Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm

“Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,” counsels Rilke.

What does it mean to let go of all that has carried one in one’s life? What lies on the other side of such a vast and reckless self-donation?

It’s always a mistake to draw the timeline too tightly around one’s own era.

To parade it as a sign of one’s spiritual attainment is a gross and dangerous miscalculation. The gift must not be hidden, but it must sometimes be veiled so as not to harm those not yet prepared to receive it.

At this level, rest assured that individual personhood does not yet drop out. Rather, finally shed of its egoic weight belt, it lives and vibrates with a life even more intensely its own.

this inner body is “the life within our life,” our nascent “Real I.” It is the secret veiled by the form, the building slowly taking shape inside the scaffolding. From the imaginal perspective, however, it is our actual body, the true seat of our nontemporal selfhood. When we die, the scaffolding falls away and what has been created stands on its o

a responsible individual stewardship of one’s lens of perception.

We will either make the leap to the next level of conscious evolution—the so-called “integral” level or capacity to think from the whole—or we will wipe out a good part of a planetary legacy millions of years in the making and in the process put the entire Ray of Creation at risk.

it is evolutionary (oriented toward a quantum leap in planetary consciousness), incarnational (working with real human beings through the historical events of the times) and collective (involving the synergy of the group). Over the ages Wisdom schools seem to have emerged as the favored “shop front” for conscious-circle activity, and while the Wisd