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IMAGINATION & THE IMAGINAL REALM

Imagination as a Ritual Technology
What ancient sites teach us about imagination as a way of knowing
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Gabriela Gutierrez
Dead Bodies of Angels
(Part 6) The Lost Language of the Imagination: Icons Not Idols
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Gabriela Gutierrez
What is the Otherworld?
The Sacred in the Mundane
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The Fabulous World of Gods and Magicians
(Part 5) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in Shamanism
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The Heart as the Organ of the Imagination
"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you." Rilke
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The Mundus Imaginalis
Essay ( Part 4, I ) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in Medieval Islamic Mysticism
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On Lorca: Perceptions of a Poet
Essay (Part 3) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in Spanish Surrealism
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To Yield Yourself to a Dream
(Part 2) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in the British Romantic Era
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The Lost Language of Imagination
"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within." (Part 1)
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On the Wine of Dionysus
This study emerged out of a wine bottle that slipped through my fingers one night in a seemingly preordained descent, crash-landing on the pavement at…
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