Psychedelics are one way to trip, but there are other ways too. Imagination is a portal, I'm a tellin' ya, boo.

What are these other worlds beyond the gates of imagination? Who inhabits them? Are they dangerous to visit? These questions are a bit of the ground we traverse on this episode.

Maryn Spangler runs an online school for spiritual education and exploration called The Lorian Association, and her Substack is Love Walks Here.

Music this episode by, the one and only, Patrick Matey.

This episode is about people. Why the hell are they so scary and so interesting at the same damn time?

Expect a very special guest by the name of Lydia! And another surprise guest further in.

Also! We'll have Emily Dickinson, Ibn Arabi, and Jean-Paul Sartre chiming in.

Thanks for listening.

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A person is a window

With insufficient veil—

A dark and yawning opening

Where tattered curtains blow,

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Or where celestial beams

Of brightness run in veins,

To every part from every heart,

To smash the window panes.

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WORKS CITED

Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi by Henry Corbin

Like Eyes That Looked on Wastes +

A Light Exists in Spring +

Ample Make This Bed +

There Is a Finished Feeling by Emily Dickinson

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

We all feel stuck at times, am I right? I was just experiencing this a bit ago, matter of fact.

I know there’s something different, something more, something new. It’s utterly unique. It’s beautiful and, and wonderful! It’s out there ahead of me in the future somewhere. Much more than that I cannot say. I don’t have the deets on it.

What I do have is what I have. My current identity. My habits. Me. What I always do in this situation that I’m stuck in. Plus distraction. Many invitations to distraction. Many which I’ve followed and found myself even stucker!

Oh is there any way forward into the new? Into the new next version of me? How do I soften, open, expand?

Listening to Spring’s story helps me understand.

Indeed, there's a path that is more like a flow. Indeed, there's becoming once I'm letting go.

You can find Spring at Resonance Path Institute.

And you can sign up to get invited to becoming magic hangouts here.

Thanks for being here.