Gabrielle. What a freaking piece of ART this writing is… seriously sitting here in absolute awe. Thank you, thank you 🙏 you have woven together something deeply personal, relatable and actionable. I really needed to read this tonight. Time to start reimagining on a soul level.
Beautifully articulated. These words touch a vital nerve. In a narrowed world so often oriented toward control-based objectives and mechanized, linear outcomes—where nuance and complexity are consistently traded for so-called certainty and convenience—the call to nurture resilient imagination feels like a radical and necessary reclamation.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the deep need we humans have for a consistent courting of the Imaginal—where Earth speaks to us and through us most profoundly. It is there, in the language of metaphor, symbol, dreams, and poetic rapture, that we remember who we are—living, learning, and loving through the layered mystery of being, becoming, and belonging.
The soullessness that many of us strongly sense when we encounter the machinations of modernity, I believe, stems from an insidious outsourcing of our imaginal capacities, moment by moment, across so many levels of experience. I do not see a resilient, rooted future without a real resurgence of individuals and communities consciously and collaboratively reestablishing rich, meaningful, reciprocal, and mysterious relationships with the Imaginal.
Grateful for the way you’ve woven these insights and for your willingness to share them.
"We can grieve and still build. We can fear collapse and still create. We can feel unsafe and still act in alignment with our values. And perhaps most radically, we can do all this and still enjoy our lives." THANK YOU for posting these words. This says everything I am trying to express and live out in my world.
I love this, but I am not so sure I would call the resulting skill (capacity, etc.) "Imagination". Dilthey spoke of the triad "experiencing, understanding, expressing" as occurring at the same time. And exactly during COVID when I realized that I was being traumatized by a virus, I expressed this understanding by changing my relation to nature. I did not imagine it first. Since then, I think that trauma that does not block your awareness of it has a good chance to move mountains.
Gabrielle. What a freaking piece of ART this writing is… seriously sitting here in absolute awe. Thank you, thank you 🙏 you have woven together something deeply personal, relatable and actionable. I really needed to read this tonight. Time to start reimagining on a soul level.
Beautifully articulated. These words touch a vital nerve. In a narrowed world so often oriented toward control-based objectives and mechanized, linear outcomes—where nuance and complexity are consistently traded for so-called certainty and convenience—the call to nurture resilient imagination feels like a radical and necessary reclamation.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the deep need we humans have for a consistent courting of the Imaginal—where Earth speaks to us and through us most profoundly. It is there, in the language of metaphor, symbol, dreams, and poetic rapture, that we remember who we are—living, learning, and loving through the layered mystery of being, becoming, and belonging.
The soullessness that many of us strongly sense when we encounter the machinations of modernity, I believe, stems from an insidious outsourcing of our imaginal capacities, moment by moment, across so many levels of experience. I do not see a resilient, rooted future without a real resurgence of individuals and communities consciously and collaboratively reestablishing rich, meaningful, reciprocal, and mysterious relationships with the Imaginal.
Grateful for the way you’ve woven these insights and for your willingness to share them.
Bless your heart
and your way,
"We can grieve and still build. We can fear collapse and still create. We can feel unsafe and still act in alignment with our values. And perhaps most radically, we can do all this and still enjoy our lives." THANK YOU for posting these words. This says everything I am trying to express and live out in my world.
Thank you Gabrielle, I love this piece. Just what I needed this morning 🙏🏼
I love this, but I am not so sure I would call the resulting skill (capacity, etc.) "Imagination". Dilthey spoke of the triad "experiencing, understanding, expressing" as occurring at the same time. And exactly during COVID when I realized that I was being traumatized by a virus, I expressed this understanding by changing my relation to nature. I did not imagine it first. Since then, I think that trauma that does not block your awareness of it has a good chance to move mountains.