Imaginal Work

“Achieving” contact with the Soul via its language - symbol - is proof of a body beginning to regulate and become an integrated, habitable whole again.

Dr. Cardona writes:

“We live under the dominion of what I call Cognitive Calvinism: the belief that pleasure

must be earned through suffering, that joy is suspicious, and that altered perception is a

moral threat. The stoked/stoned state is not pathological—it is revolutionary.”

Borrowing from chronos (clock time) and kairos (divine timing), we define chirotic time as the

psychospiritual portal that opens in moments of ecstatic synchrony. These states—triggered by

cannabis, surfing, music, or poetic awareness—shatter temporal regularity and replace it with

lived mythos. You are no longer “in” time. You are in the moment as a... See more

The Soul is re-associating and coming back, and it sends messages that can be clearly experienced, especially while in the medicine.

Images of transformation, wholeness and integration arise at this point - as well as more intense, challenging, bizarre or transcendental images - images that were very moving for me to witness when they did arise.

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The myths we choose, or more likely simply inherit, do a tremendous amount of intellectual heavy lifting for us. Even more than the empty words and phrases of Orwell’s “tired hack on the platform,” these myths do our thinking for us. We can’t do without them; the making of analogies is intrinsic to thinking, and we always and inevitably strive to

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For more than a decade now, I have been using Professor Tim Ingold’s term “thinking with ” rather than, say, thinking about something. I do not think about love. I think with Aphrodite. Communalising the activity taps that infinite font of richness that she both governs and is. Same for Hephaestus and Psyche and Eros and Hermes and all the rest of... See more

Dr. River Blaine puts it bluntly:

“Modernity declared war on ecstasis. It replaced waves with algorithms, breath with

metrics, awe with optimization. But the body remembers. The psyche remembers. The

ocean waits.”