#deepimagination

" I believe in three doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed down from early times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical practices. These doctrines are— (1) That the borders of our minds are ever shifting, and that many minds can flow into one another, as it were, and create or reveal a single mind, a single energy. (2) That the borders of our memories are as shifting, and that our memories are a part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself. (3) That this great mind and great memory can be evoked by symbols. I often think I would put this belief in magic from me if I could, for I have come to see or to imagine, in men and women, in houses, in handicrafts, in nearly all sights and sounds, a certain evil, a certain ugliness, that comes from the slow perishing through the centuries of a quality of mind that made this belief and its evidences common over the world."

"Creo en tres doctrinas que, según creo, se han transmitido desde los primeros tiempos y han sido la base de casi todas las prácticas mágicas. Estas doctrinas son:

(1) Que los límites de nuestras mentes están en constante cambio, y que muchas mentes pueden fluir entre sí, por así decirlo, y crear o revelar una sola mente, una sola energía.

(2) Que los límites de nuestros recuerdos son igualmente cambiantes, y que nuestros recuerdos son parte de un gran recuerdo, el recuerdo de la Naturaleza misma.

I dreamed another world so far and so close

I dreamed another trip four roads five destinations

I dreamed the laughter I dreamed the illusion

I dreamed another world

I dreamed less fuck-up

I dreamed one morning that

at last it was possible

I dreamed of a love night and day

I dreamed fortune I dreamed joy

I dreamed of the moon that did not give up

And what did he say to my cat?

Skull does not cry

Love Serenade

Skull does not cry:

she has no heart

I dreamed without war

I dreamed without fear

I dreamed without fences

I dreamed without beatings

I dreamed of a task that never ends

I dreamed of a vervain that always again

Skull does not cry

Love Serenade

Skull does not cry

He has no heart

I dreamed of working

I dreamed until I got sick

So far and so close

Pacific I dreamed your waves

So far and so close

It's always time to arrive

Skull does not cry

Love Serenade

It's always time to arrive

I dreamed a song that no motherfucker has written yet

I dreamed of an alleyway I scream freedom

I dreamed of an exit that doesn't sound like running away

I dreamed that your car stops the night

I dreamed your breath

I dreamed the prairie

I dreamed until I screamed

Skull does not cry

Love Serenade

Skull does not cry

I dreamed another world

I dreamed of getting it

I got it dreaming

I dreamed when I woke up

Skull does not cry

So far and so close

Skull does not cry

So far and so close

It's always time to arrive

Skull does not cry

Love Serenade

It's always time to arrive

Skull does not cry

-Manu Chao

"I do not wish to write a book of wonders, but rather to bring thought back to that Being whom the ancient seers worshipped as Deity. I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth. I must in some fashion indicate the nature of the visions which led me to believe with Plato that the earth is not at all what the geographers suppose it to be, and that we live like frogs at the bottom of a marsh knowing nothing of that Many-Coloured Earth which is superior to this we know, yet related to it as soul to body."

- George William Russell (AE), The Candle of Vision

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"And all I thought of heaven before, I find in earth below;

A sunlight in the hidden core to dim the noonday glow."

- George William Russell (AE), A New World

“There are two things, well, really three things, that are vital that we grasp. The first is that the avenue to our aliveness is our deep imagination. This is a way of knowing that we were taught to abandon, or encouraged to abandon in childhood, thinking it childish whereas it is in fact the avenue to our wholeness. We have mistakenly thought, especially in our modern scientific age, that our imagination should somehow mimic or reflect our outer world, the world of our senses. But it was never supposed to and thinking so is to engage in mistaken thinking.

Our imagination has actually two layers, probably more, but two that we should be able to distinguish. The topmost layer is a layer of imagination that we have learned to control, so that we can imagine things upon command. This is the basis of the famous House-Tree-Person test so popular among psychologists when working with children. A child is asked to draw first of all a house, then a tree, then a person, and these drawings are then interpreted as telling much about the child. Our reading is also based on this upper layer, so that as we read we can imagine what the words are depicting, the events, the partakers, the story.

The second, and deeper layer, what I have come to call the deep imagination, is a realm that is not under our control. In fact it is a layer that is significantly alive, that has its own direction and relationship with who we are however much we might dispute this. It is also the layer that can guide us back into our wholeness, for that is its job, and throughout historical time it has tried to do this in various ways. We have usually interpreted its presence in either religious or magical ways. Interpretation is our problem. The deep imagination was never meant to be interpreted.  It was meant to be met directly and engaged with as a living element, having its own intelligence and its own purpose. We have usually tried to second guess it in order to fit it into our everyday lives. In other words, our tendency is to attempt to manipulate it from the standpoint of our Ego or identity. We try to make it serve us rather than forming a companionship with it and allowing it to guide us.”

Eligio Stephen Gallegos

http://www.esgallegos.com/