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Reality Tunnels
We all live in our reality tunnels. Michael Pollan suggests that if we were to enter the brain of another human being, we would think we were experiencing a psychedelic trip. Reality tunnels is a term that Timothy Leary coined,…
The Midnight Encounter of Aatish Taseer
Aatish Taseer is a gifted travel writer. My encounter with his work came in the form of a May 15, 2019 article in the New York Times Magazine, entitled “In Search of Ancient Morocco”. The article is an evocative…
Some Contemporary Waking Encounters with Imaginal Presences
In my last blog entry, we explored two historical encounters with the Imaginal, recorded in history and legend. Throughout the hundreds of generations of human experience, probably millions of such experiences have occurred, some written about, others told, still…
Staying with the AWE
I had no idea Marina would be doing a post on Deep Space and Awe, so this is an aha moment of synchronicity. Scientists created this photo by taking a considerable risk of discovering nothing, yet they persevered into…
The Gift of Awe
I came across some writings of Rabbi Heschel in his book, I Asked For Wonder. In it he says, “What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in Awe”. And later, “Forfeit your sense of awe, let your…
Approaching the Imaginal World
by writer, psychologist, and mythologist Dr. Sharon Blackie from her newsletter This Mythic Life image by Gina Litherland The imaginal world, the Otherworld. The mundus imaginalis, or mundus archetypalis. There are so many words and phrases to describe it, that place where the others live. The…
Working with Images for Creative Inquiry
photo by Lilian Bassman In recent sessions I have been working with images related to design, artwork, architecture and environments. In one example, the dreamer was in the process of creating a studio space. She wanted to explore images related…
Aproaching the Golden Chain
I’ve been struggling for a number of days with how to approach this part of my writing, the part where I share some deep background information about the Golden Chain [what I have learned from my reading and my reflections]. …
Creating a Sacred Container
In a recent conversation with Pamela Holmes and Kat Taylor, we discussed the importance of creating a sacred container for the Embodied Imagination work that we are doing. In this work, we are contacting presences from unknown imaginal realms. Before…
Interoception
Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas and philosopher, the author of essays on mind, body, science and medicine, and of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007). She currently lives in Paris and is affiliated with Institut Jean…
Encountering Other is Intimate
This video is from Natasha Meyers, from her website Natasha is our scout out ahead teaching all of us how to be in an encounter with our ecologies that surround us. In the later half of the video, Natasha…
Encountering Another
In this short video, Dr. Stephan Harding, Resident Ecologist at Schumacher College, discusses what it means to experience reality from a perspective outside of habitual awareness. This is a beautiful description of the kind of experience that is possible with…
The Importance of Not Knowing
The link above is an article written by Gregory Shaw, this gives the history of the ideas that informed Robert Bosnak’s development of Embodied Imagination. This article will give you an overall sense of how we encounter the imaginal in…
The Untethering
When someone tells me a dream, they describe it but always add on a mental narrative on top of what the description of the dream is. I always wonder when they were in the experience of the dream, were they…
Meeting Robert Bosnak
About five years ago, a therapist who knew of my great interest in dreams told me of a speaker, who was coming to the CGJung Society of Seattle meeting, whom she thought I’d find interesting. His name was Robert Bosnak,…