Resonance with Red
Our art group meetings have recently been focused on color…One of the recent “invitations” for contemplation, prior to working, was to try to sense a color that “speaks” to us, in some way, that stands out for us, calls to…
Category History of Imagination
Presences
In our approach to resonating with dream images, we regard the images as Presences that have arrived in the dream zone from the Imaginal Realm…The Presence is cloaked in surfaces, textures, body, etc., and we approach it gently and with…
The Inside is the Outside, the Outside is the Inside
I am posting this article in hopes that we can engage in a dialogue. There is an easy way to use the Disqus form below. Please join us in conversation. The Metaphor of Alchemy and the Alchemy of Metaphor: Working…
Mirror World
Sent from Flipboard “Every December, Adam Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year. In 2018, one of his highlights was a set of Magic Leap augmented reality goggles. After duly noting the hype…
Exploring Double Consciousness
In light of massive loss of biodiversity on the planet how can we realise we are nested within an ecology and not just the predators at the top of the food chain? Can adopting forms of Double Consciousness help us…
Entering an Image
This movie is an excellent example of entering an unknown image. One you have never encountered in your living experience before. You have no idea what this rock is. So we are going to notice the comet slowly, you can…
To Make a Great Dream
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…
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]. …
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,…
What is the imaginal?
And what on earth is the process of RESONATING with the IMAGINAL? And: why is this whole thing meaningful enough for anybody to write about it? We hope, through this website, and through our various blog entries, interviews, and shared…
Resist and Allow
I started noticing RESIST bumper stickers on so many cars. I took notice and looked them up. A very important organization supporting justice and liberation. This got me thinking about the word resist and the paradox it carries. I spend…