His imagination is still alive and can carry him through the projects he is working on. Her mind remains open to new and challenging ideals and possibilities.
When you accept that phobias are meaningful, dreamlike scenarios the unraveling of which can actually help deepen self knowledge and compassion, then, in a wider sense and having faced the terror of being but a speck in a grinder, you also make yourself available to the prospect of being redeemed by Nature, the self that exists outside.