Active imagination: I was with you on the plane. There was turbulence and people texting you non stop. You were so excited to be traveling somewhere new. As we landed near the sun I watched Frida greet you and guide you home. I waved goodbye and said, ‘until we meet again my dear mystic sister,…...
My dreams have been wild recently and not appropriate for a public blog. I have been dreaming more and more in recent weeks but some center around feelings of distorted reality and confusion I can share. Also themes of shadow and light with shocking and disturbing imagery I’ve been working within active imagination. One technique…...
Life is a beautiful mystery with infinite potential. Its changing nature is expressed in creative ways, like dream paintings, that reach past perceived limitation. The world, in 2016, is a place where ideas, from bliss to despair, circulate the globe in seconds. However paradoxically, digital communication is suspected of distancing, as opposed to connecting people.…...
I hesitate to objectify the creative process by attempting to define it any other way than listing attributes. Life itself is an unfolding mystery with infinite creative potential. Both life and creativity are undoubtedly subjective and find honest expression through language that reaches known limits of the quality spectrum from bliss to despair. In part,…...
The concept of active imagination involves tending to the figures in the imagination as living beings. Figures appear from the imagination in dreams and creative work, like painting. To tend to these images I consciously engage in imaginal dialog to realize they want things like homes, food and water. The fairy creature travels into the…...
