Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault

imaginal causality can only be reliably read beginning at the level of witnessing selfhood and sooner or later demands that one join it at that level. The cost of admission to this new and more intense bandwidth of reality is ultimately your phenomenal self. Those things that you once thought were you—your history, your emotions, your particulariti

Illumination As you learn the art of contemplation

Self-illumination occurs as we let our contemplation wander freely through our life until it alights on something numinous, something that resonates very deeply inside us.

In keeping with this view, I define imagination as the faculty that perceives imaginal reality, in which dwell imaginal beings of all kinds, including the ally. The imaginal space is the place in which conscious, but not physical, entities put on form and appear with shape, substance, and definable attributes. Spiritual entities who exist beyond th

Remember that the process holds the wisdom. The revelatory function of awareness is close now, comforting and guiding you. Feel relieved to know you have help and are not alone. Cooperate with the unseen. Soften your edges. Surrender to the spaciousness. Feel your heart. Notice what’s real. Amuse yourself.

In the third coniunctio, termed the unus mundus by Dorn, the ally and its partner explore imaginal space together and experience processes connecting them with other imaginal entities. At this stage, the two partners recognize a shared purpose and begin to carry it out in both imaginal and ordinary reality.