Vídeo de YouTubeIn 1913 two men in Western Europe, of different age and unknown to each
other, began to undergo a highly unusual experience: C.G. Jung and
J.R.R. Tolkien both stepped across a threshold and entered into a realm
of imagination, into the realm of fantasy. For Jung this process, which
he called active imagination, took the eventual form of the Liber Novus,
also known as The Red Book, that became the seed from which nearly all
his subsequent work flowered. For Tolkien this imaginal journey revealed
to him the world of Middle Earth, whose stories and myths eventually
led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings, a book also named, within
its own contextual history, The Red Book of Westmarch. Although working
in different fields—namely psychology and philology—there are many
synchronistic parallels between Jung's and Tolkien's "Red Book periods":
the style of their artwork, the nature of their visions and dreams, and
a similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences are all
indications that they may have been treading, at times, the same paths
through the archetypal realm. | Becca Tarnas is a doctoral student in the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also received her MA in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Environmental Studies and Theater Arts, and was educated at the San Francisco Waldorf School for thirteen years. Her current research is on ecology, imagination, and archetypes in relation to the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. More of her work can be found atbeccatarnas.wordpress.com |
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