One of the many views of the world suggest that we are animals with drives and molecules floating around our bloodstream that control every thought and action that we engage in. If we experience something that makes us unhappy, we can simply take other molecules from a large pharmaceutical company and it will alter our brain chemistry and make everything ok or allow us to sleep or whatever is ailing us. That world view of what we are seems by its nature lacking vitality and energy. The world is reduced to words and concepts. It takes all the fun away, literally and figuratively. Life becomes lifeless. We sit and home and watch TV. We become cold and detached because we lose our connection to the environment.
By contrast, if we can step into the animistic/imaginal world, the world comes alive, literally and figuratively. We reach out and literally connect with spirits and energies surrounding us. We feel the dark contractive energies and they become fuel for the fire of our transformation. When everything around us is alive, we can embrace it, and that connection fuels our vitality and the so called imaginary realm comes alive. Think of the difference in language you use to describe the embrace of living objects, versus the dead world of materialism. Materialism = depression. Animism= connection and embrace.
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