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Acknowledgements

There are many to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for their inspiration and support during the writing of this book. In particular, the staff and students, past and present, of the Psychosynthesis Trust, who provided me with a context to discuss and clarify my ideas, without which this book would probably never have come about. I would also like to thank my wife, Bethany, who has provided a reliable place of shelter, welcome rest, and companionship on what has been at times a difficult and lonely journey. A thousand thanks also go to my team of intrepid readers (Tim, Sophia, Jasper, Ryan and Robert) for their belief in the book in its early stages and the generous wisdom and wit they shared to help bring it to fruition. Keith Robinson also needs a special mention for his wonderful cover illustration that captures so well the spirit of the book. The team at Transpersonal Press also need a special mention: Stacey, for championing the development of transpersonal psychotherapy and giving me the opportunity to write the book; Thierry, for his calm, straightforward guidance and patience; and Nicky, for her astute and fine-grained edits. And last but not least, thank you, dear reader, for bringing the book to life with your time and attention, which means a lot to me.

About the Author

Allan Frater grew up on the edge of a small village near Edinburgh, reading comics and walking his dog Jet in the surrounding countryside. He survived an engineering degree and a failed career as a maths teacher by watching movies and reading novels. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, he spent his twenties living and working in Buddhist communities where he came across the east-meets-west fusion of transpersonal psychology and eventually trained to become a psychotherapist. His psychotherapy practice and teaching career at the Psychosynthesis Trust have researched the meeting place between transpersonal psychology and an image-based approach to ecotherapy, the results of which are presented in this book. Now living in North London, married and middle-aged, he feels fortunate to have kept touch with his original sources of inspiration, continuing to read comics and spend time outdoors walking his dog Milly.

Index

A

Abram, David 15, 19, 20, 31, 79, 81, 85, 87, 97, 115 active imagination 10, 27, 41, 105, 107, 117 Agricultural Revolution 82-83 alienation 57, 82-83, 85, 196 analysis 53, 61, 137, 164, 188 analytical thinking 7, 8, 67, 72, 96, 201 animate 14, 82, 87, 91, 96, 109 animism 77-80, 85-86 animistic imagination 5, 77-86, 87-88, 134, 156-157, 200 anthropology 15, 80 Assagioli, Roberto 14-15, 22, 167, 187189, 193-199 auditory images 37, 89 B

Bernstein, Jerome 15, 201 Bettelheim, Bruno 136 Blignaut, Sonja 157 Bosnak, Robert 15, 17, 23, 26, 32, 51, 64, 83, 115, 118, 120, 130, 134, 141

C

Charlton, Bruce 82 childhood 7, 8, 72, 78-81, 87, 117, 136, 166-167, 180, 188-189, 191, 196, 203 colonization 82-84, 197 Columbus, Christoher 83 complex system 134-139, 141, 145-146, 148-152, 157-159 complexity theory 14, 114, 131, 134-135, 137, 139, 141-148, 157, 159, 170 contraindicate 69 Corbin, Henry 15 countertransference 116-122 creative action 59 creative imagination 10, 59, 61 D

Darwin, Charles 35, 50 dead metaphor 112, 180 determinism 105, 108-109, 148, 159 deterministic 113, 132, 202 dialoguing 87-99 disembodied 23, 36, 39 Doerr, Anthony 56 dualism 26, 195 dualistic 14, 26, 195-196, 200-201 E

ecological imagination 131-146 ecopsychology 15, 86 ecosystem 132-135, 150 ecotherapists 74 edge of chaos 135, 138-144, 147-150, 153158 embodied imagination 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 37, 54, 133, 156 embodiment 30, 61, 83, 86, 130, 146, 195 emergence 99, 135, 142-143, 146-159, 173, 202 emergent phenomena 143, 147, 150 emerging 147-159 empathic 84, 110, 116, 120, 124, 126, 156-157 empirical: empirical method 103, 193, 195, 198 empirical science 103, 192-194, 198 empiricism 103, 192-200, 203 empty chair method 12, 87, 117, 128130, 136 enchanted 56, 80, 189, 204 enchantment 78, 136, 146 entering 31-50 entry point 40-43, 48, 62-64, 66, 69-71, 73, 139, 141, 153, 155, 176, 178, 181, 183 Euclid 161 experiential 10-11, 13, 17, 21, 26-27, 29,

31, 33, 70-72, 100, 128, 133, 168, 185, 189, 191, 193-194, 196, 200-201 exploring 62-76 F

fantasy 8, 20, 23-28, 34, 36, 5-52, 55-57, 69, 70-71, 104, 106, 109, 112, 119, 129, 142, 145, 153-157, 180-181 Ferrer, Jorge N. 147,193-194, 196-197, 202 Ferrucci, Piero 84, 105, 106, 108, 110 Firman, John 195 fractals: fractal geometry 14, 160-163, 169 fractal imagination 160-169 fractal intricacy 173, 175-176, 180184 fractal jumps 173, 175, 179-180 fractal patterning 172-173 fractal process 167-169 fractal template 172-174, 176, 177179, 185 Freud, Sigmund 100, 102-104, 110, 111, 161, 188, 193 Freudian 136, 137, 193, 195, 197 G

Galatzer-Levy 100, 135, 139, 147, 152, 153, 155, 162, 163 Gell-Mann, Murray 145 gestalt therapy 10, 12, 117, 128 Gold, Joseph 104 Griffiths, Jay 79 guided imagery 10, 41, 117 H

Hardy, Jean 193, 194 healing 11, 57, 85, 117, 131, 132, 171, 201, 202 Hillman, James 6, 15, 19, 21, 24, 36, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 96, 101, 107 humanistic psychology 188 hunter-gatherers 82 Hypnagogic State 31-42, 48, 63-64, 6667, 70, 75-76, 90, 94-96, 98, 125, 127, 129, 142, 149, 150, 153, 171, 185 I

ideal model 144 identification 28, 80, 84, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 129, 195 identity 28, 116-122, 127-130, 153, 181 image objects 28 image-as-psyche 54 image-centric approach 9, 12, 15, 24, 60, 70, 71, 74, 148, 159, 160, 203 imaginal attention 10, 37, 63, 66, 91, 154, 155, 156, 157, 179 imagination: [definition] 23 active imagination 10, 27, 41, 105, 107, 117 animistic imagination 5, 77-86, 8788, 134, 156-157, 200 creative imagination 10, 59, 61 ecological imagination 131-146 embodied imagination 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 37, 54, 133, 156 fractal imagination 160-169 immersive imagination 51-60 inner imagination 13, 24-29, 53, 110, 112, 143, 168, 191-192, 200 mechanical imagination 100-113, 115, 119, 132, 135, 139, 142, 144 transpersonal imagination 187-204 immersive imagination 51-60 Industrial Revolution 81-82, 102 Inner Child 27, 83, 97, 168, 184, 191, 196 interactive field 200 interpretation 8, 38, 96, 137, 150, 151, 171, 182, 183, 201 intrapsychic 14, 188, 199 J

Jung, Carl 14, 53, 62, 100, 188, 200 Jungian 15, 21, 23, 32, 53, 54, 83, 200, 201 K

Kauffman, Stuart 149 Key, David 132 L

Laing, R.D. 20

Levy-Bruhl 80, 202 literalism 34-36, 142 living metaphor 111-112 Lockhart, Russell 15, 87 Lorenz, Edward 134 M

Mandelbrot, Benoit 162 Marks-Tarlow 111, 112, 135, 160, 171 May, Rollo 59, 62 mechanical imagination 100-113, 115, 119, 132, 135, 139, 142, 144 mechanical: see also theory of change mechanistic 28, 104, 105, 115, 119, 134, 143, 144, 168, 197-199, 200, 202 metaphor: dead metaphor 112-180 living metaphor 111-112 murmurations 157 mysticism 192-199 N

narcissistic 27, 136, 196, 197, 200 Nelson, Richard K. 81, 86 non-dual 200, 201, 202 nonlinear 114, 151, 152, 155, 159, 170, 207 novel image 57-68, 74, 89, 90, 93, 95, 121, 122, 128, 139-142, 146, 150-158, 174

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pacing 75 parallel imagery 48-49, 76, 179 participatory 81, 138, 159, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 207 parts 25, 27, 28, 105, 108, 110, 112, 135, 136, 143, 145, 148, 151, 157, 160, 162, 168, 169, 172, 178, 191, 198, 202 pattern 12, 115, 132, 160, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, patterning 171-186 perception 11, 14, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 48, 53, 54, 55, 59, 70, 73, 77, 86, 87, 97, 101, 102, 111, 112, 127, 129, 142, 149, 156, 167, 168, 169, 171, 173, 180, 182, 183, 184, 199, 201, 203 personifying 77 phenomenological 12-14 point of view 116, 120, 127, 128-130, 173 present tense 47, 71, 73, 183 projection 19, 20, 25, 26, 191 psyche 14, 53, 54, 61, 83, 84, 87, 99, 103, 106, 114, 136, 144, 160, 170, 171, 186, 188, 200 psychodynamic 103, 104, 110-113 psychosynthesis 10, 14, 84, 152, 187-198 Pullman, Philip 21 R

rationalistic 27, 196, 200 reductionism 105, 106, 148, 150, 152, 168, 178, 188 Robertson, Chris 60 Romanyshyn, Robert 53 Roszak, Theodor 15, 80, 85 S

Schwartz-Salant, Nathan 17, 200 self-invented speech 88 Shakespeare, William 35, 53 Shamadasini, Sonu 102 shapeshifting 115-130 small changes 134, 146, 148, 157-159 soul 51, 54-60, 77, 81, 107, 195, 199, 200 soul-making 51, 57-60 Stein, Zachary 103, 106 Stern, Daniel N. 109, 116 Stevens, Wallace 35 subpersonalities 9, 12, 25-27, 30, 83-84, 97, 105-111, 128, 13, 168, 178, 184, 191, 195, 196 symbol 79, 97 symbolic 7, 25, 55, 108, 109, 151, 155, 178, 196, 198, 201 synthesis 22, 39, 131, 133, 146, 148-151, 168, 188, 200-202

T

Tarnas, Richard 187, 198 technique 36, 108, 109, 110, 145, 147 template: see fractal template theory of change 28, 105, 142, 155, 198

ecological 134-145 mechanical 28, 105-110 thermodynamics 103 third place 200 transpersonal imagination 187-204 transrational 200-202 transference 12, 72, 73, 102, 181, 184 traumatic memories 70 U

unpredictability 113, 143, 146, 148, 151, 153, 154, 157

V

Van Gogh, Vincent 13, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 32, 51, 57, 77 W

waking dreams: definition 10 developments 10-13 dialoguing 87-99 emerging 147-159 entering 31-50 exploring 62-76 patterning 171-186 shapeshifting 115-130 structure 154-155 Watkins, Mary 13, 15, 21, 109, 115 Wheatley, Margaret 163 Whitmore, Diana 152 Winnicott, Donald 105, 200 Z

zero-sum game 28, 143