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This book is for everyone. We all yearn for (and do) magic. We just don't let ourselves see it.Our world is a far wilder, weirder and more mysterious place than we ever admit, yet the magic we perform every day hides beneath the countless explanations we foist onto life. In the face of these convincing yet empty explanations, we displace our hunger for a sense of the magical onto other goals, addictions, and distractions. Left at odds with the very sublimity that animates our every moment, we have turned magic into an exception, a collection of superstitions, a historical backwater, and a cinematic spectacle, rather than the very fabric of life as lived. This book is about recovering the imagination of magic and the magic of imagination.This, the first of two volumes, introduces the landscape of the imaginal and the existential voids. Through illustrative stories and self-assessment exercises, this book brings the often-obscure language of existentialism, esotericism, and imaginal psychology to life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Author’s Foreword to Volumes One and Two : A Few Words about (and to) Those for Whom I Intend These Text

Part 1: Casting the Circle
0: A Sort of Rock Bottom: An Opening Image
1: Introduction to Volume One: The Book as Sigil
2: Mere-ness and Magic: An Informing Image

Part 2: The Great Work
3: A First Go at the Central Idea: Moving Back to the Moment
4: Application 1: Meditation
5: Mala: Images of Sex, Death, and Letting Go
6: The Structure of the Moment: A Sidelong Glance at the Voids
7: Pseudo-Neo-Gnostic-Anti-Theist-Anarcho-Romanticism: An Image That Made Sense at the Time

Part 3: Peering into the Voids
8: Immediacy: The First Void
9: Application 2: What Are You Doing Right Now?
10: Undifferentiation: The Second Void
11: Mystery and Imagination
12: Application 3: Stories about Your Selves
13: Unconstellated Stars: Three un-Images

Part 4: Descent into Madness
14: Madness: The Third Void
15: Application 4: Love, Intimacy, Sex
16: A Tale of Two Clients: Images of Therapy
17: Chaos: The Fourth Void
18: Application 5: Semi-colon-oscopy
19: Conclusion to Volume One: Another Janus Gaze

Appendix: The Prophets of Imaginal Reality: Creators of Imaginative Fictions

Index

Imaginal Reality: Journey to the Voids

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      Publisher: Aeon Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 31/07/2011
      ISBN13: 9781904658498, 978-1904658498
      ISBN10: 1904658490

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is for everyone. We all yearn for (and do) magic. We just don't let ourselves see it.Our world is a far wilder, weirder and more mysterious place than we ever admit, yet the magic we perform every day hides beneath the countless explanations we foist onto life. In the face of these convincing yet empty explanations, we displace our hunger for a sense of the magical onto other goals, addictions, and distractions. Left at odds with the very sublimity that animates our every moment, we have turned magic into an exception, a collection of superstitions, a historical backwater, and a cinematic spectacle, rather than the very fabric of life as lived. This book is about recovering the imagination of magic and the magic of imagination.This, the first of two volumes, introduces the landscape of the imaginal and the existential voids. Through illustrative stories and self-assessment exercises, this book brings the often-obscure language of existentialism, esotericism, and imaginal psychology to life.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Author’s Foreword to Volumes One and Two : A Few Words about (and to) Those for Whom I Intend These Text

      Part 1: Casting the Circle
      0: A Sort of Rock Bottom: An Opening Image
      1: Introduction to Volume One: The Book as Sigil
      2: Mere-ness and Magic: An Informing Image

      Part 2: The Great Work
      3: A First Go at the Central Idea: Moving Back to the Moment
      4: Application 1: Meditation
      5: Mala: Images of Sex, Death, and Letting Go
      6: The Structure of the Moment: A Sidelong Glance at the Voids
      7: Pseudo-Neo-Gnostic-Anti-Theist-Anarcho-Romanticism: An Image That Made Sense at the Time

      Part 3: Peering into the Voids
      8: Immediacy: The First Void
      9: Application 2: What Are You Doing Right Now?
      10: Undifferentiation: The Second Void
      11: Mystery and Imagination
      12: Application 3: Stories about Your Selves
      13: Unconstellated Stars: Three un-Images

      Part 4: Descent into Madness
      14: Madness: The Third Void
      15: Application 4: Love, Intimacy, Sex
      16: A Tale of Two Clients: Images of Therapy
      17: Chaos: The Fourth Void
      18: Application 5: Semi-colon-oscopy
      19: Conclusion to Volume One: Another Janus Gaze

      Appendix: The Prophets of Imaginal Reality: Creators of Imaginative Fictions

      Index

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