Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/zSFuPj Alchemical Active Imagination Revised Edition By: Marie-Louise von Franz Publisher: Shambhala (RHP) Print ISBN: 9780877735892, 0877735891 eText ISBN: 9780834840799, 0834840790 Format: EPUB Available from $ 18.99 USD SKU 9780834840799 For Sale in US* Only Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation similar to Jung's technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination.
