Working with Archetypes: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series

One of the applications of active imagination is to engage proactively with the archetypes of the collective unconscious. While it's not possible to integrate any particular archetype in its entirety, it is important to build and deepen a relationship with them. If you reject or repress any archetype, it tends to return in a darker, more disruptive form. And by meeting archetypal material in symbolic form, you gain more information about it: its purpose, its features, its behaviours, and why it needs to exist.

🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the…