Imaginal Journal

Imagination is Medicine

Cristy Cristy

Truth vs. Words

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate... Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
— Gore Vidal
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Cristy Cristy

Dissolution

Had the honor of attending this powerful dissolution ceremony in Santa Monica care of these Tibetan Buddhist Monks. They travel here and labor over several days on a sand mandala at the Hammer Museum, then offer it to the ocean. Closing a big chapter with this sacred rite.

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Cristy Cristy

You Can Have It All by Yo La Tengo

If you want, want my love
Take it baby
If you want, want my heart
Take it baby
You can have it all

If you want, want my time
Take it baby
And if you want my last dime
Take it baby
You can have it all

Take it baby, you can have it all

  • Writer(s): Richard Raymond Finch, Harry Wayne Casey

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Cristy Cristy

All Has Been Consecrated

All has been consecrated.

The creatures in the forest know this,

The earth does, the seas do, the clouds know

as does the heart

full of love.


Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge

and then empower himself with the ability

to make holy

what already was.


-Saint Catherine of Siena

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Cristy Cristy

On the Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein

Every one is always repeating the whole of them. Always, one having loving repeating to getting completed understanding must have in them an open feeling, a sense for all the slightest variations in repeating, must never lose themselves so in the solid steadiness of all repeating that they do not hear the slightest variation. If they get deadened by the steady pounding of repeating they will not learn from each one even though each one always is repeating the whole of them they will not learn the completed history of them, they will not know the being really in them.

As I was saying every one always is repeating the whole of them. As I was saying sometimes it takes many years of listening, seeing, living, feeling, loving the repeating there is in some before one comes to a completed understanding. This is now a description, of such a way of hearing, seeing, feeling, living, loving, repetition.

Mostly everyone loves some one’s repeating. Mostly everyone, then, comes to know then the being of some one by loving the repeating in them, the repeating coming out of them. There are some who love everybody’s repeating, this is now a description of such loving in one.

Mostly everyone loves some one’s repeating. Everyone always is repeating the whole of them. This is now a history of getting completed understanding by loving repeating in every one the repeating that always is coming out of them as a complete history of them. This is now a description of learning to listen to all repeating that every one is always making of the whole of them.

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Cristy Cristy

Only Herself

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
— Maya Angelou
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