Lecture: What are we demanding of young men and women when we send them to war? Have we prepared them for what they will experience on the battlefield? In this keynote address, Karl Marlantes will draw upon his experience as a war veteran to explore the psychological realities of war at the personal and collective levels. Parsifal and other mythic figures in literature will be amplified in the context of core themes in Jungian psychology – archetypes, initiation, and the shadow – with the goal of illuminating the archetypal role of the warrior and what it means to go to war.
Workshop: The Unseen Wounds of War
Building on the keynote address, Dr. Joseph Bobrow will explore the hidden substrate of trauma that is both a devastating legacy of war and also a sustaining force in the long cycle of violent conflict that stretches from antiquity to the present. The role of collective dissociation will be addressed in the context of the mass psychology of war. Constructive engagement between civilians and veterans will be considered as an avenue for deep personal and collective healing.
The Speakers:
A graduate of Yale University, Karl Marlantes interrupted his studies as
a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford to volunteer for service in the U.S. Marines during the war in Viet Nam, earning numerous combat decorations including two Purple Hearts. He is the author of the widely acclaimed novel Matterhorn and the nonfiction What It is Like to Go to War. Mr. Marlantes was one of the founding members of Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung in 1974.
Joseph Bobrow, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who
is the founder and president of The Coming Home Project, a non-profit organization devoted to providing psychological, social, and spiritual services to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Zen Master,
Dr. Bobrow is the founder and director of the Deep Streams Zen Institute in San Francisco. He is the author of Zen and Psychotherapy; Partners in Liberation.
into the world through dreams, bringing a new energy – a revitalization of the psyche both individually and collectively. Jung deeply valued the archaic levels of human consciousness and often encouraged his patients to make contact with the “the two-million-year-old” man or woman within. He believed that “most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored up in us”. This presentation is an exploration of the dreams of modern Western-educated people in which ancient ancestral wisdom makes itself known. It will include a discussion of “big dreams”, an introduction to the levels of the unconscious as Jung sketched them, and an exploration of archetypal images that belong to this range of being, the wisdom of the primordial psyche.
“The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.” 
Christ has shown how everybody will be crucified upon his destiny – C. G. Jung