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Sacred Medicine and Individuation
January 21, 1995 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm PST
The workshop will take up the more experiential side of the preceding lecture, demonstrating some of the ways in which shamanic medicine brought healing to its tribal patients. Tribal healing was always archetypal, using by means of myth and ritual, the basic archetypal pattern of death, dismemberment, and rebirth. This pattern was, and is, universal.
We will venture a bit further by extending Jung’s method of active imagination with ethnic amplification-the use of simple ritual drumming and rattling, in order to gain some idea of what this kind of healing was like. Both the lecture and the workshop will include slides.
Related Lecture: Sacred Medicine and Individuation
DONALD F. SANDNER, M.D., has practiced as a Jungian Analyst in San Francisco for over thirty years, and he has been president and a continuing member of the teaching faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has lectured in most of the Jungian training centers and has written more than 25 articles and book chapters on Jungian psychology and cross-cultural healing. His book, Navaho Symbols of Healing, is now in its second edition. Dr. Sandner is a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Medicine and had his residency in Psychiatry at Stanford University. He studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and was certified as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.