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    Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
    Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
    Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
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    Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

    Written by Robert A. Johnson

    Narrated by Don Hagen

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 9, 2018
    ISBN9780062836366
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    Robert A. Johnson

    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.

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    • 1/5
      You lost me at Ch. 6 3:46. Credo in unum deum. Dreamwork is not possible without believing in one god? I'll have to find another book.

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    • 4/5
      Fascinating insights about the unconscious and a practical DIY approach for accessing it. I’m not entirely sold on the ideas but I am intrigued.

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    • 5/5
      absolutely amazing.. useful useful useful. Not just theory but a concrete guide on how to do inner work (mostly from the jungian perspective)
    • 5/5
      Fantastic production! In love with this voice and the book both theoretical and practical
    • 5/5
      I loved that this book gave me some very clear tools for dream interpretation and for active imagination visualizations. these steps and tools help to give me the power and the know how to interpret my own dreams without having to depend on someone else's definition of my image's. and if I have a dream about something that seems to be open needed or not have any type of resolve I can then utilize active imagination for that. as well as for the dreams that I don't remember to bring out that which lies dormant within me that I have no idea what or who it is. this book will be a tool I use for many years to come. I'm excited to actually start the process
    • 5/5
      I became interested in this book after listening to a number of Jungian analysts. I’m often learning for practical reasons. This book challenged me to explore parts of myself that are often neglected or left out. You could spend a lifetime integrating all of the unconscious material that exist in ourselves. This book is a great field guide for doing just that.
    • 5/5
      Just excellent. Why did it take me so long to find this book? I've always admired Robert Johnson's memoir, BALANCING HEAVEN AND EARTH. This text should be required reading for anyone working with dreams or the imagination as part of their spiritual journey.

      "In fact, no one "makes up" anything in the imagination. The material that appears in the imagination has to originate in the unconscious. .... Imagination is a TRANSFORMER that converts the invisible material into images the conscious mind can perceive."

      "Our isolation from the unconscious is synonymous with our isolation from our souls, from the life of the spirit. It results in the loss of our religious life, for it is in the unconscious that we find our individual conception of God and experience our deities. The religious function—this inborn demand for meaning and inner experience—is cut off with the rest of the inner life. … If we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis."
    • 5/5
      ""The conscious mind is but a cork bobbing on the sea of the unconscious mind.""It is through dreams that the unconscious mind speaks to the conscious mind."If those quotes hit you hard, then this book is most definitely for you."Inner Work" is by far the best "do it yourself" dream analysis book extant. No image dictionaries, no rules that apply to all situations. no guides to symbols... as it should be. We are as different on the inside as we are on the outside. Johnson is widely regarded by Jungian analysts as a master of dream work and active imagination. Since I started this book my life has changed enormously. Dreams are no longer just video dumps of the day's activity mixed with meaningless images and symbols; they are masterpieces of symbolic communication.Make no mistakes, the work you will do as a result of reading this book is hard work that requires much moral courage. If you have that and the discipline to do the work, you will be richly rewarded: your life will change for the better. You will grow, you will integrate the unconscious with the conscious, and you will live a more fulfilling life than you otherwise could ever have lived. And as Steven Forrest, the eminent astrologer says, "integration is the key." bogartmc