 | Spacious Imagination | | Playing in the Realm of Soul |
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Writing is yet another landscape, a place to be and play, a where in the world, but not limited to conventional reality. Writing is symbolic, transitional, creative, and liminal. It offers passage out of the ordinary and into the soulful.
Writing can be fiction or non-fiction, academic or creative, personal or abstract, poetic, matter-of-fact, seemingly "non-sense," a list of grocery items, or intimate journaling (among endless iterations) and may be typed, drawn, penciled, inked, crayoned, scratch with a stick in dirt, stenciled in blood, needled onto the body, traced inside flesh through depths of experience.
Writing is a landscape where the boundaries of our conventional reality may be subverted, bypassed, undermined, and mined. Even while language must serve its own structure and is closely guarded by cultural conventions, writing manages again and again to find passage of escape.
Writing, though spun from the human hand, finds a way to come into being through entirely other fancies and intention. Writing is soul work.
Thus, we may wish to write daily or weekly or upon the advent of a particularly moving dream or daytime experience. After we have written, we may wish to turn to our "own" writing to meet what within us is other. In this way we offer hospitality to our larger Self - a greater presence beyond the ego and its contracted, conscious stories.
For more thoughts on writing and its capacity to widen our range of experience and awareness, please click on "Writing: More Detail" in the upper right hand corner of this page.
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