With my coaching clients, one of the most powerful questions is something like "What is possible..." Or I say something like "imagine that you could...". So often I find they (we/I) are trapped in their rigid constructs and lose the ability to imagine something new.
Although there are also the "dreamers" who are always fantasizing about possibilities and don't ground them in practice or action. So in a sense, there must be another quality of Eros that leads to embodied action and manifesting that image.
And yes, this maybe links back to our discussion of line and circle qualities - and Eros is really these qualities coming together.
So, in a sense, we could say that fantasizing, dreaming, imagining is more of a circle quality. We are receiving the fantasies. We are in them. We are held by them. (Even though in active imagining, there may be a line element in it of focusing our minds.)
But then, in order to "ground them in action" we really do need our line qualities - we need the goal orientation of the line, the moving toward something, the penetrating quality of the line...
So both of these need to come together, to be integrated into the spiral...
"The sexual models Eros when it teaches us how to access the potency of imagination in every realm of our lives. What would it mean to fantasize about a world without hunger and sexual abuse? What would it mean to fantasize about a world in which every person’s unique gift was received and honored? It is the power of fantasy and imagination that arouse us in the sexual. We require the power of fantasy and imagination to arouse us in the personal and the political as well."
We all have the power to imagine and we all KNOW what the most beautiful world possible would look like. The powerful invitation here is co-create that together. Let's fire up our imaginations, reclaiming them from their exile in the sexual, and work towards the creation of a more just world, a fairer world, a world that works for everyone
With my coaching clients, one of the most powerful questions is something like "What is possible..." Or I say something like "imagine that you could...". So often I find they (we/I) are trapped in their rigid constructs and lose the ability to imagine something new.
Although there are also the "dreamers" who are always fantasizing about possibilities and don't ground them in practice or action. So in a sense, there must be another quality of Eros that leads to embodied action and manifesting that image.
Beautiful, David!
And yes, this maybe links back to our discussion of line and circle qualities - and Eros is really these qualities coming together.
So, in a sense, we could say that fantasizing, dreaming, imagining is more of a circle quality. We are receiving the fantasies. We are in them. We are held by them. (Even though in active imagining, there may be a line element in it of focusing our minds.)
But then, in order to "ground them in action" we really do need our line qualities - we need the goal orientation of the line, the moving toward something, the penetrating quality of the line...
So both of these need to come together, to be integrated into the spiral...
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Wow, love that:
"The sexual models Eros when it teaches us how to access the potency of imagination in every realm of our lives. What would it mean to fantasize about a world without hunger and sexual abuse? What would it mean to fantasize about a world in which every person’s unique gift was received and honored? It is the power of fantasy and imagination that arouse us in the sexual. We require the power of fantasy and imagination to arouse us in the personal and the political as well."
Let's reimagine the world!
We all have the power to imagine and we all KNOW what the most beautiful world possible would look like. The powerful invitation here is co-create that together. Let's fire up our imaginations, reclaiming them from their exile in the sexual, and work towards the creation of a more just world, a fairer world, a world that works for everyone