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Growing the Subtle Body Before We Die
February 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PST
We will venture into what von Franz found to be the goal for the second half of life, to grow the subtle body before we die. Teachings from alchemy and Sufism, and from the doorway between life and death will be used as springboards for active imagination and discussion. Applying alchemy, and working with dreams, myths, koans, images from film and the practice of active imagination, we will create an alchemical laboratory for growing one’s own experiences of the subtle body realms where spirit and matter together form a psychophysical unitary reality.
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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.