, textures, body, etc., and we approach it gently and with…