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The Appeal of the Extraordinary
October 19, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Jung’s approach to psychology provides techniques to keep individuals in touch with their inner lives, as well as methods for interpreting the non-rational, archetypal elements of the unconscious. The workshop explores these techniques and insights that we need now in order to detect and respect the non-rational elements within life that inspire, intimidate, confuse, and ultimately compel us to confront and better understand the intimations of the archaic basis of the mind. We delve into otherworldly beliefs as a way to better understand the origins of archetypal thought patterns, and consider how these beliefs continue to inspire us through our dreams and extraordinary experiences.
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JIM KLINE, PH.D., received his Ph.D. in psychology with a Jungian Studies specialization from Saybrook University, San Francisco, California. He also holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, California, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He currently works in the Social Sciences and Fine Arts Department of Northern Marianas College (NMC) and for the past several years has served as professor of psychology within the department. He has published numerous articles in various Jungian-themed professional psychological journals and is the author of The Otherworld in Myth, Folklore, Cinema, and Brain Science (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019). His most recent publication is Nonrational Logic in Contemporary Society: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Magical Thinking, Conspiracy Theories, and Folk Devils Among Us (Routledge, 2023).
