Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Trance, Mythology, Culture, Society & Culture, Shamanism, Arts, Justice, Entheogens, Spirituality, Cosmology, Art, History

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The active practice of imaginative visioning has been utterly central for many societies. Far from being fantasy, such practices reinforce a deep understanding of the cosmos in which the active cultivation of imagination relates directly to tangible actualization — the ability to do, to see and understand, to shape one’s mind and therefore one’s life, to reap the benefits of spaciousness, luminosity, and calm in the mind, to bridge the inner and outer worlds, to understand oneself, the place ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald, Currants and Trends Through a Mythic Lens,
0:13.2	the podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it through the lens of myth,
0:19.6	story, and imagination.
0:25.6	The Emerald. All that's happening on this green jewel in space.
0:31.6	Pictures Picture this with all your heart.
0:44.7	Queen Lila and Saraswati sat together in deep meditation.
0:49.7	Sitting for a very long time like this, they rose above limited consciousness, and roamed freely in their
0:56.7	wisdom bodies. They ascended to far distant scenes in space. Holding each other's hands, they rested on
1:03.7	top of Mount Meru the axis of the earth. They saw countless things as they orbited the moon.
1:09.9	They roamed within huge cloud formations in space. They saw the things as they orbited the moon. They roamed within huge cloud formations
1:12.2	in space. They saw the infinite ether, the womb and source of infinite beings and infinite
1:17.7	worlds. They saw the seven great mountains in the cosmos which were radiant like the fire
1:22.9	of dissolution of all things at the end of time. They saw golden plains and dense forests of darkness.
1:29.3	They saw multitudes and multitudes of beings, celestial nymphs singing and dancing, birds and animals.
1:36.3	They saw the land of the rose-apple surrounded by an ocean of milk. Beyond that, another great land surrounded by an ocean of curd.
1:43.3	Beyond that, an ocean of ghee, a ocean of curd, beyond that an ocean of
1:45.2	ghee, a notion of wine, a notion of sugarcane juice, and beyond that an ocean of crystalline
1:51.4	water.
1:52.7	Then they saw the cosmic hole.
1:54.7	They went beyond the region of the pole star, beyond the realms of the perfected sages,
2:00.4	even beyond the realms of the gods. From there, even beyond the realms of the gods.
2:02.6	From there, Lila saw that even the sun and the moon were far below barely visible.
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