Imaginal Reality
Journey to the Voids
Published on 31. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-904658-49-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904658-49-8 (9781904658498)
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07/2011
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Persons
Aaron B. Daniels teaches psychology in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from: Baldwin Wallace College (BA); Duquesne University (MA), where he studied existential phenomenology; and Pacifica Graduate Institute (PhD), where his degree emphasized the depth tradition. After working for a decade in private and public practice, he transitioned into academia. His previous two works, 'Imaginal Reality, Volume One: Journey to the Voids' and 'Imaginal Reality, Volume Two: Voidcraft' were both published in 2011. Written with Laura M. Daniels, they are syntheses of imaginal psychology with existential principles.
Content
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
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