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,…
Category Embodied Imagination
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…
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…
Black Oval Frame
Black oval frame….painted, very smooth and convex, inviting touch…appears as a frame but is in fact a slice of another reality: a zone that is very slow, that goes far back in time…the zone is complete physicality, without definition, a…
Beginner’s Mind
These pictures are from a walk I took down the road. As I walked I opened myself to the liminal world that is always right in front of us but most of the time we are lost in our thoughts…
Glimpses into the Vastness
It’s not that you attain the goal, but that all the light in the universe, falling toward you forever, finally arrives in your body. Excerpt from Another Cup, Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time Alfred K. Lamotte
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…
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…
Illuminating Our Inner Color
Do the colors of everything we have encountered make up the colors of ourselves?
All That is Still Living in Us
The Power of Uncertainty
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.
Presences, Reveries, Meanderings
Things will tell you who they are, if you listen, surrender to them like a lover. Henry Corbin