BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oregon Friends of Jung - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ofj.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oregon Friends of Jung REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20241210T191546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241211T012959Z UID:86698-1737140400-1737140400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Arts of the Imaginal World: Rejuvenation & Psychic Creativity DESCRIPTION:Creative practice has a rejuvenating effect. We feel more whole\, more insightful and more in touch with our deep psyche. Creativity and art release and focus archetypal energy. C. G. Jung shows how art-making aids psychological individuation. The arts have a long history of materializing the psyche for the collective. A helpful archetype is Dionysus\, that breaker of boundaries\, including those between humans and nature. This god requires collective worship. Dionysian energy dismembers psychic being\, and re-members it as symbols. Doing art follows such a Dionysian process. This lecture proposes that taking Dionysus seriously seeds a third rejuvenation of being\, one where creativity dances between knowing and being. Here art and clinical practice are generative partners. My novels\, the Mary Wandwalker Mysteries\, are my own Dionysian engagement with the world. URL:https://ofj.org/event/arts-of-the-imaginal-world-rejuvenation-psychic-creativity/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/dionysus-Custom-WP.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20240813T004928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T004928Z UID:81618-1733511600-1733518800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Straying from the Path: An Exploration of the Intersections between Queer Theory and Analytical Psychology DESCRIPTION:Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced. Queer Theory offers us a new framework for working with old material. To queer an experience is to resist defining it. Queerness may provide a place to stand within oneself while also standing in the energy of an Exile complex that can be embraced as a new path towards individuation. We will explore the connections to be made between Queer Theory and Jungian concepts of Individuation\, Complex Theory\, Weltanschauung\, and Active Imagination. URL:https://ofj.org/event/straying-from-the-path-an-exploration-of-the-intersections-between-queer-theory-and-analytical-psychology/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/PastedGraphic-2-Small-OFJ-Event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20240813T004929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T004929Z UID:81609-1731092400-1731099600@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity\, Connection\, and Purpose DESCRIPTION:Each of us is born with a living blueprint\, the essential design to evolve the imagination. You enter the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness and quantum leaps in learning. In doing so you improve your physical and emotional well-being. Dr. Aizenstat will introduce particular tools developed over 40 years of professional experience.  These skills enable you to access your deepest capacities of creativity and well-being. You begin with a basic shift in consciousness. This change in perception opens the curious mind and initiates the healing journey within. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-imagination-matrix-how-to-access-the-greatest-power-you-have-for-creativity-connection-and-purpose/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/cover-final-web-Small-OFJ-Event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20240813T004929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T004929Z UID:81600-1729278000-1729285200@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Appeal of the Extraordinary DESCRIPTION:There is a universal human desire to be drawn to extraordinary beliefs and strange phenomena that defy rational means to explain them. C.G. Jung might consider the appeal of the extraordinary as evidence of the influence of archaic or archetypal thought and behavioral patterns inherent in the human psyche which make up humanity’s collective unconscious. The archetypal dimension expresses profoundly significant symbolic and metaphorical concepts that cannot be proven by rational methods such as the concept of God. However\, in many cases\, the desire to embrace extraordinary views and phenomena can have dire consequences\, especially if a person insists upon an extraordinary explanation rather than a rational one to explain certain factual events\, and interprets purely secular causes as imbued with an underlying divine significance. This lecture introduces examples of how the appeal of the extraordinary can enrich our lives and also distort reality. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-appeal-of-the-extraordinary/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/KlineEventImg.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20240724T001407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T225628Z UID:81562-1727463600-1727470800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Symbolic Life: Is It a Gift? DESCRIPTION:Two processes go on in us simultaneously from birth till death. The first is a personal process Jung calls individuation where we reach to become all of who we are\, including mistakes\, struggles\, talents\, uniqueness and an example of shared  human patterns Jung calls archetypes. The second process is the psyche’s goal to move us toward finding not our wholeness but our place in the wholeness of reality. When these two processes meet\, symbols get born and grow powerful. We will explore such symbols — their dangers and their gifts. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-symbolic-life-is-it-a-gift/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/MadnessCreativity.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20231206T184628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T005115Z UID:75490-1714762800-1714770000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Psyche\, Soma\, and the Living Imagination: Working with the Somatic Unconscious and Healing States DESCRIPTION:We explore Jung’s alchemical work with the Imagination to help grow our capacity for healing states of consciousness. Alchemists refer to a state of consciousness\, a stage of inner healing\, as the Unus Mundus\, where splits are healed\, duality ceases and the individual unites with the world soul. We access these states via relationship with the Imagination\, as Jung’s work illuminates. When illness happens\, turning to dreams and the imaginal realms can bring insight\, healing and wisdom. Our inner instincts often express themselves in dreams and seek to realign consciousness with the life force that heals. URL:https://ofj.org/event/psyche-soma-and-the-living-imagination-working-with-the-somatic-unconscious-and-healing-states/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/WIKMAN_yoann-boyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20231206T184626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240413T163122Z UID:75510-1712948400-1712955600@ofj.org SUMMARY:In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace DESCRIPTION:In this archetypal psychological exploration of the goddesses Ananke\, the Fates\, and the Graces we will consider how grace and receptivity to the archetypal necessity at work in the deep patterns of the psyche contributes to the discovery of meaning\, which ultimately reveals the way our lives are lived in the lap of the gods. URL:https://ofj.org/event/in-anankes-lap-necessity-and-grace/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/ROSSI_Terror_Antiquus_by_L.Bakst_1908.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20231206T184627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231209T024350Z UID:75498-1710529200-1710536400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Archetypes\, Algorithms and AI: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age DESCRIPTION:Glen Slater’s new book\, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age\, describes the collision between the archetypal basis of psychological life and the algorithmic architecture of the online world. This collision is not only disrupting our inner ecology in a way that mirrors the disruption of outer ecology\, it is opening the door to the posthuman goal of merging human and artificial intelligence (AI). \nThis lecture will set out critical areas of understanding that help us enter and reflect on this potentially radical turn in human evolution. It will particularly emphasize Jung’s insights into the dissociative and integrative dynamics of the psyche. We will consider how the arc of his psychology not only provides us with ways to comprehend the evident deficits of the digital lifestyle\, it helps us conceptualize processes and values necessary for individual and societal well-being as we make our way forward. URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypes-algorithms-and-ai-finding-the-deeply-human-in-a-posthuman-age/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/SLATER_amanda-dalbjorn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20231206T184628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231209T024543Z UID:75482-1705690800-1705698000@ofj.org SUMMARY:When Psyche Sings: Jungian Music Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:Music is everywhere in our lives\, both waking and sleeping\, inside and out. But much of our musical ecosystem remains unheard in a state of non-representation. We explore the place of the acoustic imaginal within our psychic ecology and our current fractured world of splitting and polariza­tion. The perception of sound triggers psychic contents\, and music mediates between our internal and external experience of consciousness through its affective impact on our symbolic imagination. We will deeply listen together to the soundscape metabolization process of our auditory digestive system toward the fundamental psychoanalytic goal of hearing what cannot yet be seen. By distilling music into its basic archetypal elements\, an approach is illustrated for working with musical symbols within analysis\, referred to as Archetypal Music Psychotherapy. URL:https://ofj.org/event/when-psyche-sings-jungian-music-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/KROEKER_thomas_le.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20230812T034550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T225714Z UID:68445-1701457200-1701464400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jung’s Relationship to Astrology DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, new scholarship has been emerging demonstrating the essential role the discipline of astrology played in the development and practice of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In 1911\, Jung wrote a letter to Freud in which he said that his nights were occupied with the study of astrology\, to which Freud responded that Jung would be “accused of mysticism.” Jung kept his practice of astrology relatively concealed\, but based upon evidence in his own writings\, as well as statements he made late in his life\, Jung was drawing on astrological wisdom regularly for both personal use and with his patients. \nDrawing on the research of Liz Greene\, Keiron Le Grice\, and Safron Rossi\, this presentation will demonstrate the role astrology played in Jung’s analytic practice\, as well as the significant ways in which he drew on astrological symbolism in the transformative process of creating The Red Book. By understanding how astrology influenced the development of Jungian psychology—and how depth psychology has subsequently shaped modern astrology—we can see how the astrological discipline can complement\, enhance\, and deepen the psychotherapy practiced today. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jungs-relationship-to-astrology/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Systema-Munditotius-16x9-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231110T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20230812T024131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230812T043548Z UID:68438-1699642800-1699650000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Fear\, Skepticism\, Lassitude: The Recovery of an Inner Life DESCRIPTION:Resistance is always in due proportion to the anxiety generated by some invitation or challenge. Inside of each of us is continuing civil conflict\, and typically our protective instincts are easily intimidated by the magnitude of the tasks life brings us. Moreover\, we are often flooded with skepticism regarding our inherent resources for the trial\, and an internal aversion to the struggle. These engagements\, these battles of outer and inner worlds\, are only resolved when we are led to a change of attitude\, a riskier but more considered intent\, and a consistent\, daily showing up to tilt the balance between regression and progression. URL:https://ofj.org/event/fear-skepticism-lassitude-the-recovery-of-an-inner-life/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/1683062226507blob_16x9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20230812T022301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230812T043806Z UID:68430-1697828400-1697835600@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Trauma of Exile through a Jungian Lens DESCRIPTION:We will focus on how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals\, making their lives psychologically conflicted and leading to feelings of incongruity. Through the amplification of a fairy tale\, dreamwork\, active imagination\, and the transcendent function\, we will explore how Jungian psychology can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered\, culturally diverse self-states that have developed from acculturation. We will also discuss the universality of the exile complex as a human experience that often causes one to feel conflicted and displaced from family\, community\, and society. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-trauma-of-exile-through-a-jungian-lens-2/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/tom-van-hoogstraten-8ZwmllBhUS0-unsplash.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20230531T233714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T212242Z UID:68424-1696014000-1696021200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Re-enchantment; Synchronicity; the Psychoid Imagination DESCRIPTION:As we collectively enter more deeply into the paradigm shift towards complexity marking the 21st century\, some of Jung’s most advanced concepts are gaining renewed vitality and acceptance. This lecture will highlight links between individuation and synchronicity found in the Red Book which are contributing to new visions of reality.  We will also explore the importance of the psychoid imagination as it is emerging in response to the recent COVID pandemic. These threads will be woven into the cultural movement towards re-enchantment of the world. URL:https://ofj.org/event/re-enchantment-synchronicity-the-psychoid-imagination/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/JWST-WInged-figure_16x9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20221221T003557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T004609Z UID:64754-1681498800-1681506000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Trauma\, Innocence and the Core Complex of the Dissociating Psyche DESCRIPTION:Following early relational trauma\, a dissociative system is set up in the psyche\, composed of part-self personifications including an innocent/wounded child and his or her archetypal protectors. The main purpose of this Self Care System is to keep the innocent/injured child-self separated from the suffering of affective experience that might annihilate (or transform) it. Dreams during the psychotherapy process give us a picture of this core complex and its defensive “efforts” on behalf of the “child.” Working with these archaic energies in the transference can be a stormy affair. The Friday Talk will address and illustrate these archaic energies in the core complex that frequently stretch our understanding of the analytic situation in the direction of enactments and counter-enactments. URL:https://ofj.org/event/trauma-innocence-and-the-core-complex-of-the-dissociating-psyche-2/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/KalschedEventImage-Custom.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20221220T022920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T014715Z UID:64750-1679079600-1679086800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Ecopsychology and the Environmental Catastrophe DESCRIPTION:At the 2022 climate change meetings in Egypt\, the UN Secretary General said\, “We are in the fight of our lives\, and we are losing.” Psychology has been embarrassingly slow to respond to the frightening deterioration of our planetary environment\, but ecopsychology emerged in the 1990’s to address the issue. A case will be made that a Jungian version of ecopsychology offers the best framework for understanding the problems at the deepest levels and gives us a vision for the future. Hermes is the main god that will lead us into a better future or a continuation on a path to oblivion. URL:https://ofj.org/event/ecopsychology-and-the-environmental-catastrophe/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/MerrittEventImage-Custom.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20221221T002506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T214209Z UID:64746-1676660400-1676667600@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Coniunctio Gastronomique: God Becomes Flesh DESCRIPTION:Cooking\, like alchemy\, is the transformation of basic ingredients into refined substances. Psychologically\, this alchemical process represents the development of the personality.  Understanding the psyche through the art and practices of cooking can heal the mind-body split that is the primary wound of modern life. The food we purchase or grow\, cook and eat\, link us to the cosmos: then God becomes flesh\, (in-carne). We become what we eat. The lecture invites us into the sensuous\, alchemical temenos of the kitchen. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-coniunctio-gastronomique-god-becomes-flesh/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/NegleyEventImage-Custom.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20221219T181632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T024050Z UID:64740-1674241200-1674248400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jungian Art Therapy: Living A Creative Life DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to live a creative life? Jung’s initiatory journey into the “spirit of the depths“ was creative but required profound psychic courage\, suffering\, and patience as he confronted the unconscious and discovered “the third thing.”  Upon his “return\,” when Jung wrote that “everything of which we are conscious is an image\, and that image is psyche\,” he elevated the imagination and creative processes. One of the gifts was his essay The Transcendent Function which conceptualized how unconscious and invisible psychic material became conscious and visible through play\, dedication\, endurance of wrestling with the opposites\, and the respect for the ineffable and irrational aspects of the psyche.  Jung thereby came to understand the importance of the “third thing.”  Jung’s investigations into the unconscious through various creative means opened the door and gave credence for the expressive arts therapies. In this lecture the three-part initiation model provides a container in which we consider Jung’s wisdom and how the “third thing” may offer hints on living a creative life. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jungian-art-therapy-living-a-creative-life/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/SwanFosterEventimage03-Custom.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20220726T232442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T024805Z UID:60498-1670007600-1670014800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Body as Compass: Dreams and the Soul DESCRIPTION:Our bodies and dreams may be our closest links to the unconscious\, expressing the soul’s longing through image\, breath\, gesture\, the rhythm of our step\, and the music of our speech. Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life’s journey. Illuminating our inner landscape\, they help us come to know disowned parts of ourselves\, point to what we value\, and provide guidance on our life path. This talk will introduce DreamDancing ©\, an embodied approach that integrates C. G. Jung’s active imagination approach with creative\, embodied methods\, including a brief experience. URL:https://ofj.org/event/body-as-compass-dreams-and-the-soul/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Dreamdance_Fontana_Malone_edited-Custom-1-e1658877874483.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20220726T232238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T155821Z UID:60490-1668193200-1668200400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books: Jung\, Tolkien\, and the Imaginal Realm DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held live in-person at Unity of Portland (4525 SE Stark). The only way to attend the program live is to attend in person. A video recording of the event will be created and sent out after the event to all members and to all who purchase single tickets\, to accommodate those not able or not comfortable to attend in person. There will be no Zoom for this program. \nBeginning in the years leading up to the Great War\, both C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. Jung recorded these fantasies in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus\, referred to simply as The Red Book. For Tolkien\, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth\, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings\, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of Westmarch. This lecture explores the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art\, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts\, the nature of their visions and dreams\, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading parallel paths through the imaginal realm. Note: image is an illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien from his Book of Ishness. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-synchronicity-of-the-two-red-books-jung-tolkien-and-the-imaginal-realm/ LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/5.6-Tolkien-–-The-Halls-of-Manwë-Custom-1-e1658877749755.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20220720T220139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T202953Z UID:60480-1666378800-1666386000@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Muses of Truth and Transformation: Timeless Tales for Troubled Times DESCRIPTION:A timeless tale sums up our contemporary conflicts: two women claimed the same newborn baby\, so the sage declared\, “Cut the baby in two and give each woman half.” The first woman nodded\, while the other cried out\, “No! Spare the baby\, give him to her.”  Although most familiar from the Bible\, the story is a folktale found in different cultures and offering relevant archetypal insights.  Partisans today may act like the first woman\, insisting on their position even if it means killing innocent people – think jihadists and lone mass murderers. Politicians are willing to “kill” legislation that does not fit their ideology\, even if it splits the body politic. When faced with unyielding opponents\, earlier cultures reflected on deadly conflicts and put their insights into metaphorical stories – folktales – and passed them on. Only stories that rang true to people in many cultures survived\, leaving us time-tested archetypal wisdom for resolving conflicts. \nThis lecture recounts such folktales and shows how they help us identify distinct types of truth – factual\, mythic\, oath-taking\, pragmatic and home types of stories. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-muses-of-truth-and-transformation-timeless-tales-for-troubled-times/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/solomon_edited-Custom-1-e1658877657951.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20220720T214131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T011342Z UID:60471-1663354800-1663362000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Our Promethean Debt DESCRIPTION:“… our progressiveness\, though it may result in a great many delightful wish-fulfillments\, piles up an equally gigantic Promethean debt which has to be paid off from time to time in the form of hideous catastrophes.” – C.G. Jung\, (CW 9i\, par. 276) \nThe past few years full of ‘hideous catastrophes’ have brought on overwhelming feelings of fear\, anxiety\, and deep suffering. In times like these\, hope is a word that fades from our imagination. How do we find meaning in our fragmented world? Is hope even possible? The story of Prometheus provides a rich\, complex narrative that has captured the imagination of poets and artists for millennia. Its origins date back to a time of difficult struggles within ancient Greece. Using this Greek myth\, we will delve into the archetypal themes of trickery\, theft\, fire and hope to better understand psychologically our current world of catastrophes. Reflecting on the Promethean myth sheds light on how a semblance of order may arise from our current state of chaos. URL:https://ofj.org/event/our-promethean-debt/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Prometheus-1-e1658877278765.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20211208T230337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T184826Z UID:56085-1650654000-1650661200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Reciprocity: What We’ve Always Known DESCRIPTION:We are in the process of entering a new reality paradigm\, a new psychic reality that calls for a reorientation to the way we see\, think\, learn\, and behave. Through fire\, floods\, disease\, and other increasingly chaotic events\, the planet and all of nature is telling us\, desperately communicating to us that we are not in control; we can no longer dominate without impunity; we can no longer get away with murder. The laws of nature suggest that in addition to dominion\, reciprocity is also an integral psychic dynamic\, a part of life that we’ve always known but seem to have forgotten. We need to be reminded. How do we encourage a realignment with and actively engage reciprocity? URL:https://ofj.org/event/reciprocity-what-weve-always-known/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/orangutan-e1648493292103.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220325T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20211208T230224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220108T025407Z UID:56080-1648234800-1648242000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Relationship as a Spiritual Path: The Present Heart DESCRIPTION:Love always guarantees a broken heart. No matter how else it functions in our lives\, love will include loss\, separation or betrayal. In this lecture I will address the question\, “What is love\, anyway?” We will talk about loss in the context of the Buddha’s teachings about reality. This lecture presents a new context for personal love as a spiritual practice of deep acceptance of the human condition. URL:https://ofj.org/event/relationship-as-a-spiritual-path-the-present-heart/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/YE_image_heart-small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20211208T230029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T002420Z UID:56074-1645210800-1645218000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Archetypes\, Aesthetics & Culture in the Art of African Diaspora DESCRIPTION:This talk lays the foundation for understanding the universal nature of archetypes and their environmental expressions in personal and collective cultural complexes that are mediated by the environmental culture. We take the archetype of the Life Cycle\, common to all living beings\, and ground it in visual arts as expressions of the aesthetics\, art\, and culture of the African Diaspora. We’ll explore how the commonalities and differences in Pan African sculpture\, as metaphor\, bridge consciousness to multiculturalism and world view. URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypes-aesthetics-culture-in-the-art-of-african-diaspora/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Alans-Presentation-MAAT2-e1644366247709.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20211208T225831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220108T024645Z UID:56064-1642186800-1642194000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Archetypal Cosmology: A New Mythic Perspective DESCRIPTION:As the established religious traditions and worldviews pass away or lose their persuasive power\, what\, if anything\, might serve as a shared framework of meaning to illuminate our individual and collective experience? What\, many of us wonder\, might be the nature of a mythology to come? In this talk\, we will consider the role of an archetypal astrology as a cosmological perspective that could help us better understand our relationship to the universal powers and principles shaping our experience and provide mythic orientation for our lives. URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-cosmology-a-new-mythic-perspective/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Saturn_NASA-e1639005540825.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20210729T223206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T001220Z UID:52206-1638558000-1638565200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Persephone’s Heart/Persephone’s Wake DESCRIPTION:This special weekend program presents a radically different take on the meaning of the Persephone myth. It comes out of an imaginative perspective that mixes Australian desert experience with old Mediterranean folklore and the harsh\, confusing anxieties we face today around war\, climate and our environment. Through performance and presentation\, visuals\, discussion and reflection\, we will explore this psycho-mythological perspective. \nIn Persephone’s Heart Craig and Miriam recount the story of how and why an original creation force of nature became humanized as the daughter of Demeter/Gaia. Persephone needs to know how humans feel\, and she undertakes a painful journey of becoming human\, falling in love with Aidos\, and bearing children. Only then can she return to her mother Demeter\, where they initiate the Eleusinian Mysteries of death/rebirth. The play draws upon understandings of both European and Australian creation stories and how mythic beings assume human/animal form and incarnate as geographic sites. \nWriting from his own experience of working with Australian Indigenous communities\, San Roque links the devastating consequences of colonization on Australia’s traditional owners and their country to “the psychosis of the time” which “keeps one eye open and shuts the other.” San Roque identifies Jung’s Red Book visioning as Biblical and Northern European in heritage\, before exploring his own hybrid visioning combining this same heritage with his knowledge and experience of Indigenous Australian literature\, song cycles and practices. He asks himself “what unconscious fantasy drives my response to climate change anxiety?” His response emerges in stories – mythic and present time – of care for country\, alive even in the midst of climate catastrophes\, and an active imagination in the form of a community theatre work entitled ‘Persephone’s Wake’. This is a cathartic lament\, full of anger\, confusion\, despair and love\, which takes San Roque and his audience deep into a world where the old seasonal cycles celebrated in the ancient Near Eastern myths of Persephone and Demeter and Inanna can no longer operate\, and Persephone dies from exhaustion\, mourned by her children Kore and Kouros. The central question that surfaces through this\, is the same as the one Jung responded to in The Red Book\, “Will you accept this destruction?” URL:https://ofj.org/event/persephones-wake/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Slide2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20210729T225900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T015622Z UID:52201-1636743600-1636750800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire\, Father Wounds DESCRIPTION:The absent father effect is a love story\, but an unrequited one. Harm is done due to the presence of the father’s absence\, affecting a daughter—and the father–in body\, mind\, and soul. The father is an essential aspect of the psyche and significant for the daughter’s psychological and physical life\, personally and culturally. Topics of the psyche affected by the absent father include the negative father complex\, puella archetype and the concept of the animus. The Friday talk will focus on the daughter- father  relationship in order to shed light on its lack\, symptoms and problems\, as well as begin to address its repair. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-absent-father-effect-on-daughters-father-desire-father-wound/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Schwartz-image-clock_w.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20210729T225400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T173714Z UID:52186-1634324400-1634331600@ofj.org SUMMARY:Another Whom We Do Not Know: Dreams as the Voice of the Inner Companion DESCRIPTION:In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When\, therefore\, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution\, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude – the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation. \nC.G. Jung\, Civilization in Transition ( CW 10\, para 325) \nUnderstanding dreams is difficult. Understanding our own dreams sometimes seems almost impossible. Even for those who have studied dreams for many years\, one’s own dreams can remain frustratingly opaque. Why is it so difficult to understand what the unconscious is trying to tell us\, and how can we get better at hearing its messages to us? This weekend we will explore dream interpretation with the aim of making it easier for us to work with our own dreams. On Friday we’ll look at basic principles of Jungian dream work and learn techniques and skills that foster deepened understanding. URL:https://ofj.org/event/another-whom-we-do-not-know-dreams-as-the-voice-of-the-inner-companion/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/marchiano-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20210723T220041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T174340Z UID:52181-1631905200-1631912400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Towards a 21st Century Model of Psyche: Altered States\, Oracles\, and Intelligences DESCRIPTION:In the nearly 50 years since C. G. Jung died\, great strides in understanding of whole systems have occurred.  It is now time to apply a holistic/systemic approach to a Jung’s model of the psyche with the aim of contemporizing our views of the unconscious.  In particular\, we will look at how ecological formulations offer richer\, more complex models of the psyche\, revealing a far more interconnected universe than previously imagined.   Examples of intelligences in nature will provide potential ways to explore layers of the unconscious not often taken into consideration. This will be augmented by recent studies on altered states of consciousness which have access to types of knowledge not readily accessible in other ways\, with qualities similar to oracles from the ancient world\, such as the Pythia at Delphi. URL:https://ofj.org/event/towards-a-21st-model-of-psyche-altered-states-oracles-and-intelligences/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/cambray-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T204500 DTSTAMP:20260603T212600 CREATED:20201217T022321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T151953Z UID:47498-1618599600-1618605900@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Self in Jung's Ultimate View: The Mythology of Numbers in Dreams DESCRIPTION:At the end of his life\, C.G. Jung jotted down his crowning reflections concerning the Self’s inborn capacity to heal. He focused on the mythology of number symbolism in dreams as portraying the Self’s deepest creative potential. Too exhausted in his 80’s to take the discussion further\, he passed these reflections on to Marie-Louise von Franz. His handwritten page has recently come to light and details number symbolism’s central importance in the Self’s foundation of meaningful living. Friday’s lecture explores Jung’s note in his own hand and then surveys von Franz’s elaboration of his wider and concluding viewpoint in her book Number and Time. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-self-in-jungs-ultimate-view-the-mythology-of-numbers-in-dreams/ LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Sparks_image.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR