Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (Jung on the Hudson Book Series)
One can experience inner figures in many ways. Active imagination connects individuals with inner figures which, while very powerful, are clearly imaginal and derived from the psyche. These figures feel as if they were coming from within oneself. Typically one experiences them with eyes closed, and attention directed inward. These are the psychic f
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More damaging from the point of view of spirituality is the risk of mistaking other inner voices for that of the self. An individual who is trying to listen to the voice of the inner spirit and who wants to relate to the images created by it may be dealing with an autonomous complex or archetype, and not the self at all. Turning inward in search of
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From personal perspective this isnt true - to be in experience of the truestfom o Self is quite impossible and this is why im connected to him but in a limited manor in wich he is an unconscious projection of my highest ideal - perhaps because my latent Self is evolving greatly
The latent self is a weak center, possessing only limited power to organize psychic life. With the latent self, the complexes and archetypes vie for control of the psyche; the intra-psychic situation is chaotic and difficult. The individual by no means experiences the chaos a psychotic patient does, but the individual's sense of self is tenuous. Th
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Latent self: the egoic version of Self that thinks its in autonomy and contrrol but is in direct unconscious control of complexes and archetypes that constantly destablize the ego's sense of will
The more one individuates, the stronger the self becomes. As the self gains in strength, the ego has less difficulty focusing on it and concentrating its awareness on the middle position the self provides. The more the ego becomes conscious of the self, the more it lives in the world of active imagination. Beginning as a technique, active imaginati
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Active imagination becomes away of being. You the ego become part of the inbetween realms of the unconscious and conscious during waking life... Thus the process of deepening your Love of the Unknown and God
The spirit is free to do and create as it will, and is free of the control of the ego, the conscious part of the personality. The ego can experience the spirit, but not dictate to it. The second attribute of spirit is the capacity to spontaneously produce images independently, and the third attribute is the “sovereign manipulation of these images.”
Jeffrey Raff • Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (Jung on the Hudson Book Series)
The second way the union is experienced is simultaneously. The ego is able to work when appropriate, and rest when appropriate, but the way in which it does both changes dramatically.
Jeffrey Raff • Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (Jung on the Hudson Book Series)
A deeper connection with unity of the unconscious is to respct the both worlds of the material and spiritual
The transcendent function is the psychological mechanism that unites the opposites and helps bring the self to manifestation.
Jeffrey Raff • Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (Jung on the Hudson Book Series)
The instinct and Proclivity of Self to become One
When doing active imagination work, the ego faces other dangers. The power of the unconscious should not be underestimated. Unable to maintain its own position, the ego could be deluged with the unconscious material and experience a psychotic episode. Or if the ego drops its perspective and buys into the unconscious too completely, the one-sided re
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Figure 1. The state of chaos marks the initial state of the alchemical prima materia and symbolizes the chaos of the psyche before inner alchemy has begun. This is a dark, brooding state in which all contents are out of order and none are in relationship. The whole of inner alchemy consists in the transmutation from chaos to order, which is created
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