Business Ethics 3.0 by Erhard Meyer-Galow

Author:Erhard Meyer-Galow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2018-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

3.1.3Activating Our Imagination

For Walter Schwery, “Active Imagination” is Jung’s method of integration of the shadow. It is a path of practice which enables us to raise, animate and preserve the images of the collective and personal unconscious. Active Imagination offers us the opportunity to open negotiations with these forces and figures of the unconscious so as to gradually begin to accept them. In this respect it differs from dreams, in which we have no control over our actions.

The following explanation comes in part from the book Active Imagination by Dorst and Vogel (Dorst and Vogel 2014, p. 9). The authors explain that imaginations are internal ideas:

They have been and continue to be used by shaman as well as by those leading religious rituals, to change the awareness and extension of our consciousness. The Active Imagination espoused by Jung … is an intense engagement with inner images … a free imagination form without guidelines of a therapist as opposed to guided imagination … The impulses from the Self take over the leadership …

Dorst and Vogel (2014, p. 3) remind us of Jung’s following comment (Wilhelm and Jung 1986, p. 22):

The let it happen, the doing in the non-doing, the let it be of Meister Eckhart became my key with which it is possible to open the door to the path: you have to let it happen psychologically. This is a true art, of which countless people understand nothing because their consciousness constantly wants to help; correcting and negating it jumps in between, unable to accept the simple being and growing of the psychic process.

Dorst and Vogel (2017, p. 10):

Active Imagination is a psychotherapeutic method and a spiritual procedure of self-exploration. … It is a tool to explore the path towards the inside, to orientate in the interior of the soul and to make it possible to move in that space of the soul. … After some preliminary relaxing exercises consciousness and the unconscious enter into a dialogue which would never have otherwise occurred. … Picture messages from the unconscious appear only if and when the supremacy of consciousness is overcome. … The dialogue produces a healing Self recognition which gives us access to creativity and the healing of our soul.

This is progress along the pathway toward Individuation.

How does Active Imagination proceed? Dorst and Vogel (2014, p. 31):

The procedure is always gradual, step by step. The Jungian Marie Louise von Franz advises us in an unpublished lecture in Los Angeles in 1979 (cited in Johnson 1986, p. 160) to:

–Empty our mind.

–Let the unconscious flow into the vacuum.

–Add the ethical element.

–Integrate the imagination back into daily life

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