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September 9, 2021

IV. The World

Imaginal Practice & Eco-Psychology

Restoring the soul of the world

Theoretical focus:

Active imagination as a way of being, not just an “inner” technique
Eco-psychology and the re-animation of the world
Beauty, soul, and the more-than-human community
The (alchemical) Lion roaring in the desert of modernity

Practical focus

Imaginal practices in relationship with landscape and place
Ritual, ceremony, and animistic ways of knowing
In-carnation. Giving shape and body to the imaginal

The world and the gods are dead or alive according to the condition of our souls. A world view that perceives a dead world or declares the gods to be symbolic projections derives from a perceiving subject who no longer experiences in a personified way, who has lost his “imagine del cour”

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Suggested sources:

Litterature:

James Hillman: “The Soul of the World”
David Abram: “The Spell of the Sensous”
Richard Avens: “The New Gnosis”

Videos:

James Hillman: “Only beauty can save the world”