Articles
 

Meeting the Inner Animals in Visualization

by Kaare Claudewitz
published in Hypnosnytt (Swedish Journal of Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine), 3/2003

This article describes a method of guided imagery called the ”Personal Totem Pole Process”(PTPP) which is a unique blend of Jungian active imagination, the chakra system and ancient shamanism. The author compares the method to other visualization techniques involving hypnosis and considers it to be a promising method to access unconscious client material…

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Animal Imagery and the Personal Totem Pole Process

by Eligio Stephen Gallegos
published in CRC Press LLC 1997

The theoretical underpinning ofthe Personal Totem Pole process involves the assumption that each human being is primarily an awareness. This awareness, in order to function, optimally, needs to have full input from all modes of knowing. There are four modes of knowing: thinking, sensing, feeling, and imagery. Each of these modes of knowing is unique in itself and is not reducible to any of the other three.The natural state of these modes of knowing is to function in harmony with one another…

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Discovering the Animal Within

by Katie Donovan
published in the Irish Times 10/1993

One day 14 years ago, an American psychologist, Eligio Stephen Gallegos, was out jogging. Suddenly there appeared to him a spotaneous vision on seven animals, running alongside. He knew instinctively that each represented a different part of his body. His heart, for example, was the bear, and the base of his spine was the rabbit. "The rabbit felt overpowered by the other animals and wanted to leave," says Gallegos…

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Finding Your Animal Guides

by Trebbe Johnson
published in Yoga Journal 1993

Within each of us may live wise and compassionate beasts who can offer us advice, inspiration, and deep healing. - Joe was incarcerated in a maximum security prison, serving a 20-year term for sexual assault and first-degree bulglary, and he was filled with rage, bitterness, and self-pity. He had wanted to get into therapy, and it had finally been arranged, after long delays and extensive red tape…

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