05-06-2016, 04:02 PM
I feel the same way, i think active imaging is accessing the collective unconsciousness or the archetypal mind but first we must go through the personal unconsciousness of suppressed unbalanced desires. I can allow images to rise at almost anytime they seem to follow anything from daily routine through to mythology. A good way to tune into this method is to visualize something in your minds eye and allow it to go as it will, you will find the scene changes. If i imagine a cross it might then end up in a field, then perhaps next to a castle, someone picks it up, its a priest? He takes it to an underground passage. These details could be logged into a journal and meditated upon until further meaning is obtained. Its fairly similar to a practice in Qabalah called pathworking, one starts a creative visualization of a path by starting at the first sephiroth connecting it to the other sephiroth and creates an astral image of the corresponds. In this sense rather than using your own subconsciousness purely, you are using archetypal symbols to begin with. This brings the Tree and the archetypes into a direct practical experience in which the archetypes are invoked from the unconsciousness via the conscious application of symbols that have an primordial significance.