Active Imagination

The objective of this thesis paper is to highlight my artistic process, current projects, and research strategies emerging from my studio practice. First, this thesis describes and elaborates my practice of “reconstruction,” the reasons I find it effective, and the personal hist…

This thesis examines the problem of addiction as a biopsychosocial-spiritual archetypal disease and asks: What is an interactive, exciting, and robust intervention that can be used as a technique for relapse prevention? This thesis proposes an active imagination technique viewed…

What is the ancestral shadow, and how can an imaginal exploration help an individual to heal and integrate the shadow of multiple generations? Drawing on Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow, the ancestral shadow is explored in this thesis as being a part of the unconscious that hol…

The light of the Anima Mundi has been repressed for over two thousand years. From a feminine in-sighting, this dissertation considers the reasons for the World Soul's repression and how her light can be renewed. The division of body and mind, image and word, physicality and spir…