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Book Cover: How to Participate in the World, A Manual of Creativity and Connection with lots of theory and digression by ary Lounsbury

How to Participate in the World champions creative engagement as a pathway to personal discovery and social connection. It’s quirky, it’s campy, and it’s chock full of wisdom. If you’re interested in psyche + culture + connecting the two with your own hands, it’s for you!

A practical guide to developing an everyday creative practice that bridges personal discovery with authentic community connection. Research in archetypal psychology and mythological thought is augmented by meditations, journal prompts and how to guides.
~400 pp. Fully illustrated.

I imagine this book as the intersection between my childhood favorite “Giant Golden Make-It Book” and my lifetime of deep engagement with creative process and the unfolding self.

I love manuals and how-to books and cookbooks, and I love creative exploration and expression, and I love myth and fairy tales and symbolic language in all its forms. This book is me putting all of that together.

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What’s Inside

• Making “things” for personal discovery

• Creative engagement as a pathway to social connection

• Important concepts in depth psychology and mythological thought

• Meditations, illustrations and practice guides

• Loads of theory and rumination

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alchemy

active imagination

metaphor and symbolic language

the archetypal third

discovering and exploring shadow material

sharing the experience of the unknown

bridging inner and outer through creative expression

alchemy • active imagination • metaphor and symbolic language • the archetypal third • discovering and exploring shadow material • sharing the experience of the unknown • bridging inner and outer through creative expression •