Imaginal Reality

Aaron B. Daniels teaches psychology in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from: Baldwin Wallace College (BA); Duquesne University (MA), where he studied existential phenomenology; and Pacifica Graduate Institute (PhD), where his degree emphasized the depth tradition. After working for a decade in private and public practice, he transitioned into academia. His previous two works, 'Imaginal Reality, Volume One: Journey to the Voids' and 'Imaginal Reality, Volume Two: Voidcraft' were both published in 2011. Written with Laura M. Daniels, they are syntheses of imaginal psychology with existential principles.

• AcknowledgementsAuthor’s Foreword to Volumes One and Two : A Few Words about (and to) Those for Whom I Intend These TextPart 1: Casting the Circle 0: A Sort of Rock Bottom: An Opening Image 1: Introduction to Volume One: The Book as Sigil2: Mere-ness and Magic: An Informing ImagePart 2: The Great Work3: A First Go at the Central Idea: Moving Back to the Moment4: Application 1: Meditation 5: Mala: Images of Sex, Death, and Letting Go 6: The Structure of the Moment: A Sidelong Glance at the Voids7: Pseudo-Neo-Gnostic-Anti-Theist-Anarcho-Romanticism: An Image That Made Sense at the TimePart 3: Peering into the Voids 8: Immediacy: The First Void9: Application 2: What Are You Doing Right Now? 10: Undifferentiation: The Second Void11: Mystery and Imagination12: Application 3: Stories about Your Selves 13: Unconstellated Stars: Three un-ImagesPart 4: Descent into Madness 14: Madness: The Third Void15: Application 4: Love, Intimacy, Sex 16: A Tale of Two Clients: Images of Therapy 17: Chaos: The Fourth Void 18: Application 5: Semi-colon-oscopy 19: Conclusion to Volume One: Another Janus GazeAppendix: The Prophets of Imaginal Reality: Creators of Imaginative FictionsIndex