Your Creative Imagination UNLOCKED Become Who You Truly Are

By Jim Manganiello and Frank Arnold

Your Creative Imagination UNLOCKEDBecome Who You Truly AreUNLOCKED was born from the collaboration between award winning depth psychologist Dr. Jim Manganiello and preeminent abstract artist Frank Arnold. The book companions visual and written Images to illustrate the nature and power of the Creative Imagination--the shared interface in their work.Frank Arnold's visual art is featured in the book because of its well-known emotional power to enchant, enliven and illuminate. The work of other artists, who have also worked from their deep interior, such as Kandinsky, Picasso, Twombly and Rothko is also included."UNLOCKED" explores the Imagination as a "deep mind" capacity for Knowledge and Being. It demonstrates that art has been wrongly positioned as a commodity and as entertainment, because of a materialistic "surface mind" worldview that fails to recognize art for what it is--a call to depth and meaning, from the soul. Similarly depth psychology, a form of deep imagination-rich inner work aimed at connecting us to our innermost core, has been wrongly positioned as a service commodity and as a means to solve problems at the surface of life.Visual art and depth psychology go beyond the surface thinking-mind to engage the deeper intuitive-mind to unlock the Imagination and give rise to Images packed with symbolic power. At their best, paintings and sculptures, as well as analogy, metaphor and story, are born from experiences that lie beyond the conceptual mind.The artist's UNLOCKED Imagination transforms his or her deep mind experiences into Images. These Images can carry significant power to connect us to who truly are and reset, refresh and illuminate a people, a culture and the world. The viewer's UNLOCKED Imagination can then transform the artist's images into something of the experiences that gave rise to them--and so connect them to what Jung called the "wellsprings of life". Both art and deep inner work can bring into awareness what's needed to overcome individual and cultural excesses and imbalances.UNLOCKED includes a step my step process for unlocking the Imagination and SEEING an Image, instead of just looking at it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976006596
• ISBN13: 9780976006596
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Ashford Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.