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

When we collectively devolve, simply using our ambition and cleverness to live as successful lions, in that same downward spiral we fall

our beloved mixtus orbis, not simply a cosmic folly or illusion, but a vital player in the whole unfolding?

in imaginal causality a third option presents itself; namely, that there is a clear, necessary, and already imaginally existent reality of their two hearts deeply joined; that is A, the center. Around that, the Bs happen synchronously and effortlessly: Zacchaeus climbs the tree and Jesus spots him there and invites him down.

deliberate effort to keep the viewing screen clear so that what falls on it is not immediately distorted by lower-order agendas.

for whose sake the entire created order came into being.

for collective service, not for personal attainment.

That was the watershed decision I had to make concerning Rafe nearly twenty-five years ago: do I process his death according to World 48 or according to World 24? All around me the psychological and traditional spiritual models were unanimously advocating closure, “grief work,” “letting go,” “getting on with my life.” Something inside me said to ke

It is called “imaginal” because, while it is invisible to the physical eye, it is still clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart,

At its epicenter it carries an unquenchable certitude that something goes on here of such inestimable worth that even the formless Infinite would be compelled to take form—“make himself an element,” in Teilhard’s rendition3—in order to uphold and sanctify this preciousness on its own terms.