Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Active imagination is a technique developed by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung. He considered it the most powerful tool to access the unconscious and for achieving wholeness of personality.
Jung discovered this method between the years of 1913 and 1916, a period of disorientation and intense inner turmoil which he called his confrontation with the unconscious. He searched for a method to heal himself from within, through the power of the imagination. Active imagination is a dialogue with different parts of yourself that live in the unconscious. In some way it is similar to dreaming, except that you are fully awake and conscious during the experience.
If we honestly want to find our own wholeness, to live our individual fate as fully as possible; if we truly want to abolish illusion on principle and find the truth of our own being, however little we like to be the way we are, then there is nothing that can help us so much in our endeavour as active imagination.
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- Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson
- Irvine, I. (2008). Jung, alchemy, and the technique of active imagination. Alchemy and Imagination.
- Jung on Active Imagination. Edited and with an Introduction by Joan Chodorow
- Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as developed by C.G. Jung by Barbara Hannah
- Active Imagination and Jung's Red Book
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⌛ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:02 Confrontation with the Unconscious & The Red Book
4:46 Alchemy and Jung
5:39 Approaching Active Imagination
6:56 Precaution Before Starting Active Imagination
7:46 Inner Work: Active Imagination
9:21 Distinguishing Active Imagination from Passive Fantasy
9:51 Active Imagination Example: Talking with the Inner Artist
11:51 When You Think You’re Making Up Something
13:01 Active Imagination as Mythic Journey
14:10 The Four-Step Approach to Active Imagination
16:25 Step 1. Active Imagination: The Invitation
20:50 Step 2. Active Imagination: The Dialogue
25:00 Step 3. Active Imagination: The Values
27:25 Step 4. Active Imagination: The Rituals
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*“The ego is a small island surrounded by a deep unseen ocean of energy where huge forces are at work. Active imagination is underwater diving.”*
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Was the one that caught my attention. 🤔 Thanks
I'm up for this. Individual and collective variables to be considered. Think the distortions stem from the Roman Catholic Church.
I love this analogy! 👇🏽🏆🌹
Ohh man!
I'm so active listening to this awesome video
Thank you so much and much love ❤️
That made me want to more explore about Carl Jung work and art.
When washing my dishes, I have imagined being interviewed on TV. For example, the interviewer might ask me what the causes of depression are, and solutions. Absolutely brilliant inspired answers would flow through me.
As a child I distinctly remember any time I took a bath and sat facing the tile wall all of the sudden I'd be imagining being interviewed on tv and explaining something about my life, weird I just remember that I'd never put words to that before
Every time I find myself in a mundane activity (essentially anything that doesn’t have my full interest) I also get lost in my mind. I’ve been extremely imaginative ever since I was a child, which I used to cope with my isolation and boredom. As I’ve aged, I thought it would melt away, and in some aspects it has, but for the most part I am still extremely internal and imaginative
Anyone else hear psychedelics out of that?
I thought I was just trippin….. woah guess I’m not the only laddie here
I have a feeling this could be one of those things many of us do, but never mention.... I do it myself; I think when I'm grappling with an idea that is new or fresh to me. It's pretty clear to me that I (probably most people) "think better" out loud, and I think this is the minds attempt to mimic that. You simulate a dialogue to try and get "beyond" yourself and your typical thought processes
This is how I stopped having panic attacks and I didn’t even realize it. I used to have bad anxiety and panic attacks as a teenager. Over time every time I felt the anxiety coming up, I’d begin imagining a dialogue between logical self and my fearful self. And in these daydreams my logical self was in a white lab coat and glasses in a dark office sitting behind a desk, and my fearful self was the patient expressing his fears and symptoms. I started being talked down from panic attack until one day I just stopped having them
ill try that, after how long did ur anxiety subside? im in my late teens rn and i wanna rid my anxiety completely, could you assist me
@@Brian-mc7iw sure! I can’t promise your anxiety will disappear completely. There are times since I was 14 (I’m 23 now) where I’ve had panic attacks as a response to severe stress or loss. Anxiety is normal. Anxiety is natural. It took about a year or so maybe a little less, for my anxiety to stop effecting my day to day life. From age 14 I struggled and by the time I was about 17 I had almost no struggles with anxiety whatsoever. But like I said, it pops up every now and again throughout the years
That is super cool actually, I am gonna try that.
ugh i absolutely love this comment! That's amazing
Currently doing this alongside psychodynamic therapy and occasional psychedelics. It’s really helps so much with my racing thoughts and anxiety. I imagine it more as a debate between two people that I’m viewing as a third party, and I have the power to decide the argument is over, when previously it felt like I was in this eternal back and forth with some mysterious critical voice
I often imagine I’m the only soul in existence. Everything and everyone that surrounds me are but mere reflections of myself. This is an experience for myself by myself to avoid being lonely in the void of nothingness.
I am real.
Trust me I am real
sus @@AonghusCarone
Crazy because that’s exactly what you are.
We ARE all one, experiencing things. Im starting to believe when we die it’ll all make sense.
I don't think everything will start making sense even after dying@@BeforeThisNovember
“Until you become conscious, the unconscious will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Yung This phrase made sense the first time I entered this state of introspection, as it seems to me it was the condition that Da Vinci ''was'
There is a very interesting article by Alain de Botton about this heightened state of consciousness, mentioning Da Vinci
I love Alain de botton would you happen to remember the name of the article pls
The EGO is not my SOUL
@@victoria2651might be his video ‘Higher consciousness’
Your Destiny is fixed..ur fate is what depends! Dont let that too be slipped by emmotions alone
this is one of the best comment sections I've ever read.
fascinating anecdotes
thanks for sharing everyone
@@intuitive1986 other people's description of their shadow self
Yeah, reading comments is way better and more satisfying than watching a boring movie ot tv show on Netflix.
Dude for real
I've lived most of my life doing this. I grew up alone so I used to have to talk to myself a lot. Than I would imagine myself in alternative worlds where different teachers would help me learn new things about life. Its funny I learned a lot more from them than most people in real life. It can seem like mental illness to most but if you let them know what your doing they tend to understand at least a little. I've sought council from all different kinds of beings challenged demons till they revealed they were angels & wrapped myself tightly in several deep wisdom filled journeys. It can be fun. If your sane going a little mad can actually be quite healthy. Everyone should be atleast a little crazy.
Same thing happened to me, active imagination is awakened when there is no external interruptions, it grew on me when i spent about 3 years alone in my child years, i get shocked by the amount of knowledge the unconscious offers me when I’m in need, iv never had a teacher besides it.
I believe this is how we develop common sense when we’re young.
@@ladybug3380 common sense? Do you mean basic navigational survival interactions? Or something different? Like perifrial senses?
@@ghostrebelsociety both?
I can trigger it spontaneously during the daytime by imagining myself turning the lights on in my head when there is total darkness. And when the lights come on I see a long hallway lined with doors that go on forever. I call it the infinite corridor. Each door goes somewhere completely different. I think the imagination gives us glimpses at the multiverse and it’s potential to manifest itself in our world
I use active imagination all the time, I use it to try and solve my inner problems I am going through and something I have noticed that in these sessions where I’m essentially imagining my conversations with people in my life, I tend to be way more articulate and able to present myself in a more clearer way, than I do in real life and with conversations with people in my life.
You seem to be naturally introspective
Hey give me your insta , just wanna talk to you about it please
I do this all day every day. I only talk to myself really cuz I have no friends, but I mostly put myself back 100s of years ago with my ancestors in Germany living in tribes.
Have you written these convos down? What an interesting book that would be!
Active Imagination is something I, and I'm sure other people, have been practicing for a while without actually knowing the term for it. Thank you for making this video going into detail about the subject. Not that I care, but I feel less crazy. My art is a direct reflection of my dreams and active imagination. And thanks for the resources in the video as well. I'm gonna be more diligent in my practices.
but this all seems so scary for me to try
Let's see your artwork...link?
@@Zelchinho Just remember it's not the same reality as the one you're used to being in. And you can turn it off and on, just create your own ticks for it. Do more research on it too.
I’m not sure if this is anything related but for almost my whole life I’ve had conversations, casually, everyday in my head. I’m not sure if this is an offshoot of this or just schizophrenia or something (which is unlikely). One thing that was weird is while watching this video multiple times I got extremely emotional for no apparent reason and would start tearing up/crying. But who knows.
“ I feel less crazy “ ❕❕❕
For anyone struggling with fear of facing the unconscious I tell you what helped me. Approach you’re unconscious from a place of love and friendliness. If you focus on feeling love when approaching your scary unconscious characters I guarantee they will no longer scare. You have to love and accept them for who they are because they are apart of YOU. When you focusing on loving scary unconscious material they will drop any attempts to attack you and they will respect you. They will be receptive to friendly discussion. If you approach them with fear they will feed on it attack you. It’s sounds cheesy but choose to love them, and at the very least they will respect you while being open to civil discussion.
this statement, as many others in this comment section, is supported and supports what C. Jung wrote, "We know that the face of the unconscious is not rigid -it reflects the face we turn toward it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect., friendliness softens its features.".... and the narrator on this video as well. thank you for sharing
@@queencass9127 I didn’t know there was a quote for what I said thanks for sharing that.
I have to disagree with this- though I'm sure the Jung quote about being friendly towards the unconscious contents is true, there are also quotes of him saying overtly that some contents should not be assimilated; they are not part of the personal unconscious, but the collective unconscious, and may be hostile
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unconscious dosent care about your feeelings. Thers a reason we are devided from it and any emotional realtion to it is it love or hate it will lead you to self-deception.
And im not sayin you should ignore emotions or that they are deceptive. But they are not and de facto truth
You should observe those emotions and try to understand them in relation to your imagination or introspection.
I always have the seconds of maximum creativity when I'm about to fall asleep. Not quite awake but also not quite slumbering yet. I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon and if other people also share this experience. It's so powerful to the point that I get lyrics for new songs and plot structure for novels.
Hypnagogia / Hypnagogic state
I grew up like this
If you enjoy this state, try sensory deprivation therapy, aka floating 💙
Also look into the Silva mind control method, accessing beta/delta/alpha brain waves when in different levels of sleep give you incredible abilities of the mind
Im a musician and i've heard one of the most beatiful songs on that point. I always promise myself i will remember them but the next morning i dont.
When I watched Inception for the first time, I thought I was going crazy, seeing similar dream techniques to my own on a screen. Years later, I now actively write fiction, and have used this technique in writing since I became what I consider profficient in the art.
Having ADHD, being introvert and having almost no friends in my life, talking with myself in my mind is one of the insane things i do in my life to keep me sane, not quite the same thing described in the video but it's still a way of learning about myself.
Doing this saved me from going into deep depression, i still think i'm depressed but in a much more superficial way than i once was in, i used to always be in a downer mood, but not anymore. These conversations aren't me talking with myself literally, they're usually me imagining myself someone asking me something, and then i start talking, i discovered many things about myself that i would only find out if other people confronted me about it otherwise.
Beyond the psychological effects this does, it actually helped me learn english. Since i had no one to talk to in english, when i was starting to learn it i'd talk in english in my mind, and whenever i hit a roadblock i'd try to find ways to fix it, and it's how i learned english by myself with the help of video games as a kid.
I have a few friends but not anyone I can actually discuss topics like this with so 99% of my conversations happen in my head. Smalltalk bores me tremendously and that's all the majority of people know how to do. Talk about their life, the sports games, the weather, the latest gossip.
@@redrustyhill2 I don't really like small talk but don't mind doing it, i just absolutely hate repeating it. Doing small talk one day is fine, doing the next day or next week is what kills me, my brain keeps trying to find ways to innovate the conversation and then realises nothing would work or would sound natural, so i get frustrated.
Me too! I learned English by talking to myself out loud because I was very quiet at school. On another note, I feel that I am more comfortable expressing my emotions in English and feels weird expressing it in my mother tongue. I wonder if it’s because my English is more fluent or is it because different languages we learn represent different inner parts of ourselves? And the English side of me feels more detached that it’s easier to talk about emotions?
@@rebecca37094 Maybe you're just more comfortable to use english instead, it's the case for me, though it's not just for emotions. If the topics of your monologues were about emotions, it could be because of that.
If there is such a thing as different languages for different parts of ourselves, it could be that you gave it that attribute somehow.
At the end of the day, i don't know. For me i just express myself better in english than in my native language, but that could be because i don't get to talk to too many people in real life, so i engage in online talk in english way more often than i do in person talk in my native language.
I used to always speak out loud to myself while doing something hard, pretending I’m making a RUclips tutorial. I also have ADHD and this really helps keep me focused on the task. I know that if I stop talking (making the tutorial) I’m off focus and need to get back to what I was doing. It’s really beneficial in my opinion. As far as language goes, I do the same thing. When I was learning german I would make tutorials, and make conversations with myself in German. They key is the challenge yourself. Ask things you know will make you think.
Once I was complaining in my head about the neverending laundry and dishes...I heard a female voice saying, "at least you have clothes on your back and food on the table." It was very humbling. My mind went to the struggles my Irish ancestors had and I realized that I should be grateful.
Lmao yt ppl moment
Sorry that was so dumb it made me laugh
Pls tell how u did it
Bravo
I'm jumping back and forth between Jung's Red Book, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, and Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious. My point is, to write and narrate this video took a tremendous amount of study. Thank you for your effort! I can't imagine how long it took you to prepare for this.
Also currently reading the Red Book + the archetypes and the collective unconscious. never heard of the other book you’re studying however
@@kseniasemenovykh6767 I've got the Red Book in my office but I'm waiting on it. I've mostly just flipped through the artwork. So the Discovery of the Unconscious has been great so far. Very readable. It's a history of earliest treatments that would eventually become dynamic psychology. It kind of details the split between what became medical care... and what became depth psychology. Though it's very readable... it is also close to 900 pages. So it's a beast.
In my life I have been addicted to many things. Drugs, Sex, Internet. After watching this video, I am quite confident that I need to use this technics in my whole life. Because my addicton seem to be so powerful by all this 13 years.
Every day I feel feelings like emptiness or beeing unreal.
Hope to connect all my archetypes and personalities living inside me.
Greetings from Poland.
You are very smart person.
All videos are very interesting and clever.
great respect for You and all good for You :)
Thank you
Throughout history scientists and artists have used their dreamscapes to create and make groundbreaking discoveries, it’s as if our dreams are part of grand structure that relates to the entire universe, somehow knowing more than we do. If only more could access that world in a conscious state, I wonder what the world would be
reminds me of biocentrism, from consciousness, reality emerges
Now this is where lucid dreaming comes into play, right?
First step in active imagination is to not spend 5+ hours a day on RUclips.
When you say dreams i guess you mean imagination. If so ok, if you think of dreams as total black out , on bead dreams , i would challenge your thought and ask: what scientists ( not artists) have made their discoveries through dreams and what discoveries?
It would be the world of active imagination.
I cried so much listening to this… my culture insists on ignoring these “voices” as they are another entity seperate from me. But as I grew older I learned that these are in fact parts of ME and I NEED to understand them…. This video just made me cry because it just relates so much and doesn’t alienate the inspiration we have.
You cry too easily.
@@malcontender6319 and its blantly obvious that you obviously don't cry enough. Cmon man, you can do it go touch some grass 🙏
I'm so glad you had such a beautiful realization about yourself. Good luck on everything you do! Happy for you.
@@malcontender6319 and what do you cry over?
Shut up u didn't cry stop being dramatic it's cringe as hell
It's literally your true self you're engaging with, unfiltered by the constraints you enforce.
I didn't know it was anything other than normal to engage your imagination this way.
Did this coupled with breathing exercises for about 3 hours once. I was walking out of a dense Forrest on a path that climbed many small hills in a meadow. It was easily the most vivid experience I had had up to that point and after walking awhile I decided to sit and meditate at the top of one of the endless hills. After a while someone told me to get up. Around me were three shadow people. I asked who they were and one introduced himself as the creeping death and the other two as the fearful and noble deaths. I asked why the others were not speaking and he told me he spoke because I was currently in his domain. He was very insistent that I get up and keep walking the path. He said that one day one of them would come for me but for now I needed to keep moving. I walked for a short while after that talk but before anything else happened my then infant son woke up from his nap and pulled me out of it. It was insanely realistic and I still remember it vividly feels crazy to talk about.
what breathing excersizes did you do if you don’t mind me asking ?
@antonmurphy-cartiglia24 the wim Hoff
That’s super interesting, perhaps this means that your currently on track to a “creeping death” (dying of old age not having lived a noble or fearful life, just an average one) and if you change your path in life you can achieve a noble death. I’m not stating anything supernatural here btw, this is what I believe your subconscious mind believes about you. Perhaps it’s a message to pursue a more noble path in life. I believe that being a parent is an extremely noble task though, so perhaps if you believe the same you can achieve the “noble death.” This is all just speculation though, you know way more about your own life that me and can come to way more accurate conclusions as to the meaning of this than I can, if any meaning at all.
@bobross4447 I think it was more so that I decided to sit in that moment rather than walk, but that could be how I was I feeling about myself subconsciously. I lived a very wild life up until about 2 or 3 years before he was born. I wasn't trying to die per se, but I was very willing to for the sake of a thrill. I honestly didn't expect to make it this long, but I did somehow. I really don't desire the thrill chasing. I feel exhausted of it. But there could be a part of me that wants to express itself that no longer gets to. It felt too significant to be completely meaningless. I had a very strange relationship with the concept of death back then, but now that I have my son and my wife to look forward to, the existential dread pops into my head like it never has before. Very strange thing being conscious.
It's been a few months since I read this comment, I had to search through my youtube history to find it again. Then the comments of this video.
This has really stuck with me ever since I've read it.
Seven years ago, literally due to an accident, i started drawing... i was so absorbed in reality that i went into a deep place (unconscious)... after the first 4 or 5 drawings, i looked at them and i was surprised and thought: "who drew 'this'?" since then I find myself in that 'place', alone in the room, completely surrendered to creativity, and putting in my drawings the various visits and dialogues that are present through the unconscious. it's a lonely path... however it allows me to cleanse the ancestral cells. I like this channel, thanks for sharing. greetings from Portugal.
Nice story. Do you feel more complete now?
Is it a lonely path? Or are you simply alone on it?
@@Blackthorn869 very lonely in my case and alone,but not alone also.
@@elvenatheart982 well, honestly I dont know if Im more complete, but Im less judmental of others and my self, Maybe I've Change the lens of my eyes, and started a deep work of my inner connection. (Sorry for my 'poor' English 😐). Thank you for askind 🙏 big hug for you my friend.
@@joshuaallen6196 yes Joshua indeed!
I have inherently always used my imagination to empower myself. People will pick on you until they see it working. Then they'll hate you. Keep going.
Oh Man this is the stuff I have been searching for in my life. It's a confirmation & a reminder as a artist who has had a artist block for way too long. Definitely lifts my spirits & at the same time realize I need to do more research on Carl Jung who spent his lifetime working on the subject
Read about jung, sigmund freud and
Hinduism upnishad.
How’s that art 💪🏼
Well this was friggin powerful and right on time. I’ve been going through a period of intense upheaval and transformation and it has give me a lot of fear but also excitement about where I am going in life. When I closed my eyes to listen to this it was like I was watching a wall-like barrier with images/beings pressing their hands and bodies into it just brimming with potential and the desire to reveal themselves. Images came so readily and as I listened it was almost as if I was being guided on how to make them positive experiences. Thanks for this. I’m definitely going to incorporate this into my regular practice.
Did you just say friggin though 😂 because I love that so much lololol
Wow, I've been doing Active Imagination unconsciously and have been wondering why my life had been so surreal lately.... this video was a relief that I wasn't going insane through introspection.
same, ego alterego superego unconcious ect.. lucid dream and all.. disolution of the ego to then brag about having no ego wich is ego dust left.
its facinating but also funny hehe , braging about knowledge and experience, and low key fake modesty to empower others and feel amazing by being more proud than let known
that's astrology related hope your ready retrograde season things are about to get really wild. Saturn just went retrograde today.
@XeL you've done the things in this video before right? like in the middle of doing things and not just boring things or ample time? I get how this guy is making this sound like that. But is that what you're stepping up to?
@@bobray7790 just experienced my first retrograde mercury..ha wow !
Like a water bug dancing across the sky 😂
Holy synchronicity. I just started my journey and you just posted this video. Thank you!
Dont watch Lifting Vegan Logic, he JoUrNeY everyday almost :D
gotta respect my journey trough consuming and imposing violence to animal unessesarily!
@@MassMultiplayer what?
What journey?!
@@Joseph_Hamilton good question
I dissociate a lot and I've never thought about this as a "real thing" before, it just comes naturally to me. For some reason, even if I hear/see/experience weird shit, it just seems so normal to me. Exactly like a lucid dream.
2 times in my life I had mystical experiences with my unconcious or the collective unconcious. I just know that I tapped into something I didnt knew existed in me. I had very crystal clear dreams, normally I only have very vague dreams and thoughts if I have dreams at all. But during this event I had crystal clear images in my mind. Also I had thoughts coming to me very fast, I started to write them down as they came. I wrote like 50 pages in 2 days with really beautiful poetry and really deep stuff.
I never really wrote before.
It got in contact with what I really want from life, which I thought I knew but showed me something completely else.
This experience changed my life because since then I have a complete different perspective on the world and on myself.
How did these experiences occur? What did you realize? I am curios.
@@gabefinkelstein6286 the only way for you to know is by your own experience
I’ve been searching material for Active Imagination for quite a while, and I’ve never seen such a detailed, insightful and inspirational video like this one. Incredible work!
Have you read Robert Johnson? Did it help? I'm reading it these days
Try foolish fish yt channel. He has a great guided meditation
It is like a summary of Robert A Johnson's book Inner Work that has been mentioned here. Great book
You described a psychedelic experience, once while I was tripping I had a theory that imagination could just be memories or memories of others since we humans could all be in one consciousness.
i need to trip with u
Lots of people have said this before. Usually after being stoned
@@denniswingo2004 woah people get inspired after being thrown stones at them ? wild
@@RaduP3 lmao
We are 100% one consciousness.
This is one of the oldest methods for unlocking the human subconscious. In Upanishads it is used in a form of dialogue between teacher and student. Where the teacher is the subconscious and the student is the conscious mind. In indian philosophy it is referred to as Gyan yoga(yoga of knowledge).
Wow.. that's interesting. I will look up Gyan yoga.
I think Jung read them early in his career.
*NOT ANOTHER OVERPROUD INDIAN'S BS AGAIN. 🙄*
Same in Zen Buddhism. The teachers would not answer any question and give random answers to their students. They would let the question stew in the students mind. Until they finally came to a realisation after debating themselves on it. The answer came from within, not outside.
Have you done it? I've been reading the comments but I'm not sure how to start. Is it just like meditation, but I hold an image or do I let my imagination just run until something happens?
This channel is my first real dive into Jung and his ideas. I'm really enjoying it and appreciate the work you have put into it. This aspect in particular- active imagination, is something I've always done. It will be really interesting to approach it with more tools and intention. Thanks man!
I’ve been doing this since I was a young boy. I still do this all the time. Conversations with people, being interviewed on deep topics, being praised for my greatness as a sumo wrestler, what a habit of thought to have.
Exactly same thing with me...😅
Carl Jung invented solo rpgs
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Tell that to a little kid. 🙃 He gave us a respectable name for them.
Been practicing and have done this about 7 times so far and it honestly makes me tear up at how understanding the folks in my subconscious are. For example one person who says his name is Anori (long black hair, fair skin and red eyes) says he represents my spirit/drive. The sum of the conversations I've had with him are basically him reassuring me (through various symbols) that I do have drive in life and that, in time, I'll learn to stop the negative thoughts in my head.
That’s awesome
Amen
Dayum, das crazy ❤
I’m an anxious and ( leaning towards) antisocial person. A few years ago I started using active imagination as a way to comfort myself and view things critically, but also realistically. I’ve never actually ‘let go’ in the sense that active imagination has to take it’s own shape, and I think it could be an interesting way to go about this.
This video completely describes my first and at that time only mushroom trip.
I already had hyperfantasia and lucid dreaming almost every night since my childhood.
Been through severe ctpsd and dissociative identity disorder due to domestic abuse. Finished my therapy at the age of 28 and had my mushroom trip at 30.
It felt like I reconnected and gained back something that was lost long time ago.
First I was scared when shrroms started to change my cognition state. Then I heard a voice telling me "are you scared again? Don't worry, we need to talk"
I didn't really hear this inner monologue. It was "knowing", a clear knowing "something" told me that. Some part of my psyche became autonomous and started to talk to me.
I've never felt so strong and free in my life. During trip I didn't care anymore what other people thought about me because I could be my own support and my own protector. Seeing my hidden powerful part of psyche was exactly something that scared me. All this resource and energy hidden deep inside. Instead of looking inside I tried to search for outer sources of energy.
After that trip during next two months my flashbacks about my former abuser completely stopped bothering me for the first time in my 30 years of life. I nowadays feel deeper connection to other people and it feels now I have more "space" in my head. Brain fog finally cleared.
And it was only 1,5 g of shrooms. I can only imagine how this Yung technique could work with higher doses.
How many people can be saved from their traumas.
I wish that they weren't illegal. I mean for most people that doesn't matter, but for me it could mean losing my job and I ain't about that.
AAAAAAHHHH IM SHROOMING AHHHHHHHH
@@_shadow_1 they're in and out in 24 hours. Water soluble.
Oh sweet another schizo comment
@@l0lan00b3 Still, I ain't about to risk it.
Anyone imagine scenarios while listening to music or driving, it’s like you’re there but you’re not at the same time. Also I feel like we imagine things constantly that when we come across a real scenario it seems real familiar(deja vu), making it seem like we saw the future somehow but can’t put a finger on it
I can't even lie I feel so uneasy watching this video. I'm terrified to do this, but I also feel like I've been led to this video for a reason.
Purhaps God lead you here.
or the algoritym is taking you were it want you to be. a confused sheep, ready to be exploited.
How has it been going since you left the comment? Wishing you well...
@@RallyTheTally he definitely did.
@@rainking50 man life is WELL. 🙏 I wish you well also
This channel deserves way more viewers. Keep up the great videos.
I use active imagination to fall asleep at night. Interestingly, I have noticed a significant amount of lucidity to my dreams. Didn't know it was because of this though.
Same here, but I fall asleep so quick & peacefully but then wake up multiple times between 2 AM - 4:30 AM from hellish dreams, most horrible nightmares...they make my blood run cold.
@@nabeelrafique7166does your heart race?
Jung is my favorite. He understood the power of our Soul. Thank you.
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Whenever I find myself confronted with big emotions and feelings I pause and imagine someone is asking me “how are you feeling right now?” Or “ how does this make you feel?”
And I respond in a way that calms me and makes me think logically vs going down with my emotions. 😅 I’m happy to read others do similar things!
this has to be one of your most well put together this video transformed my entire thought process on what imagination can do ive come back to this video many times now in the months since you’ve released it
Already progressed far into this, learning from scratch and out of nowhere. Can vouch for this with experience. It was unlocked through bringing back my drawing hobby, which I didn't know, the single character that kept invading the pictures that I just imagine, was this figure.
Now I have active conversations, through symbols, drawings, or journaling. A naughty and playful companion, that never gets me bored. Even so, it's only the voice of the unconscious. Manifestation does make it real. It wants to come to reality, or be a part of "self" in reality.
i have one as well.. its so naughty and cute..a little aspect of me like an alter ego.
and theres this one as well, a guy dressed in primeval character, a bad boy persona.. this one makes me scared because i get to fall in love with the bantings and antics lol...
i no longer practiced or converse with them too much because im afraid of them sometimes,.. l tend to lose my identity and reality.
but theyre so playful 🥰
@@jJust_NO_ can you explain more
@@jJust_NO_ how is this not dissociative identity disorder
@@lilvro7016 that's what people want you to believe, and to be scared of, for most people it helps them a lot
No judging but read the 2nd paragraph again, this sounds like a crazy person. I wanna get into this too but this kinda scares me
One of my favorite RUclips channels ever. Please, don’t stop.
I find with what you are describing in some videos like this one. Is what I do when I am remotevueing . Channeling my mind we're I want to go and do once their. 2023
Power eidetic mind ??..is a child like imagination?..unbounded!
This is amazing! Thank you for your work!
This was absolutely fantastic and well put together. You actually helped me understand individuation more than I previously did, and I also realized that I often meet with these archetypes yet don't interact much. I must begin doing so.
Eastern philosophy/spirituality has delved deeper into said concepts. The knowledge has existed for thousands of years in the form of the vedas, upanishads and other scriptures and have been used by several sages to achieve self realization with the help of a guru. The mind/the soul holds unlimited power, that can break the boundaries of comprehension. I recommend you to read 'The autobiography of a yogi' by swami yogananda. I came across the concepts of eastern schools of thought with regards to spirituality, only relatively recently despite being an Indian myself. The soul transcends the body and the body becomes lifeless once the mind delves deep enough and rise above to the crown of our heads to see the 'absolute truth'. This is what the Indians called Samadhi. Shortly before going completely mute, the person demonstrates erratic behaviour, sometimes identifying themself as god, since they understand that the soul is a piece that mirrors god himself. I'm convinced that this is what happened to Nietzsche. Unlike other religions and dogma, the spiritual school of thought, especially the one derived from paramahamsa Ramakrishna emphasizes that all religious pursuits are different paths to realize the same god. I hope you do give some of these avenues the time of your day to investigate. Channels that could help - The spiritual Bee.
- The supreme yogi.
Finally, a video with specific, concrete steps for doing inner Shadow work! Thanks, this is very helpful!
This video was ABSOLUTE FIRE !!!!
You absolutely nailed the subject.
I just wanted to say thank you. You don't have an idea how much this simple technique helped me to win over my mental issues. It's through your channel I learned about it.
Thank you for all of your hard work to produce such excellent and fascinating pieces.
I’m so grateful for this channel.
Thanks so much for this. What a great video, and a well timed one, for me. I had been trying to solve a question of mine, and you gave me the key to unlock it. I have been having dreams of adventure at night, I have been contemplating how to go on an adventure in real life. Asking friends, talking about it with others to see what they thought. Also Remarking that I wanted a big dream to learn from. I have not been feeling satisfied because I have not being able to have the big dream at will. Your video has helped me realize what my adventure is going to be. I am going to embark on learning how to actively imagine.
Great modern sages lol 😂 I'm 26 Chinese in Australia your philosophy is so bizarre to the common public but in our own common psyche our own isolated solitude ..
That is where your content shines !! Good work 👍
I love seening these, thankyou for putting these out there, these videos are keeping my conciousness tuned towards freedom, surrender, and a connection with inner/higher self
Superb video and pretty flawless in the layout 👌.
I've written out conversations between myself and a kind, wise being within me. It is so very odd, and yet they can be emotionally cathartic and insightful.
Same. I almost finished the video but had to stop I had such an urge to open dialogue with the wise being inside of me that I’ve felt watching me for years. I’m excited to continue exploring with this technique.
I had a dream where I was talking with Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, and Anthony Hopkins in a bar.
Don't know what was said but I remember laughing a lot and waking up genuinely feeling good
omg I didn’t this was an actual thing that has a name! I’ve been doing this unintentionally for many years when I’m trying to fall asleep in bed. I’ll let my mind wander and try to observe as the things I’m imagining shift and morph without my control. Thanks for this amazing video
Care to help me a bit more on the how to? I watched all the video and still have no idea how to do it, or if I'm doing it it correctly
Exactly the art i could ever hope to see, ever one pulling up forgotten examples from my times in life, its wonderful.
Loved this, thank you for making and sharing ☺️🙌✨
I regularly have “interviews” with Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, sometimes my grandpa. We sit and they point out things I’m actively avoiding or not paying attention to. Some of my life’s greatest revelations have come out of these imaginary interviews.
Bro Joe Rogan needs to have someone who knows about this stuff on his podcast
Everyone be imagining speaking with Dr. Peterson these days. Gotta wonder if it's really still just imagining anymore...
Duder... I applaud your presentation, which I have just finished listening/watching. I've come to know these characters that you describe more or less as a set of tools left on various parts of my own personal path for me to find throughout my life. Once I had a greater grasp on the meanings of love, hate, and indifference I've found which of these tools are useful, which ones need maintenance, and yet others that serve no purpose to me or my ends. They all have their own personality which is the salvaged fractures of what was left over from my psyche after I lost grip with reality in 2016 and made a visit to the psyche ward. This video offers these parts of myself a greater clarity as to knowing themselves and also peace of mind for me as I have suspected that I am more than just one man living out his days on this great rock I call home. Cheers brother!
I think it’s segments of your subconscious aka what you’ve noticed and forgot about and then that part light up. Idk I’m on acid hopefully this makes sense. We are very valuable and can do so so much with our minds. Just because were fragile does make that any less so. Nothing is more powerful then the energy of your essence.
This explains so much I've been experiencing, thank you!! I thought I was crazy or something. This not only explains, but will help me control my experiences!!
This is quite an interesting discussion, especially the part where you say where one's active imagination lessens the frequency of dreams appearing due to daydreaming. It almost feels like im beginning to see some answers that i need to hear to achieve the "higher" self which is kind of what i yearn at the moment. Thank you for this video.
I may have been doing this for a while. On my lunch break at work I would often op to go to my car, close my eyes and take what I would call a "power nap". It's not entirely accurate, I am firmly conscious most of the time but I just let my mind wander in all directions. The thing keeping me grounded is my watch because I need to keep track of time anyway. To me I find that far more rejuvenating than a meal. I find keeping my mind focused on a singular task for hours on end to be exhausting. It's like fighting to keep the dog on the path while taking him for a walk. Once you sit down on a park bench, you can relax and let him play.
This makes so much sense! I too have “naps” at work. Sometimes for a bit too long haha but even just 15 mins can do wonders for your mind and body. I feel more energized than when I wake up after 7 hour sleep and I walk out of the bathroom stall thinking a lot more clearly, sometimes still seeing/remember the things I saw and heard when I was in that “nap” state. Wish I knew more on how to do this more effectively.
I've been doing this for sometime. I enter into a meditative state and just observe my own internal imagery until sometimes it becomes alive. Honestly thought I was schizophrenic or experiencing a form of psychosis or something. Extremely interesting - very similar to a psychedelic experience.
This happens to me spontaneously and it's scary cause I got into a car accident because of it. When I go deep my brain refuses to process reality so I can't see cars or people around me. I'm more cautious now when I'm driving but it is amazing how quickly I can drift off.
It definitely can be frightening when the chorus awakes when you are not used to it
@@pluutoop that sounds like disassociation. Having a little experience with that, you're description sounds very familiar to what that feels like. I would look into it.
Is it very tiring as well like hypnosis and delirious halltcination
Would this method be a good way to manifest the things I want in life?
I’m listening to this in my car during the last few minutes of my shift and for some reason it helps me relax and feel present. Thanks.
I always had this vision of hell as a place with no sky, stone structures encased in gems, a lonely place of complete stillness, comfortable but dead. I felt i wanted to capture this mood in my music. Later i realised that this vision WAS my music. A dysfunctional creative space for myself, too pretty and comfy to leave, but fruitless to the world.
Yes perfect way to start my off days to forget about work for a night still the best philosophy channel on RUclips
There's a few things that are absolutely real and I've had first hand experiences with that fascinat and intrigue me.
1. Lucid dreams. I've only had one so far and I did not let it go to waste.. I pulled over at a grocery shop and looked closely at everyone's faces.. yes they all had the same face.. kids, adults, gramps, men women.. they had same face just different age/ sex related features.. they had npc type repeat dialogues.. I wanted to explore more but I woke up.
2. Early morning realizations.
These realizations has served to help me pull myself out of trauma.
I used to get nightmares but these early morning realizations or reflections of the dreams explained my nightmares and it freed me. This has happed to me on multuple occasions. I can elaborate on this if anyone is interested.
3. Active imagination: this is something that I've been consciously attempting to manifest but so far I've only had a few shallow images and scenes that didn't make any sense. But it happens when I'm in that in between state of being partially awake and partially asleep.
Yes I would like to hear you elaborate on point 2. I think I have gone through something similar but would like to hear your story.
@@ohnree4110 well there's a proper term to that phenomenon. Its basically a very clear state of mind.
When your body is still asleep early in the morning and your brain wakes up after a dream or something, or when you've been thinking about some thoughts throughout the day and go to sleep thinking about it, you wake up with those thoughts and since your brain is at its max distraction free state, your brain can connect different pieces of information like jenga pieces and you see the bigger picture.
You do need to collect the pieces first though.. pieces are information and knowledge(correct, accurate knowledge and information), data points of information that connects to each other and then everything makes sense. At some point this is called the "insight" which one of my bpd friends told me that her doc told her about it to help her with her emotions etc.
Opposite of insight is called pathological/psychotic insight (refer book interpretation of schizophrenia by uhh some guy named aviolie not sure).
One insight makes you sane other insight derives you insane. My schizophrenic friend told me that she has been told the secret of the universe which drove her insane... she also mentioned the puzzle pieces thing .. but it's opposite in her case.
Also look into intuition..(caudate putamen)
@@007lutherking thanks for the info very interesting to read.
But what specifically was the explanation of your nightmares?
@@nemoianpaw9929 nightmares are the things you're most afraid of /anxious about represented symbolically. But if you've done any research.. enough research then something connects in your head and you get to rise up from the nightmares and also your trauma. I can't go into specifics as its personal and going into specifics isn't going to gain you any more insight.
I love your channel. Thank you for all of these gifts you share so beautifully. Great inspiration and much resonance.
Ahhhh, this explains a lot and gives me great comfort. Thank you for sharing.
Even as a person who read Jung’s work, not all of it. I came across Active Imagination but never really understood it. But I remember in my hypnogogic state. As a poet, I was thinking of how to use images to make a narrative out of it. And also think randomly of words and in a shamanistic sense, try and find revelatory metaphoric meaning and insight out of a conglomeration of thoughts and images. I remember one time, I thought of a rock, and the rock started shifting in my mind into different images and places. Its like I activated a dream by which I can control the object in the dream and the narrative in the dream. At the time, I didn’t know I was actively imagining. But now I know.
Thank you for such an informative video and highlighting Jung's work. I am so glad I watched this because I thought I've been excessively daydreaming and I thought it was abnormal. I have been doing this for a long time, but whenever I encounter an unpleasant or scary figure, I either start to feel fear and thus refrain from engaging conversation. But sometimes I feel brave enough to stay and observe their actions and intense emotions.
Thank you for this insight, now I know what to do and what to look out for. I'm now also interested to read further about Carl Jung's work, never stop learning!
Thank you! I needed this!👍
thank you very much for all your work.
This could be an infinite source of material for any type of Art. Akin to what A.I. is trying to achieve, but even more true and meaningful.
What I did is I listened to a guided heart-opening meditation by my Guru, and at the same time during that period I was constantly connecting with his energy and trying to remember the past that hurt me. I couldn't remember almost anything, and then one time during the meditation, I suddenly started to remember, many images just started popping in my mind. I healed so much during this period.
What I did here is, I was inviting light in my being, opening my heart and feeling highly elevated emotions such as love, forgiveness, connection, gratitude etc. and that light alone started to shine upon all the darkness within me, so the darkness came out by itself.
Wow. Mind blown at how it fits into my world and ready to stop running from my archetypes; certainly apologize to some; and begin the conversation/expression. This is truly amazing!!!
Thanks! This helped me a lot in getting through this stage. :)
i fell asleep after listening to this video, and i had one of the most vivid and horrifying dreams i’ve ever had. definitely something worth looking back into and reflecting on.
Why horrifying?
Thank you for this! Love listening to your voice!❤
Man, I love your channel.
I write stories in my free time and I already used some of the methods before I watched the video I was even aware that I am dreaming so I could do everything I wanted to do like jumping from tree to tree cuz I was following a train driving past me (idk why to be honest) but it was a very intensive experience for me. It is really interesting to see that you can get more into this stuff and I am really glad that I found this video. Thank you very much!
Your videos are incredible. I loved Jung for a long time now and these videos really break everything down in an easy to digest and understandable way. Love that your breaking down the active imagination technique
Enlightening and inspirational. Thank you.
Incredible video. Jung is one of my favorites and you did an excellent job synthesizing some of his life's work
This is solid gold 👍. Would love a detailed follow up how to. I'd happily pay for a course on this subject.
Does anybody else lucid dream often, but sometimes when you close your eyes you start dreaming in under 30 minutes? This has been this case for me for a very long time, and I think this is the explanation I’ve been looking for. The funny thing is I didn’t even look for it, I’ve been thinking about doing some research but still haven’t. Then this pops into my recommendations.
If anybody else experiences something similar please respond. You’re not alone. If enough of us are out there, I’m thinking we should create a Reddit or Discord group to share our experiences. Best wishes to all.
Totally in love with your channel and contents. Please, keep up the great work. Thanks for doing what you do
Wow this was amazing. I’ve been doing this unintentionally my whole life which has allowed me to have insights into my self and others. But I love the systematic approach here. I will be more intentional in bringing out these archetypes within me and taking it more seriously
Oh wild. I'd never heard of this, but I'm Type II BiPolar and ADHD. I follow Astrology and, as I realized I was going into a manic state, I checked the astrological positions, I had remembered it was an eclipse, and Venus was aligned with the Sun on a tight grouping I have in Libra. I got locked out of the house a bit later and stood around in the garage for a while to warm up. It was so loud in my head and giving me so much anxiety it was just driving me up the wall. I decided to try assigning the 'voices' planetary identities and holy shit did that ever help. Like, it was a loud argument in my head but I couldn't keep track of who was saying what until then. Then I immediately realized they were all talking to each other and with my observation to focus on each at a time, they started communicating their needs and started supporting each other and everything quieted down quickly.
This is one of the most important channels in YT these days. Can't wait to see it grow still.
Thanks for this. It is incredibly helpful and well done.
Exactly what I needed to reiterate that I am not being irrational unreasonable or wrong. So relevant to hear right now for all listening
Don’t ignore criticisms though
while I genuinely enjoyed this and I do appreciate your content and time, I feel it's so important to remind anyone planning on attempting this practice MUST use discernment and NEVER assume that all of the figures who present themselves are benevolent or have your best interest and safety in mind. Always remember to start each practice with some sore of prayer/cleansing/request for protection from God or your spirit guides.
otherwise, you are practically inviting anyone and anything to present itself and has potential to cause you unimaginable issues. Namaste 🙏✌️💫
Why was I lucky enough to get a positve one?
@@_shadow_1 you are probably already surrounding yourself with a good energy and high vibration. Stay positive and compassionate. Present yourself like a glowing candle to everyone and anything around you. Remember that our true source is pure love and light.
CERN let a bunch of the dark ones out just look up into the clouds.
I got this immediate unsettling feeling of despair that made me shudder slightly when the narrator suggested that I invite the involved entities to personify themselves... The weight I've had from the evils I've investigated and understood hasn't been invited by me in that respect yet so who knows what's waiting