
“Our ability to dream of something different, to name longing, to articulate a vision and commit to it, directly correlates to the likelihood that we will experience it, that it will be realized. It's the way we bring about change for ourselves, and for the world. When we are besieged by visions that do not match our longing, some of which are sinister, it's unlikely that we'll stumble into freedom. Freedom is in the gaps, in the nascent and emergent, in the unexamined space between things-but it is there. We can call it down. We call it down when we listen to our dreams. When we let the unconscious and the imaginal show us the way around what it is we see right now. We call it down when our present can be in conversation with what could be. In prayer or meditation, in what we ritualize, our visions become more real the more space we give to them. There are already visions around you that have shaped most everything about our world. If they do not serve us, perhaps it is time to revisit our imaginations, perhaps it is time to dream new dreams.” From the brilliant Prentis Hemphill’s new book ~ What It Takes To Heal https://t.co/IADtAkqCyS And another reason I’m so glad we are doing our third year of the Imagination Infrastructures event. Curated by Alixa García - all the panels are described below and you can book a ticket here > https://t.co/sWbZgKYAik...

“To be aware of . . . the market of competing dreams is quite important, when we think about what kind of a new story . . . we should be able to tell,” says Indra Adnan, of the political platform Alternative UK. Indeed, we must urgently transition from our current provincial, chauvinistic, and hierarchical nightmare to a planetary vision of human c
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We underestimate the power of these kinds of dreams, these kinds of visions, and the stories we can tell that bring them to life. In fact, one of the things all great movements have in common – those that have brought about real change like the Civil Rights movement, the suffragettes and LGBT rights campaigners – is that the participants are able t
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