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February 2020
Soul Lost and Found
In the West, attention to spiritual and mental life originally was subsumed under the Care of Souls, like one full river of religious and psychological currents blended indistinguishably. The soul was tended under care of spiritual mentors within or pushing the boundaries of traditional religions. In the early 20th century, the river forked into two and depth psychology emerged as a separate discipline unfolding since in the proliferating schools of psychoanalysis. We will explore psyche, soul, spirit and the subversive…
Find out more »Soul, Psyche, Projection
In the early 20th century both Freud and Jung noted that projections of our deep emotions of fear and desire, our wishes for nurturance and ambitions for power ceased to be directed to the heavens and the God of various religious traditions. That human striving and loving fell out of the heavens. Where did all that energy go? Freud saw this as liberation from religious tradition and its restrictive thinking. What we need is "secular ministers of the soul" (Bettleheim…
Find out more »March 2020
Integrity: The Dynamic Coming Together of Our Complexes – Seminar I
What is it that grabs and compels us unexpectedly, causing us to think and act in ways that don’t fit with how we see ourselves or how we want to be? How can we deal with these impulses and obsessions, and how can we find a way to relate to them rather than trying in vain to shut them out? How can this energy become a source of creative revitalization and enrichment for our lives going forward? In this seminar,…
Find out more »Integrity: The Dynamic Coming Together of Our Complexes – Seminar II
For a full description of this seminar, see the Integrity: The Dynamic Coming Together of Our Complexes - Seminar I page.
Find out more »Alchemical Ecopsychology
“If people would only take the trouble to turn up the actual writings of the ancient alchemists, they would find a deep treasure-trove of wisdom, much of which is perfectly applicable to the very events which are happening in the world today.” -- C.G. Jung (1960) Alchemical Ecopsychology recognizes the deep, subtle interconnectedness of psyche and matter by combining the sacred, psychological practices of alchemy with the discipline of ecopsychology. Through the union of these two subjects, one ancient the…
Find out more »Jung, Synchronicity and the New Sciences
“I am interested in the advances of modern physics, which is coming ever closer to the nature of the psyche, as I have seen for a long time. … The strange cases of parallelism in time, which are commonly called coincidences but which I call synchronistic phenomena, are very frequent in observations of the unconscious.” — C.G. Jung Letters I, 1934, pp. 176-178 Jung had a deep interest in how modern science related to his explorations of psyche. He worked…
Find out more »April 2020
Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
We want a new kind of love in the 21st century. In relationships, we want to be treated as equals and to be seen and known for ourselves. Equal and reciprocal love between adults, in marriage and committed partnerships, is in many ways more problematic and unhappy now than ever, after decades of struggle for gender equality and sexual freedom. Marriage has moved from being a vow of impersonal loyalty (“in sickness and in health, until death do us part”)…
Find out more »Love Between Equals: Relationship as as Spiritual Path
The workshop will continue and deepen the themes raised in the Friday Talk, and provide psychological and spiritual skills, insights and opportunities for the exploration of "mindful space” as a pathway to true love.
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