Magical Thinking Is Also Imaginal

Art by Rugs of Reflection, "Magical Thinking" // each piece represents a cognitive adaptation or experience

I've never understood the cynicism that exists towards magical thinking. While realists and pessimists cry into their coffee and rationalists claim to only believe in what they can prove or debunk, there are those of us who cultivate a deep and abiding relationship to the imaginal.

The realm of dreams and pure imagination is as beautifully challenging as any other, and certainly no less valid. Access is an inherent superpower we are all born with and fast educated out of, more's the pity. But unlike the scary tales of our current dire realities, it offers hope and promise... if you will place your faith in its vast unknown, and your own too.

Throughout history at each stage of humanity's tremoring evolutions there is always a sharp rise in the divinatory and creative arts. During the times when the world fails or scares us, we look to the dreamers and the visionaries. Those who cultivate a non ordinary consciousness that can imagine the next world and call it into form.

Come meet me at the intersection of imagination, intuition and creativity. It is a magical junction, a crossroads I live and work and thrive in, offering myriads ways and means to choose a different path to our forming futures. In this place we don't avoid the shadows, we dance with them. We don't bypass challenges, we rise to meet their opportunity. We don't ignore truth or trauma, we hunt its game and savour all its entrails and entreaties. Here, life is lived mythologically.

It is even easier in hard times to abandon magic. To lose hope and faith in your own abilities. To be deafened by screaming naysayers and blaring screens that disconnect you from your soul's codex. There is always another way to see things, a door left ajar, a sliver of light in the periphery.

Tomorrow join me there - through the accepted magic of virtual reality - and explore the Imaginal Playground as panacea, salvation and so much more as part of @magicalegyptofficial Women of Wisdom symposium. I'm in incredible company there for the next month. Join us here, darklings and use the code KERRIE for a 30% mates rates discount.


Words c. Kerrie Basha 2025