Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious

Active imagination is a technique developed by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung. He considered it the most powerful tool to access the unconscious and for achieving wholeness of personality. Jung discovered this method between the years of 1913 and 1916, a period of disorientation and intense inner turmoil which he called his confrontation with the unconscious. He searched for a method to heal himself from within, through the power of the imagination. Active imagination is a dialogue with different parts of yourself that live in the unconscious. In some way it is similar to dreaming, except that you are fully awake and conscious during the experience. If we honestly want to find our own wholeness, to live our individual fate as fully as possible; if we truly want to abolish illusion on principle and find the truth of our own being, however little we like to be the way we are, then there is nothing that can help us so much in our endeavour as active imagination.👑 Become a PatronAccess exclusive material and deeper studieshttps://www.patreon.com/eternalised⭐ Or become a YouTube Memberhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join—Support the work☕ Buy a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised💸 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial👕 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com—For deeper study📜 Full transcript: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/05/09/active-imagination/📚 Personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library💡 eBooks: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop🎨 Artwork archive: https://eternalisedofficial.com/patron-benefitsStay connected📨 Newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe✍️ Substack: https://substack.com/@eternalised—Elsewhere🐦 X: https://x.com/eternalised1📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official🎧 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/eternalised📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eternalised━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth https://amzn.to/3t1zDhs▶ Jung on Active Imaginationhttps://amzn.to/3MRwSqZ▶ Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C.G. Jung https://amzn.to/3MWwfMT🎧 Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/332zPzN━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎶 Music used 1. Dreams become Real – Kevin MacLeod2. Lightless Dawn – Kevin MacLeod3. Mysterious Ambient Background Music - The Rake - CO.AG4. Oppressive Gloom - Kevin MacLeod5. Crystal Dream mix - Background Music - CO.AG6. Peaceful Ambient Background Music – Heroes – CO.AG7. Colorless Aura - Kevin MacLeodSubscribe to CO.AG Musichttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvASubscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusicLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/━━━━━━━━━━━━━📝 Sources- Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson- Irvine, I. (2008). Jung, alchemy, and the technique of active imagination. Alchemy and Imagination.- Jung on Active Imagination. Edited and with an Introduction by Joan Chodorow- Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as developed by C.G. Jung by Barbara Hannah- Active Imagination and Jung's Red Bookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomC7WS7us8&t- Active Imagination - This Jungian Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUJP7XtDElg&t- Encounters with the Soul - Barbara Hannah (discussion)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSy6SyAOvQ&t- http://www.wholenesstherapy.com/public/johnson.htm━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction2:02 Confrontation with the Unconscious & The Red Book4:46 Alchemy and Jung5:39 Approaching Active Imagination6:56 Precaution Before Starting Active Imagination7:46 Inner Work: Active Imagination9: