Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious
May 9, 2022
Explore the fascinating technique of active imagination, a powerful tool to access the unconscious. Discover Carl Jung’s journey through inner turmoil, leading to the creation of the influential Red Book. Engage in dialogue with different parts of yourself and learn how this process aids in self-discovery. The podcast reveals the significance of personalized rituals and how they can illuminate hidden aspects of your psyche. Delve into the transformative journey of understanding yourself, bridging imagination with reality.
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Active Imagination Basics
Active imagination is a dialogue with parts of yourself in the unconscious, similar to dreaming but while awake.
It helps access wholeness of personality by engaging conscious awareness with unconscious content.
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Woman Finds Inner Artist
A woman unable to sleep due to obsessing about colors entered dialogue with her inner artist through active imagination.
This led her to honor neglected artistic parts, enriching her life with creativity and satisfaction.
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Record Active Imagination
Record your inner dialogues by writing, typing, or recording to avoid passive fantasy and keep clarity.
Use simple markings to differentiate your voice from the inner figures during the process.
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Inner Work, Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Inner Work, Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Robert Johnson
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.
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⌛ Timestamps
(0:00) Introduction
(2:02) Confrontation with the Unconscious & The Red Book
(4:46) Alchemy and Jung
(5:39) Approaching Active Imagination
(6:56) Precaution Before Starting Active Imagination
(7:46) Inner Work: Active Imagination
(9:21) Distinguishing Active Imagination from Passive Fantasy
(9:51) Active Imagination Example: Talking with the Inner Artist
(11:51) When You Think You’re Making Up Something
(13:01) Active Imagination as Mythic Journey
(14:10) The Four-Step Approach to Active Imagination
(16:25) Step 1. Active Imagination: The Invitation
(20:50) Step 2. Active Imagination: The Dialogue
(25:00) Step 3. Active Imagination: The Values
(27:25) Step 4. Active Imagination: The Rituals
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