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SUMMARY:Film Screening: My Name was Sabina Spielrein
DESCRIPTION:OFJ will offer a screening of the 2002 film MY NAME WAS SABINA SPIELREIN (in German\, with English subtitles). This event will be held at UNITY CHURCH OF PORTLAND (4525 SE STARK ST.); beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Friday March 22nd. ADMISSION WILL BE FREE FOR ALL — MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS. \nMy Name Was Sabina Spielrein is a docudrama which draws extensively upon a recently discovered trove of correspondence between Sabina Spielrein and the founders of depth psychology. An early patient of both Jung and Freud\, Ms. Spielrein was a lifelong seeker. In this film\, her connections to Jung and Freud are explored in the context of her personal struggles as well as the turbulent history of Europe during the first half of the 20th century. Local Jungian analyst Martha Blake will lead a discussion of this film following the screening.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/film-screening-my-name-was-sabina-spielrein/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130222T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
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SUMMARY:Transforming Compulsion
DESCRIPTION:Compulsions arise organically in the psyche – often in troubling opposition to our conscious intentions.  They can occur as images\, ideas\, emotions\, or actions.  From a Jungian perspective\, compulsions seek to transform us.  Indeed\, compulsions are often intensely disturbing precisely because they arise from attitudes that have become dangerously one-sided; and yet they beckon to us from the drive toward wholeness that animates the psyche.  If the content of a compulsion can be understood symbolically\, it becomes a portal to transformation. \nMr. Stebbins will explore the phenomenology and dynamics of compulsions with the goal of elucidating their transformative potential. \n…Wherever we are still attached\, we are still possessed; and when we are possessed\, there is one stronger than us who possesses us….  It is not a matter of indifference whether one calls something a ‘mania’ or a ‘god.’  To serve a mania is detestable and undignified\, but to serve a god is full of meaning and promise ….  (C.G. Jung\, CW 13\, § 55.)
URL:https://ofj.org/event/transforming-compulsion/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180604T000258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T000258Z
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SUMMARY:The Other Side of Christmas: Incarnation as the Awesome Burden of Opposites
DESCRIPTION:The Incarnation\, at the core of the Christian mythos and message\, can be celebrated joyfully at Christmas as a union of opposites between human and divine\, but one which also ennobles us with the burden of what Jung calls “the divine problem”:  the paradox of divine wrath and love\, destruction and renewal.  As Jung puts it\, “Christ has shown how everybody will be crucified upon his destiny\,” a concept that includes shouldering the opposites in one’s psyche.  At the collective level that cross includes destructive impulses that have become incarnate in the reckless exploitation of the earth for oil and profit.  The threat of global catastrophe from irreversible global warming coexists (paradoxically) with love for the very children and grandchildren who will inherit our planet.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-other-side-of-christmas-incarnation-as-the-awesome-burden-of-opposites/
LOCATION:Native American Student and Community Center at PSU\, 710 SW Jackson St\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121116T213000
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CREATED:20180603T235923Z
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SUMMARY:“The Sailor Cannot See the North”: The Psychospiritual Dilemma of Our Time
DESCRIPTION:“The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.”\n~ Emily Dickinson \nWhat are the sources of guidance for a thoughtful person in our country amid political fractionation\, animosity\, divisive ideologies\, and numbing distractions—a time in which the individual has an enormous summons to social\, psychological\, and spiritual integrity?  This presentation will challenge the audience to assume responsibility for a thoughtful\, discerned\, and experientially verified authority\, one which bases itself on respect for others\, but also embodies a willingness to show up\, to be different\, to stand for something real.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-sailor-cannot-see-the-north-the-psychospiritual-dilemma-of-our-time/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121012T213000
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SUMMARY:The Call of Our Ancient Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:In the Red Book\, Jung writes: “When something long since passed . . . comes back again in a changed world\, it is new. To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation.” The ancient ancestors are now coming back into the world through dreams\, bringing a new energy – a revitalization of the psyche both individually and collectively.  Jung deeply valued the archaic levels of human consciousness and often encouraged his patients to make contact with the “the two-million-year-old” man or woman within.  He believed that “most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts\, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored up in us”.  This presentation is an exploration of the dreams of modern Western-educated people in which ancient ancestral wisdom makes itself known.  It will include a discussion of “big dreams”\, an introduction to the levels of the unconscious as Jung sketched them\, and an exploration of archetypal images that belong to this range of being\, the wisdom of the primordial psyche.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-call-of-our-ancient-ancestors/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180603T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180603T234648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T031941Z
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SUMMARY:What it Means to Go to War
DESCRIPTION:What are we demanding of young men and women when we send them to war? Have we prepared them for what they will experience on the battlefield? In this keynote address\, Karl Marlantes will draw upon his experience as a war veteran to explore the psychological realities of war at the personal and collective levels. Parsifal and other mythic figures in literature will be amplified in the context of core themes in Jungian psychology – archetypes\, initiation\, and the shadow – with the goal of illuminating the archetypal role of the warrior and what it means to go to war.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/what-it-means-to-go-to-war/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120420T213000
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CREATED:20180605T034458Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Our Moment in History: An Archetypal Perspective
DESCRIPTION: Our time is pervaded by a great paradox. On the one hand\, we see signs of an unprecedented level of engaged global awareness\, moral sensitivity to the human and non-human community\, psychological self-awareness\, and spiritually informed philosophical pluralism. On the other hand\, we confront the most critical\, and in some respects catastrophic\, state of the Earth in human history. Both these conditions have emerged directly from the modern age\, whose light and shadow consequences now affect every part of the planet. \nWe seem to be living at the end of an era. The past and the future are converging in our time with extraordinary force. Old structures are cracking\, the moment of creative chaos is upon us\, and the drama of our age has become a great question: What new principles\, what new structures—social\, political\, economic\, ecological\, psychological\, spiritual—will emerge to shape our future? So much is at stake. We are facing a threshold of fundamental collective transformation that bears a striking resemblance to what takes place on the individual level in initiatory rites of passage\, in near-death experiences\, in spiritual crises\, and in critical stages of what Jung called the individuation process. Can we find a place of equilibrium\, an eye in the storm\, from which we can engage this time of intense polarization and radical change? And in such an era of transition\, what is the role of “heroic” communities like that of Jungian institutes and societies — or the Bioneers or Schumacher\, CIIS or Pacifica\, Esalen or Findhorn — which carry principles and perspectives that run counter to the mainstream modern world view? \nTo help us navigate this threshold of transformation\, we need multiple perspectives and sources of insight. Join Richard Tarnas this weekend as he draws on depth psychology and archetypal astrology\, philosophy\, religion\, and cultural history as we seek together a larger context for both understanding and action.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/understanding-our-moment-in-history-an-archetypal-perspective/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120316T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120316T213000
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SUMMARY:The “Spiritualized Earth” and the Birth of the New Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:“the psychological problem of today is a spiritual problem\, a religious problem…” —C. G. Jung\, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interview and Encounters\, “Does the World stand on the Verge of Spiritual Rebirth?” \n\n\nSuffering the trials of her individuation process and initiation as a Jungian analyst as well as those of a concurrent farming crisis\, Patricia Damery found answers through a series of unconventional teachers and through her relationship to the psyche and the land\, answers that are surprising deeply intertwined. These answers involved spiritual tools that addressed what Jung called “the living substance” of ourselves and others.\n\n  \nIn this lecture Patricia will describe the common\, definitive root of some of these teachings in the writings and scientific studies of Goethe. Both C. G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner\, father of Biodynamic farming\, were deeply influenced by Goethe’s work\, a perspective denigrated since the days of Descartes. What supports the “living substance” in ourselves and the other\, even the not-human? What undermines its liveliness? Practical applications in the dynamics of “being in relationship with” and “having dominion over” will be given\, whether in analysis\, farming\, or our relationship to the environment.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-spiritualized-earth-and-the-birth-of-the-new-consciousness/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120217T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Visual Language of the Unconscious
DESCRIPTION:The realm of psyche is immeasurably great and filled with living reality. -C.G. Jung \nIn her lecture\, Jane Zich will explore the “living reality” of the psyche as evidenced in the visual language of the unconscious that emerges in depth psychotherapy\, dreams\,\nfilms\, and extended active imagination processes. She will use paintings from her Vision Journey series — an image-mediated dialogue with the unconscious that has spanned seven years — to illustrate how recurrent cycles and shifts in imagery suggest a purposefulness in the visual language of the unconscious that can promote and support an “I-Thou” attitude of partnership between ego consciousness and the unconscious. Specific psychological tasks that seem required for specific stages or types of imagery will be described\, as well as impasses that tend to result when those tasks are avoided or incompletely met. Dr. Zich will illustrate the role of  “orienting intentions” in navigating extended dialogues with the unconscious\, and will refer to image stages and related tasks for ego consciousness that can be seen in C.G. Jung’s Red Book\, in cultural contexts\, and in societal impasses. Time for discussion will follow.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/exploring-the-visual-language-of-the-unconscious/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120113T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120113T213000
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SUMMARY:The God Complex
DESCRIPTION:Notions of divinity are psychoactive. Whether one is a believer\, an atheist\, an agnostic\, a spiritual seeker or a student of religion\, it is difficult to contemplate questions of God without significant investment in the answers. This lecture will discuss the “complex” psychology of our response to the God topic. It will show how a Jungian approach can provide a way to negotiate the associated conundrums and controversies. From contemplating the death of God to the psychodynamics of fundamentalism and the search for meaning in between\, our goal will be a deeper appreciation of the psychological stakes involved.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-god-complex/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180605T052324Z
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SUMMARY:Achieving the Image: Lessons from Chinese Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:This month OFJ welcomes back John Beebe\, MD.  Dr. Beebe is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has lectured on topics related to analytical psychology in many parts of the world.  Most recently\, Dr. Beebe has become the International Association for Analytical Psychology’s Liaison to the Developing Group of analytical psychotherapists in Shanghai.  His book Integrity in Depth has been translated into Chinese\, and he is part of the project to bring out the Collected Works of C. G. Jung in a Chinese translation.  John is the founding editor of Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche\, and served as the first US editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.   He maintains a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/achieving-the-image-lesson-from-chinese-philosophy/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111111T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111111T213000
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SUMMARY:Psyche and Nature: Inner Journeys in the Outer World
DESCRIPTION:With his idea of the psychoid archetype Jung explored a level of the unconscious where psyche and nature are  one.  In this lecture\, Dr. Romanyshyn will show  how what we have called the unconscious is at this level the conscious of nature within us. Presenting a DVD he made after returning from a journey he took to the Antarctic in Nov. 2009\, Dr. Romanyshyn will describe how this journey in the outer world began with a journey in the inner world of a dream of more than 30 years ago. He will also suggest in this lecture that the format of the DVD\, which presents 86 images set to music accompanied by a voice over\, deepens a psychology of mind\, where the inner world of psyche and the outer world of nature are separate\, into an aesthetics of the heart\, where the inner and the outer intersect each other. In addition Dr. Romanyshyn will also consider how psychology as an aesthetic response to nature can be the foundation for a radical ecology that attends to the crises of nature as a symptom calling us to re-member the broken connections between the world and us.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/psyche-and-nature-inner-journeys-in-the-outer-world/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111021T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111021T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180605T051654Z
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SUMMARY:The Tropics of Desire: The Soul’s Expressions of Coniunctio in Dreams and Life
DESCRIPTION: This talk entails a re-imagining of the dynamics of the anima and animus in light of modern arousal studies\, gender identity theory and discourse analysis. \nJung’s theory of the anima and animus was crucial to his crowning works of Mysterium Coniunctionis  and Aion\, and remains a centerpiece of thinking about lived relationship. However the original formulation has been correctly riddled with accusations of anachronism\, gender bias and linguistic naivete.  Because of these difficulties it has been either used unreflectively or abandoned\, not coincidentally in a similar way to modern attitudes toward religion.  This talk re-imagines the deepest path of the animae as they lead to the self – in theory\, in dreams and in lived relationship.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tropics-of-desire-the-souls-expressions-of-coniunctio-in-dreams-and-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110923T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180605T051423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T051423Z
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SUMMARY:Balancing Heaven and Earth
DESCRIPTION:How should we balance the inner and the outer\, the masculine and the feminine\, the eternal and the every day?  In struggling with goals and duties\, how do we also attend to the workings of destiny and the cosmos?  Utilizing a three-thousand-year-old story from India\,The Ramayana\, as guide\, this talk explores the Eastern genius for the development of consciousness.  Each of the characters in this individuation tale represents a part of the human psyche – all of which must be dealt with during the journey of life. This story takes a very different approach to the feminine and to evil than individuation stories in the West\, and provides unique insights about living through a time when cultural traditions and values seem to be breaking down.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/balancing-heaven-and-earth/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110408T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180605T053533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T053533Z
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SUMMARY:Technology and Soul: Living at the Turning Point
DESCRIPTION:Technology brings many gifts\, but the constant innovation and change have a psychological cost. We can become disoriented or distracted and lose sight of the inner compass. Finding our direction in these liquid times is a challenge—a challenge that’s only going to deepen . . . \nUntil recently\, our gadgets have remained largely external and have not directly altered our basic nature. Today\, however\, we stand on the threshold of reengineering our essential being. For large numbers of people cyberspace has already begun to replace everyday life. Devices designed to further the adaptation of mind and body to the computer world are already in the works. Chip implants beneath our skin will soon be commonplace. Around these innovations lies a sea of developments in psychotropic medication\, genetic engineering\, plastic surgery and robotics\, all aiming to transform the very fabric of our existence. \nThe impact these changes will make on the psyche is an unexplored question. Uncovering the shadow side of this ultimate makeover seems critical\, but simply turning back may not be an option. How then are we to respond? \nJung was leery of technology. He once said\, “civilized man . . . is in danger of losing all contact with the world of instinct\,” adding that this loss “is largely responsible for the pathological condition of contemporary culture.” In this lecture Jung’s understanding of instinctual life and psychological wellbeing will be discussed in light of impending technologies. We’ll try to find our psychological feet in the face of this tinkering with Nature.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/technology-and-soul-living-at-the-turning-point/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110304T213000
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SUMMARY:Psychoid: The Chaotic Dynamics of Individuation
DESCRIPTION:The overall theme of the lecture and workshop this weekend will be the way in which the chaotic dynamics of the individuation process originate in the body. Chaos refers to those highly de-stabilizing disturbances in our lives that contribute to growth and stability. We’ll see how these disturbances resonate with the unconscious\, operate throughout our lives\, and express themselves symbolically. Recognizing and understanding their symbolic expressions allows us to move beyond those patterns that keep us stuck\, freeing us to participate in the unconscious chaos at work in our lives. \nJung and Jungians have always been fascinated with that which exists beyond consciousness. What is the unconscious? How can we perceive and decipher its symbolism? How can ego and unconscious work together to further individuation? \nWe’re not the only ones interested in the unconscious\, science is\, too. Recent discoveries in genetics\, microbiology and biochemistry have increased our understanding of the most basic dynamics of physical processes\, especially those that influence how we perceive\, process and respond to the world around us. Psycho-neuro-endocrinal-immunology\, for example\, studies how the nervous\, endocrine and immune systems interact with psyche. \nJung referred to that part of the psyche where mind and body overlap as psychoid; In the psychoid realm of the psyche\, mind and body influence and modify each other. \nTonight we’ll review how the smallest molecules have enormous effects on us. We’ll see how physical processes possess a consciousness greater than the ego’s. Finally\, we’ll compare current research with that of the alchemists\, particularly how the “organic alchemy” of today exactly parallels the inorganic alchemy of years past.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/psychoid-the-chaotic-dynamics-of-individuation-the-event-horizon-of-the-mind/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
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SUMMARY:A Depth Psychology Approach to the Sacred—Spirituality Without a Formal Religious Tradition
DESCRIPTION:n his latest book Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality beyond Religion\, Lionel Corbett helps modern people discover the numinous presence of the divine within themselves as they live a busy life filled with secular activities. Dr. Corbett will talk about ways to find spiritually meaningful life without the need to embrace any particular theology. This approach also serves to deepen the spirituality of those who are committed to a religious tradition.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/a-depth-psychology-approach-to-the-sacred-spirituality-without-a-formal-religious-tradition/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110121T213000
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CREATED:20180605T052649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T052649Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Aspects of the Mourning Process
DESCRIPTION:In Jungʼs last active imagination in The Red Book\, Christ offers Jung “the beauty of suffering.” These paradoxical lines are not popular in todayʼs Western culture\, nor are they very comforting to one who is deep in grief. More than likely after great loss\, we lose our commonsense and faith in lifeʼs predictability. Sometimes all we believed in comes into question and we feel as if we have no standpoint. Mourning takes place in a period of liminality\, a marginal phase when we cannot go back in time and we do not know what lies ahead. This time of life is mostly painful and chaotic. Yet countless ordinary people who have worked through grief testify that they wouldnʼt return to how they were\, psychologically or spiritually\, before their ordeal. In this presentation\, we will explore the deep emotions and the wisdom of the heart that can come after great losses\, including bodily injury\, health\, home\, and community\, separation\, and death. We will observe how the work of grief may enhance the individuation process\, and\, using New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina as example\, we will ponder how individuation may evolve in a city.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-aspects-of-the-mourning-process/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, 147 NW 19th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T213000
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CREATED:20180605T143406Z
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SUMMARY:Stories Told\, Stories Untold\, Stories that Tell Us
DESCRIPTION:Our lives course with stories – stories that run through us from ancestors\, stories we tell others and tell ourselves\, and stories of which we are unaware and thereby tell us.   We will reflect on the role these stories play in the shaping of our lives\, and how they invite us to greater consciousness of what invisibly informs the visible world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/stories-told-stories-untold-stories-that-tell-us/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T213000
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CREATED:20180605T143124Z
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SUMMARY:The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism
DESCRIPTION:The American psyche has typically been seen as narcissistic. Indeed\, we readily identify with the heroic\, the good\, and the brave. However\, these noble portraits cast a long shadow. In this Friday evening lecture\, Dr. West will supplement a Jungian exploration of this complex reality with slides and discussion about the works of a contemporary European artist\, Anselm Kiefer. In Kiefer’s work\, we experience an active engagement with the tension between destruction and creation. The ability to embody a union of opposites emerges from a strong and flexible consciousness that can hold such a paradoxical position. Consciousness that has developed this strength and flexibility is supported as one works through the dynamics of exhibitionism and grandiosity\, ultimately forging a healthy narcissism: an embodied self-esteem\, a rooted sense of values\, and a capacity to tolerate vulnerability and limits. We witness these dynamics and developments within Kiefer’s work. With these developments\, an individual – and a community or nation – can work to engage in an effective dialogue with primal forces that carry the potential for both apocalypse and epiphany. With these strengths\, we deepen our capacity to confront and suffer the tragic personal and historical realities in which we participate.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-shadows-and-gifts-of-american-narcissism/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T213000
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CREATED:20180605T142837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142837Z
UID:30039-1287775800-1287783000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Everyday Life
DESCRIPTION:The Tibetan Book of the Dead\, or Bardo Thodol\, is a manual or guide for the 49-day period between a person’s death and their next rebirth.  Written in Tibet in the middle ages\, it describes the entities and experiences that await all of us in the bardo\, or the in-between.  Many strange and scary things happen in that intermediate phase\, and it is best\, from the point of view of the text\, to be prepared.  In fact\, if one is prepared enough\, the moment of death can be the most opportune time to achieve liberation.  This occurs when you can see what is happening\, including the most terrifying images\, as aspects of your own mind. \nJung writes that the Bardo Thodol makes “clear to the dead man the primacy of the psyche\, for that is the one thing which life does not make clear to us.  We are so hemmed in by things which jostle and oppress that we never get the chance\, in the midst of all these ‘given’ things\, to wonder by whom they are ‘given’.  It is from this world of given things that the dead man liberates himself; and the purpose of the instructions is to help him toward this liberation.   we … learn from the very first paragraphs the that ‘giver’ of all ‘given’ things dwells within us.  This is a truth which in the face of all evidence\, in the greatest things as well as in the smallest\, is never known although it is often so very necessary\, indeed vital\, for us to know it.”  (vol 11: 514) \nWhy does Jung say this is vital?  Because this exploration of the in-between has the capacity to liberate us in this life\, long before the body dies. \nOur lecture will include a brief history of the Bardo Thodol and then a symbolic exploration of its other reality.  We will look at it compared to the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Jung’s own opus of the undiscovered country\, The Red Book.  Finally we will ground it in our daily lives as a useful and inspirational tool that has something to say to everyone.  Fantastic images will accompany the lecture.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-and-everyday-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100917T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100917T213000
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CREATED:20180605T142505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142505Z
UID:30035-1284751800-1284759000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Cosmic Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Jung made the distinction between the personal dream and the big dream\, noting that\, while the personal dream helps us maintain day-to-day psychic balance\, the big dream concerns universal human problems and occurs during critical phases of life.  We will explore the images\, symbols\, and callings stemming from dreams that appear at critical junctures and that reveal our place in the cosmos. We will see how numinous dreams of nature and cosmos help us transcend the polarities behind our alienation from nature\, our selves\, and one another.  Participants are invited to share dreams containing archetypal and cosmic motifs.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmic-dreams/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, 147 NW 19th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100416T213000
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CREATED:20180605T145517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T002452Z
UID:30063-1271446200-1271453400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:‘The Way of What is to Come’:  Jung’s "Liber Novus" and the Past and Future of Jungian Psychology
DESCRIPTION:In 1913\, when psychiatrist C.G. Jung was 38 years old\, he began to experience an overwhelming number of waking dreams and visions.  Convinced that this was an opportunity to understand his own psyche as well as that of his patients\, Jung began his “confrontation with the unconscious\,” which he first documented in a series of small\, black books\, and later expounded upon\, analyzed and illustrated in a large\, red leather-bound journal. \nAt the onset of Jung’s encounter with psyche\, he was in a state of disillusionment with scientific rationalism – what he called “the spirit of the times.” In the course of many quixotic encounters with his own soul and with other inner figures\, he came to know and appreciate “the spirit of the depths\,” a field that makes room for magic\, coincidence and the mythological metaphors delivered by dreams.  During this time he developed his principal theories-of the archetypes\, the collective unconscious\, and the process of individuation-that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality. \nIn this illustrated presentation\, Dr. Shamdasani will explain how Jung regained his soul and overcame the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation\, which he ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmogony.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-way-of-what-is-to-come-jungs-liber-novus-and-the-past-and-future-of-jungian-psychology/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 1126 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100326T213000
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SUMMARY:Politics and Psyche
DESCRIPTION:When you treat the individual\, you treat the culture.  -C. G. Jung \nPsychotherapy is as much a political and social discourse as it is a private one. If we are destroyed as a species\, it will be psychology and spirituality that launches the literal or mythic nukes.  If we survive and flourish as a species\, it will be a depth\, psychologically informed spiritually that generates and narrates that Story of cultural transformation and deepened soul-evolution. And psychotherapy is nothing if it is not simply the witnessing\, recording\, and transmission of the individual and societal encounters with the living numinal realm of depth human experience [what the Western tradition and Jung has called the imago Dei]. as it involves the numinal\, that encounter is always a transpersonal one. there is no secular politics only archetypal/transpersonal politics. we often get so politically lost and ensnarled because we forget this depth background of our societal interactions. \nThe soul never thinks without an image. –  Aristotle \nTherefore\, psychotherapy\, as a political discipline\, witnesses\, records\, and transmits these on-going experiential communiqués from and dialogues with this numinous/ transformative realm of being.  In some ancient cultures\, every citizen was believed to be a vehicle for this living numinal dimension\, for this living will and voice of the gods as mediated through human experience. The public sphere\, the common marketplace of political interaction and achievement\, was the Polis. This Polis was the living organism of Eros\, of numinal energy flowing into the public heart and soul of things. \nMy work is revelation\, not revolution.  –  William Butler Yeats \nEvery life had a Destiny that served an aspect of this living\, shaping\, creating\, numinal core of individual and cultural psyche. A well lived life was a life unfolded in a conscious\, loving seeking out of this Destiny and\, then\, serving it with as much thoughtful\, loving\, and compassionate dedication as possible. Privately\, this service would be to loved ones and vocation; publically\, this service would be an engaged political interaction with one’s fellow citizens. \nAll life is bound to carriers who realize it\, and it is simply inconceivable without them. But every carrier is charged with an individual destiny and destination\, and the realization of these alone makes sense of life.  –   C. G. Jung \nEveryone is politically engaged. Some are simply more aware of and disciplined about that engagement and its attendant social responsibilities. Every act in the public sphere is a political act\, an act that builds up more loving and compassionate connection to the living numinous or tears it down. But every act\, conscious or unconscious\, aware or unaware\, is a healing or destructive political act. We are all citizen politicians. We all have a public duty. We all serve the gods in the fervent hopes that the gods will then serve us and our community and lead us to more light and not more darkness. \nIt may well be prejudice to restrict the psyche to being “inside the body.” Insofar as the psyche is a non-spatial aspect\, there may be a psyche “outside-the-body\,” a region so utterly different from “my” psychic sphere that no one has to get out of oneself…to get there. –   C. G. Jung \nThis brief seminar sketches some clinical and cultural examples of these profound experiential psycho-political transcripts that emerge within or penetrate into depth therapy. Using frequent illustrative images from\, especially\, contemporary cinema and art\, Friday’s lecture opens up the outlines of the model and Saturday’s seminar fleshes out that outline in more depth and breadth. \nThe psychological question now is\, How do we house this greater subject that takes up residence in us\, radically altering the center from which we live?  How do we accommodate this “tremendous stranger\,” or this “mysterious density of being”? How do we\, how can we\, live in relation to it? \nThe theological questions ask\, Who has taken up residence within and among us? Who is the One?  – Ann Belford Ulanov \nThree Guiding exploratory question-themes for this Seminar: \n\n\n\nWhat is political about depth therapy or any psychotherapy?\nHow do you access it\, where are the entry portals?\nHow do you use political imagery and process found in depth therapy and in awake political interaction for individual and cultural healing and transformation?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/politics-and-psyche/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100226T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100226T213000
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SUMMARY:Living The Unlived Life
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the essential developmental task in the second half of life – rectifying the loss of abandoned dreams and unrealized potentials to achieve our ultimate life meaning and purpose. What is unlived life?  It consists of those potential aspects of ourselves that have not adequately entered into our experience.  Of course\, no one can live out all of life’s possibilities\, but there are key aspects of our being that must be brought into life or we cannot realize fulfillment.   We all carry with us a vast inventory of unlived life.  Even if we have achieved major life goals and seemingly have few regrets\, there are significant experiences that have been closed to each of us. For everything we choose (or that has been chosen for us)\, something else remains “unchosen.” \nThe greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parents. \n– C.G. Jung \nZarathustra goes to the grave with the unfulfilled dreams of his youth.  He speaks to them as if they were ghosts who have betrayed him bitterly.  They struck up a dance and then spoiled the music.  Did the past make his path so weighty?  Did his unlived life impede him and consign him to a life that seems not to pass? \n– F. Nietzsche \nWe can hear the distant drumbeat of unlived life in the mutterings that go on in the back of our heads; “Woulda-coulda-shoulda.”  Or in second-guessing our life choices.  Or those late night longings. The unexpected grief that arises seemingly out of nowhere. A sense that we have somehow missed the mark\, or failed to do something we were so sure we were supposed to do. Where did we go wrong\, and what is this life that we find ourselves living\, so different that what we set out to do? \nWhen brought into consciousness\, unlived life can become the fuel that propels us beyond current limitations. By exploring unlived life we learn to rise above fears\, regrets\, and disappointments\, to expand our vision beyond the narrow confines of the ego\, and to embrace the full measure of our being.  An enlightened vision is our most profound unlived potential\, and bringing it to fruition is the worthy purpose of the second half of life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/living-the-unlived-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100122T213000
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SUMMARY:The Burn Wound of Eros
DESCRIPTION:In one subtext of the ancient love story of Psyche and Eros\, “narcissism” and the “predatory” underline the romantic attitude of Eros\, the god of love. His bride Psyche is entrapped within his magical paradise; she is his prey\, his plaything to be used then discarded. As the story reveals\, the transformation of narcissism in the romantic begins at the moment when Eros is violently burned – suffering a great loss and wound to his inflation. It is from the “burn wound” and separation of the lovers that Psyche – signifying the male’s psyche/soul/anima – develops resilience\, maturity and can ultimately be awakened by a form of love\, transcendent of narcissism and no longer bound by the mother complex. \nCorrespondingly in analysis\, one can observe the narcissistic skin seared open\, and the shattering of omnipotence in the traumatic encounter with an emerging\, transcendent Other. This psychological wounding is a necessary process for recovering emotional life and developing the capacity to love in a man living at the surface of life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-burn-wound-of-eros/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091204T213000
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CREATED:20180605T183322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183322Z
UID:30097-1259955000-1259962200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dreams of Fate; the Fate of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Jung described the process of individuation as the curiosity about and understanding of the autonomous\, unconscious psyche.  Curiosity is the trait that allows us to follow the red thread of the otherwise mysterious symbols as they emerge from the impersonal and personal unconscious.  However the unconscious is barred from our direct perception and so appears to us in many ways — in symptoms\, in our bodies\, in relationships\, in emotion\, in personal insight\, as well as through collective symbols. \nThis weekend\, we will explore and practice Jung’s most important tools for translating communications from the unconscious.   We will take a new look at amplification as a very precise technique\, and add to it the orientational method Jung developed in Volume 12; Psychology and Alchemy. Although we can use these tools to look at any symbolic communication from film to astrophysical theory to psychotic ideation\, we will look specifically at dreams. \nAlthough there are many sources from which to derive Jung’s method\, it is only with the publishing of Jung’s seminars that we see his teaching style and the method itself with dramatic clarity.  We are fortunate that Jung’s latest volume\, Children’s Dreams\, gives us just such clarity. In this work Jung shows us that some dreams reveal the arc of fate contained within the most determinative personal images – determinative not because we had them as children but because we remember them 30 or 40 years later (the dreams in this volume are not the dreams of children but the dreams remembered by adults from their childhood). \nDream images remembered from childhood are similar to collective symbols in that they come to us without relevant associations.  The seminar will reveal how Jung interpreted these images without the help of surrounding personal material.  Because of the sensitivity of this method\, Jung taught it to his inner circle but barred this material from publication for many years because it shows his work in a different light than in many of the other volumes.  It is a great boon to us\, however\, for here we can observe Jung’s uniquely direct style of teaching as he explains how to decipher the language of dreams and outlines the value of amplification. \nWe will introduce this particularly powerful method of symbolic translation during the lecture and then have a chance to practice it in more detail during the workshop.  We will also consider Jung’s radical concept of changing fate\, or heimarmene\, through psychological development.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-of-fate-the-fate-of-dreams/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091106T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091106T213000
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SUMMARY:The Embodied Psyche: Alchemical Imagery and Unconscious Emotional Communication
DESCRIPTION:Jung’s work is founded on a belief in the reality of the psyche rather than on a reductionist point-of-view. Yet we may also wonder how his theories about the nature of unconscious communication\, self-regulation\, and active imagination jibe with new and fascinating studies coming from the field of neurobiology. \nWe will begin with images of the King and Queen from “Psychology of the Transference” and from the Splendor Solis\, as examples of Jung’s use of imagery\, which can communicate emotions and ideas that cannot be easily put into words.   We will then compare Jung’s method to Darwin’s early work on emotional communication through body language and facial expression and to contemporary research\, which employs neuro-imagining techniques to study nonverbal cues that can trigger an emotional response in another person\, both before and sometimes without any conscious awareness.   Participants can expect to come away with a basic understanding of nonverbal communication\, which underlies much of what we talk about when we speak of unconscious-to-unconscious communication in psychotherapy and in everyday life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-embodied-psyche-alchemical-imagery-and-unconscious-emotional-communication/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260723T114504
CREATED:20180605T175630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T175630Z
UID:30089-1255116600-1255123800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Power of Companionship
DESCRIPTION:Lara Newton lays the foundation for a new psychological perspective on the brother-sister relationship.  She explores that relationship in all its variety\, both externally in the world of interpersonal and cultural relationships and internally in the relationship between conscious and unconscious\, and masculine and feminine. \nIn this lecture\, based on a book she worked on for over a decade\, Lara will present the process of transformation from bonding to wounding and finally to healing and redemption. This transformation process takes the brother-sister relationship from an outer experience\, whether negative or positive\, to a powerful intrapsychic reality\, for any individual who takes up the challenge of relating to this psychological phenomenon.  In the course of the evening\, Lara will also share some poetic material and brother-sister stories that inspired her. \nLara writes in her book\, Brothers and Sisters: Discovering the Psychology of Companionship\, “Brother and sister point the way toward a new understanding of companionship and mutuality because first and foremost\, they are companions… At this point in history\, we must remember that there is power\, not only in conflict and discord\, but also in harmony and equanimity.”  In a spirit of companionship\, Lara shares her insights and welcomes discussion with her sister (and brother) Jungian community in Portland.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-power-of-companionship/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090918T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090918T213000
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CREATED:20180605T175342Z
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UID:30085-1253302200-1253309400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Spirit River Sojourn
DESCRIPTION:With the advent of the Aquarian age\, a growing number of individuals are turning inward in their search for a meaningful connection to the mystery of life.  This evolution of consciousness was brought home to our presenter when\, several decades ago\, she read  a letter from the Spirit River Dream Analysis and Research Center located in a tiny settlement in the Peace River Country of central Canada requesting an affiliation with the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles.  Dr. Sanford and her analyst husband answered the call\, and journeyed to this remote community to present lectures and films. \nAmong this small group of pioneering souls\, one woman’s psychic commitment\, as evidenced in her paintings and dialogues\, stood out.  Dr. Sanford kept in touch with this woman over the course of her life\, and tonight she presents her friend’s art and writing as a testament to the power of the inner connection to psyche that enriched her friend’s life and supported her journey toward death.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/spirit-river-sojourn/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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