OUR FOREST OF IMAGINATION -- Michael Meade, Kannon - QuanYin Through the Wilderness Alone AND Together for Our New World

I Will Not Live In Fear, You Will Not, We Will Not...

We Can Choose To Live In Compassion and Care

“We live amidst a loss of containing stories and shared imagination that leaves everyone less protected, more isolated and more subject to anxiety and fear. A growing "collective trauma" is fueled by the collapse of public institutions and the intensification of social divisions. Yet when we are oriented to the core imagination seeded in our souls we can find meaning again; even our worst experiences can become revelatory and healing rather than traumatizing and alienating.

          The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, whether it be through political or environmental causes, through spiritual or artistic quests is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

          Imagination is a key to finding one's genius in life; it is the basis of mentoring, a requirement for healing, and a necessity for making community.

          The Forest of Imagination is always nearby, waiting to be found again whenever we open our hearts and minds and find the "inner eyes of initiation." The Forest of Imagination involves many languages including: "living myth" and depth psychology, dream work and tribal cosmologies, poetry and honest speech, chanting and dance, martial arts and rituals of inclusion.

QuanYin statue in Daie-in Temple, Japan (see below)

There is no denying that we live in radical times surrounded by tasks that seem impossible. However, it is important to remember that it is during troubled times that the inner resources and wisdom of life move closer to the surface and become more available… when we are oriented to the core imagination seeded in our souls we can find meaning again; even our worst experiences can become revelatory and healing rather than traumatizing and alienating.

This... is intentionally multicultural and interracial; it is also experiential and experimental. It takes place in a rare redwood forest and requires a willingness to enter the Forest of Imagination where each step can alter the course of one's life. Genuine freedom, like the deepest healing waits to be found where one's deepest imagination resides; for imagination is the greatest power of the human soul.” 

- Michael Meade from Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul

 Meade, Michael. (2011) http://www.mosaicvoices.org/ (17 December, 2012)  

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