imagination

Fantasy-work is your responsibility. If you don’t advocate for your own fantasy you will be living inside someone else’s.

Creating an alter ego for fantasy-work can be used for good and can be positive. It can also be used for bad. Freud felt this way as well. He felt that alter egos were connected to narcissism in childhood. There is a dark component to alter egos and that’s why fantasy-work should be in dialogue with reality.

Birth is often messy, violent, and disorienting, and even in its beauty, it’s rarely perfect (and thank God, because how boring would that be?). All that you can see and all that you can touch maintain an oppositional force. And if this dance is routinely happening within us, why wouldn’t it be unfolding politically or culturally? Why shouldn’t... See more

here has been a large amount of discourse around the rise of anti-intellectualism. I don’t see any growing concerns over the rise of anti-imagination. I’m going to be the first to say that we are in an age of anti-imagination . Where anti-intellectualism is running rampant so is the lack of imagination and where we see no refreshing future it only... See more

fantasy is apart of your arsenal and your strategy

to be a fantasist you must be willing to suspend your disbelief and be comfortable with the elusiveness of self. I was speaking specifically to relinquishing control of an identity fixation.