Imagination

Imagination is not a thing. It is not a muscle we have to strengthen or a part of the brain that we need to unlock. It is not bestowed on a chosen few “gifted” creatives. It is a place where something begins. Inherent to us all, the imagination is a reality—quite unlike this one—where visionaries have always travelled to harvest new images and

In other words, the physical world isn’t the only real reality.

What we call the imagination is our ability to relate to symbols in their own environment. Unlike pulling a symbol into our world and subjecting it to analysis, a mystic meets it on its own ground.

To strengthen the imagination, we must favour and engage what I call the aptitudes of the soul—receptivity, the body’s wisdom, intuition, relationality—qualities typically associated with women and “the feminine.”

Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial