"Healing Through the Imaginal Realm" by Erica Lorentz, M.Ed., L.P.C., Jungian Analyst (1)

ABOUT THE EVENT

This lecture helps us to grasp Jung’s understanding of the creative healing capacities of the unconscious through the imaginal realm. Jung’s favorite method of personal (The Black Books & The Red Book) and professional work was active imagination. The Sufis’ spoke of the mundus imaginalis, the imaginal world,where one engages in a dialogue with the personal and collective unconscious. Through this imaginal realm we descend into a spiral journey that weaves together the conscious and the unconscious, the personal and the archetypal, the somatic unconscious and the subtle body. Employing neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist’s knowledge of the left and right hemispheres brings clarity to the importance of Jung’s work in our times.

BRIEF BIO - ERICA LORENTZ

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Diplomate Jungian Analyst (IAAP) is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England where she has served on the Training Board. She has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform have featured her work, and her lectures can be found on her website or YouTube. She just finished a book entitled Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process. Her area of expertise is working with the embodied mythopoetic process in analysis and the inter-active field. In 1975, her initiation into Jung’s Embodied Active Imagination Process started when she began studying Authentic Movement with Janet Adler.