USA Book News Book of the Year Winner- 2014 Foreword Book of the Year Finalist 2013 Have you wrestled with uncanny, nightmarish imagery in dreams or while awake and wondered if you were coming unhinged one day and enlightened the next? Life crises, trauma, deep meditation, prayer or inquiry can unleash surprisingly compelling yet scary, even revolting, imagery and related feelings we have few maps to help navigate.These images can be seen as "daimons" -- understood by the Greeks to be the intermediary between gods and humans, connecting heaven and earth. These messengers come as agents of radical change. When we welcome them with understanding and compassion, they help to expand our consciousness and connect us with healing qualities our world is waiting for. In this book, Sandra Dennis outlines a simple method to navigate these alarming images and anxieties. Instead of treating them as perversions to banish, we are encouraged to embrace their primal power, becoming more intelligent, loving and whole in the process. Embrace of the Daimon offers a roadmap to:* Calm your concerns by understanding the role of these daimonic images in the larger context of growth to wholeness or individuation. * Find the courage to explore these states of mind with more intimate, compassionate interest.* Learn to navigate your way through the unusual sensations that often accompany breakthroughs of the daimonic.* Expand your understanding of Jungian theory, with regard to the little explored mind/body connection role in personal development.A reader says "Embrace of the Daimon... is the only contemporary firsthand account of the day to day practice of mystical depth psychology that I have come across..." It is a treasure for those who are grappling with uninvited imagery themselves, helping others in their struggles, and for all students of depth psychology.