A leading depth psychologist offers a practical approach for vastly expanding your creative resources―and discovering for yourself that even the challenges of our time can be overcome by the power of human imagination. If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that place is here, that time is now. For anyone looking for a new way forward for yourself, your community, and our struggling planet, Professor Stephen Aizenstat offers a powerful message of hope. The trailblazers are people like you―the seekers, creatives, dreamers, doers―who are willing and ready to tap into a collective purpose so vital, so vibrant, so resonant in the world of today. In The Imagination Matrix , Aizenstat shares a step-by-step process to help you gain access to the “source code of imagination”―energizing your capacity to innovate new outcomes, evolve real-world solutions, and nurture your well-being. Here you’ll explore: • Opening the Curious Mind―a new method to engage imagination and wonder • Answering the call of your Innate Genius • Growing your capacities of Imaginal Intelligence • Maintaining your humanity in an increasingly technological world • Claiming your creativity and purpose to meet the pull of the future The Imagination Matrix offers a practical and uniquely personal path for becoming more purposeful, resourceful, and resilient―while developing a profound connection to the creative force that animates and flows through us all. “ The Imagination Matrix is an exceptional gift. Stephen Aizenstat provides the essential tools to live a life with richer meaning and awe. The reader will be immediately transported to a life of wonder and possibilities and be renewed in their dedication to a positive future. The timing of this book could not be more ideal and relevant.” ― Jennifer Freed, PhD, author of the bestseller A Map to Your Soul “ The Imagination Matrix offers portals of awareness through which each reader can find their inner code of life and their living core of creative imagination. This radical shift in consciousness transforms individuals and communities, and also supports the entire planet.” ― Michael Meade, author of Awakening the Soul “Reading The Imagination Matrix gives us access to our capacities to cocreate the higher dream that is longing to come into existence. The practices and gifts of this extraordinary book offer training and participation to redeem the unread vision of the higher dream. The Imagination Matrix is the essential reading for those who want to bring profoundly new ways of being and doing into this world and time.” ― Jean Houston, PhD, principal founder of the Human Potential Movement, coauthor of the Future Humans Trilogy “In The Imagination Matrix , Stephen Aizenstat assembles a wealth of sources, as well as his own reflections on stuckness versus creativity, and offers a multiphase plan for a renewed relationship to that generative source within each of us. The capacity for reimagining the materials of daily life is inherent but often blocked by the inner tyrants of complexes and routinized life. This book will ask the reader to break some of those restraints and open to the insurgent images that reframe our dilemmas and that wish expression through us in the world.” ― James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst and author of multiple books, most recently A Life of Meaning “Imagination is different from knowledge; it is the knowledge of the heart. Through the Imagination Matrix, you can enter and feel the realms of deep imagination, live an imagination-centered life, and access Imaginal Healing. What a magnetic calling, as the Imagination Matrix is alive in each of us.” ― Professor Heyong Shen, Jungian analyst; dean of the Institute of Analytical Psychology, City University of Macau; author of Chinese Cultural Psychology and eleven other volumes “Stephen Aizenstat is unquestionably one of the great leaders in the field of deep imagination and dreaming of our generation. His work as a Dream Tender and as the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute has profoundly changed the lives of thousands of people. And now there is this book, which will give many more the opportunity to tap into the healing creativity of the involuntary imagination as it establishes itself around us constantly in the endless stories it spontaneously spins. Dive in with this experienced guide of souls and find your way into the creative genius that surrounds us day and night.” ― Robert Bosnak, PsyA, Jungian psychoanalyst, originator of Embodied Imagination®, author of Red Sulphur “ The Imagination Matrix by Stephen Aizenstat is an imaginal companion that everyone should have. It is a true gift to the world that activates and calls upon our creative genius for taking on the greatest challenges of our time, infusing our lives, work, and relationships with meaning, story, and the powers of the imaginal realms of consciousness. Through it we learn to partner the