Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Strange Things Will Happen by Radio Dept.
“Strange things will happen” by Radio Dept. Appreciating the splendor of this simple song.
Today was a pretty day
No disappointments
No expectations on your whereabouts
And oh, did I let you go?
Did it finally show that strange things will happen if you let
them?
Today I didn’t even try to hide
I’ll stay here and never push things to the side
You can’t reach me cause I’m way beyond you today
Today was a pretty day
Autumn comes with
These slight surprises where your life might twist and turn
Hope to unlearn
Strange things will happen
If you let them come around and stick around
Today I didn’t even try to hide
I’ll stay here and never push things to the side
Today I didn’t even look to find
Something to put me in that peace of mind
You can’t touch me cause I’m way beyond you today
Leonora in the Depths
I have a heavy heart. Just found out Leonora Carrington passed away. I truly honor her life, artistry and soulfulness. Her images will live on in the depths. To surreality and its inspiration.
Purpose of Trickster Stories
“The purpose of the stories (of the Trickster) is to put an adult mind in a child’s heart and a child’s eye in the adult head.”
About Silence
Avant-garde Musician John Cage talks about sound. A very Zen way of to consider being with sound.
So Young by the London Suede
Threading music and lyrics in dreams to connections and insights. Recently, I dreamt and recalled the lyrics of a song called “So Young” by an English band Suede (1993) “Lets chase the dragon home.” This band and song never had any significance to me personally but reminded me of an ex. I discussed the song with my husband and he had known that “chasing the dragon” was an English colloquialism for shooting up heroine– not something I am familiar with in any sense. However, chasing the dragon is mythic and connects us to medieval dragons and chinese dragons, linking us with the dark and light aspects of the magical creature.
Something hints at what it means to chase the dragon. To chase after alter states of the same reality that is somehow known and unknown to us, perhaps we can say what the addict longs for to transcend the banal. Songs can have strong archetypal connections and speak to phenomenon on a collective level not just our personal associations. And yet recalling the song and this ex, I realized how much this was the beginning of me chasing my own path of individuation when I was so young. It allowed me to reinstate the importance of that relationship and time in my life that had a domino effect in reclaiming my power and transcend from other spells, patterns, that I was “addicted” to and it did take numinous experiences, connecting to the transcendent, for it to happen. Facing the dragon’s dark and light sides of myself, the collective and life, and bringing it home.
Micro to macro, macro to micro, an interconnected unfolding, thanks to a song.
On the Two Marions
Dancing in the flames. Marion Woodman on the two contending parts of the self.