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SUMMARY:The Religious Impulse: Encounters with Psyche in a Polarized World
DESCRIPTION:Many of us experience our world as fragmented and polarizing. This causes tremendous anxiety as we struggle to find something reliable to believe in\, to invest in and to trust. The Religious Impulse is a natural drive within every human psyche. Regardless of the existence of any external religious affiliation\, this natural impulse is always actively on the search for transcendence and meaning. Without a functioning religious instinct\, meaning evaporates. Without meaning\, the suffering of the soul becomes unlimited and unbearable.  \n“…Among all my patients in the second half of life…every one of them fell ill because (they) had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers\, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain (their) religious outlook. – Jung (1932) Collected Works 11\, ¶509.  \nA functioning religious attitude is one that manages to remain open to the sacredness and numinosity of reality as it presents itself to us intra-psychically\, interpersonally and on the transpersonal level. But we often find ourselves split between the quest for stable fundamental certainty and the opposite longing for self-expansion and development. A common coping strategy for this essential conflict occurs in the form of doctrinal beliefs or political ideology\, where one finds a defensive way to reinforce their own one-sided attitude. We can see this play out in every level of political discourse (including within our own minds). \nPlease join us for this presentation as we explore this timely collection of dynamics and their antidotes in hopes of making the essential move from reactionary discharge to witnessed polarization to conscious differentiation and finally toward potential integration.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-religious-impulse-encounters-with-psyche-in-a-polarized-world/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Soul’s Body: Cultivating Creative Resilience
DESCRIPTION:“What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky”?     ~  David Whyte (From River Flow: New and Selected Poems\, 2004) \nIn these polarized\, fast-paced times\, many of us feel the strain in our bodies\, emotions\, and relationships. This lecture reflects on how we absorb the shock of collective upheaval—and how\, by recognizing these effects\, we can cultivate resilience\, deepen presence\, and take more conscious\, informed action. Drawing on Jung’s depth psychology and Tina Stromsted’s integrative Soul’s Body approach\, we will turn toward fairy tales as symbolic maps of crisis and renewal\, focusing on The Handless Maiden as a powerful story of the wounded feeling function\, betrayal\, and the journey toward empowerment and wholeness. \nWe will explore how this tale speaks not only to women\, but to men and to all who seek to reclaim their feelings\, intuition\, and agency amid destabilizing circumstances. Through Jung’s method of Active Imagination—engaging inner images through movement\, creative arts\, and embodied attention—we will listen for ways to access deeper inner resources. Together\, we will reflect on how attuning to embodied wisdom and practicing respectful\, receptive exchange can nourish empathy\, compassion\, and courageous\, value-driven responses in our shared world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/souls-body-cultivating-creative-resilience/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Experiencing the Unitary World: Alchemy and Transformation
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the unus mundus—the unitary world—as Jung’s culminating vision of the individuation process\, describing the paradoxical possibility of reaching unity amid periods of opposition. Drawing on Jung’s transformative encounter with the Great Stupa of Sanchi\, his intensive exploration of Western alchemy through Gerard Dorn’s work\, and his own near-death visions\, we examine how the unus mundus became for Jung not an abstract metaphysical concept but a lived psychological reality. The presentation traces the Western alchemical path toward this unitary reality—a Faustian journey fundamentally different from Eastern approaches—and explores synchronicity as its para-psychological equivalent. Through personal dreams and Jung’s conception of “objective cognition\,” we discover how direct experience develops into a double vision capable of perceiving both the external sensory world and its hidden depths of meaning\, manifesting first in discontinuous flashes of synchronistic insight before consolidating into a lasting enlightenment where one becomes a living vessel for what Jung called the cosmogonic dignity of human consciousness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/experiencing-the-unitary-world-alchemy-and-transformation/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:When Phantomatic Forces Come: The Effects of the Psyche on and in the Group
DESCRIPTION:During these times of social and political upheavals\, the cultural unconscious is bursting through its expressions and enactments of chronic historic racial injustices\, political polarizations\, the global pandemic\, global warming\, social media\, and a multitude of other national and international political and cultural problems\, which I call Cultural Complexes. These processes carry the phantom narratives of our collective legacies\, ghosts\, histories\, and their intergenerational traumas. How can the understandings we gleaned from these processes help us to both see and deal with the extreme collective emotional states that are expressed and confront us in plain sight in our times today both clinically and in our daily lives?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/when-phantomatic-forces-come-the-effects-of-the-psyche-on-and-in-the-group/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Inner Cosmos Meets the Outer Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Jung began to examine astrology as early as 1911\, when he mentioned his inquiries in a letter to Freud. That interest gradually developed into a major focus of investigation\, and in his later years Jung devoted himself with considerable passion to astrological research. “Astrology\,” he stated\, “represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.” Insights from these studies influenced many of his most significant theoretical formulations in the final\, extraordinarily fruitful phase of his life’s work\, including archetypal theory\, synchronicity\, and the philosophy of history. Since his death\, reports from his family and others close to him revealed that in his last decades Jung came to employ the analysis of birth charts and transits as a regular and integral aspect of his clinical work with patients. \nIn this evening’s lecture\, Richard and Becca Tarnas will discuss the transformation of 20th-century astrology under the impact of Jung’s work\, the importance of archetypes and the concept of synchronicity to astrological understanding\, and the larger implications of evidence for the systematic correlation of planetary movements with the archetypal dynamics of the human psyche. They will also present a concise\, nuanced description of each of the great archetypal principles associated with the Sun\, Moon\, and planets\, and the extraordinary mutual enrichment that depth psychology and archetypal astrology provide for each other.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-inner-cosmos-meets-the-outer-cosmos/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T190000
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SUMMARY:A Psychological Exploration of Tattoos and Graffiti
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the tattoo and graffiti writers’ art from a Jungian psychological perspective. It is the presenter’s hypothesis that the topics under investigation exemplify areas of life where the unconscious can be seen to manifest. Whether one enters the confines of a tattoo shop with its array of imagery on the wall\, or walks down the back alleys of some city taking in the graffiti tags\, throw-ups or wild style pieces left behind in the night by the graffiti writers’\, it is the presenter’s impression that each topic has something to do with the depths of the human psyche\, the collective unconscious\, with its archetypal foundation. Images of tattoos and graffiti writers art will be presented for discussion and interpretation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/a-psychological-exploration-of-tattoos-and-graffiti/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Wisdom of Erich Neumann for our Troubled World
DESCRIPTION:Who was Erich Neumann\, one of Jung’s closest friends\, though 30 years younger than Jung? How do Neumann’s life experiences spanning the Holocaust and World War II echo much of the chaos and evil we are experiencing today? Neumann escaped Berlin in 1933 for Palestine\, where he produced a large body of work focused on Judaism\, consciousness\, creativity\, and evil. After we are introduced to this brilliant Jungian\, we will explore his own inner process of transformation as seen through his active imagination watercolor paintings. \n 
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-wisdom-of-erich-neumann-for-our-troubled-world/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T210000
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SUMMARY:From Sap to Syrup: Distilling Wisdom from the Forest of Fairy Tales
DESCRIPTION:The forest is an ecological wonder of biodiversity and bio-dynamics. The same can be said of psyche. Just as the Mother Tree supports and feeds the forest\, guiding its growth and ensuring its health\, fairy tales serve a similar role in the cultural and psychological ecosystem. They nurture our moral and ethical growth\, connecting us to deeper truths and wisdoms. Fairy tales are like central nodes in the human collective unconscious. They distribute psychological and spiritual nutrients\, fostering a sense of interconnectedness and support among individuals across cultures and generations. In this lecture we tap into this ancient wisdom and savor its sweetness. 
URL:https://ofj.org/event/from-sap-to-syrup-distilling-wisdom-from-the-forest-of-fairytales/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Embracing the Paradoxical Nature of Life
DESCRIPTION:Jung’s view of psyche is rooted in an appreciation of paradoxical opposites and the roles they play in life. He found that creatively embracing life’s ‘inexplicable and paradoxical’ nature leads to wholeness and a more soulful connection to the world. We explore Jung’s work on understanding the paradoxical nature of opposites and how we can apply this understanding to living in balance with ourselves and the world around us. This requires us to engage in ‘transrational’ ways of knowing. We consider dimensions of this type of knowing which expand the purely rational view of psyche. We also explore complementary views on the paradoxical nature of psyche from fields including psychology\, physics\, and neuroscience.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/embracing-the-paradoxical-nature-of-life/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250214T190000
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SUMMARY:The Evolution of Jungian Psychology: Foundations of Jung's Work
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED – Due to illness\, Gary Sparks has cancelled his appearance. Anyone who has paid in advance by credit card for the lecture and/or the workshop and/or CEUs will be reimbursed with a credit back to their card. Please send any questions to membership@ofj.org. Thank you for your understanding. Friday’s presentation and discussion will explore an overview of how Jung’s psychology developed over the course of his lifetime\, from conception to completion\, focusing on his understanding of psychological transformation. We will begin with his personal crisis (1913–1928)\, following the main threads of his creative growth\, through his last mature writing (1951–1954). Grasping the whole of his efforts gives us a broad view that can orient our future learning of his uniqueness. We will accordingly address how Jungian psychology facilitates personal healing.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-evolution-of-jungian-psychology-foundations-of-jungs-work/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Arts of the Imaginal World: Rejuvenation & Psychic Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Creative practice has a rejuvenating effect. We feel more whole\, more insightful and more in touch with our deep psyche. Creativity and art release and focus archetypal energy. C. G. Jung shows how art-making aids psychological individuation. The arts have a long history of materializing the psyche for the collective. A helpful archetype is Dionysus\, that breaker of boundaries\, including those between humans and nature. This god requires collective worship. Dionysian energy dismembers psychic being\, and re-members it as symbols. Doing art follows such a Dionysian process. This lecture proposes that taking Dionysus seriously seeds a third rejuvenation of being\, one where creativity dances between knowing and being. Here art and clinical practice are generative partners. My novels\, the Mary Wandwalker Mysteries\, are my own Dionysian engagement with the world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/arts-of-the-imaginal-world-rejuvenation-psychic-creativity/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T210000
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SUMMARY:Straying from the Path: An Exploration of the Intersections between Queer Theory and Analytical Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced. Queer Theory offers us a new framework for working with old material. To queer an experience is to resist defining it. Queerness may provide a place to stand within oneself while also standing in the energy of an Exile complex that can be embraced as a new path towards individuation. We will explore the connections to be made between Queer Theory and Jungian concepts of Individuation\, Complex Theory\, Weltanschauung\, and Active Imagination.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/straying-from-the-path-an-exploration-of-the-intersections-between-queer-theory-and-analytical-psychology/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T190000
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SUMMARY:The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity\, Connection\, and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Each of us is born with a living blueprint\, the essential design to evolve the imagination. You enter the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness and quantum leaps in learning. In doing so you improve your physical and emotional well-being. Dr. Aizenstat will introduce particular tools developed over 40 years of professional experience.  These skills enable you to access your deepest capacities of creativity and well-being. You begin with a basic shift in consciousness. This change in perception opens the curious mind and initiates the healing journey within.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-imagination-matrix-how-to-access-the-greatest-power-you-have-for-creativity-connection-and-purpose/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T210000
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SUMMARY:The Appeal of the Extraordinary
DESCRIPTION:There is a universal human desire to be drawn to extraordinary beliefs and strange phenomena that defy rational means to explain them. C.G. Jung might consider the appeal of the extraordinary as evidence of the influence of archaic or archetypal thought and behavioral patterns inherent in the human psyche which make up humanity’s collective unconscious. The archetypal dimension expresses profoundly significant symbolic and metaphorical concepts that cannot be proven by rational methods such as the concept of God. However\, in many cases\, the desire to embrace extraordinary views and phenomena can have dire consequences\, especially if a person insists upon an extraordinary explanation rather than a rational one to explain certain factual events\, and interprets purely secular causes as imbued with an underlying divine significance. This lecture introduces examples of how the appeal of the extraordinary can enrich our lives and also distort reality.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-appeal-of-the-extraordinary/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240927T210000
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SUMMARY:The Symbolic Life: Is It a Gift?
DESCRIPTION:Two processes go on in us simultaneously from birth till death. The first is a personal process Jung calls individuation where we reach to become all of who we are\, including mistakes\, struggles\, talents\, uniqueness and an example of shared  human patterns Jung calls archetypes. The second process is the psyche’s goal to move us toward finding not our wholeness but our place in the wholeness of reality. When these two processes meet\, symbols get born and grow powerful. We will explore such symbols — their dangers and their gifts.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-symbolic-life-is-it-a-gift/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T210000
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SUMMARY:Psyche\, Soma\, and the Living Imagination: Working with the Somatic Unconscious and Healing States
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/psyche-soma-and-the-living-imagination-working-with-the-somatic-unconscious-and-healing-states/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T190000
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SUMMARY:In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace
DESCRIPTION:In this archetypal psychological exploration of the goddesses Ananke\, the Fates\, and the Graces we will consider how grace and receptivity to the archetypal necessity at work in the deep patterns of the psyche contributes to the discovery of meaning\, which ultimately reveals the way our lives are lived in the lap of the gods.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/in-anankes-lap-necessity-and-grace/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231209T024350Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypes\, Algorithms and AI: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age
DESCRIPTION:Glen Slater’s new book\, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age\, describes the collision between the archetypal basis of psychological life and the algorithmic architecture of the online world. This collision is not only disrupting our inner ecology in a way that mirrors the disruption of outer ecology\, it is opening the door to the posthuman goal of merging human and artificial intelligence (AI). \nThis lecture will set out critical areas of understanding that help us enter and reflect on this potentially radical turn in human evolution. It will particularly emphasize Jung’s insights into the dissociative and integrative dynamics of the psyche. We will consider how the arc of his psychology not only provides us with ways to comprehend the evident deficits of the digital lifestyle\, it helps us conceptualize processes and values necessary for individual and societal well-being as we make our way forward.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypes-algorithms-and-ai-finding-the-deeply-human-in-a-posthuman-age/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20231206T184628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231209T024543Z
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SUMMARY:When Psyche Sings: Jungian Music Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Music is everywhere in our lives\, both waking and sleeping\, inside and out. But much of our musical ecosystem remains unheard in a state of non-representation. We explore the place of the acoustic imaginal within our psychic ecology and our current fractured world of splitting and polariza­tion. The perception of sound triggers psychic contents\, and music mediates between our internal and external experience of consciousness through its affective impact on our symbolic imagination. We will deeply listen together to the soundscape metabolization process of our auditory digestive system toward the fundamental psychoanalytic goal of hearing what cannot yet be seen. By distilling music into its basic archetypal elements\, an approach is illustrated for working with musical symbols within analysis\, referred to as Archetypal Music Psychotherapy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/when-psyche-sings-jungian-music-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20230812T034550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T225714Z
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SUMMARY:Jung’s Relationship to Astrology
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, new scholarship has been emerging demonstrating the essential role the discipline of astrology played in the development and practice of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In 1911\, Jung wrote a letter to Freud in which he said that his nights were occupied with the study of astrology\, to which Freud responded that Jung would be “accused of mysticism.” Jung kept his practice of astrology relatively concealed\, but based upon evidence in his own writings\, as well as statements he made late in his life\, Jung was drawing on astrological wisdom regularly for both personal use and with his patients. \nDrawing on the research of Liz Greene\, Keiron Le Grice\, and Safron Rossi\, this presentation will demonstrate the role astrology played in Jung’s analytic practice\, as well as the significant ways in which he drew on astrological symbolism in the transformative process of creating The Red Book. By understanding how astrology influenced the development of Jungian psychology—and how depth psychology has subsequently shaped modern astrology—we can see how the astrological discipline can complement\, enhance\, and deepen the psychotherapy practiced today.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jungs-relationship-to-astrology/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20230812T024131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230812T043548Z
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SUMMARY:Fear\, Skepticism\, Lassitude: The Recovery of an Inner Life
DESCRIPTION:Resistance is always in due proportion to the anxiety generated by some invitation or challenge. Inside of each of us is continuing civil conflict\, and typically our protective instincts are easily intimidated by the magnitude of the tasks life brings us. Moreover\, we are often flooded with skepticism regarding our inherent resources for the trial\, and an internal aversion to the struggle. These engagements\, these battles of outer and inner worlds\, are only resolved when we are led to a change of attitude\, a riskier but more considered intent\, and a consistent\, daily showing up to tilt the balance between regression and progression.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/fear-skepticism-lassitude-the-recovery-of-an-inner-life/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20230812T022301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230812T043806Z
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SUMMARY:The Trauma of Exile through a Jungian Lens
DESCRIPTION:We will focus on how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals\, making their lives psychologically conflicted and leading to feelings of incongruity. Through the amplification of a fairy tale\, dreamwork\, active imagination\, and the transcendent function\, we will explore how Jungian psychology can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered\, culturally diverse self-states that have developed from acculturation. We will also discuss the universality of the exile complex as a human experience that often causes one to feel conflicted and displaced from family\, community\, and society.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-trauma-of-exile-through-a-jungian-lens-2/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20230531T233714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T212242Z
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SUMMARY:Re-enchantment; Synchronicity; the Psychoid Imagination
DESCRIPTION:As we collectively enter more deeply into the paradigm shift towards complexity marking the 21st century\, some of Jung’s most advanced concepts are gaining renewed vitality and acceptance. This lecture will highlight links between individuation and synchronicity found in the Red Book which are contributing to new visions of reality.  We will also explore the importance of the psychoid imagination as it is emerging in response to the recent COVID pandemic. These threads will be woven into the cultural movement towards re-enchantment of the world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/re-enchantment-synchronicity-the-psychoid-imagination/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20221221T003557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T004609Z
UID:64754-1681498800-1681506000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Trauma\, Innocence and the Core Complex of the Dissociating Psyche
DESCRIPTION:Following early relational trauma\, a dissociative system is set up in the psyche\, composed of part-self personifications including an innocent/wounded child and his or her archetypal protectors. The main purpose of this Self Care System is to keep the innocent/injured child-self separated from the suffering of affective experience that might annihilate (or transform) it. Dreams during the psychotherapy process give us a picture of this core complex and its defensive “efforts” on behalf of the “child.” Working with these archaic energies in the transference can be a stormy affair. The Friday Talk will address and illustrate these archaic energies in the core complex that frequently stretch our understanding of the analytic situation in the direction of enactments and counter-enactments.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/trauma-innocence-and-the-core-complex-of-the-dissociating-psyche-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20221220T022920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T014715Z
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SUMMARY:Ecopsychology and the Environmental Catastrophe
DESCRIPTION:At the 2022 climate change meetings in Egypt\, the UN Secretary General said\, “We are in the fight of our lives\, and we are losing.” Psychology has been embarrassingly slow to respond to the frightening deterioration of our planetary environment\, but ecopsychology emerged in the 1990’s to address the issue. A case will be made that a Jungian version of ecopsychology offers the best framework for understanding the problems at the deepest levels and gives us a vision for the future. Hermes is the main god that will lead us into a better future or a continuation on a path to oblivion.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/ecopsychology-and-the-environmental-catastrophe/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20221221T002506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T214209Z
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SUMMARY:The Coniunctio Gastronomique: God Becomes Flesh
DESCRIPTION:Cooking\, like alchemy\, is the transformation of basic ingredients into refined substances. Psychologically\, this alchemical process represents the development of the personality.  Understanding the psyche through the art and practices of cooking can heal the mind-body split that is the primary wound of modern life. The food we purchase or grow\, cook and eat\, link us to the cosmos: then God becomes flesh\, (in-carne). We become what we eat. The lecture invites us into the sensuous\, alchemical temenos of the kitchen.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-coniunctio-gastronomique-god-becomes-flesh/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20221219T181632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T024050Z
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SUMMARY:Jungian Art Therapy: Living A Creative Life
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to live a creative life? Jung’s initiatory journey into the “spirit of the depths“ was creative but required profound psychic courage\, suffering\, and patience as he confronted the unconscious and discovered “the third thing.”  Upon his “return\,” when Jung wrote that “everything of which we are conscious is an image\, and that image is psyche\,” he elevated the imagination and creative processes. One of the gifts was his essay The Transcendent Function which conceptualized how unconscious and invisible psychic material became conscious and visible through play\, dedication\, endurance of wrestling with the opposites\, and the respect for the ineffable and irrational aspects of the psyche.  Jung thereby came to understand the importance of the “third thing.”  Jung’s investigations into the unconscious through various creative means opened the door and gave credence for the expressive arts therapies. In this lecture the three-part initiation model provides a container in which we consider Jung’s wisdom and how the “third thing” may offer hints on living a creative life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jungian-art-therapy-living-a-creative-life/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20220726T232442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T024805Z
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SUMMARY:Body as Compass: Dreams and the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Our bodies and dreams may be our closest links to the unconscious\, expressing the soul’s longing through image\, breath\, gesture\, the rhythm of our step\, and the music of our speech. Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life’s journey. Illuminating our inner landscape\, they help us come to know disowned parts of ourselves\, point to what we value\, and provide guidance on our life path. This talk will introduce DreamDancing ©\, an embodied approach that integrates C. G. Jung’s active imagination approach with creative\, embodied methods\, including a brief experience.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/body-as-compass-dreams-and-the-soul/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20220726T232238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T155821Z
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SUMMARY:The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books: Jung\, Tolkien\, and the Imaginal Realm
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held live in-person at Unity of Portland (4525 SE Stark). The only way to attend the program live is to attend in person. A video recording of the event will be created and sent out after the event to all members and to all who purchase single tickets\, to accommodate those not able or not comfortable to attend in person. There will be no Zoom for this program. \nBeginning in the years leading up to the Great War\, both C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. Jung recorded these fantasies in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus\, referred to simply as The Red Book. For Tolkien\, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth\, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings\, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of Westmarch. This lecture explores the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art\, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts\, the nature of their visions and dreams\, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading parallel paths through the imaginal realm. Note: image is an illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien from his Book of Ishness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-synchronicity-of-the-two-red-books-jung-tolkien-and-the-imaginal-realm/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T145051
CREATED:20220720T220139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T202953Z
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SUMMARY:The Muses of Truth and Transformation: Timeless Tales for Troubled Times
DESCRIPTION:A timeless tale sums up our contemporary conflicts: two women claimed the same newborn baby\, so the sage declared\, “Cut the baby in two and give each woman half.” The first woman nodded\, while the other cried out\, “No! Spare the baby\, give him to her.”  Although most familiar from the Bible\, the story is a folktale found in different cultures and offering relevant archetypal insights.  Partisans today may act like the first woman\, insisting on their position even if it means killing innocent people – think jihadists and lone mass murderers. Politicians are willing to “kill” legislation that does not fit their ideology\, even if it splits the body politic. When faced with unyielding opponents\, earlier cultures reflected on deadly conflicts and put their insights into metaphorical stories – folktales – and passed them on. Only stories that rang true to people in many cultures survived\, leaving us time-tested archetypal wisdom for resolving conflicts. \nThis lecture recounts such folktales and shows how they help us identify distinct types of truth – factual\, mythic\, oath-taking\, pragmatic and home types of stories.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-muses-of-truth-and-transformation-timeless-tales-for-troubled-times/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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