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Psyche, Soma, and the Living Imagination: Working with the Somatic Unconscious and Healing States
May 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
We explore Jung’s alchemical work with the Imagination to help grow our capacity for healing states of consciousness. Alchemists refer to a state of consciousness, a stage of inner healing, as the Unus Mundus, where splits are healed, duality ceases and the individual unites with the world soul. We access these states via relationship with the Imagination, as Jung’s work illuminates. When illness happens, turning to dreams and the imaginal realms can bring insight, healing and wisdom. Our inner instincts often express themselves in dreams and seek to realign consciousness with the life force that heals.
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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.
