Imaginal Journal

Imagination is Medicine

Cristy Cristy

Enchantment as a Right

We can live a few weeks without food, a few days without water, and a few hours without shelter in an inhospitable clime, but we cannot live for even a moment without some movement of imagination in mind and body. To restrict its enlivening flow is to cripple the wellsprings of health, vitality, and sanity....Enchantment is a self-evident basic right.
— Craig Chalquist
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Cristy Cristy

Five Foot Two with Gaga

An intimate exploration into Lady Gaga's experience of body pain, fame, isolation, creativity, and tending the soul of her family.

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Cristy Cristy

The DNA Journey

A poignant message to embrace the unifying ties among our human tribe. I recently garnered the results of my DNA and was so validated in what cultural pulls I had already intuited. What ancient magic that threads us all together. It is only a belief that it is otherwise that divides.

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Cristy Cristy

All Things Return to Their Root

All things return to their root.
Returning to the root, there is stillness.
In stillness, true purpose returns.
This is what is real.
Knowing the real, there is clarity.
Not knowing the real, foolish action brings disaster.
From knowing the real comes spaciousness,
From spaciousness comes impartiality,
From impartiality comes sovereignty,
From sovereignty comes what is natural.
What comes naturally, is the Tao.
From the Tao comes what is lasting,
Persisting beyond one’s self.
— Tao Te Ching, Verse 16
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