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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
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T184811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T031745Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T184318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T184318Z
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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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T183926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183926Z
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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:20260724T153112
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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T194035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002850Z
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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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T193827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193827Z
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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:20260724T153112
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T195931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002157Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T195603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234803Z
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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:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T195339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T195339Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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:20260724T153112
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071012T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
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:20260724T153112
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070309T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070309T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T203924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203924Z
UID:30195-1173468600-1173475800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Trauma and Psychic Creativity
DESCRIPTION:One of the most remarkable capacities of the psyche is its ability to manage traumatic experiences. Taking as examples major innovative works of art from the history of painting and film\, Dr. Beebe will illustrate the strategies the psyche adopts when forced to manage its sense of violation and disillusionment through creativity. He will then relate the solutions endorsed by artists in times of cataclysmic social upheaval\, with the choices analytic patients sometimes are able to make when faced with overwhelming life events.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/trauma-and-psychic-creativity/
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:20070216T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070216T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T203731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203731Z
UID:30191-1171654200-1171661400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Seabiscuit:  The Little Horse that Could\, and Did\, and Still Does
DESCRIPTION:The word “hero” is so broadly used in our day that it begins to lose its mythic sense. But the mythic Hero – larger than life and required to accomplish impossible tasks at great risk\, bringing hope and redemption to lesser mortals – stands in an important relationship to the Self. Implied in the Hero’s grand mission are ideas of personal responsibility and vocation\, two themes we meet frequently in Jung’s theory of individuation but do not often examine. This presentation\, illustrated with film clips from the feature film\, Seabiscuit\, will invite conversation about the collective psychological phenomenon that was a horse named Seabiscuit – a true mythic Hero\, and the human partners who engaged with him in a mutual process of transformation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/seabiscuit-the-little-horse-that-could-and-did-and-still-does/
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:20070119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T203531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203531Z
UID:30187-1169235000-1169242200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Creativity: The Holy Other as Transcendent Healer in Analysis\, Community and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Although neither traditional nor radically alternative\, creative expression in Jungian analysis arises as the third transcendent healing opportunity\, completing the dyad of analyst and analysand. This creative third can be a dream or an active imagination\, sometimes in the form of a work of art\, sometimes not\, but always expressing the transcendent function of the Self in its creative play of the tension of opposites. Using examples from clinical cases\, social experiments\, and excerpts from the films of the Japanese master director Akira Kurosawa\, the function of creativity will be explored both on a personal basis and in its larger collective and cultural role in our societies and our world community.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/creativity-the-holy-other-as-transcendent-healer-in-analysis-community-and-culture/
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:20061208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20061208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T223036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T223036Z
UID:30232-1165606200-1165613400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Coming of Light at Times of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Tonight we celebrate the coming of the holiday season. The Winter Solstice\, the longest night and the shortest day of the year\, is a symbol of the coming of light when the powers of darkness are at their strongest. Darkness eventually gives way to light\, just as dark nights of the soul soften our egos and lift our faces to the Self. Moreover\, if we ponder them from the perspective of Sufi\, esoteric Christian\, and related paths\, darkness and light also refer to states of consciousness that are healing if we access them. Darkness is the holding\, containing Mother-Father consciousness\, sometimes called the Absolute\, which gives birth to Light\, symbol of the Holy Child and the essential Self of every human being. Tonight\, Dr. Wittine will describe these states of consciousness by drawing on Jungian theory\, esoteric teachings\, and experiences of people doing inner work. He will also discuss techniques of meditation to help us enter these states. The Crises and Conflicts of Spiritual Awakening.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-coming-of-light-at-times-of-darkness/
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:20061110T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20061110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T222816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T222816Z
UID:30228-1163187000-1163194200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Oh\, Sister Where Art Thou?
DESCRIPTION:We live in a remarkable time\, a time in which our intellectual prowess is unsurpassed and seems to grow in leaps and bounds. We can soar to the moon\, design life in a test tube and condense the entire encyclopedia into a tiny chip. Our brains are in overdrive and yet\, something is sorely missing. Some characterize this element that is lacking as a HER – a more feminine way of being. Despite years of progress within the women’s movement\, the breadth and depth of the feminine archetype has plenty of wilderness yet to be explored. By Her very nature\, She is hard to describe – emotional\, relational\, closer to the instinctual and natural worlds. Rather than trying to get to know Her\, we prefer to tame\, control and manage Her. She complies as She adapts\, adorns and abdicates Her own genuine authority. And everybody loses. What sets Her apart? Why is She so easily demonized? What are we afraid of? What is your relationship to the feminine? How do you respond to the feminine in others? How can we help Her thrive in this world?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/oh-sister-where-art-thou/
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:20061013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20061013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T222623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T222623Z
UID:30224-1160767800-1160775000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Pathways to the Numinous
DESCRIPTION:Christians honor God on their knees\, Jews rock back and forth on their heels\, Muslims prostrate themselves\, and all thereby connect with what Jung called the numinous. There are similarities and differences among religious practices that awaken numinosity\, mirrored in our images of their founders – Moses climbing a mountain\, Jesus walking through crowds\, Mohammed on his steed\, and the Buddha seated in meditation. In this lecture Dr. Spiegelman will present brief examples of the ways followers of various spiritual paths experience the numinous: the Taoist from “within”\, the Muslim “among” other Muslims during the Hajj\, “between” in alchemy\, while the Hindu finds it all “around” through nature\, art\, music\, and synchronicity.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/pathways-to-the-numinous/
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:20060908T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060908T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T222253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T222336Z
UID:30219-1157743800-1157751000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Two Faces of Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:In almost every spiritual tradition there appear two aspects of the Divine: the immanent and the transcendent. Although some traditions favor one or the other of these faces of God\, most try to find a means of uniting them. The immanent face of God looks to the world and seems involved in our daily lives\, while the transcendent face looks away from the world and seems unconcerned with normal day to day life. Both aspects reflect truth about divine reality\, but also about the needs of the human psyche. For the psyche to experience its own awakening and fulfillment\, it needs to discover two forms of enlightenment: one that unites it with the immanent and one with the transcendent. Dr. Raff will address these two forms of enlightenment in this lecture from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-two-faces-of-enlightenment/
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:20060512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T224949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224949Z
UID:30255-1147462200-1147469400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Personal and Cultural Complexes
DESCRIPTION:“Private and public cannot be separated.” – James Hillman \nAccording to Jung\, personal complexes are “splinter psyches.” One implication of this is that as individuals we disavow parts of ourselves when a complex is activated within our psyches. This is a common occurrence for all of us\, as complexes express themselves in powerful moods\, affects\, repetitive behaviors and tones of voice and body language.The disavowed part of ourselves is typically projected onto others. Jung frequently asserted that a complex is a natural\, essential ingredient of psychological life. But we often suffer with our complexes as they cause intrapsychic and interpersonal unrest in our lives. Consciously reclaiming\, integrating\, and healing our personal complexes is a curious and demanding life task\, but one necessary for our individuation process. \nThe dictionary defines a culture as “the way of life of a people\,” and Jung frequently asserted that a complex is a natural\, essential ingredient of psychological life. San Francisco analysts\, Kimbles and Singer\, have formulated the concept of the cultural complex. Their new perspective asserts that a group or culture has a psyche\, similar to the individual psyche\, and that within the collective psyche complexes can manifest. These manifestations can cause chaos and danger\, but this modern development of Jung’s complex theory also holds the hope that we may eventually understand the forces of conflict\, acknowledge and own our group participation in the complex\, and transform the complex into a collaborative and peaceful resolution. While this hope may seem idealistic\, a new vision of how groups relate with one another is imperative for an individuation process to occur within cultures.Without this vision we will continue to operate within the age-old perils. In this lecture and workshop\, Dr Hone will identify and illustrate with slides the nature of personal and cultural complexes and how they are enacted in our everyday lives as well as in the global arena. She will explore how we project the disowned parts of ourselves onto our spouses\, children\, bosses and onto other races\, religions and genders. In dialogue with the participants in the workshop\, Dr Hone will demonstrate how it is possible to reclaim the disavowed parts of our psyches and she will demonstrate how differentiation of complexes can clarify and give meaning to the individual and collective confusion in our psyches and lives.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/personal-and-cultural-complexes/
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:20060407T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060407T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T224714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224714Z
UID:30251-1144438200-1144445400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Opus of Individuation
DESCRIPTION:Within the Jungian framework of understanding\, living a symbolic life is equivalent to engaging consciously in the individuation process. The Friday evening lecture is entitled\, consequently\, “the Opus of Individuation.” This talk will focus on the two great movements of the individuation process\, the analytic and the synthetic. The first has to do with “preparation\,” or “clearing the ground” of complexes\, identifications\, and fixations\, in order to make room for new psychological development. The second takes up the task of integrating elements of the collective unconscious into identity and behavior. The methods for doing this are primarily dream interpretation\, and the practice of active imagination. The talk will include examples.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-opus-of-individuation/
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:20060310T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060310T213000
DTSTAMP:20260724T153112
CREATED:20180605T224311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224311Z
UID:30247-1142019000-1142026200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Jung Embodied
DESCRIPTION:This experiential weekend will explore elements from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul approach and “embodied active imagination\,” rooted in the work of C.G. Jung. \nOn Friday\, the presenters (Tina Stromsted and Meg Wilbur) will discuss theoretical aspects of Jung’s and Woodman’s work. They will highlight significant learnings from their extensive participation and training with Marion Woodman at her Intensives\, informed by their own unique backgrounds in dance\, theater\, Jungian and Somatic Psychology.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-embodied/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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