#imaginal realm

[mirroribis]

[triste-le-roy]

Cover to Stephen Harrod Buhner’s Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm (design by Peri Swan, photograph by unknown, early 21st century).

(via Golden Poppy Herbal Apothecary)

[primateria]

"A realm is not fundamentally a place; it is more like a set of governing conventions that make possible a certain kind of manifestation"

"We taste that what is apparently oppositional is not in fact opposition but simply the inevitable friction caused trying to bend the linear timeline too forcefully to one’s own will"

"The center is that which will allow all the pieces to fall into place in a balanced and harmonious order, revealing hitherto undetected correspondences… symbolism, timing, force"

"You have to endure the tedium until something emerges in it"

—Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm

[beyond-jung]

lost knowledge of the imaginal realm

A BOOK BY GARY LACHMAN

The ability to imagine is the heart of what makes us human. Through the imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in both creativity and innovation. Until the Seventeenth Century, imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalized, depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than as a way of knowing it more profoundly, and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed. Yet as we move father into the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more urgent than ever before.

[pleaslucian]

“The shamanic faith is that humanity is not without allies. There are forces friendly to our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species. But they are quiet and shy; they are to be sought, not in the arrival of alien star fleets in the skies of earth, but nearby, in wilderness solitude, in the ambiance of waterfalls, and yes, in the grasslands and pastures now too rarely beneath our feet.”

- Terence McKenna Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

[geopsych]

Stephen Harrod Buhner interview

Stephen Buhner – Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Part One

This is a two-part interview and the second part is here. Not everyone will enjoy or get or agree with him, but Stephen Buhner is my greatest living inspiration. His view is so far from the norm that at first it seems ridiculous. His views on the earth, animals, plants, and humans are radically different. But in the years since I began reading him, it has slowly begun to make more sense than anything else.

Seven years ago, it was his herbal Lyme protocol that allowed me to get healthy and walk again when doctors said there was nothing they could do.

(The first part has a long intro, but the interview starts at about 5 minutes in.)

[numenna]

If, until today, you have been a committed, hard-bitten realist who thinks other people trance out just to escape the stress of modern life, consider this alternative: Those spaced-out meditators, pathworkers, visualizers and journeyers are doing more than temporarily checking out of "the real world." They're going someplace else, and that place is also real.

D. Woosley