Active imagination

Franz, Marie-Louise von. Alchemical active imagination. Irving (TX) Spring Publications, 1979. 116p. ISBN 0-88214-114-7... 

Jung found that active imagination was the most effective technique he had for making changes in the minds of his patients and quickly bringing them to a healthier state. As patients spoke with the inner symbols and made improvements in their relationship with these inner aspects of their personality, changes happened in their lives. They even found that other people began to treat them differently and their relationships and physical circumstances improved. Lucky breaks and beneficial chance encounters just seemed to happen once their minds were in a receptive state. 

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One useful meditation technique is to relax, close one s eyes and visualize a landscape with a cave or some kind of entrance into the earth. (One merely sets the scene. The unconscious psyche will provide the rest of the imagery. If done properly one be- comes a participant-observer in a kind of inner movie.) In the imagination one enters the cave and follows it to another landscape, either the upper or the lower world of the Shamanic imaginal realm. There one looks for a power animal which will then lead one to whatever it is that one needs to know. Jung used a process very similar to this and called it "active imagination." In other esoteric traditions the same idea is applied within symbolic parameters specific to each belief system. Kabbalists work with the Tree of Life glyph, for example. Several years ago, a book was published which described a very effective way to use the symbols of the Tarot deck in this way. 8... 

Active Imagination," then, is a proven technique for entering the imaginal realm, with or without psychedelics. To give a flavor of how it... 

Jung, C.G. Jung on Active Imagination, ed. J.Chodorow, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1997. 

A disturbing question may be just how successful these criteria are in utilizing only observable quantities. For example, if we follow the letter of the statements above, the true activation energy is apparently defined as an experimentally observable quantity in the nonisothermal criteria. This would presumably be an experimental value resulting from studies in which intraparticle transport effects were absent, but this is precisely what one is trying to determine. What can we say Sometimes an active imagination plus iteration is the best course. 

The generation of dendrimeric coordination polymers has also been an area of significant activity. Imaginative routes to novel Ru- or Pt-polypyridyl systems (eg, 65) (197) have been reported and many other ligand systems have been exploited (117,118,198-201). These materials are of interest with respect to their photophysical and electrochemical properties and possibly their catalytic behavior. 

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