Founder of the Assisi Institute Michael Conforti mentioned in a recent interview, that Elie Wiesel's novel titled "The Accident" was the best book he ever read. Michael was speaking with Depth Psychology Alliance founder Bonnie Bright....
In soft whispers and quiet evocations
we are called by soul to seek the depth of a thing,
to wonder what else, or who else is present
in the cavernous mystery of lived experience.
-MARY HARRELL-
Through personal and cultural stories, I open my read...
Some have wondered why a psychologist might share personal beliefs and affective states when describing encounters in the mundus imaginalis, that subtle world between the material domain and the ideas of the rational mind.
To touch the participatory rhythms of an in-between, enchanted world and, to engage with the many figures that dwell there, requires only the desire to do so. C G Jung has said that to stay with the image is the first step in coming to terms with th...
It is surprising to many people that imagination in Jung's analytical psychology is a real experience and not something one "makes up." The adjective which describes experiences in which this kind of imagination is discussed is imaginal, not to be...
"So many of our everyday experiences appear unremarkable until and unless we choose to be present to them—to wonder, to explore, to allow ourselves to look more deeply at the figures within the stories. It is in this act of careful regard that someth...
I often hear a recurring question from people who know that I investigate the imaginal realm and her figures, "Why would you spend years of your life writing about imaginal figures, exploring them, and engaging them?"...
The unconscious knows what the ego does not. It knows things that societal consciousness, in overvaluing science, technology, engineering and mathematics, dismisses. In the unconscious, decisions...
Imagination, as I use it, is a term from analytical psychology. The idea is that there is a domain between matter (nature) and mind (reason) known as the imaginal world. Much unconscious content lives in this domain and is accessed through symbolic...
