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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20021108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181215T231045Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181215T230831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004255Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181215T230324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004200Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181216T003018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T003018Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181216T002804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T002804Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181216T002152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T002152Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020222T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20020222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181216T001954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T001954Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181216T001748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181216T001748Z
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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:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181217T045951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181217T045951Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181217T045608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181217T045608Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011019T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011019T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20181217T045401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181217T045401Z
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SUMMARY:Gifts of the Celtic Wellsprings
DESCRIPTION:In Ireland and Wales many ancient rituals and myths of the cult of sacred waters survived into modern times. The holy wells have been seen as sources of fertility\, regeneration\, deepened and expanded vision\, sovereignty initiations\, and healing. This lecture\, through words and images\, will be an exploration of some of the symbolism of these rites and their relevance for contemporary Jungian therapy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/gifts-of-the-celtic-wellsprings/
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:20010921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190324T183750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190324T183750Z
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SUMMARY:Silence\, Stillness and Inactivity as Acts of Relating
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URL:https://ofj.org/event/silence-stillness-and-inactivity-as-acts-of-relating/
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:20010518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010518T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T012212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T012212Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Manifestations in the Individuation Process
DESCRIPTION:“The body is merely the visibility of the soul\, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So it is really one and the same thing.” (Jung\, Zarathustra Seminars\, p. 355.) \nIndividuation is a second half of life process when we consciously return to our personal unconscious and our archetypal roots. We know much about working with personal unconscious material. Jung\, however\, pushes deeper in his work and invites us to research and work with archetypal forces that manifest in our personal process. These experiences are often pathologized\, although they have been experienced\, observed and discussed since the beginning of human consciousness. This lecture will discuss the importance of recognizing\, witnessing and containing these archetypal energies when they become embodied and emerge in our lives and in our analysis. Case material and video clips will help to illustrate the subject matter.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-manifestations-in-the-individuation-process/
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:20010420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010420T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T011657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T011657Z
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SUMMARY:Orphanos Exoikos: The Precarious Possibility of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be an archetypal exploration of orphanhood as a state of soul in clinical practice\, dreams\, myth and fairy tales.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/orphanos-exoikos-the-precarious-possibility-of-wholeness/
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:20010406T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T011135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T013848Z
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SUMMARY:Origins of Analytical Psychology in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Jung’s analytical psychology has developed in many places in the United States and in the world. Much of the spread has been during the past quarter century. As we enter into the twenty-first century\, there has been a tendency not to remember how analytical psychology developed in this country. It is the purpose of this talk to briefly review the founding of analytical psychology in three areas: New York\, San Francisco and Los Angeles. These were the three areas in the United States where Jung’s psychology developed during the lifetime of Jung\, and as a result\, he influenced how these professional groups developed. In these localities the founders had had their analyses with Jung\, which had an important bearing on how each professional society developed. This talk will be illustrated with photos of the founders of the different Jungian societies. Implications for the state of analytical psychology today will be presented.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/origins-of-analytical-psychology-in-the-united-states/
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:20010316T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010316T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T010353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T010717Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Silence: The Mother of Soul
DESCRIPTION:In Gnostic myth\, Sige\, Silence\, is the mother of Sophia\, the Soul of the World. Silence is the medium\, the matrix of soul life. We know when we are in soul when we experience an inner silence\, even though we may be speaking with others or there are sounds around us. Silence is an autonomous phenomenon\, more like a region we can learn to step into than simply the absence of noise. This weekend explores Silence as basic to soul experience. \nThe evening lecture explores the barriers to the region of silence through the imagery of the Isenheim Altar and some of the writing of St. Anthony the Great. We will see that we have to find the gateway to Silence. Guardians have to be met and faced. How these guardians function in the present world is presented\, along with suggestions concerning how to recognize them and how to honor their autonomy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-silence-the-mother-of-soul/
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:20010216T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010216T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T005638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T005911Z
UID:35067-982351800-982359000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:“Testing the Spirits” – False Prophets and True Healers in the Old Age and in the New Age
DESCRIPTION:The title alludes to a saying from the Christian Bible. In its original context\, the advice to test the “spirits” implies a warning about the many varieties of spirituality promoted in the second-century world\, and it offers a warning against trusting every so-called “spirit” that advertises itself as healing. Discernment is necessary. But how can one tell one “spirit” from another? \nThis presentation will explore responses to this question from religious traditions and also from contemporary depth psychology\, since in these first days of a new millennium there are as many winds of “spirit” blowing as there were two thousand years ago. Today there is talk about this “spirituality” and that one in many realms: politics\, media\, religions\, New Age spirituality\, advertising and athletics. How is one to judge what is going on spiritually in our time? This is as perplexing a problem now as when C.G. Jung wrote in 1928: “I believe that the spirit is a dangerous thing and I do not believe in its paramouncy!”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/testing-the-spirits-false-prophets-and-true-healers-in-the-old-age-and-in-the-new-age/
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:20010119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190404T004927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004423Z
UID:35004-979932600-979939800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Writing as Spiritual Practice
DESCRIPTION:Poetry has been an expression of soul\, a way to sing praise\, lament\, invoke\, tell stories\, pray\, since the beginning of human culture. Poets keep their ears to the ground of the changing myth; they are the instruments on which the gods play their music. It is the poets who can guide us in a time like our own\, when the myths are changing. Poets know how to follow the waves of the cultural unconscious\, how to fish in the vast waters of the collective unconscious\, bringing up treasure from the deep. \nThis talk is an act of imagination\, an articulation of an inner dialogue with the poetic Self. We will consider what poetry has to do with Jungian analysis. We will listen to the news as told by the poets\, especially those who are bringing the goddess back to consciousness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/writing-as-spiritual-practice/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190410T023129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T023129Z
UID:35410-976303800-976311000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Inanna: The carved-out ground plan of heaven and earth
DESCRIPTION:The Mesopotamian goddess Inanna wears on her robe “the carved-out ground plan of heaven and earth\,” thus declaring herself to be the architect of perceived reality. Her plan\, as described by the poet and priestess Enheduanna\, encompasses both the beauty\, joy and goodness of life as well as sorrow\, tragedy\, pain\, violence and death. Inanna herself embodies paradox and creates for her human subjects all the difficult opposing forces of the outer and inner worlds. From Jung’s psychology we learn that the demanding contradictions that challenge every human being are the whet stones on which we hone our individuality and widen the circumference of our consciousness. We will explore transformative strategy of embracing dark and light\, examining this process as a gateway to understanding the Divine Feminine.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/inanna-the-carved-out-ground-plan-of-heaven-and-earth/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190410T022726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022726Z
UID:35405-974489400-974496600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Caves of the soul
DESCRIPTION:The metaphor of the cave that one enters bearing only the modest candle of one’s intention to light the unknown depths and darkness is a very apt image of the exploration of self. With that image in mind\, this lecture will retrace a recent pilgrimage to the Dordogne region of southwestern France to explore prehistoric caves and rock shelters of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon humans where painted images suggest early stages of mankind’s differentiation. We will also re-trace the traveling group’s visit to the great Cathedral at Chartres to experience another kind of “cave” made by men above the ground. These sites of exploration offer similar impressions of the perennial search in the deep places of the soul for\, and the experience of\, a transcendent Other. The lecture will discuss some of these cave sites and show slides of some of the surviving paintings. Using these images we will “go into the caves” together to examine the process of opening oneself to the personal depths of Psyche\, to the experience of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. We will explore the psychological meanings of sacred space and the “thin places” in the world where the ego and Self\, the human and the Divine\, meet in fruitful exchange.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/caves-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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190410T022048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022048Z
UID:35398-971465400-971472600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The vision thing: Myth\, politics and psyche in the world
DESCRIPTION:George Bush\, the elder\, did not have in mind the fundamental interconnectedness of myth\, politics and psyche when he inadvertently coined the phrase “the vision thing.” Yet\, the very awkwardness of Bush’s phrase points to the inherent tension between the real and the visionary between the conscious and unconscious. Indeed\, the “vision thing” problem is at the heart of ongoing paradoxes in our individual and collective lives and in our mythological and political orientations. This lecture will explore the “vision thing” through examples from contemporary American and international political conflicts.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-vision-thing-myth-politics-and-psyche-in-the-world/
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:20001005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190410T021610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T023503Z
UID:35393-970774200-970781400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Special Program: Bone:  Dying into life
DESCRIPTION:Marion Woodman is renowned as a chronicler of women’s experience. In her latest work\, she combines her trademark insight with a personal lesson in wisdom and strength. On November 7\, 1993\, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Bone is the story\, told in journal form\, of her illness and healing and the journey to transforming herself. \nMore than a meditation on illness\, Bone offers insights into healing and the role of art and poetry in the soul’s journey toward balance and wholeness. Woodman is extraordinarily honest about the factors she feels led her down the path to cancer\, physically and spiritually\, over the course of her early life. She also details the harrowing aspects of her journey and how she ultimately returned to health. Filled with art\, line drawings\, quotations from Rumi\, Emily Dickinson\, William Blake and others\, Bone is a unique and sensitive testament to the human spirit and to the courage of this extraordinary woman.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/bone-dying-into-life/
LOCATION:1615 SW 5th Ave\, Portland\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190410T020843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T020843Z
UID:35386-969651000-969658200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Transforming depression: Healing the soul through creativity\, egocide\, symbolic death\, and new life
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will cover: understanding depression and the quest for meaning\, knowing suicide and its creative potential\, and egocide and transformation (an innovative Jungian humanistic therapeutic paradigm). Egocide and transformation entails healing depressive and suicidal states through the creative technique of active imagination. In other words\, the symbolic death of a destructive ego (and shadow) — ‘the false self’ — and the subsequent creative expressions lead to the birth of the ‘true self.’ Dr. Rosen will also talk about crisis points (such as adolescence\, mid-life\, divorce and loss of a loved one) and how egocide can help.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/transforming-depression-healing-the-soul-through-creativity-egocide-symbolic-death-and-new-life/
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:20000512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190420T033334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T033334Z
UID:35608-958159800-958167000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dreams as the Journey With the Soul
DESCRIPTION:The Friday lecture\, entitled “The Hundredth Dreamer”\, will outline the historical and cultural factors and attitudes that\, in effect\, have eclipsed dreamwork in Western society\, in spite of the work of Freudians and Jungians. These factors have typological characteristics that have produced resistances to the type of consciousness needed for dreamwork\, namely introverted\, intuitive\, and feeling traits. We will see this in Jung’s early life\, as described by him in his 1925 seminar. It will be shown how these resistances have dampened dreamwork in our society and how they often appear within a dream consciousness and content.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-as-the-journey-with-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:20000414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000414T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190420T032819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032819Z
UID:35602-955740600-955747800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Tao of Story: From Dracula to Bodhisattva
DESCRIPTION:Stories inspire and shape our lives\, from the archetypal dramas we unconsciously enact\, to the jokes we make about the boss at work. Yet stories also plague us\, and this weekend’s lecture and workshop will focus on four such problematic situations. \nThe Friday evening lecture addresses the problem of being stuck in a story\, endlessly repeating the same script — a plight dramatize by Dracula\, who was compelled by the vampire curse to feed on the living. Fortunately Scheherazade from “The Thousand and One Arabian Nights” shows a way out of stuck stories\, by using the psychology of five fundamental genres of narrative — myth\, fact\, fairy tale\, legend\, and the favorite tale: transformation results from experiencing each genre in that specific order — a sequence characteristic of initiation rituals.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tao-of-story-from-dracula-to-bodhisattva/
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:20000317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000317T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190420T032235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032235Z
UID:35595-953321400-953328600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Psychological and Spiritual Problem of Giving Yourself Away
DESCRIPTION:Women often agonize over a single question – am I too selfish? – struggling with the belief that focusing on ourselves is selfish when it comes to spiritual or religious concerns. \nAll religions instruct us to pay close attention to our intentions and actions in order to become responsible for our ethical and spiritual development. And yet\, women have been uniformly discouraged in acquiring a knowledge of self-determination in their major life roles.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-psychological-and-spiritual-problem-of-giving-yourself-away/
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:20000218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000218T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190420T031553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T031553Z
UID:35591-950902200-950909400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Archetypal Dynamics of Relationships
DESCRIPTION:How is it that relationships\, which bring us the greatest joy in life\, also confront us with the greatest difficulties? Why do so many of us simply give up in the face of the humiliating hurts that relationships engender? Well\, acording to Jung\, it’s all in the service of our individuation. The more conscious we are of the dynamics at work in relationships\, the less turbulent will be their effects on us. In a little-known section of Volume VII of the Collected Works [para 374-406]\, Jung speaks of the “mana personality.” This archetypal element holds the key to understanding why relationships can become problematic. This weekend we shall look at the dynamics of relationship. We shall focus particularly on the anima and animus\, those bridge dynamics that connect the ego with the Self.  \nFriday night we’ll review Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair\, which can either be read in book form or seen in the movie (currently in release). What can we learn from a man’s encounter with the Self\, as facilitated by his anima\, which is fixated on a woman with whom he is having an affair?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-archetypal-dynamics-of-relationships/
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:20000121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190420T030851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T030851Z
UID:35587-948483000-948490200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Relationships: The Psychodynamics of Self and Other
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between Self and Other carries always the imprint of first relationships. In any present relationship we are inevitably inmeshed in the psychological mechanisms of projection and transference of the primal\, intrapsychic imago of relationship. This lecture will explore the mechanisms of the projection/transference dynamics\, “the Eden project”\, which our hidden agenda embodies\, and the search for the Magical Other.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/relationships-the-psychodynamics-of-self-and-other/
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:19991210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190501T031931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T031931Z
UID:35964-944854200-944861400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Nowhere is the confluence of the relationship between matter and psyche more clearly expressed than in the formation of patterns. Existing within both the internal world of psyche and the outer natural world\, archetypal patterns are expressions of an innate ordering process which gives matter its specific form and design. We find these deeply textured patterns present within the world of fairy tales\, myths\, and dreams. We can see similar archetypal patterns expressed in our architectural designs\, cities\, cultures\, and even on a personal level in our choice of spouse\, employee\, or therapist. In fact\, with a discerning eye\, we can often intuit the expression of the destiny that is suggested by the patterns established within our lives. \nIn this lecture and workshop Dr. Conforti will discuss the formation of patterns and their relationship to archetypes. Much attention will be given to the work of what he terms “Archetypal Pattern Recognition”\, and its application with the therapeutic\, personal\, corporate and global arenas.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/patterning-in-the-psyche-and-the-natural-world/
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:19991119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260727T154722
CREATED:20190501T031512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T031512Z
UID:35960-942998400-943030800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The House as a Mirror of the Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marcus will speak on themes raised in her book House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the deeper meaning of home. Her talk\, illustrated with slides of her subject’s art work\, will explore various ways in which the psyche is expressed in the choice\, decoration\, and maintenance of a dwelling.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-house-as-a-mirror-of-the-self-exploring-the-deeper-meaning-of-home/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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