Imaginal Work
That it is not a distortion of life, but a deeper fidelity to it.
That it is not a pathology, but a prototype.
The human being, in full bloom, is surfing.
Is stoned.
Is singing with the wave.
That it is not a pathology, but a prototype.
The human being, in full bloom, is surfing.
Is stoned.
Is singing with the wave.
Homegrown Humans
This question gets asked here a lot because it does happen a lot. I had these experiences early on myself. Carl Jung's red book is an entire novel, dedicated to him being stuck at this point in his meditation and not getting further.
It has to do with your vibration or your frequency, as well as your sense of autonomy.... See more
reddit.com“early on I would say to them if you want my attention. Give me flowers, and those melting faces would very quickly turn into beautiful roses. They Just want to communicate and they don't know how to communicate with you”
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.”
“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.”
Homegrown Humans
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.
A ke... See more
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.
A ke... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
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
Reverse Archaeology And The Metaphoric Flexibility of the Gods
“Achieving” contact with the Soul via its language - symbol - is proof of a body beginning to regulate and become an integrated, habitable whole again.
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
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 u
... See moreAlan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
the stoned/stoked consciousness is not escapist, but revelatory.
