Imaginal Reality (Volume 2)

The second volume of Imaginal Reality moves more explicitly into the practice of magic ― that is, the ongoing journey of claiming our lives more fully and deeply.

This cultivation of intentionality and vision, though never a one-time decisive victory, can become a more habitual attitude. To gird these hard-fought realizations, this volume presents the other four voids in detail:

1) Nothingness: Individual things and the thing-sets with which we populate our worlds are the set-dressings that illustrate the scripts guiding our life plays.

2) Meaninglessness: The world will never, to us, yield either fundamental meaning, or some ultimate point. The process of meaning-making is the meaning of life.

3) Freedom and Responsibility: Only through claiming life in its structural truth, through a responsiveness to the imaginal reality of life, can we truly live out the freedom that is always, already, our birthright.

4) Change and Finitude: Nothing abides and any clinging to concepts rooted in permanence will yield a bitter and morbid shadow.

Taking a hard gaze at the “imagination of magic,” these texts endeavor to bring us more fully face-to-face with the existential voids that define the true limits of our lives, but also create the stage upon which our lives unfold.