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Time with Loxy
Engaging the unconscious mind utilizing Active Imagination is a process. It’s a discovery process, not too unlike learning to play an instrument. It’s not as hard as learning a new language, but perhaps one might think about it in such a way. Sometimes you might find yourself engaging a character who is fairly disagreeable. You can’t force them to participate. The trick is finding a way relate to the aspects of you that are intolerable. How do you relate to others you don’t like? More specifically, how do you relate to aspects of you that you don’t like? Fortunately, I have a guide to help me sort some of the harder experiences.
First Home is the tree house of all tree houses, the first tree that was initial focal point for my travels to this world, now known as Bliss. The tree is the mother of all trees, standing tall over a forest that stretches as far as the eye can see in any direction. Looking down on the forest is like looking at a clump of broccoli held at arm’s length away. Second Home, also on Bliss, is a Frank Lloyd Wright styled home at the edge of a cliff that overlooks a beach. My core mental entourage has taken up residence there. I visit First Home, from time to time, to be alone, reflect, and listen to the sounds of a rain forest.
I wasn’t creative enough to give these places names. It’s just First Home and Second Home. Each of my friends who lives at Second Home have their own origin worlds. I met them through Loxy on my first day of attendance at Safe Haven University, on another world, another solar system, in another galaxy. That world and their worlds all have stories.
Safe Have is essentially a college version of Hogwarts Academy. It’s a blending of esoteric magic and technology, and is Potter and Trek on steroids. True to any adult form- going there is risky. It is often X-rated, in an absurd, comical, and sometimes horrific way.
If in exploring your unconscious you only have pretty, G-rated stuff, you have not gone deep enough. I often wonder if mental health is evidence for people being ill equipped to handling dark shit.
When engaging Active Imagination, you will find that every person you meet will have a story and a world of origin. Sometimes they align with…
