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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221111T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220325T210000
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CREATED:20211208T230224Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220218T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20211208T225831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220108T024645Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20210729T223206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T001220Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T210000
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CREATED:20210729T225400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T173714Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20210723T220041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T174340Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20201217T022321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T151953Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20201217T022247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T181220Z
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SUMMARY:Missing the Mark: The Seven Deadly Sins Viewed Through the Lens of Depth Psychology
DESCRIPTION:The word “sin” came originally from an archery term that meant “missing the target\,” and implied such errant aim arose more from inescapable human limitation than malevolence. This program will explore these most human of experiences—pride\, envy\, gluttony\, lust\, anger\, greed\, sloth—through the lens of analytic psychology\, and explore their causes\, mechanisms\, self-defeating consequences\, and their continuing\, contemporary challenges to us.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/missing-the-mark-the-seven-deadly-sins-viewed-through-the-lens-of-depth-psychology/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20201217T022214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T173022Z
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SUMMARY:Dreams\, Life\, Death\, and the Alchemical Wedding
DESCRIPTION:What do dreams\, near death experiences and archetypal phenomena surrounding death reveal to us about the mysteries of life\, death and the beyond? How do they prepare us for death\, our own and for the death of loved ones? When the veils between the worlds become very thin\, our world views can alchemically change\, opening us to the psychoid and to life changing experiences in the imaginal realms of reality. The experience of the metaphor of death is continually at the center of any authentic and lasting transformation. Alchemy and Jung’s work are built around this as the cornerstone of transformational processes\, individually and collectively.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-life-death-and-the-alchemical-wedding/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20201217T022133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210114T180809Z
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SUMMARY:The Power of Archetypal Imagery in Videogames
DESCRIPTION:We explore common themes around destructiveness in many videogames that boys and young men play. These images have archetypal elements that are also represented in Western art. We compare examples to the images in a popular videogame\, Fortnite\, and show the similarities in form\, structure\, theme\, and coloration. What do such images tell us about destructive imaginings and their grip on the psyche? Many popular videogames use apocalyptic settings for a fight for survival\, and the centrality of apocalyptic vision for destructive fantasies will be discussed.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-power-of-archetypal-imagery-in-videogames/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20200825T210456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T163438Z
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SUMMARY:Living Symbols of the Tarot: A Journey Through Archetypal Patterns of Soul
DESCRIPTION:A journey through the Tarot cards is primarily a journey into our depths providing a bridge to the mysteries and ancestral wisdom of our innermost selves. These powerful images stimulate the imagination\, tell a symbolic story of meaning\, and connect us to our creative souls. \nThe Tarot is evocative and like our dreams brings symbolism alive. According to C.G. Jung\, symbols and archetypes are the means by which the psyche/soul speaks. The tarot has 78 cards with correspondences to astrological glyphs\, Hebrew mysticism\, numerology and mythological and alchemical imagery. Each card stimulates our imagination in complex and multilayered ways. The cards provide a non-verbal language through which we can find universal as well as personal\, social\, cultural and collective meaning. \nDuring the Friday night lecture the Tarot cards connected to the current conjunction of Jupiter\, Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn and the tremendous challenges\, upheavals and disruptions in our world we are currently facing will be explored. By engaging with images and symbols from the Tarot\, we will explore this dark\, black\, nigredo we are living through and use it as a source of guidance and inner wisdom as we struggle to find a new authority in these uncertain times. The Tarot will be used to understand Jungian psychology and depth spirituality. \nDecks to be used: Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Deck and the Rider/Waite Deck  
URL:https://ofj.org/event/living-symbols-of-the-tarot-a-journey-through-archetypal-patterns-of-soul/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20200825T205612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T164949Z
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SUMMARY:We Think with our Hearts: Reading Jung through Native Eyes
DESCRIPTION:This talk will review how some of Jung’s ideas (mis)represented Native cultures. The notion of the “primitive\,” participation mystique\, dreams\, and animals will be explored. Two psychic paradigms\, dominion and reciprocity\, will point to important differences between Indigenous and Western cosmologies and may offer a path away from our current trend toward self-destruction.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/we-think-with-our-hearts-reading-jung-through-native-eyes/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20200825T204800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T164858Z
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SUMMARY:Individuation Hijacked: Persona and Hero in an Evolving Universe
DESCRIPTION:“The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost irresistible compulsion and urge to become what one is\, just as every organism is driven to assume the form that is characteristic of its nature\, no matter what the circumstances.” \nJung believed that we have a compulsive urge toward individuation\, an irresistible drive to become whole. We tend to identify this urge primarily with the realization of our authentic\, true self\, free of external interference. But another essential aspect of individuation\, our need for connection\, community and service\, requires us to use a persona\, a mask representing a limited part of the true self. The capacity to create and use persona is sometimes hijacked to prove our worth in the world\, to avoid feelings of shame and insecurity.  The original intent\, engagement with community\, is lost. \nThis talk will explore what true individuation requires of us in terms of persona: that we return to the original intent of the mask\, discern what we’re called to cultivate in our personality\, and what role we play in an evolving and self-organizing universe. \nTICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE (even though it may say “This event has passed below”). Click here to register.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/individuation-hijacked-persona-and-hero-in-an-evolving-universe/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20200825T201317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T223930Z
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SUMMARY:Listening to Jung in These Troubling Times
DESCRIPTION:We find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic with great loss and tremendous suffering. We fear for our safety and wonder what the future will bring? When will we get back to ‘normal?’ Do we want to return to business-as-usual? The pandemic has derailed our lives in so many ways and ever present is the continued threat of climate disruption. What does Jungian psychology have to teach us in these troubling times? Carl Jung also lived through troubling times. He recognized the importance of living both in the spirit of the times as well as the spirit of the depths\, for soul dwells in both of these worlds. In this presentation\, we explore how Jung viewed world threatening situations that penetrated the psyches of individuals. We dive down into the spirit of the depths to uncover the root cause of our imbalances in the world\, be it pandemic or environmental destruction. We consider how Jungian depth psychology can bring a sense of meaning and order to what is happening in the world. We also consider how we can use Jung’s ideas to help us work with and through these troubling times.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/listening-to-jung-in-these-troubling-times/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200814T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200814T143000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20200716T211845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200816T220935Z
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SUMMARY:The Racial Complex: From Devious Path to Healing Journey
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Webinar\nAug 16\, 1:00-2:30pm PDT\nFree to 2019/20 and 2020/21 OFJ members\n$20 general admission\nRegister/Purchase\nCEUs are NOT available – we will resume in September with regular season events \nIn her new book\, The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race\, Jungian analyst\, author\, and poet Fanny Brewster writes boldly about the racial complex we all carry\, individually and as a culture. \nC.G. Jung said that our psychological complexes are like devious paths that often lead us astray.  As we encounter the constellation of racial complexes on both individual and collective levels we find ourselves seeking ways of healing. \nIn this special program with Dr. Brewster\, twice before presenter at Oregon Friends of Jung\, the conversation will focus on identifying features of the racial complex and how we can find deeper understanding towards psychological healing. Dr. Brewster will offer opening remarks and insights and then invite questions and conversation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-racial-complex/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20191119T205720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T234944Z
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SUMMARY:Soul Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:In the West\, attention to spiritual and mental life originally was subsumed under the Care of Souls\, like one full river of religious and psychological currents blended indistinguishably. The soul was tended under care of spiritual mentors within or pushing the boundaries of traditional religions. In the early 20th century\, the river forked into two and depth psychology emerged as a separate discipline unfolding since in the proliferating schools of psychoanalysis. We will explore psyche\, soul\, spirit and the subversive persistence of soul as part of healing. Contra all announced certainties that we have entered a post-religious\, even post-spiritual\, era\, recent decades show instead that soul concerns have infiltrated politics\, fundamentalisms of all kinds\, and work with the psyche. The soul refuses to be refused. People come to clinicians with an eye to soul as well as psyche because they feel their soul living has been lost. They seek aliveness from a deep place within that radiates outward to shared existence with others and links to something more\, however various descriptions of that may be. What became two rivers that seemingly forked into separate directions\, now flow towards each other into one again. We will explore this co-existing of psyche and soul currents. We need both facing our unconscious and our soul that dwells in our body\, our psyche-soma\, and links to collective life and to the meaningful\, mysterious aliveness at the heart of life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/soul-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T213610
CREATED:20191119T203602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T012200Z
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SUMMARY:How to Love a Narcissist
DESCRIPTION:We explore Jung’s concepts of narcissism and its appearance in the ‘as-if’ personality who struggles to connect to self and others. Intimacy is compromised\, wanted yet feared. Although the person appears enticing and confident\, the inner life is marked by perfectionism\, emotional distance and dissociation. Through dreams and composite people examples\, we explore why these people are in our lives and where in our psyche we are in the throes of narcissism rather than self-love. We will consider unfinished areas of the personality originating from early trauma\, emotional neglect\, and negative parental complexes adversely affecting confidence. Such areas promote idealization of others and destroy initiative while feeding an internalized cycle of self-hatred\, oppression and envy. How can we accept life with its creative as well as aging process and find self-love?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/how-to-love-a-narcissist/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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