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Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 21 mentions

• um my part of the relationship or attitude to the imaginal figure the imagine of object the the perception
• relationship with imaginal other than the imaginal figure in in sensing with soul soulmaking is the primary
• so what does that mean it means that the imaginal figure or the object the other perceived sensed with
• become alive to the personhood of the imaginal figure or the personhood of anything we are perceiving sensing the
• um or some perception opens up or an imaginal figure all of that can seem in in in the realm of soulmaking in the
• is given that it it has a kind of necessity so this imaginal figure and i've talked a lot about this again i
• um the sense of the necessity of this imaginal figure even with all its um seeming craziness or perhaps pathology
• objects in relation to um the imaginal figures and what object sense we sold and whatever it is and we
• lives and our individuality and the imaginal figures that come to us as given to us by the soul by the god by
• self another really the balance of the autonomies of self and imaginal figure um while the two are at the same time
• subject autonomy as well as that for example of the imaginal figure of the other
• the self if you like uh and the other or the imaginal figure that boundary is not a definite boundary
• um are there the object sense we saw the imaginal figure and and in fact of any any soulmaking delineation it will have
• um blur or fade into what is not that object what is not that imaginal figure like like the way echoes kind of
• we're capable of and if you like the image and the imaginal figure is uh part of what it's doing is it's
• i conceptually reduce and limit an imaginal figure to this image means x only or y only whatever x or y is if i
• know another way of thinking about this is an imaginal figure or something cents with soul as i said before is has
• personhood we sense more and more of its person it is this imaginal figure is a person
• mean um x or y to me and an imaginal figure or a dream figure even is just the same
• um what the imaginal figure is if you like or does or and but we can never reduce
• or does or and but we can never reduce either an imaginal figure or a person in our lives to one meaning or even several

The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 19 mentions

• have the sense of aliveness that this image this imaginal figure has some kind of life and autonomy even of its own
• and the the love that can pass between herself and the imaginal figure the sense of necessity and the demand that
• um the aspects of love and necessity and demand from imaginal figures the way they might love us
• would you even begin to prove that this um imaginal figure is is so to speak really placing a demand on
• entertain the idea of love and demand from the imaginal figures so we can as i said before and stay in
• we feel or sense a demand from an image from imaginal figure and it can feel like it's stretching us to
• trial of that so maybe maybe the image and the imaginal figure is what's implicit there and the demand or
• better to say timeless about them about these imaginal figures something in some way autonomous about them something in
• rather than the other way around that these imaginal figures or archetypal figures or daymonds are in the service
• um entertaining or allowing a notion of demand from the imaginal figure it needs this
• through or the the imaginal figure that was coming through
• this for it might be just to behold the imaginal figure just to witness the image of his nothing else other than to
• we're witnesses somehow in my life i'm honoring this imaginal figure and everything that they communicate and
• not been such a dominant um myth or fantasy or imaginal figure in in the range of myths that that are
• um let's say mythos and ethos imaginal figures and fantasies and ethics
• so again to say again with these things uh these imaginal figures they have a certain autonomy but autonomy
• um sense we have of of imaginal figures and the conceptual framework there
• um less than or within the imaginal figure the imaginal figure somehow and more we are just the door for what wants
• seeing existence and what what the self is and what these imaginal figures are

The Image of Ethics (Part 2) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 18 mentions

• divide that into there's one is through working with imaginal figure and the other is through the sense of values or
• yeah so even though doing x might be actual imaginal figure um not doing x might maybe an imaginal
• broadly into an approach with an imaginal figure an approach with a imaginal idea virtues or values
• time with the first if i was working with an imaginal figure an imaginal figure has an ethos
• with an imaginal figure an imaginal figure has an ethos it has an ethos
• there's myself and then there's a third which is an imaginal figure that
• that and it might be an old imaginal figure that i've known for years or one that's
• 10 of my attention let's say with the imaginal figure and the other divided between self and
• human being or divide three ways equally 33 each or 50 with the imaginal figure or whatever
• then there's also the possibility here can i sense into the imaginal figures perspective
• so it might be the imaginal figures evaluation of me the imaginal figures evaluation of my
• the imaginal figures evaluation of me the imaginal figures evaluation of my stuff or even uh my old stuff the place
• you know can i get a sense of the imaginal figure's perspectives feelings and evaluations on me my stuff my
• potential here can i enter into the imaginal figure inhabit it see through its eyes
• ethically and sometimes an imaginal figure because values is one of the elements of the
• i don't know also with regard to imaginal figures it may be you know reverence is one of the elements of
• um imagine ideas we're talking about values and virtues or an imaginal figure and how we are or are not refracting
• in an image and this imaginal figure participates in me

Eros Unfettered (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 17 mentions

• um manifesting many faces having within us many imaginal figures if you like being many imaginal figures
• having within us many imaginal figures if you like being many imaginal figures so there's a dimensionality that opens
• in a certain relationship with a certain divine figure this imaginal figure maybe it's a tantric deity maybe it's some
• through through that divine other that imaginal figure of divine and that actually is a very important stage that
• maybe this desire is from dionysus or whatever or some other imaginal figure that's more personal that's kind of
• and perhaps we feel we are in love with this person or with this imaginal figure or with this
• the first thing was just kind of being encouraged by by by the imaginal figure that it's really okay to feel that and
• image there i'm still dependent on uh her on this imaginal figure um
• um and also the sense as i tuned in to the imaginal figure there was the sense the recognition that she did grant me
• bones is devoured all one devours this this imaginal figure all these possibilities and permutations
• where i was in meditation and an imaginal figure um
• there receiving from her so much tenderness what this imaginal figure was imbuing
• pleasures and i could see that the imaginal figure she enjoys being claimed she enjoys me
• when i the focus was more on the on her on the imaginal figures actions and qualities
• um is not disrespectful um to the imaginal figure or even if the imaginal figure is actually an other
• um to the imaginal figure or even if the imaginal figure is actually an other person it's not disrespectful and whom
• the we might start with uh eros in relation to an imaginal figure but if we work with it if we allow it

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 13 mentions

• figure right now coming to me where is this imaginal figure what are the surroundings like and what's the
• are arising in uh are there any other imaginal figures around or they are they alone
• there's there's a complexity of character to many imaginal figures so one might see for example that here is a
• image that is occurring so this image this imaginal figure is um opening up so much energy and and
• think where often so many times surprised by these imaginal figures it doesn't mean they're completely
• mental reaction tends to um just assign an image or an imaginal figure to a character
• you want and and what this imaginal figure wants it may just want to be seen to be known
• life it wants that your life expresses this imaginal figure in some way now again it doesn't necessarily in fact
• s in fact quite often and this is important sometimes an imaginal figure that comes to us has a different
• the image that that's what it wants this image this imaginal figure it wants us to interact with it and how again we can
• love that is seems so central in in this image and with this imaginal figure it it may be just universal meta or
• so there's the i behold the angel the daemon the imaginal figure i look and gaze at them with the resonances or i
• feeling of being seen by this angel by this imaginal figure or demon um really noticing or they are looking

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 13 mentions

• really a shift as i said in attitude with the imaginal figure so just want to restate that again and say a little bit
• um what do you want and maybe what this imaginal figure what this daemon wants is to be expressed in some way probably
• um it's what's really important with some imaginal figures or instances with imaginal figures is how they see you how
• some imaginal figures or instances with imaginal figures is how they see you how how they this image sees me how it looks
• at me this um imaginal figure or animal or whatever it is
• i'm in the relationship with the imaginal figure particularly how they look at me or how i look at them love
• but particularly my life mirroring these images and these imaginal figures or echoing
• echoing um these imaginal figures my life myself my journey the soul events of my life
• um having their origins and their roots in some way in these imaginal figures in these archetypal dimensions these more
• mirroring or echoing or having its origins or roots in the imaginal figures this to me is more interesting more
• have lots of actual imaginal objects imaginal figures arising is secondary it may be that that's part of my
• and this is important can we trust the benevolence of these imaginal figures or is it possible even to play with
• a a living deity if you like a living imaginal figure um also had a complexity of character

The Movement of Devotion (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 11 mentions

• um whatever some something that is numerous and other some imaginal figure and this needs to happen first before
• this applies to um working with the imaginal figure of love we do in in the meditation
• remember you know the the appearance of that imaginal figure may be very ethereal they may have a body of light
• character the qualities of presence and that this particular imaginal figure um has their being their particularity
• working with a tantric deity yoga or um any kind of imaginal figure as we've been talking about or or cosmopoasis
• or in the tantric uh relationship with the imaginal figure of the tundra there's a kind of invocation that is a
• particularly the case with um devotional yoga to an imaginal figure or a tantric data they can be a
• what harmonizes with with the compassion that that imaginal figure embodies and emanates and radiates
• a real sense of fusion or union with becoming the deity the imaginal figure um so that we experience our body as
• qualities or the energy or the essence of that imaginal figure um or even one with the with the
• very very particular um well with that imaginal figure and often that happens just spontaneously

Sila and Soul (Part 5) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 11 mentions

• is the ideational imaginal or through an imaginal figure the values become erotically imaginal for us then the
• and the whole approach to ethic here may be more through an imaginal figure who is a person
• and that that way in through an imaginal figure in the values implicit or explicit there
• in woven into us with a specific imaginal figure and we can resonate with that let our beings let our souls and
• through being in relationship with that imaginal figure and we can also sometimes as i uh sometimes happen
• strands to cue to tune with to focus on in in meditating with an imaginal figure there's a second possibility
• there's a second possibility working with an imaginal figure and uh their form begins to fade the figure
• reporting in meditation they were they had as an imaginal figure aslam the lion from
• and at some point in the meditation on on the imaginal figure of assan aslan as a figure the lion form faded and a space
• so that can have one it's actually meditating on an imaginal figure and sort of
• inevitable that we will notice just as in meditation on an imaginal figure an imaginal other that self and the world

Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 11 mentions

• duty i i started to wonder does each imaginal figure um
• being our duty in relationship to the imaginal figure our duty given if you like by the angel or refracted better
• aware of which is and that duty of the imaginal figure is then refracted into a corresponding duty for the soulmaking
• i don't know um perhaps every imaginal figure's duty is to be itself fully and somehow
• or rather it's not just matter so the love that imaginal figures have for us
• no no matter what whereas the love that imaginal figures for us have for us it might include meta
• in the teachings of matter but the love the imaginal figures have for us is not universal it's not an unconditional love
• it's um the imaginal figures love for us is uh
• those similar dispositions in the imaginal figure do you understand
• we could say or we could say the um the imaginal figure loves our potential our kind of ideal being
• when we talk about love um in in the of imaginal figures for us are being loved

Eros Unfettered (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 10 mentions

• range of possible archetypes and imaginal figures and characters that come that are operating
• more you actually allow eros um and if an imaginal figure is felt by us or regarded by us as as
• well where there's the imaginal and imaginal figures it's not always apparent at first but there's always
• or something but there is some kind of love there with imaginal figures um both ways we love them and they love
• us and there's a desire for contact in a way this imaginal figures and angelus is an angel a messenger it wants to make
• there's no limit there's no limit to the penetration because of imaginal figures unfathomability
• unfathomability that imaginal figure might be an actual person
• by the gays of the in that of an imaginal figure what is it to feel that gay is
• biological accuracy um you or an imaginal figure might for instance have
• middle of your head or the or in the middle of the imaginal figure's head or in through the front of the throat or or