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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090515T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090515T213000
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SUMMARY:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
DESCRIPTION:Apart from friends\, family\, and good work\, what matters most in our lives?   What values lead us to a freer\, larger life\, a more considered course?  Together we will examine the crippling role fear management systems play in our choices\, why we are called to choose ambiguity over familiarity\, why the world is driven by verbs not nouns\, how life is most meaningful in the face of mortality\, and how genuine spirituality is a journey not an arrival.  A more considered life asks more of us than may be comfortable\, but we are rewarded with a more interesting story.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/what-matters-most-living-a-more-considered-life/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090424T213000
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SUMMARY:Jung Embodied: Seeking the Creative Shadow
DESCRIPTION:This experiential weekend will support exploration of the creative potential within the shadow.  Using elements from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms approach and “embodied active imagination” with it roots in the work of C. G. Jung\, we will endeavor to open to the unlived life.  Informed by their backgrounds in dance\, theater\, Jungian and Somatic Psychology\, the presenters (Tina Stromsted and Meg Wilbur) will also draw from their extensive training and teaching with Marion Woodman. \nFriday the presenters will discuss Jung’s concepts of the shadow\, particularly in relationship to energies in the body.  Clinical material will illustrate and amplify body/psyche connections.  Saturday offers an opportunity to explore the work experientially\, deepening our connection to mind and body.  Such work supports the reawakening of resonant consciousness in our cells\, invites the play of imagination\, and promotes integration through movement and voice\, enhanced by music and art.\nAuthentic movement is a gentle\, natural means to nurture oneself\, connect with buried energies\, and unfold one’s inner dance. Simple exercises in freeing the voice involve relaxation\, breath\, and sound to help release one’s authentic voice. These creative processes do not involve performance\, and are attuned to the needs of the individual. Come explore “Jung embodied” through these gateways to the unconscious.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-embodied-seeking-the-creative-shadow/
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:20090313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090313T213000
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SUMMARY:Fragmentation and Containment in a Shrinking World
DESCRIPTION:In this “global age” of limited resources\, we struggle for self-survival and species-survival while witnessing the demise of integral cultures and local economies. We observe unprecedented waves of human migration and an alarming escalation of communal warfare. At the same time\, we collectively awaken to the interconnections in nature and between people of disparate cultural origins. We witness a rising esprit of global consciousness. \nEncounters with the strange and the estranged activate powerful unconscious processes. In individuals and in groups\, an unraveling of established structures inevitably unleashes reactionary archetypal forces. We will view the constructive and destructive responses to our changing world as polarities stemming from the outsider archetype\, the archetype organizing the dynamics of inclusion\, exclusion\, and psychic transformation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/fragmentation-and-containment-in-a-shrinking-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:20090220T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
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SUMMARY:Violence and the Religious Instinct
DESCRIPTION:We would perhaps like to forget that there is an archetypal basis for the disturbing violence that is prominent in today’s world.  This lecture describes how to understand violence from an archetypal perspective and why this task is necessary if we are to bridge the dissociation between conscious and transconscious reality. For most of us\, “psychic reality” is still in the realm of ideas\, and psychologically\, we live in a pre-Copernican world.  In his most seminal works\, Jung wrote that violence and destructiveness are inextricable aspects of psychic reality and that violence is always encountered as part of the individuation process.  The hostile and violent impact of the unconscious upon the ego often calls upon us to experience and contain intense emotions of rage and violence. This need not be “bad news” if we remain aware of the larger picture.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/violence-and-the-religious-instinct/
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:20090116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T183700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183700Z
UID:30101-1232134200-1232141400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Jung and the Path to Individuation through Indian Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:C. G. Jung was very familiar with the Hindu Upanishads and the profound traditions of Indian spirituality.  He drew upon them for his understanding of core concepts of the psyche\, especially the Self within the individuation process.  This lecture will explore the nature of the innermost Self as revealed in the Upanishads and developed through the philosophical teachings of Vedanta. The distinctions between Eastern and Western models of the psyche and human selfhood will be clarified in order to define the ultimate implications of the individuation process against the background of one of humanity’s richest and most differentiated spiritual cultures\, followed by an ample opportunity for questions and discussion.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-and-the-path-to-individuation-through-indian-spirituality/
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:20081205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T194035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002850Z
UID:30138-1228505400-1228512600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Unconscious In Historical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Based on C. G. Jung’s seminal essay\, “On the Nature of the Psyche” (1954)\,  tonight’s lecture will examine one of the crucial concepts of 20th century thought\, the unconscious psyche.  With precursors in the 18th and 19th centuries\, psychoanalysts first formulated the unconscious from a variety of clinical and abnormal experiences\, providing the basic concept of the unconscious as we use it today. \nC. G. Jung further expanded the concept\, deepening and clarifying it by drawing on religious experience\, comparative symbolism\, paranormal phenomena\, and  the creative spirit that rises from within the personality.  The lecture\, followed by questions and answers\, will touch upon some of the core concepts and pivotal experiences that guided Jung’s path through this inner terrain\, leading to the succinct formulation found in this mature essay.  Participants are encouraged to preview the essay if possible.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unconscious-as-multiple-consciousness/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church New Annex\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T193827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193827Z
UID:30134-1226691000-1226698200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Mystical Relationship of Lover and Beloved
DESCRIPTION:Some say Sufism is Islamic mysticism; others say it is the primordial mystical tradition\, much older than Islam\, but absorbed into Islam. Perhaps Sufism is best defined as a universal path to union with God through love. One theme of this path\, expressed in the poetry of Rumi and others\, is the mystical relationship between lover and Beloved\, soul and Absolute\, human and God. In Jungian psychology there are many concepts that illumine this relationship: the ego as the center of consciousness and the Self as intelligence greater than the ego; the individuation process whereby the ego increasingly realizes its source and dependence upon the Self; the alchemical conjunction of ego and Self. Tonight\, we will use Jungian concepts\, Sufi poetry\, and teaching tales to explore the ecstatic relationship of lover and Beloved and the stages of the Sufi path whereby the soul gradually awakens to what eternally IS\, the Oneness it never really lost. We will conclude by discussing methods of inner transformation of this path.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-mystical-relationship-of-lover-and-beloved/
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:20081024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T193625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193625Z
UID:30130-1224876600-1224883800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Context and Essence: Meaning and Transformation in Cultural and Analytic Process
DESCRIPTION:This lecture and workshop will introduce participants to the particular method that Jung used to investigate the so-called “relatively fixed symbols\,” or archetypes\, that arise in unconscious material. Some of this has come to light in the newly published volume\, Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (the first new volume from Jung’s archives in 40 years). \nIllustrations will be drawn from sources ranging from modern events to Flemish mysticism\, and will include a detailed  comparison between the series of the first ten images from the Rosarium Alchemicum (used by Jung in his Psychology of the Transference) and the Ten Oxherding pictures from the Zen Buddhist tradition. \nThe lecture will move quickly through Jung’s method of deriving and applying the meaningful content from the context of an image\, while the workshop will give everyone a chance to both practice it and question it.  We will then look at a particular arc of images that runs through life and in small groups apply the process that has been learned. This should give everyone an individualized set of alchemical images to contrast with the collective ones or just ponder on his or her own.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/context-and-essence-meaning-and-transformation-in-cultural-and-analytic-process/
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:20080919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T193417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193417Z
UID:30126-1221852600-1221859800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Serpent and the Cross – Spanning the Split through Active Imagination
DESCRIPTION:In our time\, the cultural split within the Western psyche has reached critical proportions—a perilous split in which Father Spirit and Mother Nature have been rent asunder. And we suffering individuals\, as microcosms within the macrocosm\, bear the task of consciously redeeming the chthonic feminine spirit that carries within it the wisdom of the serpent—the innate wisdom of the psyche that emerges from the unconscious to heal this split. \nTonight’s lecture will present a series of twenty-three archetypal images painted by the presenter out of a series of sixty-three paintings spanning the years 1959 to 1987\, along with dialogues she entered into with their symbolic figures\, portraying a life-saving inner journey to heal the maternal wound at the core of her psyche. Katherine Sanford will use these paintings and their accompanying text to reflect upon the transformative power of active imagination\, demonstrating its use as one of the most profoundly effective tools for furthering the individuation process.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-serpent-and-the-cross-spanning-the-split-through-active-imagination/
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:20080509T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080509T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T195931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002157Z
UID:30161-1210361400-1210368600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Synchronicity and Its Implications
DESCRIPTION:Jung’s concept of synchronicity represents one of the most strenuous efforts of the 20th century to construct a bridge across the chasm between mind and matter\, self and world\, psyche and cosmos. In popular culture\, the concept has been surprisingly widely embraced. The term and the phenomena it describes played no small role in the way many individuals make sense of their lives. In the face of the disenchanted modern worldview\, the search for a ground of purpose and meaning that transcends human subjectivity has become an urgent spiritual priority. For many today\, synchronicities are directly relevant to the search. The concept has also had a unique impact on the intellectual world\, from religious studies to physics. In tonight’s lecture\, Dr. Tarnas will summarize the origin and history of the concept in Jung’s work\, discuss the experiential dimension of synchronistic events\, and address their larger metaphysical and perhaps evolutionary implications.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/synchronicity-and-its-implications/
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:20080411T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T195758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T231929Z
UID:30157-1207942200-1207949400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Unveiling of What Is Hidden
DESCRIPTION:In the ninth volume of his Collected Works\, Archtypes and the Collective Unconscious\, Jung selected Khidr from the 18th sutra of the Koran as an Image of the Guide in the psychological process of rebirth and transformation. His Eranos colleague\, Henri Corbin\, philosopher and Iranologist\, respected Khidr as a Threshold Figure\, an Awakener into the Imaginal World. By way of amplification\, Corbin brought to the Western world the work of the 13th century Islamic mystic\, Ibn Arabi\, who was first initiated by his experience with Khidr. In his wealth of writings\, Ibn Arabi highlighted the existence of an organ of perception that perceives a very precise order of reality\, the mundus imaginalis. In the Friday evening lecture\, we will explore the writings of Ibn Arabi\, the organ of perception and the realm of Khidr.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unveiling-of-what-is-hidden/
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:20080307T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080307T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T195603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234803Z
UID:30153-1204918200-1204925400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Frida Kahlo and an Exploration of Character Structures
DESCRIPTION:The intense and compelling paintings of Frida Kahlo provide us with a rich context to begin an exploration of archetypal and developmental aspects of character structures. \nAccompanied by numerous images of both Frida and her paintings\, on Friday night Dr. West will address how Frida’s life and work may be seen as a remarkably courageous attempt to wrestle with the chaos of borderline experience. By embracing her own individuality\, however cruel was her experience of it\, Frida endure extraordinarily challenging encounters with the gods. Dr. West will suggest that she emerged for these encounters with a strengthened ego\, along with access to more developed defenses.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-an-exploration-of-character-structures/
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:20080208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T195339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T195339Z
UID:30149-1202499000-1202506200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Feminine Principle in the Kabbalah: Shades of Darkness and Light
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nash has taken much delight in this image of the Shekinah\, the feminine presence of God in Judaism\, known as the Divine Presence (literally “indwelling”)\, that accompanied the joyous recognition of the power of the feminine principle. Such joy however was popularly accompanied by a naïve glorification of “her\,” which twisted the dark side of the feminine into light\, overlooking and casting out the realities of evil and the difficult path that leads to transformation through the hard work of integrating the shadow. In accord with Jung\, the ancient Kabbalists painted a far more varied and intricate portrait of the feminine aspect of God\, both light and dark – a spectrum of potencies ranging from creation to destruction\, from loving sexual union to demonic possession.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-feminine-principle-in-the-kabbalah-shades-of-darkness-and-light/
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:20080118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T195125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T162130Z
UID:30145-1200684600-1200691800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Incalculable Paradoxes of Love
DESCRIPTION:In Friday night’s lecture\, we will encounter what Jung called\, in his later years\, “the incalculable paradoxes of love.” Our single word “love” fails to adequately capture and express the powerful\, often contradictory feelings that drive behavior and animate one’s soul. We will turn to the three Greek words for love (eros\, philia\, and agape) and explore the psychological distinctions they express. We will look at both the inter-personal and intra-psychic dynamics of love\, as well as its light and dark sides. Finally\, we will address the healing and wounding nature of this greatest of paradoxes.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-incalculable-paradoxes-of-love/
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:20071207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T203058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T233951Z
UID:30181-1197055800-1197063000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Quotidian Conversations: Working with Symbolic Images in Dreams and Everyday Life
DESCRIPTION:The deeper layers of our psyches are constantly communicating with us via symbols. Amid the demands of everyday life we may notice this only in passing\, usually first giving it our attention after a dream presents us with particularly enigmatic images and we wonder what it might mean. This program is offered as a small retreat where we will take the opportunity to look at symbolic process\, the basis of Jung’s work. \nThe Friday lecture will start with a profound 28-minute film in which Yo-Yo Ma introduces his friend David Blum\, also a professional musician. David explains how\, when he left the security of his preferred language of expression\, music\, and dared to pick up some children’s pastels to draw scenes from his dreams\, he unwittingly engaged in conversation with his inner self. We follow him as he shows us his pictures and talks movingly about his own skepticism\, shyness\, curiosity and wonder\, and the unexpected reward of finding a layer of rich meaning in his colorful\, naïvely-styled pictures. In our discussion of this moving account\, we will review Jung’s ideas about symbolic images\, and include some of the newer findings from brain scans\, which unite cognition and emotion.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/quotidian-conversations-working-with-symbolic-images-in-dreams-and-everyday-life/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T202907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202907Z
UID:30177-1194636600-1194643800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Healing Value of Personal Narrative: How Writing One’s Memoir Facilitates Individuation
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that self-disclosure in journals and autobiography in general promotes emotional and physical health. On Friday evening\, Dr. Rosen will illustrate the healing value of writing a personal narrative in the form of autobiography with a single case-study: himself. He will demonstrate the process of writing a memoir as a “haibun”-a combination of prose and haiku about his life-long pilgrimage to the center of profound mystery. His own autobiography (presented as an inner and outer journey based on his life-review\, an analysis of interviews with family and friends\, as well as dreams and experiences recorded in journals since his eighteenth year) emerged as a painful yet healing experience. When such a review is carried out in an honest and thorough way\, one’s lost soul can find its way home. As the Zen writer Matsuo Basho revealed: “Each day is a journey and the journey itself home\,” an insight echoed by Soen Nakagawa Roshi: “If you cannot return home\, your self is not your true self.”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-healing-value-of-personal-narrative-how-writing-ones-memoir-facilitates-individuation/
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:20071012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071012T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T202714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202714Z
UID:30173-1192217400-1192224600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dream Tending
DESCRIPTION:The “heartbeat” of DreamTending\, Dr. Aizenstat’s orientation to dreams\, is the recognition that dream images are alive. In his Friday night lecture\, he will describe his unique approach to dream work and invite us to experience dream images as living\, embodied beings — engaged in their activity\, not ours alone. DreamTending will be introduced as a system of healing\, useful in working with the afflictions of personal life as well as the conditions of the world soul\, the anima mundi. Examples and elaborations will be offered.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dream-tending/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T202516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202516Z
UID:30169-1190403000-1190410200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Eros and Addiction
DESCRIPTION:The power of Eros can take us to ecstatic heights\, but also to the depths of despair. We experience this power whenever we fall in love or whenever longing for another overtakes us. As long as we remain unaware that the ideal image of the beloved is a projection of our own psychic content\, and the more our longing for wholeness is confused with the external satisfaction of erotic fantasies\, the more we can get lost in compulsive longing\, destructive relationships and sexual addictions. Understanding the archetype of Eros can help us develop a sense of how Eros can become destructively connected with addiction. We will seek to understand the nature of Eros and erotic longing in both its sensual and spiritual aspects.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/eros-and-addiction/
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:20070511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T204330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T204330Z
UID:30203-1178911800-1178919000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Why Good People Do Bad Things: Revisiting the Shadow
DESCRIPTION:For each of us there are energies\, motives\, agendas which operate outside our conscious control and sometimes are contrary to our professed values. These energies\, which Jung collectively identified as the Shadow\, might best be defined not as evil\, but as that which makes us uncomfortable with ourselves. Such energies represent an enormous invitation for greater consciousness\, for living more ethically\, and whose integration brings a greater possibility of wholeness. This program will define and illustrate the many ways in which the Shadow operates in personal and social life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/why-good-people-do-bad-things-revisiting-the-shadow/
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:20070413T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070413T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T122725
CREATED:20180605T204132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T035712Z
UID:30199-1176492600-1176499800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Cosmos and Psyche: Jungian Archetypes and Astrology
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 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 have revealed that in his last decades Jung came to employ the analysis of his patients’ astrological charts as a regular and integral aspect of his clinical work. \nYet astrology runs so directly counter to the long-established cosmology that encompasses the modern world view that one can appreciate Jung’s reluctance to make public the extent of his use of astrology\, and the resistance of many Jungian analysts to further explore the astrological direction their founder had pursued. However\, recent research by Richard Tarnas and Stanislav Grof gives new support for Jung’s intuition of the value of astrology and of the trans-psychic (or “psychoid”) nature of the archetypes. These observations suggest the existence of an extraordinarily consistent synchronistic correspondence between planetary movements and the archetypal patterns of human experience\, reflecting something like a cosmic anima mundi in which the human being participates. \nOn Friday\, Dr. Tarnas will summarize this evidence\, discuss the new light it sheds on the human psyche and the unfolding drama of history\, and explore the implications it holds for Jungian psychology.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmos-and-psyche-jungian-archetypes-and-astrology/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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