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You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity.
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The Center for Imaginal Psychology was founded to foster the emergence of Imaginal Psychology as a distinct orientation to the discipline of psychology. Each orientation to psychology is a distinct conversation. Part of the distinctness of Imaginal Psychology is its willingness to go outside the discipline of psychology to other knowledge domains. Specifically these knowledge domains include: Spiritual Traditions, Somatic Practices, Creative Arts, Mythology, Indigenous Wisdom, Literary and Poetic Imagination, Deep Ecology, and Social Critique.
Imaginal Psychology, as a distinct orientation, has emerged and continues to coalesce further through the postmodern-indigenous conversation that ferments our contemporary and postsecular, cultural landscape. The Center seeks to respond creatively to the need for a psychology that gathers and articulates a multicultural common ground responsive to the cultural and ecological consequences of secular globalization. In addition to its research and educational activities, the Center will begin publishing The Journal of Imaginal Psychology in 2009. |
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