Active Imagination: Carl Jung's Technique vs Nikola Tesla's - Part 1

Active imagination is a conscious method of experimentation and the exploration of the unconscious mind. It employs creative imagination as an organ for "perceiving outside your own mental boxes - viewing the contents, personalities, creatures and environments of your unconscious.” It’s kind of like a lucid dream, but you’re much more awake. It’s purpose is to dig deep into your unconscious or the shadow, where there is danger, deeply profound internal realizations, inventions, art, music, ideas, and according to many jungian analysts, even potential to help predict the future (oftentimes through understanding the past), or even directly predict the future the way Tesla, Jung, Nietzche, Abraham Lincoln and many others have purportedly been able to do. There was a saying in medieval alchemy, in sterquiliniis invenitur, which roughly translates to “in filth, it will be found.” Later, Carl Jung explains this saying as follows; that which we most desire to find in our lives may be found in the places we least want to explore. Those places can be found in our external lives, in the malevolence of the world we live in, or internally, in the shadowy depths of the unconscious.