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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

Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation) - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 10 mentions

• may not be imaginal so when we say an imaginal figure or an image it doesn't for instance just refer to someone who
• be imaginable um so an imaginal figure an imaginal being
• characteristic of of an image the imaginal figure also has a kind of quality of unfathomability
• there's there's a a bottomless mystery to this to to an imaginal figure as i said soul resonance is meaningfulness
• and imagine being an imaginal thing an imaginal figure also has a kind of autonomy is very much related to what
• around we've got the psyche and the imaginal figures in the psyche where santa is a part of us
• start to get a soul sense of this and there's a sense of the imaginal figure is bigger than i am in some way
• so maybe that you are in relationship with an imaginal figure either in front of you maybe they're
• you identify with or become this imaginal figure and so to speak and to them take their place and look at
• perhaps there's a gazing in you and the imaginal figure and you feel into that gazing what's

Eros and the Brahmaviharas - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 9 mentions

• there is love so to speak from ourselves to the imaginal figure we love imaginal figures
• so there's love from self to the imaginal figure and there's also love from the imaginal figure to sell and
• imaginal figure and there's also love from the imaginal figure to sell and everything we just said applies it may
• erotic love in the imaginal in the imaginal world between imaginal figures and ourselves
• um what we were calling in the last retreat an imaginal figure of love um and using them in actually in
• attention of our being in the imagine realm with an imaginal figure to realize oh yes there's more than meta here there
• both um our love for the imaginal figure in their particularities and their
• of this other who's loving me or the imaginal figure uh with their erotic gaze
• eros involved there in the practice with with this imaginal figure and and all the beauty of that and the

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 9 mentions

• imaginably or whatever it is this image imaginal figure and then and then we take it as indicating this is what will
• um being inevitably kind of woven in to and with any imaginal figure uh so we've defined those already as
• figure opens into uh dimensionality and divinity and the imaginal figure is um is divine to us when when we let it
• resonate with and it moves me and quite in contrast to the this imaginal figure of this
• have or we might have a duty of some kind to an image to an imaginal figure to a soulmaking perception that it has
• dimensionalities of divinity the image the imaginal figure if that's what we're talking about
• impossible impossibility with regard to imaginal figures and that's the impossibility to do to manifest
• um we are complex the psyche is complex we don't have just one imaginal figure calling us we have we have many and they
• um in my let's call it pantheon of imaginal figures of the demons and angels then i realize i can't possibly

Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 7 mentions

• um the autonomy of the imaginal figures if they're they have
• concepts operating anytime if i reduce the imaginal figure to let's say um
• being this kind of reduction of the imaginal figure any kind of reduction involves um involves a logos in
• mindfulness and sensitivity with this imaginal figure i open my eyes and there's a kind of spilling over to the
• um uh or a manifestation of or flavored with this particular imaginal figure and his her its characteristics its
• particular face of of the divine or this imaginal figure is a particular theophany it's a it's a face of god if
• theophanes etc and some um will be personal a personal god imaginal figure as a personal god not an impersonal

Doubt and Discernment (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 7 mentions

• with a sense of duty somehow this imaginal figure or this image it wrapped up in that some way or
• the kinds of eros or the kinds of love with respect to each imaginal figure you know again back to particularities
• you know again back to particularities and uniqueness so each imaginal figure is is is
• interaction maybe with an image an imaginal figure that i've had a long sounding relationship worked with in
• imaginal so um an imaginal figure an imaginal relationship it it hopefully doesn't
• um when we use the word image or imaginal figure etc not just meaning intro psychic so called intrapsychic
• um that kind of meditation on an image with an imaginal figure from a mere indulgence of what we might call more i

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 7 mentions

• the and in each tier embodying an imaginal figure or a dream figure embodying and speaking as if they were
• figure and then dialoguing between different imaginal figures or between the ego and the and the imaginal
• some some uh compassion imbued imaginal figure arises more spontaneously that that may uh
• her she's she is a person for me uh through her imaginal figure but when there is a deliberate
• a deliberate uh constellating of an imaginal figure then we've alluded to this uh several times then partly
• these other corridors come comes an imaginal figure or whatever the impossible is that infinite
• relativizing or equalizing of the self and the imaginal figure but potentially there's not so much the self's journey

Soulmaking (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 7 mentions

• multiplicity of fantasies of mythoy of imaginal figures and characters that multiplicity is very much a an aspect of
• and also the idea the idos of a certain autonomy that these imaginal figures these archetypes these gods have that's
• psyche or whatever an imaginal figure is a person in some sense equal to the self
• the images and working with images and the imaginal figures that come
• so when we see these imaginal figures and and the plurality of the multiplicity of them we
• when we personify and we let things take form as persons or imaginal figures there is a disidentification with that
• now we could relate that way we can regard imaginal figures and try to see them as somehow serving us helping you

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 6 mentions

• no other word for this sense i have of this of this imaginal figure or this way that i'm sensing this thing in my life
• unfathomability of objects as well i love imaginal figures and objects and kind of
• constellation it's implicit in the sense of the images on the imaginal figures autonomy which we'll come back to the
• a stance of distrust say towards an imaginal figure or towards a perception um
• the relationship with the imaginal um object the imaginal figure and indeed of any soulmaking experience
• or a correlate in in the imaginal object in the imaginal figure but let's stop there for now

The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening... 6 mentions

• so just to say about yourself is kind of like imaginal figures which vadro safa is so to speak in our language is an
• is so to speak in our language is an imaginal figure it's an imaginal data has an infinite depth of meaning as an
• has an infinite depth of meaning as an imaginal figure a diamond being as does diamond passion indeed that
• goes off into into other images the imaginal figures that i've had from the past from this wrathful deity nature
• been talking about working with an imaginal figure working with a uh a daemon if you like and feeling a sense
• divinity of that figure of that daemon of that imaginal figure and then the sense of duty can you see that too i