A Thing I Want: More Playful Imaginal Experiments. I'm almost shaking-quivering with excitement here, and I have to try to say something, but there's no really good way to say it. So here's the bad/incomplete/short version:
Play more with your imagination, it's fun!
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Let's start small.
Imagine you have a box in your hands. How big is it? What is it made of? What does it smell like?
Open your box and notice that there's a key inside? What kind of key is it? A modern key, an old-timey key, a futuristic keycard?
Now that you have your key in your hands, go find the door it opens. Where is the door? What does it look like? What textures does it have?
Use the key to open the door.
What's on the other side?
If you'd like, walk through the door and explore. Have fun! The real world will be here waiting for you.
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If you ran that experiment what happened?
Isn't it strange and delightful that somehow, out of somewhere, there was a box and a key and a door and whatever the mystery decided to put on the other side of the door?
Or maybe it didn't – what did you find, or what happened when you tried?
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These kind of imaginal playgrounds are used by various groups for all kind of things: healing, self-development, magic, self-discovery, divination, etc.
My favorite group and use combination is kids for play.
Let's make imagination fun again!
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I have so much to say about this that I feel overstuffed and confused. Where even to begin? So I'll just leave this here and ignore its incompleteness.
Maybe I'll try to say more later. Or maybe I'll just run more imagination experiments and tell you what happened.