Active Imagination

A Dream and Philemon

From The Asheville Jung Center Len Cruz, M.D. May 15, 2010 Dream: Jung and his father are in a mosque. They find themselves kneeling and beginning to bow. Evidently, Jung’s father bows fully allowing his head to make contact with the floor. However, Jung stops within a millimeter of the floor. He will not permit…

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Jung, the Red Book, and Mindfulness Meditation

From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…