As good a definition as any….
“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can — in some beautifully bound book,” Jung instructed. “It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them. . . . Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.”
via Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious – NYTimes.com.
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Is Jung referring to a dream journal? I kept one when I was studying Jung in College and it was most revealing.
yeah, Jung pretty much studied dreams. But I think it applies as well to any kind of art journaling….