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Active Imagination 11/03/25(Mon)12:27:03 No.41408611

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Active Imagination Anonymous 11/03/25(Mon)12:27:03 No.41408611

not really sure if this is more /x/ or /lit/ or /his/ or whatever but figure it's weird enough only people here would be ones who have actually done it. (everyone I describe it to and even people who read jung just think it sounds psychotic, which it kind of is to be fair)

Anyone here do things like jungian active imagination? How long have you been doing it, what have you gotten out of it?
It's a very weird subject as it's jung like #1 recommendation for people to eventually get to and is the whole point of individuation, and people read his read book "his log of his experience with it" but I really don't see very much of people talking about actually doing it. (I have 0 idea why you'd read the red book instead of just doing it yourself)

I started recently and have had a very... like "hardcore" response to it and have found it like shockingly visceral and interacting with the autonomous complexes. Already think I've gotten quite a bit out of it, surprised to never hear anyone else really talk about it.

My current method is:
>sit/lay down half way comfortably in a dark room on a couch
>have a keyboard plugged into my phone, but don't look at the phone screen at all (i can type really fast without looking which is very good for this)
>start basically doing the free writing trying to write without consciously thinking about it at all
>do this for 30 minutes, i've found it takes ~10 minutes or so to really get in the rhythm and come in contact with my complexes

I then read through and organize/edit the transcripts and then have LLMs analyze them as well. Decent process for I think.