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For Tolkien, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, a book he named within its own imaginal history\u00a0<em>The Red Book of Westmarch<\/em>. There are many synchronistic parallels between Jung\u2019s and Tolkien\u2019s\u00a0<em>Red Books<\/em>: the style and content of their works of art, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts, the nature of their visions and dreams, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. This presentation points to the possibility that Tolkien and Jung are preliminary guides on a journey to the depths of an ensouled cosmos in which imagination saturates the very foundations of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. 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