Welcome to Everything Speaks if You Listen with Jen CobbleWorks where we befriend our humanity and the Sacred through story, soul questions, and every day life.
In this week's episode, we look at the sacred invitation of letting our imagination run away with us. When we are focused on goals and outcomes, we can see imagination as something that distracts us. We can even suggest that imagination wrongly tempts us! But many spiritual practices are rooted in imagination and letting ourselves be led by it.
When we dream and explore from the back of imagination, we stretch our ability to hold difference and diverse possibility within ourselves. We make room for what at first glance feels impossible or unfathomable. When we consider ourselves seed carriers, light bearers, and sacred vessels, we can then manifest, birth, express, and share these wild, new hopes within us in service to our shared humanity and community.
In other words: imagination helps us cultivate possibilities within that become possibilities of peace and inclusion for the world we share.
The modern world is different than the ancient world as it approaches imagination. There is an animus within our ability to create and wonder that the ancient world recognized that sometimes gets squashed by forces of productivity and ideology now.
This week's episode focuses on these questions: How can we cultivate a tangible peace outside of if we cannot make room to dream about it within us? And how can we tolerate and love the humanity of others if own compassion within is not stretched by a creativity beyond our fears within?
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I'm Jen Cobble Willhoite, a contemplative storyteller, spiritual tool designer, and life-long soul seeker. My path is formed and framed by questions more than answers. I'm more comfortable wondering and wandering about things spiritual than I am in ideology, religion, or dogma.
My soul language and connection with Spirit is primarily grounded in Celtic Spirituality, science, nature, seasonal cycles, myth, folklore, and stories of all kinds. I do have roots in progressive Christianity that I sometimes speak from. My tap root, though, is ordinary life. I believe enlightenment is rhythmic, unfolding, and found in our everyday experiences and selves. I also offer tools and courses on my modern interpretation of the examen: a daily ritual of looking back, looking within, and looking ahead to cultivate a rapport with your inner wisdom and the Sacred as you understand it.
Every few weeks, I share an episode from my own spiritual explorations, offering invitations for you to explore these themes on your own. Thanks for journeying with me!