From Twilight Imagery and Active Imagination

Wikipedia Active Imagination

Sonu Shamdasani, the editor of Jung’s Red Book, points out in his Introduction that the unifying factor of Jung’s widespread studies of spiritual disciplines was Active Imagination.

“With his seminars on Kundalini Yoga in 1932, Jung commenced a comparative study of esoteric practices, focusing on the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, Patanjali’s Yoga sutras, Buddhist meditational practices, and medieval alchemy, which he presented in an extensive series of lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). The critical insight that enabled these linkages and comparisons was Jung’s realization that these practices were all based on different forms of active imagination—and that they all had as their goal the transformation of the personality—which Jung understood as the process of individuation. “

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