Active Imagination

From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst...

Change Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer's method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire listeners to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.

Are you drowning in emotions that aren't even yours? As a highly sensitive person, you absorb feelings from everyone around you. You lose yourself in relationships, carry others' pain as your own, and struggle to find where "you" end and "they" begin. Your empathy feels like a curse, leaving you exhausted, overwhelmed, and fragmented. But what if your sensitivity isn't the problem? What if you simply lack the psychological framework to integrate it? Carl Jung's depth psychology offers the missing piece. This isn't another surface-level self-help book. It's a scholarly guide grounded in ...

Master the Core Concepts of Carl Jung with This Concise Essential Guide Carl Jung’s contributions to psychology—from personality structure to the process of psychological development—remain vital decades later. However, many readers find his writings infuriatingly obscure, mixing clinical precision with speculative philosophy and symbolic interpretation. This book solves that problem by presenting a clear, structured introduction to the ideas that matter most, presented in a way that respects both Jung's complexity and your intelligence. Explore the fundamental blueprints of human ...

What do you do when the old map no longer works? In a time of upheaval, exhaustion, and inner fragmentation, Jung’s Red Book has become one of the most important works for readers searching not only for insight, but for meaning. In A Red Book for Our Time, Martin N. Gjerløff translates Jung’s visionary masterpiece into clear, compelling language for modern life. Exploring themes such as shadow, soul, symbol, individuation, crisis, and Active Imagination, this book shows why Jung’s descent into the unconscious still speaks powerfully to the dilemmas of our age. Blending depth ...

Published first in 1912, Psychology of the Unconscious was one of the most important stepping stones in the development of Jung’s thought and practice. It has a long subtitle: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought. This expressed the underlying impetus - a break from the view of the libido and its functions as taught by Sigmund Freud, which Jung had earlier adopted. It was from this point that the two approaches, which came to be known as the Swiss and Viennese schools, emerged.

Dreams have profound implications for the physical and spiritual realm, for the body as well as for the psyche. The innovative dream-work procedures developed in this book are instruments that help illuminate such connections, allowing for symbolic elaboration of psychosomatic symptoms that favor their transformation and resolution. The procedures of Dream Processing, Body-Active-Imagination and Contemplative Dream Experience are described and investigated and illustrated with manifold examples. They are valuable tools for the therapeutic professional and for any of us wishing to interact ...

Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Since the 17th century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as "make believe". Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science. Imagination has been marginalized - depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it - and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.

UNIVERSAL TRUTHS is a short, business quick read for busy executives, founders, strategists, and consultants who feel the silent pressure to “just use AI” for everything -- thinking included. AI has closed the knowledge gap. What used to be a competitive advantage (knowing more, faster) is now cheap. The real edge has moved. It’s now the ability to define the real problem - the human problem underneath the business problem - before it shows up in the numbers. This book gives you a practical method to do exactly that, without turning your leadership into therapy or your strategy into ...

In this audiobook authored immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre. 

From five to seven times each night, we dream and glimpse into a reality not normally available to us. Now Jungian psychoanalyst and author Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the symbols, themes, and insights of these letters from our unconscious, with the beginning student in mind. From common...

Carl Jung on Shadow Work, Volume 2: Advanced Practice is a deeper companion to Volume 1, written for readers ready to move beyond basic shadow recognition and into the advanced territory of Jungian psychology. This volume explores the golden shadow, active imagination, alchemical symbolism, relationship projection, transference, midlife, the Self, synchronicity, evil, and the God-image. Grounded in Jung’s primary sources, including Aion, Psychology and Alchemy, Alchemical Studies, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, The Practice of Psychotherapy, and Answer ...

Something in the human soul refuses to stay put. The Explorer archetype is the psyche’s enduring impulse to wander beyond the familiar—outward into the world and inward into the uncharted territory of the unconscious. In Jungian terms, this is not aimless restlessness. It is the call of individuation: the lifelong quest to become a whole, authentic self. In The Explorer Archetype, you’ll explore the Explorer through Jung’s depth psychology and the mythic stories that carry this pattern across time. You’ll trace the archetype’s lineage through the wandering hero and the night sea...

A clear and compelling introduction to Jung’s dream psychology for readers who want more than a dream dictionary. Dreams are not random mental debris. In Jungian psychology, they are living messages from the unconscious—revealing imbalance, correcting one-sided attitudes, and guiding the dreamer toward greater wholeness. Carl Jung on Dreams brings together Jung’s essential ideas on dream interpretation in a clear, engaging, and accessible guide for modern readers. Grounded in Jung’s own writings, this book explores how dreams function, why symbols matter, and how the unconscious ...