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Moon Walking An Excursion into the Subconscious  TALKING SHADOWS FOLLOW RUSKAN IN HIS INNER-FRAGMENT STORIES AND LEAD TO FANTASTIC NEW PLACES AND UNCOMMON INSIGHTS. I ENJOYED THIS BOOK LAURIE ANDERSON, MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
As sequel to his Emotional Clearing, John Ruskan takes the reader on a journey into the collective unconscious archetypal world of feeling. In this unique and evocative work, he blends fiction with East/West psychology to help awaken forgotten emotional parts of ourselves that must be brought into the light as a vital step to personal evolution and healing.
157 pages
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From John-
Having studied the works of Carl Jung - who is recognized as a founder of modern humanistic psychology - one thing that impressed me about his range of interests was his focus on mythology. As far as I know, none of the other psychologists of that era displayed such an interest. At first, I did not fully comprehend the need for delving into mythological lore of the ancient past in conjunction with inner healing work, but gradually, as I went further into my own personal journey, it became clear.
Mythology, for Jung, was a way of including the right-brain in psychological inquiry and connecting to the archetypes. While psychology ostensibly deals primarily with feelings and the subconscious, it can tend to stay on a left-brain, intellectual level. Jung sought to blast a way past the ubiquitous left-brain by encouraging involvement in right-brain fantasy. For him, mythology was apparently an appropriate means to shift into the deeper right-brain soul, as well as connect to the archetypes, although of course he was also concerned with dreams and visions. As these archetypes of desire, need, fulfillment, and frustration are presented to the mind, they stir up the suppressed subconscious. We become aware of previously hidden parts of ourselves, and we can then begin to do meaningful work on ourselves.
That's what the stories I'm presenting here have done for me. I spontaneously started having intense visions during a particular period of my life, which I found creatively and artistically satisfying to write down. I found that these stories had a deep impact on loosening my right-brain powers, and connecting me to forgotten inner parts by presenting a particular archetype of the collective unconscious.
And so, I am making them available, in case anyone else might find them interesting and useful - as a kind of modern day mythology, full of fantasy and struggle - that might help to stir and stimulate your right-brain, creative self, revealing hidden aspects of yourself that need to come into the light for healing and integration.