Where does Peace for the World Come from in the Psyche?
December 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
Where does peace come from in the psyche, and how do we genuinely access it for the good of the world soul?
In times of great uncertainty, the call toward meditation is growing. The need to plumb the depths and find the life of the soul through meditation is calling, and new creations are emerging in connection with the transcendent.
Attunement, co-regulating, and down-regulating—all shifts in consciousness that help the nervous system move through anxiety and trauma-body experiences as they surface—are now common parlance among many healing modalities. Yet mind-body splitting remains epidemic.
We are called to meet the transcendent in this work and to feel the transcendent calling us from within human suffering. Unconscious fear and vibrations of trauma can drive consciousness into the mental body as it attempts to cope, or else lead to dissociation and self-medication.
The alternative to mind-body splitting is to pay attention to the animal body and various states of consciousness as sacred work, and to see suffering as seeking transformation in the human soul.
This lecture aims to outline the value of putting on our own oxygen mask before helping others, in order to give something true to the collective. Alchemical meditation, in this context, is about how we can make a sacred place for our being to reside in this world.
The trauma body, dead mother zones, and collective trauma can be met in this work, but not through ego psychology alone. Our focus is on learning, through meditation with what Jung called the somatic unconscious, how to tune into the field and discover the breath body anew.
In so doing—breathing in connection with source and the symbolizing field—we can grow a constant connection of felt presence with the transcendent.
We will look into dreams that guide these explorations. We will also explore the nature of the psyche and the somatic unconscious, where working with the animal body brings us over the threshold into the realm of the sacred and the Divine Feminine.
We can think of this work as an antidote for the infection going on in the body of the world.
Related Workshop: Where Peace Comes from in the Psyche: Entering the Alchemical Vessel
MONIKA WIKMAN, PH.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer, author, and teacher and group facilitator with a deep emphasis on alchemy and the incarnation of the subtle-body mysteries.She taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and served as a principal investigator of dream research at UC San Diego Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying,” with the guidance of Marie-Louise von Franz. She hosts a nonprofit project through Earthways.com, the Center for Alchemical Studies. Her work with projects on the Earthways board focuses on supporting Indigenous peoples in caring for their cultures and wild lands. Podcasts featuring Monika on various topics can be found at Chasing Consciousness, Shrink Rap Radio, and Speaking of Jung.
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