Eye of the Heart
A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
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Narrated by:
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Patricia Rodriguez
About this listen
This groundbreaking book shares the evolution of Cynthia Bourgeault’s spiritual journey and offers a new map to understanding energy and our collective reality.
In Eye of the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault investigates the imaginal realm - an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions but often forgotten in our own times. It is invisible to the physical eye, but clearly perceptible through the eye of the heart. The imaginal realm has long been associated with the personal world of dreams, prophecy, and oracles, and it also points toward a higher vision of our human purpose that is both evolutionary and collective. Bourgeault explores both aspects of imaginal reality and tells listeners how we can cooperate more fully with its guidance in our lives.
Expertly blending her own lived experiences with research on the imaginal realm, Bourgeault explores how her personal relationships have helped to bring these teachings into sharper focus and the role this realm plays in Christian and other mystical traditions. She delves into the connections between our inner consciousness and what happens in the world, exploring the transformative energy and governing conventions that make the manifestation of this realm possible. Eye of the Heart presents Bourgeault’s spiritual journey with the imaginal realm and encourages listeners to attune their hearts for the well-being of the world.
"By weaving together mystical wisdom, the Fourth Way, and the authority of her own experience, Cynthia Bourgeault masterfully charts a new path of interior transformation through the heart's ability to know and choose the way of love and service. I learned a lot from this book, and I bet you will, too." (Carl McColman, author of The Big Book of Christian Mysticism)
"Reading Eye of the Heart is a powerful and clarifying experience. The weaving of personal, metaphysical, and contemporary political insights is amazing, seamless, and intercessory in and of itself. We need this kind of weaving and interpenetrating in our culture just as we need it between the realms." (Tim Shriver, author of Fully Alive)
©2020 Cynthia Bourgeault (P)2020 Shambhala PublicationsCritic Reviews
"Cynthia Bourgeault invites us on a journey that is profoundly personal and opens us to a truly fresh and panoramic vision of the purpose of human existence. In bringing to our attention the importance of the imaginal realms - the levels of consciousness between our physical reality and our ultimate divine source - she fills an enormous gap in the current conversations on spirituality. Cynthia has an amazing ability to take potentially complex ideas and to explain them with clarity and kindness. Only someone who has actually traversed these realms and knows them well could accomplish such a feat, and she does so with beauty and grace. Any serious student of the Western traditions ought to partake of these teachings. You will be grateful you did!" (Russ Hudson, co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram)
"If ever there was a teacher who could gather the reins of the mind to gallop into the land of the heart (and take us with her), it is Cynthia Bourgeault. This exquisitely written love story distills the intricacies of the esoteric Western traditions into a transformational elixir - both rigorous and luminous - simultaneously intoxicating and sobering. This book is nothing less than a map to the meeting of the worlds at the crossroads of our own souls, one the mapmaker urges us to abandon the minute our heart sees the way." (Mirabai Starr, author of Wild Mercy)
"Eye of the Heart is an immensely original piece of thinking, feeling, writing. There is nothing like it. It opens new terrain, plants new seeds, starts them on their way toward the light." (Roger Lipsey, author of Gurdjieff Reconsidered)
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- Marita
- 17-01-2021
Stepping in to the unknown - a courageous work
Cynthia has really put herself on the line with this one. Many could think that it's a bit over the top. I nearly didn't read it - I was put off by the 'imaginal' word. Fortunately she put me straight on that early on - certainly nothing to do with imagination. I found myself challenged by the book, and came out the end having been pushed into another realm. It's a must read for anyone willing to shake off the thinking framework of a lifetime, and step out into a whole new realm. Comment on the reader - I thought it was the wrong voice. I haven't heard Cynthia speak, but this reading didn't channel her voice as I'd imagined it (that word again). An excellent reader, but too strong for a book such as this. Just my view - others could easily disagree.
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