This realm of the nous and the imaginal was something I first encountered years ago reading Cynthia Bourgeault’s book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene (both are words she employs and unpacks extensively) and Jacob Needleman’s Lost Christianity . I didn’t really understand what they were talking about at the time, or at least my rational mind didn’t. The nous cottoned on to something, and wanted more, and it opened me up to a whole journey that has been a continual unfolding.
The capacity to tap into that kind of perception is the thing we are most starved for in the present world. Have you encountered any of Ian McGilchrist’s ideas? His theories of right brain vs left brain don’t quite map onto the various mystical frameworks, but there is a significant overlap, or a parallel elucidation going on.
Also came back to say... that image of the train stuck at the station is really sticking with me. The imaginal as a way of becoming unstuck, a vision of where we’re going is so powerful. Really lovely.
there is so much here, so much of yourself. the echo that is reflected to me, as someone who is approaching their elder hood is the freedom and right to experience, to be in experience which leads to nous knowing and imaginal pathways.
In this current culture, experience is becoming a monocrop of predictability. its fucked. thanks for sharing you're experience, not so that we can avoid it in ourselves but so that we can know that we are not alone.
Beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏼 Speaking of trains, just wanted to share that a couple important moments in my life, the best strategy was jumping off the train not knowing where I would land or where I would go next but trusting that the stillness would birth it’s next journey (which it did :)
This realm of the nous and the imaginal was something I first encountered years ago reading Cynthia Bourgeault’s book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene (both are words she employs and unpacks extensively) and Jacob Needleman’s Lost Christianity . I didn’t really understand what they were talking about at the time, or at least my rational mind didn’t. The nous cottoned on to something, and wanted more, and it opened me up to a whole journey that has been a continual unfolding.
The capacity to tap into that kind of perception is the thing we are most starved for in the present world. Have you encountered any of Ian McGilchrist’s ideas? His theories of right brain vs left brain don’t quite map onto the various mystical frameworks, but there is a significant overlap, or a parallel elucidation going on.
Also came back to say... that image of the train stuck at the station is really sticking with me. The imaginal as a way of becoming unstuck, a vision of where we’re going is so powerful. Really lovely.
there is so much here, so much of yourself. the echo that is reflected to me, as someone who is approaching their elder hood is the freedom and right to experience, to be in experience which leads to nous knowing and imaginal pathways.
In this current culture, experience is becoming a monocrop of predictability. its fucked. thanks for sharing you're experience, not so that we can avoid it in ourselves but so that we can know that we are not alone.
Beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏼 Speaking of trains, just wanted to share that a couple important moments in my life, the best strategy was jumping off the train not knowing where I would land or where I would go next but trusting that the stillness would birth it’s next journey (which it did :)
Profound and beautiful.