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Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 23 mentions

• to this retreat and to this course on imaginal practice i think uh tonight
• collective psyche really in relationship to imaginal practice and also talk a little bit about the kind of doorways
• and directions that exist within imaginal practice so
• the kind of conceptions that form around imagination imaginal practice and the kind of
• directions we can go in with the imaginal practice and the ways we can think about them
• the most interesting aspect of working with images and imaginal practice is not in fact the images themselves
• please trust what you want how you want to orient in terms of imaginal practice which might change for you over time but
• so that's a question what is imaginal practice in the service of what are images in the service of or
• and i feel and know that that is possible through imaginal practice as it is through other means but particularly
• um my experience for myself and working with individuals with imaginal practices as as one works with images and one
• practices more the whole practice the whole of imaginal practice kind of evolves in many different ways but one
• think of and regard and relate to and conceive of images and imaginal practice so that's the second reason
• a third reason some might object to imaginal practice is they're actually when we really start to get into
• when we really start to get into imaginal practice and the sort of open it up we start to get a sense that
• fourth reason some people might object to imaginal practice is that the images that arise for them at times all the
• okay with all that and they're drawn to imaginal practice and they're drawn in fact for many
• so therefore uh in that there's open through imaginal practice something feels something's bigger and more
• that way sometimes that is the case and that makes imaginal practice um very attractive in some cases
• and for for some people or other people um imaginal practice legitimizes it finds a place it
• holiness not seen so this also makes imaginal practice very attractive to many people
• some people exploring it a little imaginal practice they begin to get a sense quite quickly of how it
• self-uniflexibility of worldview an imaginal practice one is playing with that flexibility of views of self and
• or intuitively sense that possibility through imaginal practice thank you for listening to learn how you

The Crucible - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 18 mentions

• those terms that the art of the alchemy of imaginal practice etc then uh we can perhaps look into analogies of
• relationship to the motions that allows um imaginal practice and sensing the soul
• um who'd have done quite a lot of imaginal practice and and really kind of in his element there
• same image and he asked is is this just a natural change as imaginal practice develops
• necessarily just a natural change as imaginal practice develop so what occurred to me was two two factors that
• emotions have a part their integral part of imaginal practice and sensing the soul
• nervous um with respect to imaginal practice um and
• possibility a real vulnerability of soulmaking and imaginal practice in other words i i don't think that's at
• other circumstances but not the way we're teaching imaginal practice um
• have an effect but in itself i don't think uh imaginal practice and sensing the soul has has um has that kind of
• of her soulmaking and sensing soul and imaginal practice and this issue of vulnerability
• indispensable as as part of the um of imaginal practice and sensing the soul
• important as we've stressed on retreat to move between imaginal practice and other practices like just being with
• what about though if we ask the same question uh regarding imaginal practice or soulmaking practice
• um a it's not probably wise or even possible to sort of do imaginal practice all the time but one regards a much
• um or tuning a certain poi so a lot of imaginal practice and sensing the soul is really about a poise so finding just
• of an intention even in prayer in in even in imaginal practice but the fullness of attention goes beyond that
• um but the question i would have is are all the subtleties of imaginal practice available and accessible while moving or

Logoi and Leanings - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 16 mentions

• within imaginal practice or sensing the soul but also between practices
• has to understand it's not we're not just talking about imaginal practice we're not just talking about sensing of
• balance uh what's going on in the imaginal practice just to give the belief
• wise it's probably not even possible to to try and do imaginal practice all day long
• emptiness practices and in imaginal practices is that
• as i said partly as a balance to the imaginal practice because it will be too intense and too kind of
• bears fruit in all kinds of areas including imaginal practice so sometimes doing that is really
• possibilities of forks when we're doing imaginal practice folks in the path where we can lean one way or another
• moving along the spectrum between say pure samadhi and pure imaginal practice the key factor is intention
• down the imaginal practice and i'm leaning that way then my
• uh practice and samadhi and within imaginal practice i've already made this point but again it's
• is very much part of navigating within imaginal practice so also when we talk about
• supporting um soulmaking and imaginal practice um or if we're talking about emptiness
• in either one of those practices either imaginal practice or emptiness practice and the experience itself if we can even
• certain kind of fertility of imaginal practice it won't really be that soulmaking without a conceptual
• um without it uh the sensing the soul the imaginal practice will either lack a lot of dimensionality and power a lot of

The Way of Image - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 15 mentions

• um imaginal practice sensing of soul um
• um if we talk about the art um or the alchemy of imaginal practice of sensing the soul you know there's a lot involved
• we're calling the and are an alchemy of imaginal practice sort of sensing the soul
• in a second but when we talk about imaginal practice it's uh where despite some of the similarities want to
• um imaginal practice is quite rare and it's rarer than i suppose that those other
• so we're not talking about channeling imaginal practices not channeling it's not shamanism it's not energy healing
• and also the fundamental intention of soulmaking perhaps an imaginal practice being full what we call the fullness of
• i'm limiting my uh idea of what's involved in imaginal practice there won't be the kind of infinite and
• get imbued with imaginal practice and this whole soulmaking dharma one doesn't
• demanding visual objects um in their imaginal practice if we again just linger a little bit
• of state or sort of quantum leap that can often occur in imaginal practice either on one's own
• in this we might call it alchemy of imaginal practice we may be able to guide the kind of relative balance of
• thermals if you like that are already there in the imaginal practice or in the insight somali practice whatever it is
• much wisdom in there that this goes for the imaginal practice it goes also for emptiness practices
• um things that are both foundations or roots or elements of imaginal practice them themselves become insult and and we

"Until All is Liquid" (Emptiness and Sensing with Soul) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone... 15 mentions

• talking about imaginal practice and introducing it and sensing with soul i quoted a an
• that in sensing the soul and in imaginal practice so this is what i want to go into just
• it's not possible to actually practice imaginal practice in the depths of fading in in in in the proximity of the
• i want to say grounds uh sensing the soul and imaginal practice um
• um it takes it out of the realm of what we would call imaginal practice so it kind of grounds it or uh
• um over the last years especially when i've been teaching imaginal practice and contextualizing it with emptiness
• a necessary part of what's happening in imaginal practice but it might always proceed step by step like that first you
• something or book or whatever it is or in in the context of imaginal practice and and feel a little daunted and feel a
• um is is generally going to be helpful with imaginal practice with sensing so unless one has just got the foot rammed
• dharma practice for our lives and definitely for imaginal practice um in also just lingering on tantric
• just as there is when when we do imaginal practice and an image is becoming imaginal
• practice or alongside or the supporting or opening imaginal practice you know there's all kinds of ranges of the kind
• um to to begin with and to begin with might be for years in imaginal practice um
• the the territory and the domain of imaginal practice from just getting mixed up with other stuff and and and
• um there may be a kind of spectrum of rare rareification in imaginal practice which we are free to move along at any

Energy Body: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 15 mentions

• and and the same is true as we mentioned with imaginal practices uh to pick up on the subtle resonances the nuances
• um of of images and imaginal figures in imaginal practice and to navigate uh between images and have a sense of where
• mindfulness around with regard to imaginal practice keeps it grounded in in the bodily sense
• start talking much more and predominantly about imaginal practice just to point out now that really on
• directly with the energy body on one hand and more direct imaginal practice on the other hand so back and forth and
• on the other hand so back and forth and even that imaginal practice is always tied in with the energy body so no one
• directly with the energy body than with imaginal practices again i'll talk more about this about the balance and the
• and those two aspects are very much a part of imaginal practice very much of all imaginal practice
• part of imaginal practice very much of all imaginal practice and then uh
• and actually we should point out that for for imaginal practice when we talk about imaginal practice
• for for imaginal practice when we talk about imaginal practice um we really want the whole of the
• range it's all fertile ground when we come to imaginal practice so any idea i shouldn't be feeling this or this is a
• emotion is fertile ground for a magical practice in imaginal practice now remember again i'm gonna say this so
• into more it's one of the ways of entering into imaginal practice is when there's a difficult emotion
• as we go into it more and more uh unfold more and more the imaginal practice is a very important aspect of that but

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

• we want really usually so in the context of imaginal practice and and this course
• can also walk um doing the imaginal practice so the imaginal practice taking place in the
• um doing the imaginal practice so the imaginal practice taking place in the walking posture
• um doing walking meditation with more more open imaginal practice um but actually you will find as you
• interesting the whole relationship with images the whole imaginal practice rather than me just seeking out these
• so clearly anyone playing with an imaginal practice um
• and and so this is so common not just for imaginal practice but for all meditation the the question is operating
• this is too weird so often a person will think that in imaginal practice or too dark
• um so often so often with imaginal practice an image that is initially scary arises
• um becomes a significant factor in the whole mix of imaginal practice the trust itself will affect the way of looking
• there's an open question in terms of imaginal practice in terms of what we might call pacing with images now i've
• a while ago i talked to me or asked me i was talking about imaginal practice and they really picked up on this idea of
• and so i'm going to say more about this as we go on the image imaginal practice in relationship to the world but you

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 12 mentions

• is very much part of the context of imaginal practice conceptual framework and how we'll hear some of these
• different with this in regard to imaginal practice some people um
• assumptions to liberate enough space and justification for imaginal practice and views
• opens up when two or more people engage in imaginal practice together so as a kind of uh
• implying that um if you do imaginal practice right if 10 people do imaginal practice right
• um if you do imaginal practice right if 10 people do imaginal practice right they'll all experience the same thing
• delicacy and nuance of mindfulness that one is bringing to the imaginal practice the sensitivity to the resonances the
• unfabricating aspect as what they do imaginal practice also has this effect so someone might not have done any
• other dharma practices actually just engage in imaginal practice actually renders the sense of the self and the
• um fabricated nature of perception through imaginal practice and then both through deep emptiness
• organically by itself as one practice imaginal practice or emptiness practice deeper and deeper
• mutually contingent so imaginal practice and emptiness practice and summator and meta they all

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 10 mentions

• space for images and fantasy and this whole imaginal practice and so
• relationship of that with images your imaginal practice and so
• playing with that multiplicity through imaginal practice and even the idea or or the sense that
• um permission and range in terms of imaginal practice and also conception because we know hey i can conceive that
• decreasing it how about this whole idea of soul and imaginal practice in the service of soul how does that or how
• um and that that is the thrust of imaginal practice or the direction the opening of the magical practice then the
• fertile in terms of what it then offers in relationship to imaginal practice and by giving by allowing place and space
• by giving by allowing place and space for imaginal practice so in relation to this all this is is
• opening of the range of perception through imaginal practice and through caring for the soul and taking that as a
• or images imaginal practice and this talk of soul as metaphysics

The Movement of Devotion (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 10 mentions

• and we also obviously talking about imaginal practice and again and kid in the energy body and the expansion of
• significant for um for instance makes um an imaginal practice or working with a particular image at any
• one avenue that's one kind of practice imaginal practice cosmopoietic practice the the the direction of samadhi
• it's a little bit about imaginal practice and and cosmop oasis a friend of catherine who's a union
• somewhat similar to what i might call imaginal practice um
• practice deliberately we can engage imaginal practice deliberately and cosmopoietic practice deliberately we
• a shift in in the ways of looking and to to open into imaginal practice and cosmic oasis
• so it's a factor of but it's also a contributing factor of imaginal practice and cosmic oasis
• um a step further is then if i'm doing imaginal practices like um of from that humility of openness and
• um all kinds of surprises i think in imaginal practice and so we don't really have to engineer