AJC #4 Active Imagination
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Dr. Murray Stein & Dr. Paul Brutsche, renowned Jungian analysts from Zurich, conclude the final seminar in a four part series entitled "The 4 Pillars of Jungian Psychotherapy" hosted by the Asheville Jung Center. In doing Jungian oriented psychotherapy Dr. Stein envisions 4 central themes of treatment. These include 1) the concept of Individuation; 2) the Therapeutic Relationship; 3) Dream Analysis; and 4) Active Imagination.
This concluding DVD set takes an in-depth look at the 4th Pillar, namely the Jungian technique known as Active Imagination.
In the classic form of Jungian psychoanalysis, active imagination played a key role as a method for engaging the unconscious and for promoting the more advanced stages of the individuation process. An important tool in the practice of active imagination was and remains making pictures. Using pencil, pen, paint, clay and other means of expression, the practitioner gives concrete reality and embodiment to the images generated in active imagination. This seminar examines how the method came into being, how it is used, and how it has evolved during the past several decades into its contemporary forms. Murray Stein introduces the method of active imagination and Paul Brutsche shows how the making of pictures is interpreted within the context of long-term Jungian psychotherapy.
This 4 hour seminar was held simultaneously in numerous sites throughout North America and Europe on August 7th, 2009. Dont miss this opportunity to learn from some of the worlds leading Jungian minds. Visit us at AshevilleJungCenter.org
Phew! Finally a video which gives methods to reach unconscious other than some stupid stories all these other videos put up... Thank you!
@PENGUINZ75 did it work for you?
yes also covers Jesus' temptation by the Devil in the 40 days in the desert as as good example of active imagination, as several have noted. More clear than other videos on this topic I've seen today.
This was very clarifying, thanks.
Im not sure what people hope to achieve by doing this. i struggle with schizophrenia and there is not a lot in the universe that you would want to contact. The "Source of all creation" really is a twisted thing, why would you want to contact the very thing that does so much harm to the world...
Iykyk.
Ps: this is probably the best and possibly the only way to seek out the Spirit for yourself.
PPs: i cant do this method because i am already aquatinted with what people are trying to "summon", thats what your actually doing.
If i had my time again, i would keep myself.
Not that i ever stood a chance to fight back (i laugh quietly)... Fight god... I did everything i could to get out but all was in vein, so i had to endure.
Thatnks for making me feel something. 🤔
Thank you so much! This clarified some very basic points for me.
I'm not Christian, but I doubt that will limit my spirits. This is similar to Meditation, yet different.
I didn't get the idea that the question about Christ's encounter with the Devil was a 'religious' one, as much as an example of what even the 'holiest' of us might discover hidden in our subconscious, or in Jungian terms, within our 'Shadow'.
But agreed, the 'method' does seem very similar to 'not judging' our passing thoughts and distractions during meditation. Though rather than returning to our meditation 'mantra', breathing, 'detachment', or whatever... instead active imagination seems to encourage us to 'follow' wherever those 'distractions' may lead (or at least the more symbolic and less 'ego-oriented' ones anyway... beyond the typical chatter of our day-to-day worries, fears, obsessions, etc. which meditation is attempting to 'transcend').
Thanks for this video. I'm really interested in active imagination.
Are you trying , are you meditating. Keep meditating. Quiet your mind, quiet your body. Place your body in an absolute resting state with intention to feel relaxed in the body , shake your body off, wiggle your toes , whatever you gotta do to feel a little loose
This sounds quite weird. Thanks, I'm going to test it out.
Ive had a active imagination my whole life and he is completely right
Yordanos G. maybe she's born with it...maybe its Jungian
I think some of us need to practice, daily.
Awesome introduction to Jung!
Now, I'm watching myself, as I fall asleep, trying words.
Great video
Amazing, Thank you.
So are they saying jesus never went no where , so he was just inside his mind , so the devil was part of his active imagination
Now that I think about it, how does Jesus doing Active Imagination explain the 40 day fast?
@@randolphfrody6794 exactly, I’m thinking that the script about the 40 days in the desert was him going through the dark knight of the soul
When he says on day 2, go back to day 1, does that mean you try to start your meditation by imaging the images that you left off on the day prior? Or does it mean just to restart the process, clear your mind and let what comes come. In the former, you don't clear your mind, but you focus your mind on the images to the day prior. In the latter, you always clear your mind. I was a little confused on what he meant by "go back". If I did this for 30 days, could I get 30 different settings? Or is the technique to focus down the settings and characters, being able to return to them consistently?
So hard to remain conscious while being unconscious
You look for ANY ACTION, write it down, then try to pick it up again, the next day, from that point. If nothing, start again, until some images come in...continue like that.
There are surely 2 oversimplifications here. Firstly, the 'characters' are in theory every bit as likely to be negative aspects of a FATALISM in the psyche, a tendency to go into a vortex that should really be broken from rather than followed. The ego still needs to end up judging ethically. Secondly, as queried in the clip, the danger of 'kidding oneself' from the ego. A dream is autonomous, true, it may emanate from instinct or compensation but AT LEAST IT's a surprise, an objective entity.
A bit late, but I agree with that. Anyway I have been trying to follow characters in my active imagination dreams, but they come to me or don't move, so I end up waiting, and waiting and nothing happens...
@@smartcatcollarproject5699 hmm.. patience, practice. Do you try to engage then in communication?
It should also be said, surely that the reference to Chist's temptation needs put in the context of a piece of ancient literature. The temptation narrative was written that way to convey a message, but surely that shouldn't be invoked as an anecdotal reference to 'clinical' events, no matter what one's faith might be. This is shaky territory.