Last night I watched Call For Dreams on Amazon. Following an ongoing discovery journey through his creative process, audio-visual artist and composer Ran Slavin presents “Call for Dreams,” a feature film that encapsulates and elaborates many of his previous inspirations and obsessions.…
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…
After talking with Pamela over the weekend, I thought it was worth registering a reaction I’ve had, as my two-person-four-cat household worked to grasp the new hygiene and limited grocery access that suddenly defined our lives. Because we are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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]. …
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…
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 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…