Imaginal Realms

I was just visiting Cynthia Bourgeault blog: “Introducing the Imaginal.” I think she gives this ‘place’ I am accessing better definition, and definitely a hint at it’s greater history. I recommend if you are new to the concept, visit her. I am aware of the Suffis touching this place. It seems like lots of peoples and cultures and eras have grappled with this place. The Western Mind is likely to dismiss this place, because the materialist detest things that are nebulous and changing, but you may as well deny the oceans and the clouds their existence. You might as well deny the nebulous reality structure that manifests as atoms- they exist, they don’t exist.

It easy to dismiss imagination as not real. It is a double edge sword. It offers insight. It offers distraction. It can make a placebo work. It can neutralize the effects of legitimate medicines. Nocebos. That’s a real thing, if you didn’t realize it. There are recent studies suggesting the efficacy of modern drugs is declining, and the correlate influencing it seems to be the increase of commercials and their forced string of potential side effects, ranted off like someone with pressured speech. It feels like a conspiracy. It’s as if we’re not allowed to believe in anything, even the medicines that have seriously changed humanity, much of it for the better.

‘The Collective Unconscious” by Jung seems to be the first legitimate attempt by the Western Mind to touch this place. I would add Robert Monroe, of the Monroe institute, and Thomas Campbell, author of “My Big Theory of Everything,” as contributors…