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The Imaginal Realm
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Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
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I say “boundary,” but the imaginal world is actually more of a confluence , for the word “boundary” suggests a separation while what is really at stake in this realm is an active flowing together. “Where the two seas meet” is a beautiful Sufi metaphor to convey the essence of what actually happens here. The imaginal realm is a meeting ground, a pla... See more
Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
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The imaginal is that quality of aliveness moving through this realm, interpenetrating, cohering, filling things with the fragrance of implicit meaning whose lines do not converge in this world alone, but at a point beyond.
Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
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Remember that the Imaginal World is a real place unto which you are umbilically connected. It is, and always has been, as much a source of life to you as the material world. But like the alchemical cauldron, the quality of ingredients you place there determines how well you are fed and, in turn, how well you feed the world.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
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Reality is something much bigger than our ordinary senses are capable of perceiving, and learning to be in relationship with it requires us to enter the imaginal realm. Mysticism, magic, and animist frameworks are ways of doing that, so I write a lot about those topics.
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
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It is traditionally understood to be a boundary realm between two worlds, each structured according to its own governing conventions and unfolding according to its own causality. In traditional metaphysical language, it is the realm separating the denser corporeality of our earth plane from the progressively finer causalities which lie “above” us i... See more
Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
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