Eleanor Robins writes in service of imagination. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Her Substack, How to Go Home, is a newsletter devoted to essays, reflections, and conversations about imagination and the imaginal realm.

A steward of dreams and stories, Eleanor studies the phenomena of the imaginal realm and how it shapes us and our relationship with reality. Following in the tradition of thinkers and mystics such as Henry Corbin and Cynthia Bourgeault, Eleanor and Andy’s conversation explores the imaginal realm as a real place apart from the physical, one with its own mode of perception separate from our ordinary waking consciousness; the space between the spiritual and the material; the dreamtime of the gods.

"I Am Like a Leaf" by Yone Noguchi The silence is broken: into the nature My soul sails out, Carrying the song of life on his brow, To meet the flowers and birds. When my heart returns in the solitude, She is very sad, Looking back on the dead passions Lying on Love’s ruin. I am like a leaf Hanging over hope and despair, Which trembles and joins The world’s imagination and ghost.

Show Notes:

* How to Go Home - Eleanor Robins on Substack

* https://www.eleanorrobins.com

* Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault

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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

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What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

Cecily Sommers is a futurist, business consultant, and author of Think Like a Futurist. Cecily defines her practice as a futurist in terms of someone who studies the principles and mechanisms of change by looking at history, biology, and the universe in order to understand how societies transform over time. As a business futurist, Cecily’s zone of genius is as a consultant to some of the world’s biggest brands in the disciplines of strategy, innovation, and leadership development, helping organizations recognize and strategize around the forces of change impacting business and society.

This week on The Wonder Dome, Cecily shares the significance of developing what she calls change literacy; an ability to cultivate an inner stability in tandem with an understanding of how the cycles of change function so that we can readily meet the future as it approaches. In an ever-changing geopolitical landscape, Cecily’s work is a balm that soothes uncertainty by helping us develop, “the other AI: an Anticipatory Intelligence that tells us not just what to follow, but how to leverage change for growth.”

"The Future" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin The future: time's excuse to frighten us; too vast a project, too large a morsel for the heart's mouth. Future, who won't wait for you? Everyone is going there. It suffices you to deepen the absence that we are.

Show Notes:

* www.cecilysommers.com

* Cecily Sommers on LinkedIn

* Think Like a Futurist by Cecily Sommers

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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

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What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

Mieke Jacobs (poet, coach, thought leader and systemic teacher) returns to the Dome to share from her book Poet Assassin; a fittingly-titled collection of “dense and ethereal” poems that excavate the collective psyche. It’s a fitting title for a body of work that flows through the mind and heart and yet is also sharp like an edge that cuts through the noise and speaks truth in a way that can be deeply felt in the body.

With profound insight and honesty, Mieke reads from Poet Assassin and shares about her inspirations, processes, and meditations on the exploratory question behind the artistry of this book: “What is this strange, beautiful, glorious, and at the same time excruciating life about?

"Grace" by Mieke Jacobs If it be Your will I will stumble and fall Flat on the ground in full surrender I will pray and wait Wait Wait Until the larger movement of life is taking me Once again If it be Your will I will walk towards the River And give myself to it Feeling the river feeling me A graceful witness to my toil When I try to push the river Once again If it be Your will I will walk forever I will walk barefoot I will ride bareback I am willing to stand naked In front of the Truth Once again If it be Your will I will stay I will come into form I will live this life This glorious and excruciating living of life I will come I will be Once again If it be Your will

Show Notes:

* Poet Assassin by Mieke Jacobs

* #44 Systemic Elegance (with Mieke Jacobs and Paul Zonneveld)

* La Garçon - Truus Druyts

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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?