Up: [[Active Imagination]] Created: 2025-05-02 Updated: 2025-05-08 **Active Imagination is a deliberate and active practice for learning from and deepening our relationship with the unconscious.** [[Active Imagination Came from Jung]] and was done as dialogue with figures from the unconscious. There have since been [[Other Forms of Active Imagination]]. #### The Practice of Active Imagination Involves 1. entering a state of mindfulness 2. [[Choosing a Seed Image]] and bringing it into inner awareness 3. allowing the unconscious to express itself through the generation of images, narratives, or figures, without interference from the ego 4. engaging with what the unconscious produces so that you move [[From Image to Symbol]] 5. resulting in a variety of [[Gifts of Active Imagination]] For more clarity about what active imagination is, take a look at [[Active Imagination is Not]].