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Another New Exclusive for “The Place” members:Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal GrowthAuthor: Robert JohnsonPublished: 1986Book Description: 226 pages from the scans from member “onthejourney” and then a quick edit to single pages, OCRed & bookmarked with cover added to PDF.I had this book on my list sometime ago, and was editing some other files, so I just did a very quick edit to PDF, thanks.Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal GrowthIn this book Johnson introduces a simple four-step method aimed at helping us explore the unconscious. He encourages us to pinpoint the symbols that appear in our dreams and active imaginings; to note our conscious associations to these symbols; meaningfully to personalize what we have accomplished in these first two steps; and finally through rituals to translate the insights gained into memorable conscious experiences. By providing clear instructions, with illustrations, he gives us a feeling for inner work, making it feasible without reliance on formal analysis. Johnson’s well-written book should appeal both to general readers and to specialists in the field. Noted author and Jungian analyst Robert Johnson shows how working with our dreams and active imagination can integrate our conscious and unconscious selves, leading us to wholeness and a more satisfying life.About Robert: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 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.Robert A. Johnson is no longer a practicing analystThe author’s web site is at:http://www.jerryruhlrobertjohnson.comSpecials thanks to the original scanner & uploader “onthejourney”Please keep this a elib exclusive, thanks.The original post was at: Power Users & Above.Thanks, Mazen