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…
Category Imaginal
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…
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]. …
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…
Entering The Imaginal
We are inundated daily with millions of images, from our interior images and images from the world around us. Perception is on overdrive all the time. How often do we actually enter an image and experience what the image is? At…