{"id":520,"date":"2008-01-19T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2008\/01\/19\/the-creative-imagination\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:15:54","slug":"the-creative-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/the-creative-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Carl Jung was wrong; and the unconscious,<br \/>\nRather than spawning images itself<br \/>\nThrough innate archetypes, like a womb bears<br \/>\nThose formed by the creative imagination \u2013<br \/>\nWhich (independent of the headstrong will,<br \/>\nYet with one wing in touch with consciousness)<br \/>\nConverts to symbols concrete experiences,<br \/>\nAnd (much more to the point) dissolves and fuses<br \/>\nFamiliar images, to shape new ones.<br \/>\nThus it conceives the wholeness Jung called Self<br \/>\nAnd, like the numinous Soul, is made in God\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>On second thoughts, it\u2019s I who may be wrong;<br \/>\nAnd, as with Quantum-Relativity,<br \/>\nNot either-or but <em>both <\/em>reflects the whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>\n13 January 1998<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Carl Jung was wrong; and the unconscious, Rather than spawning images itself Through innate archetypes, like a womb bears Those formed by the creative imagination \u2013 Which (independent of the headstrong will, Yet with one wing in touch with consciousness) Converts to symbols concrete experiences, And (much more to the point) dissolves and fuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45,17,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}