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Talk titled: "Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A)", given during the event "Tending the Holy Fire". Held at Colehayes Park, Devon on 2018-02-07.
Topics covered: soulmaking, duty in, images: evil, mental health, and difficulty shifting conceptual frameworks, soulmaking and destiny, middle way of the imaginal, aging/sickness/death, soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice, images: asking what images want from us, images: subtle vs dramatic / intense, image as primary, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum, soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Teacher's note on suitability: the talks and exercises from this 'tending the holy fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'the path of the imaginal (longer course)'; 're-enchanting the cosmos: the poetry of perception'; and 'of hermits and lovers: the alchemy of desire'. integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50522
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/c3e9a74ca32ea436bcb78a20b965c013/31e1231a/2018_0207DestinyAutonomyLoveandSoulQandA.pdf
Talk titled: "Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A)", given during the event "Tending the Holy Fire". Held at Colehayes Park, Devon on 2018-02-07.
Topics covered: soulmaking, duty in, images: evil, mental health, and difficulty shifting conceptual frameworks, soulmaking and destiny, middle way of the imaginal, aging/sickness/death, soulmaking: retaining autonomy of self and other in imaginal practice, images: asking what images want from us, images: subtle vs dramatic / intense, image as primary, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, soulmaking: ethereal/light and earthy/dark spectrum, soulmaking: how trust and distrust color images, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, eros-psyche-logos (the soulmaking dynamic)
Teacher's note on suitability: the talks and exercises from this 'tending the holy fire' retreat are intended for experienced practitioners who already have a working familiarity with this particular soulmaking paradigm, as outlined, for example, in the following retreats: 'the path of the imaginal (longer course)'; 're-enchanting the cosmos: the poetry of perception'; and 'of hermits and lovers: the alchemy of desire'. integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course. without this practice and knowledge base, the material from this retreat may be confusing and unhelpful.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/50522
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/c3e9a74ca32ea436bcb78a20b965c013/31e1231a/2018_0207DestinyAutonomyLoveandSoulQandA.pdf
