In this guest-editorial for a special section on "Imagination and organizational lives: Exploring the liminality of the human experience", we situate the questions that informed our call for contributions that would outline a different space in which MSR conversations could be stretched, enriched and nurtured in a meaningful way. We hope to encourage imaginative, creative, and soulful questions, musings and reactions to the core proposition outlined, in different poetic ways, by our contributing authors: that art, body, dreams, and bold daring rawness are core to the human experience; and that they are key to imagining how organizations could be managed in a way congruent with the spiritual liveliness of whole, complex, and interconnected beings.