Dialoguing is similar to Jungian active imagination—a process in which the ego engages content from the unconscious and then steps back to ponder what has been encountered and find ways to apply newly acquired insights to everyday life.2 Dialoguing, like Jungian active imagination, is a form of engagement with content from the unconscious. Dialoguing specifically involves a back-and-forth conversation with a symbol, inner figure, or emotion, or even an aspect of nature that you came across in a shamanic journey or your work with nature.
