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Talk titled: "Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)", given during the event "Day Retreat, London Insight". Held at King Alfred School, London on 2014-10-05.
Topics covered: images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images, desire/eros, concepts/logos, images: early talks on images, soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing, mindfulness, images: using the energy body to navigate, soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures, images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation, images: asking what images want from us, soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path, definitions: soulfulness, definitions: soul, repression / suppression, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
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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/28027
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/0312beda9122c9003facf70bd744e2f2/4d09c7ac/2014_1005ReleasingtheSelfFreeingitsDemonsPart3.pdf
Talk titled: "Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)", given during the event "Day Retreat, London Insight". Held at King Alfred School, London on 2014-10-05.
Topics covered: images: iconic/poetic versus narrative images, desire/eros, concepts/logos, images: early talks on images, soulmaking: imaginal vs imagination/daydreaming/fantasizing, mindfulness, images: using the energy body to navigate, soulmaking: demands from imaginal figures, images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation, images: asking what images want from us, soulmaking: doubts/concerns in or about imaginal practice, dangers or shadow sides in any dharma path, definitions: soulfulness, definitions: soul, repression / suppression, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, concepts/logos: importance of supportive conceptual frameworks
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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/28027
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/0312beda9122c9003facf70bd744e2f2/4d09c7ac/2014_1005ReleasingtheSelfFreeingitsDemonsPart3.pdf
