Lessons for living: Imagination

The imagination is the power of the mind to form images and ideas. It is the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful. By imagining a possible future, we can develop foresight. This helps us think about where we are going in our individual and collective...
Hillman and the image: The dialogue of the imagination

Hillman and the image: The dialogue of the imagination

James Hillman writes that we must return to the image. He thinks of images as being like animals, alive and vital; a phenomenon that can be engaged with. Therapy, too often, is the art of interpretation rather than the art of IMAGination. The image might refer to...
Imagination and the extensive self

Imagination and the extensive self

In her book, The hero and the goddess, Jean Houston writes that we live in a ‘mono’ culture – it is monotheistic (one god), monophrenic (one personality), and monocular (having one way of seeing) in our epistemology. We think everything can be known in a linear...
Embodied reading and the heart of the imagination

Embodied reading and the heart of the imagination

Monastic readers would huddle over their parchment texts, reading aloud, immersing their whole being in the words and the text. Reading used to be understood as a remedy. According to Ivan Illich, reading brings light back into the world, by kindling the eye, and...