Image Guidance: A Tool for Spiritual Direction

This series of case studies demonstrates how to dialogue with the active imagination so as to use imagery as an intuitive map that will help guide our lives and chart the course of spiritual direction. The book provides a step by step account of how to work with the spontaneous image, how to extract wisdom from dreams and how to recognize the symbolic significance of mythical themes. Ideally used within a counseling context, Image Guidance helps us address our problems with greater perception and sensitivity. We learn how to look at past and present experiences, imagine future experiences and create options for ourselves that we might otherwise have not seen. "For those who are attracted by their imaginations to the way of symbols, Elizabeth-Anne Vanek's book offers a privileged access to those symbols that emerge from the depths of the psyche and with grace and guidance can lead the spiritual pilgrim toward the goal of the journey." Ewert Cousins, Fordham University