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Courting Experiences of the Subtle Body
March 18, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm PDT
$20
Between the concrete world of matter and the world of spirit resides the realm of imagination and the subtle bodies. Any life crisis, in which the ego learns it does not have the answers, can open us to this third realm where healing potential and a redirection of life energy reside. And beyond crisis, consciousness can also learn to court the subtle body as individuation unfolds. Many healing arts tap this realm of being where the body and psyche can rebalance and find healing.The entire cosmos and we humans participate in the subtle body mysteries. Dr. Marie Louise von Franz wrote before her death that growing the subtle body before one dies is of utmost value to the life of the soul. This lecture will explore what this means in the reality of our daily lives, and will explore images and experiences of the subtle body in alchemy, dream, myth, poetry and waking life. The aim of the presentation is to help us increasingly recognize and open to experience the dialectic with the subtle body realm present in all life. Attention will also be given to various psyche – body healing arts that tap this realm of being.
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Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist and astrologer. She is the author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, and various book chapters, articles and poems. A graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center with cancer patients, investigating dreams of the dying. She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.org, The Center for Alchemical Studies. Monica lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico.