Jung's Technique of Active Imagination

Psychologist Sonu Shamdasani and writer Siri Hustvedt discuss Jung's technique of accessing the unconscious that he called active imagination.
This is an excerpt from "The Deeper Self: An Expanded View of Consciousness" featuring Steve Paulson, Sonu Shamdasani, Siri Hustvedt, and Mark Solms. For the video of the complete discussion, see: • The Deeper Self: An Ex...
The New York Academy of Sciences
February 15, 2017

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A beta state corresponds to conscious attention and concentration, the conscious state. The alpha state is more relaxed. One is still awake of course. The active imagination occurs in an alpha state so that the production of images is more spontaneous and the story line is not always directed by the conscious will. There is always some movement back and forth between beta and alpha especially with writing, art, and music but the creative state is always alpha.

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