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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T161159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161159Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T160817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161442Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T160621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160621Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040917T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040917T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T160420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160420Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040514T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T163557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T163858Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T162504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162504Z
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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:20260726T213052
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T162021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162021Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040116T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T161803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161803Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20031205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20031205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T165313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T165313Z
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SUMMARY:On the Psychology of Comedy
DESCRIPTION:What is comedy? Why is it so often paired with its dark twin tragedy? Why do we laugh? Is comedy healthy\, or is it pathological? (Freud\, who was rather dour\, wrote a book on the subject\, and Jung\, known for his earthy humor and voluminous laugh\, did not.) Bring a joke or bring a funny story to share!
URL:https://ofj.org/event/on-the-psychology-of-comedy/
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:20031114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20031114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T165028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T165047Z
UID:30360-1068838200-1068845400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Threads\, Knots\, and Tapestries:  Our Dream Stories and the Collective Unconscious
DESCRIPTION:We are connected and dream in more objective ways than has previously been acknowledged by traditional psychology. Objective dreams compensate or give one factual data about waking reality – relationships\, health\, life choices\, etc. Some dreams are meant for more than the dreamer – a bigger audience – the family\, the community\, the tribe. Often these experiences of unconscious connection happen at the cross roads of our existence\, e. g.\, death or critical opportunity. Then\, the psyche speaks in a rare way – and one is healed by listening. Humans are pack animals and the dream make r k n ows well this ancient rule of our tribal nature. Within one’s own dream theat re\, our stories unfold using the characters from our lives to weave a pattern – each connected to the other in fascinating complexity. The “communal unconscious” which is the territory that resides between the personal and collective unconscious\, will be introduced using examples from synchronicities and dreams.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/threads-knots-and-tapestries-our-dream-stories-and-the-collective-unconscious/
LOCATION:Kaiser Permanente Town Hall\, 3704 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20031017T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20031017T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T164554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T164554Z
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SUMMARY:The Mask of Dionysus: Possession and Healing
DESCRIPTION:Twice-born Dionysus is the Greek god who suddenly appears out of absence. Dismembered and reconstituted\, surrounded by women\, Dionysus is the giver of wine\, healer who causes madness\, and ecstatic lover. His strangely masked appearance called listeners to join his orgiastic celebrations. For both those who answered the call\, and for those who refused\, there were intense consequences. Jung described the Dionysian psychological quality as “a flood of overpowering universal feeling which bursts forth irresistibly\, intoxicating the senses like the strongest wine…something instinctive and blindly compelling finds its expression in an affection of the bodily sphere\, the breaking loose of the unbridled dynamism of animal and divine nature.” \nIn analysis\, when the archetype of Dionysus erupts in the psyche\, the individual’s fate is deeply impacted by the encounter. This lecture examines epiphanic moments such as possession by love or attraction and addiction to drugs or alcohol. How do we struggle consciously with such energy\, and let it express itself without destroying what is already built? Slides of Dionysian initiation in Greece and in Roman Pompeii will be shown to amplify the clinical material.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-mask-of-dionysus-possession-and-healing/
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:20030919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T164355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T164355Z
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SUMMARY:Encountering Our Animal Guides
DESCRIPTION:The animal image is a frequent one in dreams\, in which a particular animal takes on a symbolic meaning that is not immediately apparent from the way the same animal behaves in life.This lecture presents animals that have played important roles in world art\, explore the symbolic status that each of these animal types has assumed in the creative unconscious\, and compare the image of the animal to the ways in which the actual animal is encountered in the natural world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/encountering-our-animal-guides/
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:20030516T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030516T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T172134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T172134Z
UID:30388-1053113400-1053120600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Active Imagination and the Visions Seminar
DESCRIPTION:C.G.Jung described active imagination as “the creative secret of the mind” where –through visioning\, dance and /or art work–consciousness and the unconscious work together in a profoundly healing way. The VISIONS SEMINAR is Jung’s great exploration of active imagination as a potent methodology for expanding the psyche and reuniting the patient with archetypal\, healing images that lie beneath personal complexes. The active imagination in the VISIONS SEMINAR also expresses one woman’s quest for healing engendered by transformative\, passionate feminine images –images flowering in many people’s psyches’ today. \nJung’s 1930’s seminars were based on active imaginations painted and recorded by Christiana Morgan\, a gifted young woman from New England who had been in analysis with him. In the course of her research\, Dr. Douglas discovered Morgan’s complete series of visions which link the chthonic\, dynamic\, and erotic feminine with the Divine. \nThrough slides and lecture\, Dr. Douglas will explore the historical background of active imagination. She will examine the VISIONS SEMINARS relevance in the creation of Jungian theory\, especially of active\nimagination\, anima and animus\, typology\, and the psychology of women.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/active-imagination-and-the-visions-seminar/
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:20030411T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030411T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T171915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T171915Z
UID:30384-1050089400-1050096600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Tears of God: Grief as an Opening to the Divine
DESCRIPTION:The alchemy of the grieving process dissolves the conscious mind and its intentions\, and in a descent into the soul’s seasons of grief one meets the Oprhan\, an encounter which can transform personal loss into a journey of homecoming. Grief can be home-work\, and the Orphan\, the most homeless of all\, can lead us into that place where the wounds to love are the cracks through which a sense of the Divine shines through. The wonder\, even miracle\, of this moment is the recognition that our human tears of grief are mirrored in the tears of the Divine who hungers for an encounter with us. We grieve because we have dared to love\, and we can love again in an expanded way and allow ourselves to be loved because we have taken the time to grieve.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tears-of-god-grief-as-an-opening-to-the-divine/
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:20030321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030321T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T171649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T171649Z
UID:30380-1048275000-1048282200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Aliveness / Deadness
DESCRIPTION:“As long as the animals are there\, there is life in the symbol.”\n–C.G. Jung \nIn the opening years of our new century and under the shadow of terrorist attacks on American soil\, these following questions have become urgent: What makes for our sense of aliveness and feeling real? What puts us in touch with our own voice? What confers a sense of finding and creating a path that is true for us? What kills it\, making us feel deadness? The focus of this lecture will examine the space of aliveness\, which is created between analysand and analyst\, between the ego and animus/a\, in worship between ritual and repetition compulsion\, and in imagination between the factual and the symbolic.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/aliveness-deadness/
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:20030221T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030221T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T171421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T171421Z
UID:30376-1045855800-1045863000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Symbols in Your Psyche: The Inner Journey
DESCRIPTION:The uniqueness of analytical psychology lies in its emphasis on developing the capacity for symbolization. Jung’s life and work centered around the symbol-he imagined\, dreamed\, wrote\, carved\, painted\, played with and sculpted the symbol. This lecture-slide presentation seeks to provide a meditative-experiential evening around such key Jungian concepts as the Meadow\, Persona\, Shadow\, Anima-Animus and Self.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/symbols-in-your-psyche-the-inner-journey/
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:20030117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20030117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20180606T171218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T171218Z
UID:30372-1042831800-1042839000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Purposes of Nightmares
DESCRIPTION:Frightening or upsetting dreams come to all of us sooner or later. It is sometimes hard to understand what they intend. Using clips of dream sequences from classic films that show both the horror and the humor of nightmares\, Dr. Beebe will help us to see the positive\, adaptive meanings of negative or disruptive dream experiences.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-purposes-of-nightmares/
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:20021206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181215T231307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181215T231307Z
UID:32929-1039203000-1039210200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:On This Journey We Call Our Life
DESCRIPTION:In his memoir Jung writes\, “The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me…or conversely\, I myself am a question.” The depth of meaning which we find along the way is in large measure a matter of which questions we are living\, consciously or unconsciously. In this presentation we will consider the character of those questions which\, more consciously engaged\, add to the richness of the journey and enlarge the individual. Among the questions addressed this weekend\, the one we focus on this evening is\, “By what spiritual points of reference do I live my life?”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/on-this-journey-we-call-our-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181215T231045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181215T231045Z
UID:32925-1036783800-1036791000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Redeeming the Dark Feminine: Sophia to the Black Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on literature from the Song of Songs and The Gospel of Mary to contemporary works\, on images from Isis to the present\, and on music from Hildegard of Bingen to contemporary composers such as Francis Poulenc and Arvo Pärt\, we will explore the figure of this long-repressed but powerful archetype of transformation. For this lecture and workshop\, the dark\, hidden\, but positive feminine will be accessed through the figure of Mary Magdalene\, long associated with the Black Madonna. We will trace her origins through her predecessors\, and her characteristics through examining image\, music\, and literature.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/redeeming-the-dark-feminine-sophia-to-the-black-madonna/
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:20021018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021018T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181215T230831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004255Z
UID:32921-1034969400-1034976600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
DESCRIPTION:This presentation features a lesser-known side of Jung – practical\, down-to-earth\, and deeply concerned over the loss of connection with Nature. Jung emphasizes that Nature includes spirit as well as matter. Efforts to “conquer Nature” have left matter without its nature spirits and humans without a natural spiritual life. A pioneer in exploring the psyche’s evolution\, Jung discovered its primordial foundation\, which he named “natural man.” \nInterwoven with dreams and stories from Jung’s travels and his life at Bollingen\, this program showcases his challenging observations and prophetic predictions about technology and modern life. Following the tradition of the Taoist rainmaker whom he admired\, Jung speaks as a culture shaman who shares our malaise and knows that restoring our own living connection with Nature contributes to healing the whole.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-earth-has-a-soul-the-nature-writings-of-c-g-jung/
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:20020920T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181215T230324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004200Z
UID:32915-1032550200-1032557400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Fate of America
DESCRIPTION:The events of September 11 and the war on terrorism have focused our attention on America’s future in a renewed and pressing way. Given our extroverted orientation\, much of our focus is on the “other\,” on the enemy outside of us. However\, our domestic and internal spiritual condition is also in need of serious attention\, and is inextricably linked with our foreign policy. The same psychological attitudes influence both domestic and international (inner and outer) spheres. As Jung concluded in 1930\, the central\, archetypal force shaping American attitudes is a powerful “Heroic Ideal” or aspiration toward greatness. Today\, this heroic ideal is in a state of upheaval. We are suffering\, albeit unconsciously\, from a heroic-identity crisis: What does it mean to be a heroic or great people? It is imperative to our future as a nation and civilization that we begin to examine this and to understand ourselves. This talk will focus on the archetypal underpinnings of our national character and their relevance to the events of our day and the future of America.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-fate-of-america/
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:20020517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020517T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181216T003018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T003018Z
UID:32958-1021663800-1021671000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Haiku\, Zen and Jung’s Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Haiku is a treasure Japan has given the world. These short poems offer us extraordinary moments of insight about ordinary things. Haiku\, linked to Zen\, embodies egolessness\, aloneness\, acceptance\, universality\, humor\, silence\, awakening\, love and death. Haiku usually concerns nature and an image created out of a few words. Haiku ( a form of Jung’s active imagination) is a spiritual art form that promotes healing. As the poet W. H. Auden said (quoting his father who was a physician)\, “Healing is the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/haiku-zen-and-jungs-psychology/
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:20020419T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020419T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181216T002804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T002804Z
UID:32954-1019244600-1019251800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul
DESCRIPTION:“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but rather with the approach to the numinous…(which) is the real therapy.” C.G. Jung in a letter to P.W. Martin. \nIn this lecture\, Claire Dunne will present a human spiritual portrait of Jung and the core of his work\, with some emphasis on the late years of his deepest flowering\, and amplified by symbolic images from her book\, Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul. Jung’s work\, powered by a vision that is essentially evolutionary in spirit\, points to a breadth and depth of life that is prophetic for our time and is inextricably linked with the unfolding nature of man himself.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/carl-jung-wounded-healer-of-the-soul/
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:20020315T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020315T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181216T002152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T002152Z
UID:32950-1016220600-1016227800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Magic and Archetypes
DESCRIPTION:After a brief explanation of C.G. Jung’s concept of archetypes\, the topics of magic\, magician\, transformation and wonder will be explored. Examples used will include dreams\, synchronistic events\, symbols from the Tarot and from the arts\, and passages from the works of Jung. Based on his research at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich\, Dr. Granrose will compare the concept of the magician with those of the shaman\, the trickster\, and the fool. He will also examine some of the ways in which Jungian analysis incorporates elements that were once part of traditional magic.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/magic-and-archetypes/
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:20020222T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181216T001954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T001954Z
UID:32946-1014406200-1014413400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Millionth Circle: Transforming Ourselves and the World
DESCRIPTION:The archetype of the sacred circle\, as well as feminism\, Jungian psychology\, and Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Field Theory come together in Dr. Bolen’s current book The Millionth Circle. Drawing on the story of “the hundredth monkey” which inspired anti-nuclear activists\, “the millionth circle” depends upon a simple hypothesis: when a critical number of people change how they think and behave\, the culture will also. In this talk\, she will describe her concept of a Zen of Circle Maintenance and the Jungian analytic vessel\, the connection between morphic fields and the collective unconscious\, and the connection between the Grail Legend\, the feminine principle\, and a shift in planetary consciousness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-millionth-circle-transforming-ourselves-and-the-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:20020118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181216T001748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T001748Z
UID:32942-1011382200-1011389400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Ways of Being Inferior
DESCRIPTION:When Jung published in 1920 the first edition of Psychological Types\, he wrote in his Foreword: “This book is the fruit of twenty years’ work in the domain of practical psychology.” This dating places the inception of the work near the beginning of his long career\, and though later editions would include an Appendix of four short essays on the subject\, they do not add to the original work. He had had his say on this complex topic\, and was not influenced by a very large body of commentary on his theory. \nThe work has evoked a wide range of responses\, including several attempts to develop tests by which a person can be “typed” as Introverted/Thinking/Sensation/Judging or Extroverted/Feeling/ Intuitive/Perceptive – and so on. (“Judging” and “Perceptive” were additions by Myers and Briggs to the original scheme.) These tests have introduced Jungian thought to a much larger public than has been reached by his other works\, and devout Jungians have varied widely in their estimation of this part of his collective opus. \nThis lecture will focus upon negative aspects of each of the types\, as Jung himself tended to do\, asking the question: If one is\, say\, an Introverted Intuitive\, what is the price one must pay for this fate? Hence: Ways of Being Inferior.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/ways-of-being-inferior/
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:20011207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181217T045951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181217T045951Z
UID:33016-1007753400-1007760600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Creating a Life
DESCRIPTION:Can we create our lives\, or does life create us? \nHow is it that we are free but create such repetitive patterns? \nHow does fate collide with destiny and catch us in between? \nWhat are the sources of those replications\, and what are the insights we need to maximize such freedom as we may have? \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Hollis will explore these questions which haunt the modern who\, wishing freedom\, creates repetition\, yet longs for an authentic journey.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/creating-a-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:20011109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T213052
CREATED:20181217T045608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181217T045608Z
UID:33011-1005334200-1005341400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Eleusinian Mysteries: Vision Into  the Abyss of the Seed
DESCRIPTION:For 2\,000 years the Eleusinian mysteries\, core of spiritual meaning in ancient Greece\, were celebrated at the end of harvest. They were enacted for men and women who chose to undergo initiatory processes leading to personal transformation through contact with a divine source of life. Today\, the archetype of initiation is often enacted through our pursuit of Jung’s “unconscious core of meaning” in depth psychology. This evening will be a kathodos (downgoing) experience into this rite. Through a slide presentation intertwining archaeological and psychological images\, we will encounter facets of known material on the mysteries. As symbolic initiates\, we will follow in the footsteps of the grieving Demeter\, from the initial purification and sacrifice\, through the processional walk from Athens to Eleusis\, to the final ecstatic vision at the temple.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-eleusinian-mysteries-vision-into-the-abyss-of-the-seed/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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