The Black Iron Baby Boy

Abstract

Because there is already so much valuable information about Jung’s technique of active imagination that explains both its purpose and its transformative value, this piece has been written from a personal perspective in order to illustrate how that theory can be applied individually. When, without any solicitation on my part, a figure on my bookshelf spoke to me, I conversed with it, and found that in doing so, it had the power to move me by helping me to let go of an old idea to which I had been attached for far too long.