Based on Cervantes' masterpiece "Don Quijote de La Mancha," this presentation will illustrate the evolutionary purposefulness of Imagination and the importance of becoming conscious and free of inner states of possession by threatening and autonomous psychic contents such as complexes, shadow aspects, and anima and animus factors.[This program will feature Book One of "Don Quijote de La Mancha." Magi Guindi will return to the Jung Club in December 2020 to discuss Book Two.]For more information…See More

Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. They had each stepped across a threshold and entered into another world, the realm of imagination, the world of fantasy. Jung recorded these initially spontaneous visionary experiences, which he further developed using the practice of active imagination, in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus, although usually it is referred to…See More