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SUMMARY:The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books:  Jung\, Tolkien\, and the 
 Imaginal Realm
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War\, both C. G.
  Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imagina
 l experiences. They had each stepped across a threshold and entered into a
 nother world\, the realm of imagination\, the world of fantasy. Jung recor
 ded these initially spontaneous visionary experiences\, which he further d
 eveloped using the practice of active imagination\, in a large red manuscr
 ipt that he named Liber Novus\, although usually it is referred to simply
  as The Red Book. The experiences narrated in The Red Book became the s
 eeds from which nearly all of Jung’s subsequent work flowered. For Tolki
 en\, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-Earth\, who
 se stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rin
 gs\, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of West
 march. There are many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien
 ’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art\, the narrativ
 e descriptions and scenes in their texts\, the nature of their visions and
  dreams\, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from the
 ir experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading para
 llel paths through the imaginal realm.\nThe revelations of this research h
 old deep consequences for modernity’s assumptions of a disenchanted worl
 d and bring to the surface implications concerning the nature of imaginati
 on and its participatory relationship to the collective unconscious. This 
 presentation will point to the possibility that Tolkien and Jung are preli
 minary guides on a journey to the depths of an ensouled cosmos in which im
 agination saturates the very foundations of reality.\nCourse objectives:\n
 \n\n 	\nExplore the nature of imagination and its participatory relationsh
 ip to the collective unconscious\n\n 	\nUnderstand the relevance of Jung
 ’s and Tolkien’s Red Books to modernity’s assumptions of a disenchan
 ted world\n\n\nBecca S. Tarnas\, PhD\, is a scholar\, artist\, and editor 
 of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorat
 e in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Stu
 dies\, with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of 
 C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. Becca received her BA from Mount Holyoke Col
 lege in Environmental Studies and Theatre Arts\, and MA in Philosophy\, Co
 smology\, and Consciousness at CIIS. Her research interests include depth 
 psychology\, literature\, philosophy\, and the ecological imagination. She
  is currently teaching in the Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies pr
 ogram at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
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