Cynthia Bourgeault talks of causality meaning in the Imaginal Realm.

“Because of the fundamentally spatial aspect of imaginal causality, the bits and pieces inside the frame do not usually hook up in a linear fashion. More often they appear as simultaneous, overlapping resonances or patterns, caught by the heart rather than the mind, speaking in the language of resonance.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye of the Heart, Shambhala Publications, 2020, p68

“In Imaginal causality the meaning is generated in the richness of the interplay. One can speak, properly, about a ‘tapestry of meaning,’ or in a scientific metaphor, one can say that the meaning is ‘an emergent property of the whole’ … in the way the bits and pieces speak to each other, calling each other into resonance. From the center things flow out and towards each other, creating combinations sometimes surprising but recognized by the heart as meaningfully congruent. The validating sense is one of coherence, of richly patterned meaning.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye of the Heart, Shambhala Publications, 2020, p73-75

“Meaning is not explanation, it’s resonance” Cynthia Bourgeault, Desert Fathers and Mothers Wisdom School,  Tucson, 2019

Gurdjieff said: “You always think, think, think. I look.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, (Eureka Editions:2020) p1540 

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Logion 77
Yeshua says...
I am the light shining upon all things.
I am the sum of everything,
for everything has come forth from me,
and towards me everything unfolds.
Split a piece of wood, and there I am.
Pick up a stone
and you will find me there.

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Cynthia Bourgeault discusses other aspects of Imaginal causality in this Impression.

Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.