What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp.
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James Hollis is a Jungian analyst and executive director of the C.
With the power of the Archetypal Imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.
To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt.
The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke\'s Duino Elegies to elucidate the Archetypal Imagination in literary forms.
Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions.
Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well.
Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an other world.
He argues that without the human mind\'s ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality.
In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the Archetypal imagination.
With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own.
What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp
