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We are all creators made in the image of the Creation: male & female, creator & creatrix.

Co-Creating with the Creative Imagination

Come on a 12-week journey to explore & expand your natural creative power. Imago Dei means divine image or image of God, based on the concept that humans are created in the image of Creator & Creation as creators. The Imago Dei Kit remembers & reimagines our ability to recreate ourselves, lives, & world as both creator & creatrix, reintroducing the lost feminine image of God or what Jung called the "maternally creative" soul.

Creatrix Powers

Embrace your full creative powers as creator & creatrix to bring healing balance to the world. It is time to remember the female face of God as the embodied soul, including nature, animals, ancestors & creativity. Coupon Codes: FREELOVE (free) LOVE75 (% off) LOVE50 & LOVE25 (until first 100 or 1.1.24)
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There are many faces of God, but the feminine creatrix (soul) has been edited & forgotten.
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The God Image is not in the Body but in the Mind.
*Meaning that it is in the masculine mind not soul.
C G Jung

Why this is essential: 

If all art is a self-portrait and we create in our own image, it is essential that we create our own relationship and image of the creator/creatrix to reflect all of us.
It is time to return to our roots, both etymological & imaginal as we trace early iconography to find the original images of Western divinity & create OUR OWN image of the sacred.

As we reimagine the god image, it is important to remember that Yahweh & Elohim were originally both non-gendered, plural. In Genesis the reference to divinity is "they," and Yahweh translates to "the One who is" or "I am." For, just as God created man & woman in his image (Genesis), both genders are creative. So, in Imago Dei we return to the feminine image of divine creativity, the Creatrix & creativity as the "maternally creative" soul as archetypally feminine as Jung stated. 

Who is this path for? You

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"Everyone has an opus--a soul work." C G Jung

What is your image of Creation?

And what is creation? This is a very political question with an image that has changed throughout time. 
To create a work of art is to create the world. The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended . . . There is no must in art because art is free.
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 Ancestral

Unconscious legacy

Embodied

Reimagine your cultural inheritance to find your image

Creative

Create your image of a creator by creating. You are the creator.

Animals

By whatever name, what is the collective and future vision?

Psychological

Related to Soul Psychology. 

Mythical

*Including Religion (s)

Natural

Direct Relations or Gnostic

Scientific

Biocentrism, Quantum . . .

 Archetypal

Explore unconscious images inherited from your ancestors

Cultural

Reimagine your cultural inheritance to find your image

Personal

Create your image of a creator by creating. You are the creator.

Eternal?

By whatever name, what is the collective and future vision?

Creation is a calling

What is your mission? What is the mission or purpose of art?

From Cave Walls

Art served an initiatory purpose from our ancestral past, painted or carved on cave walls as sacred ceremony

To the Renaissance

In the Renaissance are initiated collectively, inspiring and enlivening a generation in rebirth

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The mission of art has remained constant: to birth and evolve consciousness but in new ways and expressions

Why do we need it?

Power lies in the image of the creator.
We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe. 
John hagelin

What is your creative path?

Getting to know Heather and the PATH
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Why should I take this course?

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Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, PhD

Following in the soul's footsteps

Heather has been called to walk the transformative path of the Soul of Creativity. Having spent decades in self and soul-directed exploration as a professional artist and seeker, she has taught this process in college classes and workshops. With a doctoral degree in archetypal psychology on art as a transformative process (based on Jung's Red Book), she is passionate about the transformative power of creativity. is a playful seeker, explorer, and inspirer who combines eco, art, and play therapy in a healing and teaching path that is embodied and natural.

Following those who have gone before

While Heather has researched the soul's creativity to walk and lead others on this path, your soul is your real guide. Combining cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, this path's deep magic is the soul. It is the soul you follow and only you can connect to your soul (You). The heart of this path is your relationship with your soul that connects you with your greater Self.
"Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves as whole and complete." C G Jung
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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Seeing is half of creation

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Basic Questions

Do you need to know how to draw and other questions. (No.)
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Creativity connects us to the soul

Each week you walk on stepping stones that introduce fundamental concepts and skillsets that connect your creative nature to the creative nature of the soul, as you journey toward the Self. These steps take you into the unconscious through coursework that is patterned to help you trust the process and surrender to soul. Each week you will get a new video to watch, a visual text to view, and a downloadable workbook chapter to explore, leading to the last 2 months in which you dive deeper into your art, with Red Book readings and emergent group discussion. Activities are woven throughout the coursework to help you bring it to life in YOUR LIFE and supported by the learning site's many features.

This is a trailhead to the imagination.

As you walk you activate your imagination and open to the symbolic guidance of the soul in synchronicity, dreams, and visions. You are dreaming yourself awake and learning to see the waking world as if in a dream through the symbolic sight and insight of your soul. Opening to an archetypal perspective, you will begin to perceive the mythic story that underpins your life, guiding you on a path both within and without. As you move through the coursework, each week's lesson will "show up" and reveal itself in living images and experiences that deepen your insight. Walking in this way, brings you to greater consciousness, as it weaves your inner and outer, unconscious and conscious lives and worlds together. This union is the healing nature of the soul that unites opposites to connect the dots and see the big picture of the Self and soul. 

Coursework and play . . .

Each week your content drops down for you below.

A structure to CONTAIN the process

This process is contained by your soul but also by 3 circles of support made by you and your classmates. Each circle expands with you as you create your opus, designed to offer different levels of containment as you individuate. These circles reflect Jung's process as archetypal or universal

Alone

You travel alone.

Between you and You (soul)

Partner

Mirror each other

Pick a partner to reflect 

Group

Circle together

Gather to support each other

Creating a container for sacred space.

Additional containment comes from creating sacred space in an art studio, creativity altar, and in your art which can be seen as your "church" and "cathedral," housing your soul. In these spaces you create a place of renewal and retreat for you to come back to again and again, whether creating art, lighting a candle, meditating, or doing gentle yoga. These spaces help to cocoon you as an alchemical container of transformation throughout your process, nurturing your creative practice in your body and a body of art. Additionally, a container will be created with a circle ritual that opens and closes the class along with an individual session with me to open and close your personal transformation. 

This class follows in archetypal footsteps.

While we follow in the footsteps of . There is only one way, your way.

A 12 week journey

While 21 week may seem like a long time compared to a weekend workshop, the gifts of co-creation.

Introduction

Week 1

What is Imago Dei?

Introspection

Week 2

3 Aspects of ID

Imago Therapy 

Week 3

Reimagining Divinity

Lost Feminine

Week 4

4 Repressed Categories

Ancestors

Week 5

Activating your imagination to play with your imagery.

Creative Imagination

Week 6

Getting to know yourself through your psychology.

Nature

Week 7

Befriending your shadow to gain understanding and love.

 Sacred Feminine

Week 8

Embodying soul to know through direct experience.

Sacred Masculine

Week 9

Exploring Jung's example and process as a path.

Union

Week 10

Playing with color as emotion, energy, and art.

Sustainable Balance

Week 11

Journaling your dreams and visions in art diaries.

Conclusion

Week 12

Elaborating your writing and drawing in art illuminations.

The map is not the landscape

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Your soul brings you a vision 

Jung said that you cannot go directly into the unconscious but if you create unconsciously with your hands your soul would bring you a vision. Imagination has the roots magi for magic and image and it is the heart of this visionary path. As you walk you are activating your imagination and remembering how to play with your soul's images that guide you. Open your eyes, heart, and mind to a new way of seeing and being. Learn to navigate by starlight through the dark night of the soul.

Archetypal Psychology + Creativity

Creation & Creator
Reflect on your belief and story about creation. 
How are you a creator and what are you called to create?
Power of Creativity
Explore and experience the power of creativity.
What is the power of creativity in your life?
Create your IMAGE
Play with and create an image of God or goodness.
How can you see divinity in your creativity?Receive tools that will support you to release unconscious patterns of self-doubt and neglect that lead to imbalance and disease. Down time is essential for creative growth.
Self Love
Embrace your image and create it in your life.
How can your image help hold and direct your life?

Soul of Creativity, Drop In + Circle Up

Sign up for the support you need. Remember that I am here as a resource as well. Feel free to call and touch in for additional containment and support. Reach out to your alchemical partner and group. You are held.

On this path you draw from a soul toolkit

While you are finding yourself and your way, you are on an archetypal path that offers a consistent way to navigate. Including elements of centering, mindfulness, visioning, dreaming, yoga, eco-psychology and breathwork, the soul guides us on a path that connects our nature to nature. So we begin with introductory videos to seed your imagination with these ancient archetypal practices proven through time.

Dream into your nature

Bridging head and heart, this course follows in Jung's footsteps as he followed his soul into the wilds of his psychological nature to reconnect with the natural world. Because creativity expresses in our nature and in nature, this is an eco-art therapeutic path to wholeness--to the whole world. This is more about the alchemical Great Work of Art than art. It is about your transformative growth, patterned after the perennial rhizome planted in the rich earth of your imagination to grow out of you in art.

Connecting to the soul's creative nature

Images connect our nature to nature because we are a part of nature. So these courses work and play with the nature of our body. Drawing upon our psychological and physiological evolution toward visual evolution and primacy, the coursework combines visual and verbal imagery to maximize our whole brain and body learning. Just as images are the wealth and language of the soul, they are the language we speak in our creativity throughout the coursework. You are learning the unique language of your soul's images that are both visual and verbal.

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A path into the wilderness of the soul

While we enter into the process on a path of painted steppingstones we find ourselves in the natural world. Jung said that the soul would become less and less a personification, an "other" and more a function. So we internalize our soul's capacity to activate the image of the world and navigate our life. We come alive and bring our life to life in its images. Where you find yourself upon this path is unique, but most people experience a deepening into the magic of nature and their own nature.

Soul advice: "drop into your heart"

In our modern world we have become head-centered, dismissing emotion and intuition as inferior feminine ways of knowing. In a very real way, this path leads from head to heart, reconnecting inner masculine and feminine ways of knowing in a union or coniunctio that alchemically unites above and below, spirit and matter. This is a path to wholeness that integrates all parts of our being in newly discovered yet ancient embodied ways of knowing rooted in the earth.

The soul speaks in images

The soul's communication is symbolic and imagistic, embodied and imaginal. Jung said that his soul did not have speech centers and let her use his to speak, and studies have found that during spiritual experiences speech is not generated in normal speech centers. Nor is core wounding reached by speech. Both are accessed through the imagistic and embodied language of the soul. So, this soul path combines visual and verbal imagery in the way of the soul (the picture superiority effect) in which words are symbolic and metaphoric images, combined with visual art. When Jung's soul referred to the Red Book as art, she meant all of it.

The soul's ethic is authenticity

This is a very simple path that requires that you honor the soul and the soul's images. Jung called this being a disciple to the image but it is really a discipleship to your soul as a guiding image. What this looks like will be unique to you but it is characterized by a sincere attention to the details of your soul's images, a willingness to follow them as a path.

The soul's goal is to make you whole.

This deep self-care heals you by helping you remember the forgotten and dismembered parts of yourself, life, and soul. Buried in the unconscious, these fragments of your Self are gathered by following your soul and harvesting your soul's images in art and creativity. This process touches and redresses core wounds that lie at the heart of your complexes, mining the rich soil of your unconscious to embrace lost parts, buried and cast in shadow. You need all of these pieces to reclaim your power and soul. On a fundamental level this is a soul retrieval and a soul mate relationship. 

Imagine a new/old way and You

On this path you activate you imagination, moving ever deeper into yourself and the Self. The activating agent of the soul, the imagination is the soul's super power. An application of the intuition, imagination lets you reach places and knowledge otherwise unknown. As Albert Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." We need imagination to grow. 

This is about embracing your soul power.

Your soul's power is the power to recreate yourself, your life, and the world. In this process you are creating soul to reanimate and reimagine the soul in the world. In embracing your soul power you embrace your soul's gift--something that only you can express. The world needs each of our gifts. So, the end result of the path is that you offer the gift of yourself and soul to the world to make the world whole. You are being You.

This is about embracing your soul power.

Your soul's power is the power to recreate yourself, your life, and the world. In this process you are creating soul to reanimate and reimagine the soul in the world. In embracing your soul power you embrace your soul's gift--something that only you can express. The world needs each of our gifts. So, the end result of the path is that you offer the gift of yourself and soul to the world to make the world whole. You are being You.