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08/23/2025

08/23/2025

🌀💫 Imagination is a central organ of human perception, as vital as the senses.

Through it we access meaning, creativity, and the unconscious.

Imagination first appeared as an evolutionary leap that allowed humans to run mental simulations, project into the future, and innovate tools, myths, and symbols.

It can operate voluntarily—when we actively plan, rehearse, or fantasize—and involuntarily, through dreams, hypnagogic images, and sudden inspirations.

Imagination provides the bridge between unconscious and conscious life, most present in active imagination, where inner figures reveal truths.

It is healing and liberating: it anchors us in personal and collective myth, fosters creativity by joining disparate elements into new forms, and provides access to the mundus imaginalis, a subtle world of archetypal experience.

Without cultivating imagination, our inner life stagnates; with it, we belong to something greater, deeper, and more sustaining.

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08/17/2025

💦 SOLUTIO is Psyche’s method to facilitate transformation: our rigid ego is softened in symbolic water, allowing outworn attitudes to unbind.

We can see this reflected in dreams of oceans and baths, or a wall of our house dissolving.

These can show up when we slough off our work persona, or undergo a creative depression brought on by retirement.

Analysis itself—ana-lysis—a deliberate loosening, can deepen the process by offering a safe container to let go and yield to the process.

The work is careful because the waters that purify (baptism or tears) can also drown us (psychosis or crowd contagion).

We require a supportive relationship, a daily spiritual practice, or the analytic hour to hold us as our ego reorganizes like a butterfly in a chrysalis.

Once our ego solidifies, we notice we’re more permeable to symbols or less defended against feelings. We’re more skilled at breaking problems into their component parts with a determination to resist regressing.

The alchemical process was not created; it was noticed as a natural pattern of transformation.

It leaves us with more of who we really are, but we couldn’t have claimed it until we became soft enough to receive it.

🎧 FIND the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.