Vision and the Underworld

Inside of the Episode:

* Vision and the Underworld: A Necessary Passage for Creative Entrepreneurs

* What happens when we avoid Underworld realities and initiations.

* An invitation into the Yin, the “Cthonic Necessity”, the Unknown and Unlanguaged

* Receiving Soul-Level Vision and Internal Sight

* Vision and the Underworld: Our Winter theme inside of the Vision Society.

Timestamps:

* 00:00 High Vibrational Creativity and the Need for Underworld Travel

* 01:26 Exploring the Underworld as a Creative Entrepreneur

* 01:57 Vision Society: A Business Incubator

* 02:21 The Role of the Subconscious

* 03:52 The Importance of Deep Roots

* 07:00 Embracing Underworld Initiations

* 08:03 Practical Examples and Deep Work

* 10:44 The Gifts of the Underworld

* 13:09 The Cthonic Necessity

* 24:47 Receiving Internal Sight

* 27:51 Honoring Your Soul's Essence through Vision Development

Links + Resources

* “Personal Growth Won’t Save Us” with Stephen Jenkinson

* Die Wise: A Manifesto of Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

The honest Creative Process always, always leads us into the underworld — not as punishment or evidence of some kind of internal instability, but because it is underneath the “World” as we know it that culture begins. Our “World” is the product of what was once inseminated in the deep, dark black of imaginal. Someone imagined from the thick of the Underworld the futures that we are currently living. This place underneath the “World”, is where our known examples of the manifested imagination begins.

[Like seeds in the warm wet soil. Always, like seeds in the soil.]

When we avoid the Underworld parts of the Creative Process, we create hydroponic visionary realities that are robust with green, chloryphyllic ideas and utopias, but they are often not strong enough, nor tested enough, to withstand nature’s storms and the many seasons of vision, creative process, and life.

“We are a growth addicted, limit defying culture. And we are trying to live a hydroponic spirituality — a spirituality that has no earth.” Stephen Jenkinson

This Underworld reality is not necessarily a place of wrath, forgottenness, and rage as Abramhamic religions have taught us, but a place where darkness, fire, water, fungi, and bacterial cultures thrive and bring texture, flavor, spice, and depth to our conscious experiences of the Upper World, our physical domain.

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The Underworld is what holds our imaginal cells, our stories, our procreative energies, our context, our myths. When we learn how to engage the Underworld, we receive our vision like a fresh first bleed of maturation or like a first wet dream. It’s in the Underworld that our internal eyes open and we learn how to see in the dark. The Underworld is where Vision is born. It is where our vision comes to life. And when vision comes to life, our drive and imaginal responsibility also comes online.

This is because passage through the Underworld is an initiatory experience. It is a sign of maturation when we can make i