Valerie Harms

Ordinary diary-keeping differs greatly from the Intensive Journal method. When people keep a diary, they write what they already know mostly. In the Intensive Journal you do exercises that bring up new material from your creative unconscious. You cover:

1. Persons of inner importance – angry, harmonious…
2. Work projects; short term goals; what started, what completed or blocked
3. Physical condition: health, sensual life, outdoor experiences
4. Social attitudes: beliefs, politics, historical roots
5. Striking events: fateful, mysterious, synchronistic
6. Dreams or images: symbols, insights
7. Inspiring persons from history or mythology, authors, political or spiritual leaders
8. Crossroads of decisions: choices & consequences
9. Experiences of connection or meaning; times of alienation or disconnection

Ira Progoff at Amazon books

I have long been involved with Montana Friends of Jung. Recently I gave a program on dreams. Below are some tips and recommended books as well as our Web site, which you can check for programs.

Web site: http://www.montanafriendsofjung.org

Really good books:
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, & Reflections
Jeremy Taylor, Dreamwork
Robert Johnson, Inner Work
Marie-Louise Von Franz with Fraser Boa, The Way of the Dream
E. Whitmont & S. Perera, Dreams: Portal to the Source
Robert Bosnak, A Little Course in Dreams