"Don Juan shows us we live in fictions," said Ronald Sukenick the literary liar, "and we live best when we learn to master the art." This gentle mastery is equivalent to Hillman's version of the healing art of active imagination: to actively encounter the fictive power informing every reality. "A 'healed consciousness,'" Hillman writes in Healing Fiction, "lives fictionally."
— Ronald Sukenick, The Soul of Shamanism by Daniel C. Noel