"Helping each person discern their inner compass is why the Oregon Friends of Jung exists and continues to serve each of us.” - James Hollis

Sharing Our Decades Of Programs

We have over 350 audio and video recordings of our past speakers going back 50 years. These recorded lectures, many of them containing original material prepared just for us, make our archive a unique resource of Jungian thought. OFJ members have access to all these recordings. Find programs by John Beebe, Robert Bly, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joseph Cambrey, Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, James Hollis, Jeffrey Kiehl, Jeffrey Raff, Tina Stromsted, Joseph Wheelwright, Monika Wikman, Harry Wilmer, Marion Woodman, and other favorite Jungians.

Bone: Dying into Life: An OFJ special event
Marion Woodman        October 5, 2000

Marion Woodman is renowned as a chronicler of women’s experience. In her last book,  and her last visit to Portland for a special lecture to OFJ, she combines her trademark insight with a personal lesson in wisdom and strength. On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Bone is the story, told in journal form, of her illness and healing and the journey to transforming herself. More than a meditation on illness, Bone offers insights into healing and the role of art and poetry in the soul’s journey toward balance and wholeness. 

We have over 350 audio and video recordings of our past speakers going back 50 years. These recorded lectures, many of them containing original material prepared just for us, make our archive a unique resource of Jungian thought. OFJ members have access to all these recordings. Find programs by John Beebe, Robert Bly, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joseph Cambrey, Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, James Hollis, Jeffrey Kiehl, Jeffrey Raff, Tina Stromsted, Joseph Wheelwright, Monika Wikman, Harry Wilmer, Marion Woodman, and other favorite Jungians.

Active imagination and the Visions seminar
Claire Douglas        May 16, 2003

Click the arrow to listen to Active imagination and the Visions Seminar, presented by Claire Douglas in Portland on May 16, 2003. OFJ is privileged to have this unique audio recording to share.

 

Claire Douglas was a Jungian analyst and author of The Woman in the Mirror: Analytical Psychology and the FeminineThe Old Woman’s Daughter: Transformative Wisdom for Men and Women, and Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan, the Veiled Woman in Jung’s Circle. Claire Douglas edited the two-volume set Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C. G. Jung, based on Morgan’s visions. OFJ has all of these books in our library.

 

The Los Angeles Review of Books has just published an essay by Portland psychotherapist and author, Satya Doyle Byock, on the life and contributions of Claire Douglas.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/claire-douglas-archive-jd-salinger-jung-palisades-fire/

We have over 350 audio and video recordings of our past speakers going back 50 years. These recorded lectures, many of them containing original material prepared just for us, make our archive a unique resource of Jungian thought. OFJ members have access to all these recordings. Find programs by John Beebe, Robert Bly, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joseph Cambrey, Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, James Hollis, Jeffrey Kiehl, Jeffrey Raff, Tina Stromsted, Joseph Wheelwright, Monika Wikman, Harry Wilmer, Marion Woodman, and other favorite Jungians.

The Healing Power of Fairy Tales
Jutta von Buchholtz        March 15, 2019

Click the arrow to listen to The Healing Power of Fairy Tales. This OFJ Talk is recommended by Board member Gina Altamura, who says that winter seems the perfect time to immerse ourselves in the world of fairytales. As many of us turn inward, we may find companions in fairy stories that exist outside of time.

 

These tales connect us to the archetypal realm, as Jutta von Buchholtz points out, and give a sort of “clothing” to help reveal dynamics of the psyche to which we may have otherwise been unaware. The lecture highlights the harsh, dire lessons in fairytales, but also the possibility of healing and transformation.

“Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself.”

C W Vol 10, para 395 (1936/1964) **

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