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Lady Alchemy: The Body and the Archetype of Service
May 13, 1994 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
The elusive goddess Iris, messenger and psychopomp, presides over the central mystery of alchemy and the individuation process. She is a caring, ever-vigilant servant, especially to the Great Goddess. She hears prayers, brings dreams and messages, brings help, bears the waters of truth, and rescues and tempers the darkest, most troubled parts. We find her especially around turning points in our lives, times when we must find and follow our individual paths. According to Jung, the crux of the individuation process is the downward linking of soul and spirit with the body; Iris appears in all her colors at the completion of this stage of the opus. With lecture, stories, and slides, Fran Slocumb will introduce Iris as Lady Alchemy, and speculate about ways she colors our embodied and disembodied lives.
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Frances Gillian Slocumb, Ph.D., a diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Formerly she was a college professor of psychology and an organizational consultant. She is currently writing a book on the goddess Iris.