{"product_id":"9780877735892","title":"Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018242048240,"sku":"9780877735892","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780877735892_p0.jpg?v=1763845917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780877735892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}