Using the world of visual image, this series of seminars proposes to describe the healing properties contained within an expanded vision of the creative process. Seminar I of this course, The Imaginal and the Subtle Body , provides an overview and description of what is referred to as the imaginal realm. This realm is what some have described as the subtle body, the place where spirit and matter meet and mingle. Jung explored the imaginal realm extensively in his researches on Alchemy, and through his understanding of the psyche and the dream world.
Modern physics refers to the subtle body realm in various ways.
Other disciplines, including the spiritual tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, rely extensively on this experience of reality in their practices. The imaginal realm also includes the world of concrete images, the process of making them, and their potential influence on the psyche. Synchronistic Images of the Soul, The Visionary and Alchemical Works of Marylou Reifsnyder, and Anatomy of an Animus respectively, all provide individual and specific examples of working in the world of visual images. Each seminar focuses on a series of images and the ways in which their making have encouraged a development in consciousness. Seminar V is dedicated to experiential participation through the making and sharing of individual images in a safe and protected atmosphere.