imagination

Freedom: With Each Other, Not from Each Other

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Freedom, as they say, is an inside job. Turns out, we don’t need to free ourselves from everything if we can expand the field so wide that nothing’s left out. The inside job is less spa day, more hanging out with the full cast of your inner sitcom without needing anyone to shut up.
And yet, it’s not only an inside job. My ability to even consider “inner freedom” has always been propped up by outer freedoms that rely on—surprise!—other people. A room of my own. Patient, brilliant teachers. Cats that sit in my lap when I meditate so I don’t dare get up.

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Practices for Every Brain

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Anyone who knows the wondrous zoo of spiritual practices in this world already understands something about neurodiversity. Not to be reductive of course. Spiritual work need not be reduced to brain activity for us to consider that the incredible variation in wisdom practices may be, in part, a reflection of the stunningly diverse ways that human brains function.

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Glimmers in the Dust: Rediscovering the Magic of Everyday Life

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And it’s when life feels most overwhelming that reconnecting to this magic is most important. It’s not about bypassing suffering or “being positive”, it’s about practicing a way of seeing that expands our sense of self. The moments of magic—sun flares around a kitten, the sound of rain on summer leaves, the electricity of the autumn air—are reminders of the deeper rhythms going on beyond stress and struggle.

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Lessons in the Future from 1906

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The more we try to control the future by pinning it down using our well-worn concepts, the more blindsided we will be as the future keeps manifesting the new into reality. In contrast, when we enter into the future with our imaginations, rather than trying to predict it or bend it to our will, we seek a balance between channeling that which wants to be born into the world and using our agency to actively shape this new creation towards the good.

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Living in The Other Worlds

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The imagination is a living thing, we are not dealing with dried butterflies pinned to the collector’s specimen board. The realms we access with the imagination are but the perceptible edge of a vast multiversal field of pulsating psychic energy manifesting through image, symbol and story. It cannot be known by analysis, only through experience. 

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