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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070309T193000
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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
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203731Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T203531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203531Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T223036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T223036Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T222816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T222816Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T222623Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T222253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T222336Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T224949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224949Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T224714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224714Z
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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:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T224311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224311Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T224012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224012Z
UID:30243-1139599800-1139607000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Inner and Outer Marriage
DESCRIPTION:Jung wrote profoundly of the “Hieros Gamos\,” or sacred marriage. This lecture will address the aspects of this spiritual and psychological relationship called marriage. This reflection will benefit any person who is in any type of outer world relationship. Ultimately the only relationship we have is with ourselves. Therein is where the true marriage rests\, in the inner world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/inner-and-outer-marriage/
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:20060120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060120T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180605T223809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T223809Z
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SUMMARY:Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections: Troubleshooting the Post-Modern Ego-Complex
DESCRIPTION:Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections is conventionally taken to be Jung’s autobiography. This lecture presumes something different: Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections can be read as the ‘biography’ of an attitude that engages the distresses of postmodern psychological life. Jung is chronicling not only his personal development\, but also how consciousness might deal with the maturity of the ego-complex\, or its failure to mature. If consciousness does not confront this complex\, certain pathologies appear in personal and collective life\, both centered around the “presence of the absence” of the psyche’s natural religiosity. Tonight’s lecture approaches Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections as a manual on how to repristinate the psyche’s natural religiosity in an age of cynical postmodernism.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/memories-dreams-reflections-troubleshooting-the-post-modern-ego-complex/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T010245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010245Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
DESCRIPTION:Finding meaning in the second half of life requires asking larger questions of ourselves\, and challenging our values. To ask these questions three things are requisite: that we recover a sense of personal authority\, that we strike a better balance between obligation to others and obligation to self\, and that we construct a more mature spirituality. How do we recover our lives\, grow as persons\, and become increasingly at home with the person we are becoming?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/finding-meaning-in-the-second-half-of-life/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051111T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T010042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010042Z
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SUMMARY:Jung\, Cosmology and the Transformation of the Modern Self
DESCRIPTION:The modern mind has long assumed that there are few things more categorically distant from each other than “cosmos” and “psyche.” What could be more outer than cosmos? What more inner than psyche? Are they not informed by fundamentally different kinds of principles\, the one objective\, the other subjective? \nBut developments in many fields\, from depth psychology to philosophy of science\, now oblige us to recognize that cosmos and psyche are in fact deeply intertwined. Our understanding of the universe affects every aspect of our interior life from our highest spiritual convictions to our most intimate daily experience. Conversely\, the deep dispositions of our interior life fully permeate and configure our understanding of the entire cosmos. \nThe limits of our cosmological imagination define the limits of our existence: Do we live in a disenchanted\, mechanistic\, purposeless universe as a randomly produced oddity of isolated consciousness\, or do we participate in a living cosmos of unfolding meaning and purpose? \nOn Friday evening\, drawing on the insights of Jung and others\, we will explore the evolution of the modern world-view and the forging of the modern self\, which have affected everything from contemporary religion and psychotherapy to U.S. foreign policy and the global ecological crisis.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-cosmology-and-the-transformation-of-the-modern-self/
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:20051014T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051014T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T005838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005838Z
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SUMMARY:Separation\, Sorrow\, and Individuation
DESCRIPTION:Inevitably in the second half of life\, we are confronted with separation\, sorrow\, and loss. Now\, as more and more of us age beyond the life expectancies of our parents\, we ask what are the later stages of individuation? Ageing brings the inevitable process of letting go. Wise sorrow becomes a surprising companion. In her capacity as teacher\, sorrow accompanies the initiate in an ever-expanding grasp of life’s meaning and reality. Not surprisingly\, we discover the wisdom of sorrow articulated in ancient Chinese texts\, in Jung’s description of inner evolution\, and in the poetry of a modern mystic. We will consider the role of sorrow in initiation\, ancient and modern.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/separation-sorrow-and-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:20050916T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050916T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T005225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005239Z
UID:30261-1126899000-1126906200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Urgent Message from Mother
DESCRIPTION:“Gather the women” is a message from mother archetype\, mother Earth\, mother instinct\, Mother Goddess\, the Sacred Feminine. Suppression of the feminine principle is taking life on the planet to the brink. Terrorism\, wars\, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons\, global warming and deterioration of the environment; domestic violence\, trafficking of women and girls\, and children who are traumatized and dying of preventable diseases are the toxic symptoms. “Gather the Women” is a call from the Sacred Feminine to bring the feminine principle into consciousness and peace into the culture\, to be a critical mass\, a tipping point–the metaphoric millionth circle. \nThis is not about replacing patriarchy with matriarchy. Women can be as predominated and as unempathic as men as a gender are thought to be\, and there are many men who are nurturing and empathic as women are thought to be. This is an acknowledgment that women as a gender–as a whole\, not every woman\, but women generally–have a wisdom that is needed to save the world. Compassionate activism can also be an individuation call\, a response from within to become involved in the world. \nUrgent Message From Mother is Jean Shinoda Bolen’s newest book\, to be published in September\, just weeks before this lecture.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/urgent-message-from-mother/
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:20050513T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T151519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T152055Z
UID:30305-1116012600-1116019800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhen I had journeyed half of our life’s way\,\nI found myself within a shadowed forest\,\nFor I had lost the path that does not stray. (Dante\, Inferno I of the Commedia) \nA desire stirs in each of us at some point in our lives\, prompting us to leave the familiar confines of family\, neighborhood and routine and take to the road in response to one of the oldest archetypal impulses embedded in our psyche: pilgrimage. \nThe pilgrim is not a tourist\, a road warrior\, or one mobile for the sake of movement alone. Pilgrimage is a questing after some appetite in the soul that possessions or success will not satisfy. A poetic journey stirred by the process of individuation\, it is also a sacred restlessness for an experience that transcends the normative\, everyday reality we live out\, at times\, almost unconsciously. It is a journey both external and internal which insists on documenting itself in memory and in the act of writing. I call this action “pengrimage.” \nJung reminds us that “the quality of inwardness is missing today:” ie an awareness of an inner correspondence or equivalence with an actual event or situation in the world. Pilgrimage is an attempt to allow for the presence of this correspondence between psyche\, spirit and world through silence\, solitude and meditation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/grace-in-the-desert-awakening-to-the-gifts-of-monastic-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050415T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050415T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T151305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151305Z
UID:30301-1113593400-1113600600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Jewel in the Wound
DESCRIPTION:The body plays an integral role in the expression of personal myth. Exploring the symbolic dimension of a body symptom helps to unravel the mystery of wounding and healing that lies hidden within the symptom itself. Dreams\, visions and artwork will be utilized to bring meaning to such manifestations. \nWithin this context\, Ms. Rothenberg will describe her personal experience with psychic wounds that manifested as physical scars and that led her to Africa to study scarification rites. The scars\, instead of simply being the source of embarrassment and pain\, became the sacred jewels that illuminated the path of self-understanding\, thus creating a link to the spiritual meaning embedded in a body symptom.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-jewel-in-the-wound/
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:20050311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050311T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T151046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151046Z
UID:30297-1110569400-1110576600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Father: Who Is He?
DESCRIPTION:The Image and Reality of the Father has been increasingly precarious in this past century. From the American and French Revolution\, through the Industrial Revolution in which men were demoted to chain workers\, on to the experience of the young father as veteran by way of two World Wars and the Vietnam war\, and witness to the downfall of the Terrible Fathers (the dictators of the 20th century)\, there has been a historical and symbolic demise in the status and power of the Father. As shown in myths that celebrate him in Western Antiquity\, the Father has been largely a cultural construction; recent\, fragile\, and relative. That historical and symbolic change reaches us through the collective unconscious. Is it surprising then that the increasing separation of fathers from their children in every corner of the Western world is occurring? We will discuss this century-old phenomenon in light of the dynamics of our collective experience\, rather than as a sum of individual cases.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-father-who-is-he/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T150849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150849Z
UID:30293-1108150200-1108157400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Aphrodite’s Shadow in Beverly Hills and Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:No mere sculpted image or poetic fragment from ancient time\, Aphrodite lives mightily today in the lilt\, glance\, style\, indeed — in the Fate of countless women and the bedazzled admirers who pursue her. Whatever Aphrodite’s claim to Beauty and the ‘erotic moment\,’ hers is a shifting image whose nocturnal associations may have as much to do with a night of death as a night of love. Drawing upon a childhood in Beverly Hills and her ten years as a Hollywood actor\, Dr. Landau will thus explore the impact of the archetype on women¹s lives with clinical examples\, tales of bygone actresses\, mythical amplification\, and feminine typology generally in this uniquely personal analysis of the Aphrodite archetype.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/aphrodites-shadow-in-beverly-hills-and-hollywood/
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:20050121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T150638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150638Z
UID:30289-1106335800-1106343000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Symbolic Images and Energies of Inner Transformation
DESCRIPTION:In a time of cultural fragmentation and danger\, many of us yearn for wisdom and practical guidance that can help us live meaningful lives. Such wisdom and direction must speak directly to our inner lives as individuals at least as much as to our outer conduct in the world and our relations with others. Contemporary and traditional depth psychologies aim at facilitating essential processes of inner transformation and renewal. \nOn Friday evening\, we will explore “horizontal” and “vertical”transformations\, using two symbolic images: that of an inner psychic “law” and its liberating transgression\, and that of the psyche as an “oil lamp” which transforms itself by consuming itself.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/symbolic-images-and-energies-of-inner-transformation/
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:20041210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T161159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161159Z
UID:30324-1102707000-1102714200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Divining Divinities: Reflections on the gods
DESCRIPTION:Archetypal psychology employs the metaphor of “the gods” to refer to the primal\, archaic energies which course through the cosmos\, through nature\, and through ourselves.Who or what are “the gods\,” and where are they observed in the conduct of daily life? Why does this matter to us?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/divining-divinities-reflections-on-the-gods/
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:20041112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T160817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161442Z
UID:30320-1100287800-1100295000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Wedding of Sophia
DESCRIPTION:Sophia\, Goddess of Wisdom\, is the moving force behind alchemy and the feminine aspect of the Philosopher’s Stone. Dr. Raff presents Sophia as a living being still present in the world today\, but repressed and ignored. Only by learning to engage the world of the imagination can we find a way to bring Sophia back into our world. Through an understanding of alchemical symbolism it is possible to learn more about Sophia\, the imaginal realm\, and the feminine principle.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-wedding-of-sophia/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T160621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160621Z
UID:30316-1098473400-1098480600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Bedazzled Charisma and Its Ways
DESCRIPTION:Falling under the charm or power of someone’s charisma has happened to all of us some time in our lives. Whether that someone was a teacher\, a guru\, a passionate lover or Princess Diana\, charismatic individuals have the power to provoke unpredictable and extraordinary emotions in us.They can even change the course of our lives\, for better or for worse. \nCharisma is not just a characteristic of the famous or the powerful. Many ‘normal’ people have charismatic traits but few know how to own these qualities consciously.There’s always the temptation to either refuse one’s charisma and hide one’s light under a bushel\, or to abuse it without regard for the consequences. \nIn our modern world\, charisma is getting more and more attention\, often replacing other kinds of authority and leadership. How then to recognize it\, understand it and even use it for the benefit of all?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/bedazzled-charisma-and-its-ways/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040917T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040917T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T160420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160420Z
UID:30312-1095449400-1095456600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Burn the Barn
DESCRIPTION:The Zen Poet Masahide writes: \nThe barn’s burnt down. . .\nNow I can see the moon. \nSpirituality is the deep human longing to move the transcendent into the immanent through experience and reflection. This lecture/workshop will consider the illusions the ego builds as defenses against life’s inevitable anxiety and pain. These illusions may keep us from seeing the transcendent truth\, thus leaving us dis-illusioned. What are the barns we build that keep us from seeing the moon?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/burn-the-barn/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040514T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T163557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T163858Z
UID:30346-1084563000-1084570200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Emotions and the Archetypal Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will look at the nature of the emotions as they have evolved and continue to develop\, from the primal\, untransformed depths toward the highest values of human culture. The tendency in recent decades toward deconstruction of values may potentiate a compensatory development as individuals in many walks of life seek a differentiated experience of affects and their symbolic expression\, shaped by eternal ideals that appear to be wired into the psyche.  Lecture includes slides to illustrate.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/emotions-and-the-archetypal-imagination/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T162504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162504Z
UID:30342-1082143800-1082151000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Jung\, Tolkien\, and the Fate of Mythopoesis in Post Modernity
DESCRIPTION:In Western Thought\, the hero\, the mythic expression of ego-development\, expands consciousness by subduing the dragon \, i.e. the “chaos” sensed by ego-consciousness in the categories of nature\, instinct\, mother. In this program we will explore the idea that while Jung initially abided by this traditional fantasy of ego-development\, there is a persistent dimension in his work that recognized the implications of consciousness becoming encapsulated in the ego-complex; this obliged Jung to accentuate the actions in the psyche that strive toward a post-ego mythology. \nThough nowadays consumed as a fashionable expression of a classic hero myth\, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings \, exposes the perplexing failure of the hero to effect psychic transformation in the contemporary ‘postmodern’ psyche. This incapacity\, ironically present as the hero’s triumph\, or\, in psychological terms the pinnacle of ego-development\, signifies\, in Tolkien\, a threat to “middle earth”\, an unprecedented waning of the mythopoeic factor of the psyche. The claim is that the hero\, through this deconstruction\, presently\, leads not\, as it once had\, into progressive states of originality\, but into regressive states of compliance. This is manifest politically as globalization\, and in current psychopathology as an “empty” depression\, both of which are instinctively felt as a distance from “mother”. I take these to be the abiding concern of Jung’s analytical psychology\, and Tolkein’s Trilogy; taken together they inform a radical rereading of the developmental psychology and heroic mythology that dominantly impose upon the current practice of psychotherapy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-tolkien-and-the-fate-of-mythopoesis-in-post-modernity/
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:20040319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040319T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T162302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162302Z
UID:30338-1079724600-1079731800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Images in a Melancholic Eye
DESCRIPTION:Until the mid-19th century\, melancholy was imagined as a sacred affliction from the gods\, a madness characteristic of genius and the most difficult and complex temperament.  At the height of the Renaissance\, it was imagined in personified form as a majestic female figure; artists and poets looked to her as their Muse.  But\, in the twentieth century\, melancholy all but disappeared from the professional imagination\, to be replaced by the diagnostic categories of depression.  Where did Melancholy go?  How did she lose her voice?  How can we call her into life again\, listen to her wisdom\, take new creative heart from within her depths?  This lecture/slide presentation will use both spoken word and photographs to re-discover Melancholy as Muse.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/images-in-a-melancholic-eye/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T162021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162021Z
UID:30334-1076700600-1076707800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Spiritual Longing and Its Shadow
DESCRIPTION:The religions and myths of many times and cultures tell us that the human soul’s deepest desire is its longing for God.  Even people who feel disillusioned with traditional religions or disenchanted with spiritual teachers still yearn for something transcendent. \nWhenever we long for the transcendent\, however\, forces from the deep unconscious also swing into play.  Walking a spiritual path not only evokes states of illumination; it challenges us to face the darkness within ourselves. \nIn this lecture and workshop\, Dr. Wittine will explore spiritual longing and its shadow. Spiritual longing might overwhelm the ego\, cover over wounded parts of the personality\, perpetuate our inner critic\, lead to a split between “higher” and “lower” self-needs\, and derail individuation. We might project our longing onto lovers and teachers\, onto food\, sex\, and drugs\, or find it hidden in our grandiosity and desire for power. Dr. Wittine concludes that if we internalize our longing rather than externalizing it onto images\, people\, and things\, it will guide us toward a new experience of God\, which recognizes the transcendent in all aspects of life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/spiritual-longing-and-its-shadow/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260725T061006
CREATED:20180606T161803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161803Z
UID:30330-1074281400-1074288600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Types of the Shadow
DESCRIPTION:According to Jung’s theory of psychological types\, it is our birthright to differentiate\, in the course of individuation\, four function-attitudes that together define the wholeness of our mature standpoint.  But Jung has postulated a possible eight functions of consciousness. What about the four functions that remain in shadow? How do they operate\, and what is their role in our development as human beings? In this lecture\, illustrated with clips from popular films\, Dr. John Beebe will help us identify the different archetypal characteristics of our shadow functions and will show how they go about their work of challenging\, undermining\, and defending the ego.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/types-of-the-shadow/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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