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The Imaginal Realm
Imagination – The Divine Faculty of Creation
✦ What it is:
Imagination is the creative visionary power of the soul—the bridge between spirit and matter. In ancient traditions, it wasn’t “make-believe,” but a higher sense used to access inner worlds, archetypes, and possibilities.
✦ Why it matters:
It allows you to visualise transformation before it
One thing I’ve also noticed is the gradual loss of the understanding of “imagination” as a category; it can sound a little Reading Rainbow to talk about, but wouldn’t you know imagination is actually an essential part of the human condition. In so far as the words “spirit” or “spirituality” mean anything beyond woo-woo or cliché they must include... See more
John Ganz • Why Culture Sucks
Experientially, received within one’s own quiet subjectivity, it appears as an allusive aliveness, a meaning presenting itself in “glimpses and visions,” a foretaste or reminder of a higher order of being to which the human heart actually belongs and to and from which it responds, with infinite tug. The imaginal nudges us, beacons us, corrects us... See more