Inner Work: Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth (Revised) - Softcover

Robert A. Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062504312 ISBN 13: 9780062504319

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991

Synopsis

From Robert A. Johnson, the bestselling author of Transformation, Owning Your Own Shadow, and the groundbreaking works He, She, and We, comes a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation. In Inner Work, the renowned Jungian analyst offers a powerful and direct way to approach the inner world of the unconscious, often resulting in a central transformative experience. A repackaged classic by a major name in the field, Robert Johnson s Inner Work enables us to find extraordinary strengths and resources in the hidden depths of our own subconscious. A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve personal wholeness and a more satisfying life.

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About the Author

Robert A. Johnson, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst, is also the author of He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Transformation, and Owning Your Own Shadow. Only a handful of true spiritual elders come along in each generation. With more than two million books in print in thirty countries on five continents, honored and respected Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson has been one of the most influential interpreters of Jungian psychology in our time, presenting Carl Jung s rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace. His term inner work has become part of the vocabulary with which serious seekers understand themselves and their life s journey. Robert s books are known and loved for their beautiful retellings of timeless myths and folktales, as well as for their deep wisdom and profound insight. Robert has been pursuing inner work since a near-death experience at the age of eleven. The tragic loss of a leg after being hit by an automobile provided his first glimpse of the Golden World, a realm that exists just beyond ordinary consciousness. Like Parsifal in the legendary myth of the Holy Grail, a spiritual quest in his early decades led Robert to improbable encounters with a variety of sages, saints, and sinners, culminating in a meeting with the famed Swiss psychiatrist Jung. He attended the first classes offered at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied and worked with the pioneers of analytical psychology, including Carl Jung, Emma Jung, and Jolande Jacobi. He completed analytical training with Dr. Fritz Kunkel in Los Angeles and Dr. Toni Sussman in London. Robert also studied with J. Krishnamurti, with Soto Zen priest Maezumi Roshi, and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Robert received an honorary doctorate in humanities and a lifetime achievement award from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2002. For nineteen years, Robert divided his time between Southern California and India. He now resides in San Diego, California, where he enjoys the company of many friends, cultivates water lilies in his living room, and occasionally plays his rare Clavichord D amour, an instrument dating from the eighteenth century.

From the Back Cover

From the best-selling author of 'Transformation' and 'Owning Your Own Shadow', a practical four-step approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation.

In his groundbreaking works 'He, She', and 'We', pioneering Jungian analyst Robert Johnson showed us how to better understand each other using mythic archetypes. In 'Inner Work', he provides a four-step way to bring our conscious and unconscious selves together, immeasurably enriching our life experience.

Providing an understanding of dream symbols and images, Johnson leads us through a ceremony that translates the dream into a memorable physical experience. Working with the power of the active imagination, we begin to develop a relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds, resulting in what is often a central transformative experience.

Through inner work, this direct, powerful way of approaching the inner world of the unconscious, our dreams and imagination can be transformed into an active, creative part of our lives. Robert Johnson enables us each to search the hidden depths of our own unconscious to find the extraordinary strengths and resources that wait to be discovered there.

Robert A. Johnson is the author of 'He, She, We, Ecstasy', and 'Femininity Lost and Regained'.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0062504312
• ISBN 13: 9780062504319
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240