{"product_id":"9780834840799","title":"Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition","description":"Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation similar to Jung's technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination.","brand":"Shambhala Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082970808560,"sku":"9780834840799","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780834840799_p0.jpg?v=1763758074","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780834840799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}