Neville and Jung both placed imagination at the center — yet they seem to pull in opposite directions. For Neville, imagination creates: you assume a state and the world conforms. For Jung, imagination reveals: you attend to what rises unbidden and learn what the psyche already holds.
Held together, they describe a single breathing motion. We shape our inner world (Neville’s active assumption) and we listen to it (Jung’s receptive attention). Create, then listen; listen, then create.
A mature inner life needs both hands. Pure creating without listening turns brittle and willful; pure listening without shaping drifts. Imaginal invites you to practice the rhythm of both.
Today, do one act of shaping (assume a wish) and one act of listening (attend to a dream or mood).
Are you more a creator or a listener right now — and which hand needs practice?