How often do we actually take the time to enter a painting and experience what the image is? Engaging with an image involves observing the image, slowing your perception of the image down, and allowing yourself to be overtaken by…
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…
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…
I urge you all to read this book. Martin Shaw is educating us about our daimons, which he calls our wild twin. Martin explores what happens when we ignore our twin, and how when we do pay attention and honor…
I feel like I have become more aware of my surroundings. I’m noticing things in a different way meaning everything I look at whether it’s shapes, forms, colors, nature, objects, light they have taken on a new definition and a…
This excerpt is from Timothy Morton’s new book All Art is Ecological Penguin press I highly recommend buying this book, it is a brilliant read for artists. Things in themselves are ungrasapable,totally, and completely-irreducibily as they say. Things can’t be…
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…
Imagination is air. Plotinus ” These bodies of air are our psychic images.” James Hillman
Henry Corbin believed that the images are alive with presence, and we perceive them with our creative imagination. In this process, we are becoming disciples of the imagination. The images do not depend on us but wish to be in…
The imaginal is a confluence between two different realities. Let us feel into this image above. Relax into your body, and you have never been here before. As you gaze, sense with your body, what draws your attention? Stay in…
When we imagine, our primary mode of being is listening. We listen, therefore we are. We hear and, we let what we hear work through us for the sake of the voice. We bring realization to the imagined. We live…