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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T204500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T204500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
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:20260603T225322
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T204500
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
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:20260603T225322
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
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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:20260603T225322
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20190720T164201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191113T010544Z
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SUMMARY:The Essence of Kundalini
DESCRIPTION:As we participate in spiritual practices and inner creative work\, kundalini energy may rise up the chakras located in the astral spine and awaken us spiritually. When this happens in a contained environment\, it slowly merges the north and south poles of our being (feminine and masculine\, negative and positive) and creates a greater wholeness in our well-being. In this presentation \, we will focus on the meaning of kundalini\, its images in creative expressions as in sandplay\, and how to use our understanding of kundalini for personal change. We will then experience what kundalini may feel like through guided meditation and sound.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-essence-of-kundalini/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20190720T163446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190802T002626Z
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SUMMARY:Between the World and Me: Where the Wild Things Live
DESCRIPTION:In this historical moment we unconsciously live out the reality of a split between the psyche (personal) and the sociopolitical world. Emotional suffering is located in the individual and his/her relationships. The social context is rarely acknowledged as major contribution to our psychological health as it is seen as a backdrop. Within such a perspective\, we lose the opportunity to create and use the potential space in cultural life for engaging and processing the most pressing problems of our times: racism\, sexism\, gender\, poverty\, class social justice and the traumatogenic environment of uncertainty\, pain and suffering they create for all of us. \nIn this talk Sam Kimbles will address a way of thinking and working with the kinds of issues that cut across the artificial divide between inner and outer. Two stories from literature will serve as springboards for this evening’s talk:  Maurice Sendak\, Where the Wild things Are and Ta-Nehisi Coates\,Between the World and Me will be used to look at destructive attitudes in our culture that reflect issues that challenge us all.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/between-the-world-and-me-where-the-wild-things-live/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20190720T162216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190802T002223Z
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SUMMARY:Changing of the Gods: Weathering the Storm in an Archetypal Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:In their distinct and brilliant ways\, both C. G. Jung and James Hillman broke free of limiting modern assumptions and recognized that psyche was not confined to the human\, that it permeated all of nature\, the cosmos itself. Both also recognized the extraordinary value of astrology in shining an unexpected light on the archetypal dynamics of human life in synchronistic correlation with planetary movements. Our moment in history clearly represents a threshold of of great consequence\, and the current planetary alignments can provide us with valuable insights about the deeper impulses at work in the drama now facing the Earth community. What is the planetary situation now\, what are the historical precedents\, and how might our contemporary culture be transformed by the recognition that an intimate bond exists between the deep psyche and the cosmos? Join Richard Tarnas for a “state of the world report” on the archetypal context of our national and global moment.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/changing-of-the-gods-weathering-the-storm-in-an-archetypal-cosmos/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190920T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20190720T001946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190802T001927Z
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SUMMARY:Living the Imaginal Life:  Dreams\, Active Imagination and Synchronicity
DESCRIPTION:The term “Imaginal World\,” made popular by the great French writer Henri Corbin\, refers to a dimension of life outside the norm\, a dimension only perceivable through the imagination. The imagination\, however\, is not something unreal or ungrounded\, a creator of fantasies and illusions. Rather\, it is a powerful mode of perception that connects us with a world just as real as our ordinary world of everyday reality. As Robert Johnson has said\, the imaginal is not real\, it is realer than real. In this lecture I shall discuss the nature of the imaginal\, its relationship to Jung and the process of individuation\, as well as the transformative nature of imaginal experience. I shall also outline ways in which one can begin to live an imaginal life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/living-the-imaginal-life-dreams-active-imagination-and-synchronicity/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20181211T044449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190319T031455Z
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SUMMARY:The Little Dream that Doesn't Mean Anything
DESCRIPTION:When a dream is forgotten\, dismissed\, ignored or called names (“worthless\, a snippet\, stupid\, etc.”)\, important information is lost.  A discussion with clinical examples will explore what many miss:  the quiet beginnings of consciousness evidenced in what is often overlooked.  The beginning of a process is sacred ground to stand upon.  Alchemical parallels\, world dreams\, fairy tale imagery and elements of dreaming that are routinely misunderstood will be discussed as well.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-little-dream-that-doesnt-mean-anything/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T213000
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CREATED:20181211T044315Z
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SUMMARY:The Healing Power of Fairy Tales
DESCRIPTION:Why fairy tales – Märchen?  When C.G. Jung discovered the archetypal realm of the collective unconscious\, he also found that through the ages myths\, fairy tales and legends provided a “clothing” so to speak for these\, otherwise invisible\, potentially healing psychodynamics. When we listen to fairy tales our soul is invited to journey into lands of horror and violences well as enchanting rescues and romances. The original fairy tales are ever so much more grim and violent than the Walt Disney versions we are familiar with. Fairy tales assure the listener – adult and child alike – that while evil\, danger and violence do exist\, they can be transformed. By entering into the magic of a fairy tale\, our psyche re-connects with the healing potential of the archetypal realm.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-healing-power-of-fairy-tales/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20181211T044143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190121T223628Z
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SUMMARY:Carl Jung's Red Book: Healing the Chaos
DESCRIPTION:In 1913 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked on a remarkable inner journey.  Devotedly attending to his dreams and fantasies\, for the next fifteen years Jung exquisitely calligraphed and painted the emotions and images he found within.  This record of his venture was published in 2009 in his superbly illustrated Red Book. \nAs he focused inside\, Jung was immediately inundated with inward scenes of global catastrophe—at a time when Europe spoke only of peace and prosperity.  In less than a year\, beginning in 1914\, the First World War ravaged his continent with a bloodthirst unknown to history.  Observing his heart of hearts\, Jung found vivid symbolic experiences that not only personified his personal psychology\, but also revealed the devastating war’s underlying dynamics. \nThe world now stands dangerously close to annihilating chaos\, both on the domestic and international stage.  In Friday’s lecture and Saturday’s workshop\, we will explore what Jung’s descent taught him about the turmoil orchestrating his epoch’s horror.  Despite the passing of a century\, the clarity of those lessons will guide us through precious insight into the seething cauldron of our own era. \nThis will be a multimedia presentation with plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.  The presentation does not assume prior familiarity with Jung’s Red Book. \n 
URL:https://ofj.org/event/carl-jungs-red-book-healing-the-chaos/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190118T213000
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CREATED:20181211T043915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T175900Z
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SUMMARY:A Jungian View of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:  \nNobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself. But since nobody seems to know what to do\, it might be worthwhile for each of us to ask himself whether by any chance his or her unconscious may know something that will help us. \n– C.G. Jung (CW 18\, par. 599) \n  \nHuman caused climate change has placed life on the planet in a precarious state. It is imperative we address this situation as soon as possible\, for the longer we wait the more we commit future generations to great disruption. Yet there is great resistance to addressing this issue\, especially within the United States. Jungian psychology provides a unique means to understand the problem of climate change for it recognizes the importance of the unconscious in our lives. In this presentation\, I explore how the dynamics of unconscious processes relate to climate change and how these processes provide pathways to addressing the problem. I consider further the current myths that lie at the root of our collective dissociation from Earth. The presentation concludes with a discussion of how to reconnect to the sacredness of Earth\, which is essential to address the issue of climate change.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/a-jungian-view-of-climate-change/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20180801T143901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181021T212740Z
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SUMMARY:Dreaming Animals: Individuation in a Jungian Analysis
DESCRIPTION:… the animal is sublime and\, in fact\, represents the “divine” side of the human psyche. You remember that the purpose of the Dionysian mysteries was to bring people back to the animal…the animal within…which then forms a bridge between (her) self and the original primordial man concealed beneath the historical layers of the past… \nFollowing a series of animal dreams from a profoundly creative woman artist; we move into and through the individuation process of her eight-year analysis through her dying and conscious death.   Here we find psyche’s deep instruction\, beauty\, and assistance in life’s completion. Epiphany–the direct experience of Deity–came via dreams and in a vision of an animal before her death. I use this series of dreams as I feel that dignity and depth of Jungian Psychoanalysis are illustrated and accessible. \nThis presentation grew out of my deep interest in nature and appearance of animals in dreams and in the lives of patients over the course of forty years of practice. \nWhat is the meaning and function of animals visiting us in dreams or meeting them by chance? Which animals bring us education\, wisdom\, humor\, terror\, beauty\, and joy? Can we relate to a creature with interest? Who are we afraid? Do we dream or imagine mythical or other beings? How do we treat animals in dreams and in waking life? What is the relationship between our body and instinctual life? What does this tell us about ourselves\, about us as a society and culture?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreaming-animals-individuation-in-a-jungian-analysis-2/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260603T225322
CREATED:20180801T143208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181021T214952Z
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SUMMARY:The Shadow of Creativity
DESCRIPTION:When Jung experienced his Anima-Muse in The Red Book he declared himself to be a man of science rather than an artist.  How might we abandon our creative selves in shadow rather than allowing the light of consciousness to reach into the darkness and allow our creativity to emerge?  This emergence may be accompanied by suffering and periods of emotional growth that the ego is unwilling to experience. Yet\, as Jung did\, we see that we must continue our Psyche-led process if we are to have an authentic life.  In our discussion we will share the struggles and lessons of creativity through viewing the creative lives and works of authors as we explore and discuss avenues for developing our own creativity.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-shadow-of-creativity/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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