Deep

Imagination

The imaginal world

Accessing the imaginal allows us to dive deep into the more-than human world, It can reveal broad integrative visions. build greater collective resonance, and empower individual freedom. In this time of increasing complexity, our capacity to imagine has never been more needed.

Imagination is infused throughout the work at sacred fifth. Its practice can help us embody radically different ways of being. To dream our communities, rethink our systems, and catalyse healing.

Through powerful and intentional imagining We can unlearn and unravel our homogenised cultural stories, and reclaim our place as sacred beings in a sacred world.

‘The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable’

— C.G. Jung

Imagination Practice

Imagination practice is key to both Insight Herbalism and Celtic Shamanism, where imagination is understood not as mere fantasy, but as a gateway to the deeper layers of reality. Through intentional practices like meditative journeying, rituals, and symbolic interaction with plants, we engage the imagination as a tool for healing, self-discovery, and transformation.

. It is through the act of imagination that we can reconnect with ancient, archetypal energies—ancestral wisdom, nature spirits, and the land itself—and invite these energies into our lives in a profound way.

the imagination is a bridge between worlds, allowing us to engage with the forces of nature and the wisdom of our ancestors. connecting with plants is an act of deep imagination—an practice that opens us to the unseen qualities of plants and their deeper intelligence.

Collective Imagination

Collective imagination is the shared, often unconscious, creative force that shapes our perception of the world, our culture, and our healing processes. In Insight Herbalism and Celtic Shamanism, the plants and the land are not viewed as separate from us but as active participants in the fabric of our shared imagination.

The plants are seen as living beings with their own consciousness and imaginative presence, offering guidance, wisdom, and healing. By engaging with them through the practice of journeying, ritual, and visioning, we access the collective web of life, where the boundaries between individual and collective experience dissolve, allowing for deep healing on a communal level.