BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oregon Friends of Jung - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oregon Friends of Jung X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ofj.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oregon Friends of Jung REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20080309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20081102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110121T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110121T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T052649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T052649Z UID:30008-1295638200-1295645400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Archetypal Aspects of the Mourning Process DESCRIPTION:In Jungʼs last active imagination in The Red Book\, Christ offers Jung “the beauty of suffering.” These paradoxical lines are not popular in todayʼs Western culture\, nor are they very comforting to one who is deep in grief. More than likely after great loss\, we lose our commonsense and faith in lifeʼs predictability. Sometimes all we believed in comes into question and we feel as if we have no standpoint. Mourning takes place in a period of liminality\, a marginal phase when we cannot go back in time and we do not know what lies ahead. This time of life is mostly painful and chaotic. Yet countless ordinary people who have worked through grief testify that they wouldnʼt return to how they were\, psychologically or spiritually\, before their ordeal. In this presentation\, we will explore the deep emotions and the wisdom of the heart that can come after great losses\, including bodily injury\, health\, home\, and community\, separation\, and death. We will observe how the work of grief may enhance the individuation process\, and\, using New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina as example\, we will ponder how individuation may evolve in a city. URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-aspects-of-the-mourning-process/ LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, 147 NW 19th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101204T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T143534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T143534Z UID:30049-1291456800-1291474800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Stories Told\, Stories Untold\, Stories that Tell Us DESCRIPTION:Please bring writing materials as together\, in a mixture of lecture/discussion and interactive exercises\, we will put some narrative flesh on the bare bones of our histories. URL:https://ofj.org/event/stories-told-stories-untold-stories-that-tell-us-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101203T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T143406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T143406Z UID:30047-1291404600-1291411800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Stories Told\, Stories Untold\, Stories that Tell Us DESCRIPTION:Our lives course with stories – stories that run through us from ancestors\, stories we tell others and tell ourselves\, and stories of which we are unaware and thereby tell us.   We will reflect on the role these stories play in the shaping of our lives\, and how they invite us to greater consciousness of what invisibly informs the visible world. URL:https://ofj.org/event/stories-told-stories-untold-stories-that-tell-us/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101113T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T143236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T143236Z UID:30045-1289642400-1289660400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism DESCRIPTION:In the Saturday workshop\, we will turn to a more in depth discussion about how individual and collective trauma underlie the development of character structures. Again\, with reference to the work of Anselm Kiefer\, we will see how these images evoke a shudder\, a chilling recognition of the devastation left by the eruption of the primal force of destruction. In this context\, Dr. West will clarify how\, in terms of the development of character structures\, three differentiated sets of archetypal images underlie three distinguishable relational patterns. These archetypal forces are met and mediated by consciousness as it progressively develops. When this development proceeds effectively\, three differentiated forms of healthy narcissism emerge. However\, when defenses rigidify this process\, archetypal forces accrue and eventually erupt. Dr. West will consider how the collusion of these archetypal fields\, met by a defensively rigidified and polarizing consciousness\, can cast us into repetitive personal crises as well as irresolvable global confrontations. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-shadows-and-gifts-of-american-narcissism-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101112T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T143124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T143124Z UID:30043-1289590200-1289597400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism DESCRIPTION:The American psyche has typically been seen as narcissistic. Indeed\, we readily identify with the heroic\, the good\, and the brave. However\, these noble portraits cast a long shadow. In this Friday evening lecture\, Dr. West will supplement a Jungian exploration of this complex reality with slides and discussion about the works of a contemporary European artist\, Anselm Kiefer. In Kiefer’s work\, we experience an active engagement with the tension between destruction and creation. The ability to embody a union of opposites emerges from a strong and flexible consciousness that can hold such a paradoxical position. Consciousness that has developed this strength and flexibility is supported as one works through the dynamics of exhibitionism and grandiosity\, ultimately forging a healthy narcissism: an embodied self-esteem\, a rooted sense of values\, and a capacity to tolerate vulnerability and limits. We witness these dynamics and developments within Kiefer’s work. With these developments\, an individual – and a community or nation – can work to engage in an effective dialogue with primal forces that carry the potential for both apocalypse and epiphany. With these strengths\, we deepen our capacity to confront and suffer the tragic personal and historical realities in which we participate. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-shadows-and-gifts-of-american-narcissism/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101023T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T142953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142953Z UID:30041-1287828000-1287846000@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:Our workshop will make it clear that The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not just for the dead!  Using Jungian tools to decipher the text we will see just how and when we can act to change our patterns of behavior during the critical “bardo” or in-between phases of experience.  Our extra time will give us the opportunity to dive into the intricate and beautiful images – to purely appreciate them\, to understand them a little better\, and as a way to understand ourselves or our patients.  Bring your bad habits and your imagination! URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-and-everyday-life-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101022T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T142837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142837Z UID:30039-1287775800-1287783000@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:The Tibetan Book of the Dead\, or Bardo Thodol\, is a manual or guide for the 49-day period between a person’s death and their next rebirth.  Written in Tibet in the middle ages\, it describes the entities and experiences that await all of us in the bardo\, or the in-between.  Many strange and scary things happen in that intermediate phase\, and it is best\, from the point of view of the text\, to be prepared.  In fact\, if one is prepared enough\, the moment of death can be the most opportune time to achieve liberation.  This occurs when you can see what is happening\, including the most terrifying images\, as aspects of your own mind. \nJung writes that the Bardo Thodol makes “clear to the dead man the primacy of the psyche\, for that is the one thing which life does not make clear to us.  We are so hemmed in by things which jostle and oppress that we never get the chance\, in the midst of all these ‘given’ things\, to wonder by whom they are ‘given’.  It is from this world of given things that the dead man liberates himself; and the purpose of the instructions is to help him toward this liberation.   we … learn from the very first paragraphs the that ‘giver’ of all ‘given’ things dwells within us.  This is a truth which in the face of all evidence\, in the greatest things as well as in the smallest\, is never known although it is often so very necessary\, indeed vital\, for us to know it.”  (vol 11: 514) \nWhy does Jung say this is vital?  Because this exploration of the in-between has the capacity to liberate us in this life\, long before the body dies. \nOur lecture will include a brief history of the Bardo Thodol and then a symbolic exploration of its other reality.  We will look at it compared to the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Jung’s own opus of the undiscovered country\, The Red Book.  Finally we will ground it in our daily lives as a useful and inspirational tool that has something to say to everyone.  Fantastic images will accompany the lecture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-and-everyday-life/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100918T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100918T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T142655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142655Z UID:30037-1284804000-1284822000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Cosmic Dreams DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmic-dreams-2/ LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, 147 NW 19th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100917T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100917T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T142505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T142505Z UID:30035-1284751800-1284759000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Cosmic Dreams DESCRIPTION:Jung made the distinction between the personal dream and the big dream\, noting that\, while the personal dream helps us maintain day-to-day psychic balance\, the big dream concerns universal human problems and occurs during critical phases of life.  We will explore the images\, symbols\, and callings stemming from dreams that appear at critical junctures and that reveal our place in the cosmos. We will see how numinous dreams of nature and cosmos help us transcend the polarities behind our alienation from nature\, our selves\, and one another.  Participants are invited to share dreams containing archetypal and cosmic motifs. URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmic-dreams/ LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, 147 NW 19th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100521T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T150109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T002852Z UID:30069-1274468400-1274477400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Meeting: Creativity\, "The Red Book"\, and Play DESCRIPTION:OFCGJ members and their guests are invited to our annual meeting.  The keynote speaker for this event will be Portland analyst\, Mark Girard\, speaking on “CREATIVITY\, ‘THE RED BOOK’\, AND PLAY.” Play is the essence of creativity.  Drawing upon stories from his own experience as well as concepts from The Red Book\, Dr. Girard will playfully share versions of his own Red Book\, and suggest ways for the audience to light-heartedly connect with their own inner Red Book\, as a way of encouraging the creative process. Friday\, May 21st\, 7:00 to 9:30 pm\, at the First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson\, Portland.  Light refreshments will be served. URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-and-annual-meeting-creativity-the-red-book-and-play/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100417T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100417T200000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T145937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T002630Z UID:30067-1271527200-1271534400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jung Anew! Celebrating "The Red Book" DESCRIPTION:A special dinner lecture by Daniel Baumann. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-anew-celebrating-the-red-book/ LOCATION:River Place Hotel\, 1510 SW Harbor Way\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100417T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100417T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T145732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T002200Z UID:30065-1271498400-1271516400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Understanding Jung and Jungian Psychology through "Liber Novus" DESCRIPTION:The years… when I pursued the inner images\, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this.  It began at that time\, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded  me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.  That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification\, the scientific elaboration\, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning\, which contained everything\, was then.  C. G. Jung\, 1957. \nWith the publication of The Red Book\, students of Jung have a window into the genesis of Jung’s psychology in a way that none of his published works has revealed. \nThe Red Book is the nuclear reactor for all Jung’s works. His more well-known concepts\, such as the archetypal forms of anima\, animus\, and shadow\, as well as the concept of the collective unconscious\, have their roots in this volume. Not only can one see the development of Jung’s theory of individuation in this book\, but his own personal process of individuation is shown in literary and symbolic form. \nThe Red Book provides an unparalleled view of how Jung fused his fantasies with his scholarship to form a science of psychology. In this five-hour seminar\, Dr. Shamdasani will trace the steps from Jung’s experimentation with his fantasies and his elaborations and reflections on them\, through his attempt to forge general principles\, to his confirmation of those principles in his work with his patients\, and ultimately\, in comparative historical research.   Participants will gain a new understanding of Jung and how his attention to his unconscious process has meaning in our lives today. URL:https://ofj.org/event/understanding-jung-and-jungian-psychology-through-liber-novus/ LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 1126 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100416T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100416T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T145517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T002452Z UID:30063-1271446200-1271453400@ofj.org SUMMARY:‘The Way of What is to Come’: Jung’s "Liber Novus" and the Past and Future of Jungian Psychology DESCRIPTION:In 1913\, when psychiatrist C.G. Jung was 38 years old\, he began to experience an overwhelming number of waking dreams and visions.  Convinced that this was an opportunity to understand his own psyche as well as that of his patients\, Jung began his “confrontation with the unconscious\,” which he first documented in a series of small\, black books\, and later expounded upon\, analyzed and illustrated in a large\, red leather-bound journal. \nAt the onset of Jung’s encounter with psyche\, he was in a state of disillusionment with scientific rationalism – what he called “the spirit of the times.” In the course of many quixotic encounters with his own soul and with other inner figures\, he came to know and appreciate “the spirit of the depths\,” a field that makes room for magic\, coincidence and the mythological metaphors delivered by dreams.  During this time he developed his principal theories-of the archetypes\, the collective unconscious\, and the process of individuation-that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality. \nIn this illustrated presentation\, Dr. Shamdasani will explain how Jung regained his soul and overcame the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation\, which he ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmogony. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-way-of-what-is-to-come-jungs-liber-novus-and-the-past-and-future-of-jungian-psychology/ LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 1126 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://ofj.org/wp-content/uploads/Jung_blad-1-1.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100327T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100327T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T145150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T145150Z UID:30061-1269684000-1269702000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Politics and Psyche DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/politics-and-psyche-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100326T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100326T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T145040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T145040Z UID:30059-1269631800-1269639000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Politics and Psyche DESCRIPTION:When you treat the individual\, you treat the culture.  -C. G. Jung \nPsychotherapy is as much a political and social discourse as it is a private one. If we are destroyed as a species\, it will be psychology and spirituality that launches the literal or mythic nukes.  If we survive and flourish as a species\, it will be a depth\, psychologically informed spiritually that generates and narrates that Story of cultural transformation and deepened soul-evolution. And psychotherapy is nothing if it is not simply the witnessing\, recording\, and transmission of the individual and societal encounters with the living numinal realm of depth human experience [what the Western tradition and Jung has called the imago Dei]. as it involves the numinal\, that encounter is always a transpersonal one. there is no secular politics only archetypal/transpersonal politics. we often get so politically lost and ensnarled because we forget this depth background of our societal interactions. \nThe soul never thinks without an image. –  Aristotle \nTherefore\, psychotherapy\, as a political discipline\, witnesses\, records\, and transmits these on-going experiential communiqués from and dialogues with this numinous/ transformative realm of being.  In some ancient cultures\, every citizen was believed to be a vehicle for this living numinal dimension\, for this living will and voice of the gods as mediated through human experience. The public sphere\, the common marketplace of political interaction and achievement\, was the Polis. This Polis was the living organism of Eros\, of numinal energy flowing into the public heart and soul of things. \nMy work is revelation\, not revolution.  –  William Butler Yeats \nEvery life had a Destiny that served an aspect of this living\, shaping\, creating\, numinal core of individual and cultural psyche. A well lived life was a life unfolded in a conscious\, loving seeking out of this Destiny and\, then\, serving it with as much thoughtful\, loving\, and compassionate dedication as possible. Privately\, this service would be to loved ones and vocation; publically\, this service would be an engaged political interaction with one’s fellow citizens. \nAll life is bound to carriers who realize it\, and it is simply inconceivable without them. But every carrier is charged with an individual destiny and destination\, and the realization of these alone makes sense of life.  –   C. G. Jung \nEveryone is politically engaged. Some are simply more aware of and disciplined about that engagement and its attendant social responsibilities. Every act in the public sphere is a political act\, an act that builds up more loving and compassionate connection to the living numinous or tears it down. But every act\, conscious or unconscious\, aware or unaware\, is a healing or destructive political act. We are all citizen politicians. We all have a public duty. We all serve the gods in the fervent hopes that the gods will then serve us and our community and lead us to more light and not more darkness. \nIt may well be prejudice to restrict the psyche to being “inside the body.” Insofar as the psyche is a non-spatial aspect\, there may be a psyche “outside-the-body\,” a region so utterly different from “my” psychic sphere that no one has to get out of oneself…to get there. –   C. G. Jung \nThis brief seminar sketches some clinical and cultural examples of these profound experiential psycho-political transcripts that emerge within or penetrate into depth therapy. Using frequent illustrative images from\, especially\, contemporary cinema and art\, Friday’s lecture opens up the outlines of the model and Saturday’s seminar fleshes out that outline in more depth and breadth. \nThe psychological question now is\, How do we house this greater subject that takes up residence in us\, radically altering the center from which we live?  How do we accommodate this “tremendous stranger\,” or this “mysterious density of being”? How do we\, how can we\, live in relation to it? \nThe theological questions ask\, Who has taken up residence within and among us? Who is the One?  – Ann Belford Ulanov \nThree Guiding exploratory question-themes for this Seminar: \n\n\n\nWhat is political about depth therapy or any psychotherapy?\nHow do you access it\, where are the entry portals?\nHow do you use political imagery and process found in depth therapy and in awake political interaction for individual and cultural healing and transformation? URL:https://ofj.org/event/politics-and-psyche/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100227T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100227T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T144733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T144733Z UID:30057-1267264800-1267282800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Power of Symbolic Life (Reconciling Life's Painful Contradictions) DESCRIPTION:We humans are given the most conflicting job description imaginable.  We must be civilized human beings\, and that requires a whole list of “dos and don’ts\,” culturally determined virtues.  Simultaneously\, we are called to live everything that we truly are\, to be whole – this is our duty to the higher Self. \nThis collision of values makes life confusing and painful.  We all are faced daily with innumerable decisions: some easy and inconsequential\, others troublesome and far-reaching.  Apparent contradictions tie us in knots.  It seems that we could not get through life without being divided.  Everything that human beings experience consciously is brought to us in pairs of opposites. \nC.G. Jung wrote that the medieval mentality is “either/or\,” but if humanity is to survive we must learn to cope with “both/and.”  This change in the prevailing attitude of our culture demands a leap of consciousness from opposition to paradox.  In our spiritual quest\, we must be weaned\, not from materialism\, but from dualistic thinking. \nDrawing upon the myth of the twin stars in the Gemini constellation\, this workshop explores the unity that exits behind every duality.  The ancient Greek myth of Castor and Pollux has extraordinary wisdom and relevance for us today.  Unified in their childhood\, this pair came to be separated\, fragmentary\, and miserable.  One is mortal\, the other divine.  Only after much struggle are they reunited in heavenly embrace. \nDr. Ruhl will present this timeless story as a prototype and navigation point for all humans on the journey into wholeness.  When we allow both sides of any issue to exist in equal dignity and worth\, a synthesis is possible\, bringing new insight\, meaning\, and contentment to our lives.  Symbolic life provides the “keys to the Kingdom.” Well-grounded in Jungian psychological concepts\, this workshop will provide practical tools to help you: \n\n\n\nSurrender old limitations\nEnliven friendships\, relationships and career\nUnlock new life options and hidden talents\nSeize the “dangerous” opportunities of midlife\nMaster the art of being truly alive in the present moment\nRevitalize a connection with the higher Self\, and thereby achieve peace and purpose in your mature years. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-power-of-symbolic-life/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100226T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T144326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T144326Z UID:30055-1267212600-1267219800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Living The Unlived Life DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the essential developmental task in the second half of life – rectifying the loss of abandoned dreams and unrealized potentials to achieve our ultimate life meaning and purpose. What is unlived life?  It consists of those potential aspects of ourselves that have not adequately entered into our experience.  Of course\, no one can live out all of life’s possibilities\, but there are key aspects of our being that must be brought into life or we cannot realize fulfillment.   We all carry with us a vast inventory of unlived life.  Even if we have achieved major life goals and seemingly have few regrets\, there are significant experiences that have been closed to each of us. For everything we choose (or that has been chosen for us)\, something else remains “unchosen.” \nThe greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parents. \n– C.G. Jung \nZarathustra goes to the grave with the unfulfilled dreams of his youth.  He speaks to them as if they were ghosts who have betrayed him bitterly.  They struck up a dance and then spoiled the music.  Did the past make his path so weighty?  Did his unlived life impede him and consign him to a life that seems not to pass? \n– F. Nietzsche \nWe can hear the distant drumbeat of unlived life in the mutterings that go on in the back of our heads; “Woulda-coulda-shoulda.”  Or in second-guessing our life choices.  Or those late night longings. The unexpected grief that arises seemingly out of nowhere. A sense that we have somehow missed the mark\, or failed to do something we were so sure we were supposed to do. Where did we go wrong\, and what is this life that we find ourselves living\, so different that what we set out to do? \nWhen brought into consciousness\, unlived life can become the fuel that propels us beyond current limitations. By exploring unlived life we learn to rise above fears\, regrets\, and disappointments\, to expand our vision beyond the narrow confines of the ego\, and to embrace the full measure of our being.  An enlightened vision is our most profound unlived potential\, and bringing it to fruition is the worthy purpose of the second half of life. URL:https://ofj.org/event/living-the-unlived-life/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100123T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100123T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T144125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T144125Z UID:30053-1264240800-1264258800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Burn Wound of Eros DESCRIPTION:The Saturday workshop begins with a beautiful slide show and retelling of the Tale of Psyche and Eros. The classic story serves as a template that charts the course of the mother-bound man from romantic\, narcissistic\, predatory\, “so-called” love\, to the wounding of that standpoint\, an awakening of capacities to love and the emergence of what may be described as the “father principle.” Certain themes from the tale will launch us into discussions of parallel myths\, biblical stories\, tales of courtly love\, literature\, film\, clinical material and theory\, and our own imaginal processes. Some of these themes may include : “mother and son/lover”; “lesser coniunctio\,” “split feminine”; “predator beneath the lover”; “emergence of the father”; “awakening the sleeping soul through love.” \nBoth lecture and workshop provide an understanding of the primitive origins and causes of narcissism in men; its effects upon their capacity for intimacy and relationship; and\, the difficult commitment needed to transcend the narcissistic option.  Hopefully\, the program will also bring a deeper insight  to those wives\, mothers\, lovers\, sisters\, and daughters who have suffered and loved these men–in spite of it all. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-burn-wound-of-eros-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100122T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100122T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T144007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T144007Z UID:30051-1264188600-1264195800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Burn Wound of Eros DESCRIPTION:In one subtext of the ancient love story of Psyche and Eros\, “narcissism” and the “predatory” underline the romantic attitude of Eros\, the god of love. His bride Psyche is entrapped within his magical paradise; she is his prey\, his plaything to be used then discarded. As the story reveals\, the transformation of narcissism in the romantic begins at the moment when Eros is violently burned – suffering a great loss and wound to his inflation. It is from the “burn wound” and separation of the lovers that Psyche – signifying the male’s psyche/soul/anima – develops resilience\, maturity and can ultimately be awakened by a form of love\, transcendent of narcissism and no longer bound by the mother complex. \nCorrespondingly in analysis\, one can observe the narcissistic skin seared open\, and the shattering of omnipotence in the traumatic encounter with an emerging\, transcendent Other. This psychological wounding is a necessary process for recovering emotional life and developing the capacity to love in a man living at the surface of life. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-burn-wound-of-eros/ 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:20091205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T183425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183425Z UID:30099-1260007200-1260025200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Dreams of Fate; the Fate of Dreams DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-of-fate-the-fate-of-dreams-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091204T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091204T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T183322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183322Z UID:30097-1259955000-1259962200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Dreams of Fate; the Fate of Dreams DESCRIPTION:Jung described the process of individuation as the curiosity about and understanding of the autonomous\, unconscious psyche.  Curiosity is the trait that allows us to follow the red thread of the otherwise mysterious symbols as they emerge from the impersonal and personal unconscious.  However the unconscious is barred from our direct perception and so appears to us in many ways — in symptoms\, in our bodies\, in relationships\, in emotion\, in personal insight\, as well as through collective symbols. \nThis weekend\, we will explore and practice Jung’s most important tools for translating communications from the unconscious.   We will take a new look at amplification as a very precise technique\, and add to it the orientational method Jung developed in Volume 12; Psychology and Alchemy. Although we can use these tools to look at any symbolic communication from film to astrophysical theory to psychotic ideation\, we will look specifically at dreams. \nAlthough there are many sources from which to derive Jung’s method\, it is only with the publishing of Jung’s seminars that we see his teaching style and the method itself with dramatic clarity.  We are fortunate that Jung’s latest volume\, Children’s Dreams\, gives us just such clarity. In this work Jung shows us that some dreams reveal the arc of fate contained within the most determinative personal images – determinative not because we had them as children but because we remember them 30 or 40 years later (the dreams in this volume are not the dreams of children but the dreams remembered by adults from their childhood). \nDream images remembered from childhood are similar to collective symbols in that they come to us without relevant associations.  The seminar will reveal how Jung interpreted these images without the help of surrounding personal material.  Because of the sensitivity of this method\, Jung taught it to his inner circle but barred this material from publication for many years because it shows his work in a different light than in many of the other volumes.  It is a great boon to us\, however\, for here we can observe Jung’s uniquely direct style of teaching as he explains how to decipher the language of dreams and outlines the value of amplification. \nWe will introduce this particularly powerful method of symbolic translation during the lecture and then have a chance to practice it in more detail during the workshop.  We will also consider Jung’s radical concept of changing fate\, or heimarmene\, through psychological development. URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-of-fate-the-fate-of-dreams/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091107T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T183123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T001907Z UID:30095-1257588000-1257606000@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Embodied Psyche: A Flowering Tree: Emotion\, Imagination\, and the Brain DESCRIPTION:Keeping the reality of the psyche as our touchstone\, we will look at emotional experience and communication as fundamental to the lives of primates\, as well as active imagination as a form of healing. We will begin with the basic organization of the brain\, including Alan Schore’s work on hemispheric specialization\, and then look at the ways the brain is designed to integrate functioning from the two hemispheres and specialized areas.  We will also discuss the latest research on two very interesting types of neurons\, one type (“mirror neurons”) related to embodied communication of emotional states and imitative learning\, and the other (von Economo neurons) potentially related to intuition.   Using the East Indian women’s folk tale of A Flowering Tree\, we will also consider how experts in neurobiology and in Jungian psychology may arrive at conflicting conclusions as they interpret across disciplines.   No previous knowledge of neurobiology is required. \n(Please note this workshop will have a half-hour lunch-break. Participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches.) URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-embodied-psyche-a-flowering-tree-emotion-imagination-and-the-brain/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091106T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091106T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T183015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183015Z UID:30093-1257535800-1257543000@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Embodied Psyche: Alchemical Imagery and Unconscious Emotional Communication DESCRIPTION:Jung’s work is founded on a belief in the reality of the psyche rather than on a reductionist point-of-view. Yet we may also wonder how his theories about the nature of unconscious communication\, self-regulation\, and active imagination jibe with new and fascinating studies coming from the field of neurobiology. \nWe will begin with images of the King and Queen from “Psychology of the Transference” and from the Splendor Solis\, as examples of Jung’s use of imagery\, which can communicate emotions and ideas that cannot be easily put into words.   We will then compare Jung’s method to Darwin’s early work on emotional communication through body language and facial expression and to contemporary research\, which employs neuro-imagining techniques to study nonverbal cues that can trigger an emotional response in another person\, both before and sometimes without any conscious awareness.   Participants can expect to come away with a basic understanding of nonverbal communication\, which underlies much of what we talk about when we speak of unconscious-to-unconscious communication in psychotherapy and in everyday life. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-embodied-psyche-alchemical-imagery-and-unconscious-emotional-communication/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091010T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091010T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T175734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T175734Z UID:30091-1255168800-1255186800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Variations on the Theme of Companionship —Brother-Sister Relationships DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on specific patterns in brother-sister relationships\, dark and troublesome patterns as well as positive companionships\, and their effect on the psychological development of both women and men.  We will explore fairytales and dreams in order to examine in depth the process of transformation within the psyche. All participants are encouraged to bring in questions\, dreams\, or life stores for discussion. URL:https://ofj.org/event/variations-on-the-theme-of-companionship-brother-sister-relationships/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091009T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091009T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T175630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T175630Z UID:30089-1255116600-1255123800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Power of Companionship DESCRIPTION:Lara Newton lays the foundation for a new psychological perspective on the brother-sister relationship.  She explores that relationship in all its variety\, both externally in the world of interpersonal and cultural relationships and internally in the relationship between conscious and unconscious\, and masculine and feminine. \nIn this lecture\, based on a book she worked on for over a decade\, Lara will present the process of transformation from bonding to wounding and finally to healing and redemption. This transformation process takes the brother-sister relationship from an outer experience\, whether negative or positive\, to a powerful intrapsychic reality\, for any individual who takes up the challenge of relating to this psychological phenomenon.  In the course of the evening\, Lara will also share some poetic material and brother-sister stories that inspired her. \nLara writes in her book\, Brothers and Sisters: Discovering the Psychology of Companionship\, “Brother and sister point the way toward a new understanding of companionship and mutuality because first and foremost\, they are companions… At this point in history\, we must remember that there is power\, not only in conflict and discord\, but also in harmony and equanimity.”  In a spirit of companionship\, Lara shares her insights and welcomes discussion with her sister (and brother) Jungian community in Portland. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-power-of-companionship/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090919T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090919T150000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T175454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T175454Z UID:30087-1253354400-1253372400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Shadow – Our Phantom Companion DESCRIPTION:In these chaotic times\, some conscious awareness of our own individual\, dark inner depths is critical if we are to find meaning and maintain our psychic balance amidst the breakdown of old collective social\, political and religious safeguards. This workshop explores the Shadow\, that unconscious\, amoral\, alter personality that lives and operates within the human psyche of each one of us. \nWe will explore ways of recognizing and withdrawing the unconscious projections through which the personal shadow gets lived out in the collective violence and destruction around us.  For as Jung has said\, “if [man] only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic\, unsolved social problems of our day.”  (Two Essays on Analytical Psychology) \n(PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP WILL HAVE A HALF-HOUR LUNCH-BREAK. PARTICIPANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING BROWN-BAG LUNCHES.) URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-shadow-our-phantom-companion/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090918T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090918T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T175342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T175342Z UID:30085-1253302200-1253309400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Spirit River Sojourn DESCRIPTION:With the advent of the Aquarian age\, a growing number of individuals are turning inward in their search for a meaningful connection to the mystery of life.  This evolution of consciousness was brought home to our presenter when\, several decades ago\, she read  a letter from the Spirit River Dream Analysis and Research Center located in a tiny settlement in the Peace River Country of central Canada requesting an affiliation with the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles.  Dr. Sanford and her analyst husband answered the call\, and journeyed to this remote community to present lectures and films. \nAmong this small group of pioneering souls\, one woman’s psychic commitment\, as evidenced in her paintings and dialogues\, stood out.  Dr. Sanford kept in touch with this woman over the course of her life\, and tonight she presents her friend’s art and writing as a testament to the power of the inner connection to psyche that enriched her friend’s life and supported her journey toward death. URL:https://ofj.org/event/spirit-river-sojourn/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090606T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090606T210000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20211019T001612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T010141Z UID:54419-1244314800-1244322000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Meeting: Potluck Dinner Gathering DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-and-annual-member-meeting-potluck-dinner-gathering-2/ LOCATION:Friendship Masonic Lodge\, 5626 NE Alameda St\, Portland\, OR\, 97213\, United States CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090516T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090516T160000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T185313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T185344Z UID:30119-1242468000-1242489600@ofj.org SUMMARY:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life DESCRIPTION:Together we will consider the paradoxes that we encounter in the conduct of our brief transit on this earth.  Leading a more conscious life brings us to choices which either enlarge or diminish.   Our time together will bring a more considered reflectivity to our daily lives. Each person should bring pad and pen for personal reflection.  Our objectives will be to: \n1. discern how a client’s personal values\,philosophy of self and world\,  profoundly influences his or her mental health; \n2. identify the ubiquity of fear management systems operating  autonomously in clients and our lives; \n3. promote a more considered awareness of the de facto “stories” served  by the client\, and move toward a more conscious authorship; \n4. utilize an inherent desire for an enlarging spirituality to reframe the client’s understanding of self and world; and \n5. become more thoughtful oneself around these matters so that one is in a better position to meet a client’s depth and complexity. Non-clinicians are welcome and the discussion will be applicable to non-clinical situations\, as well. \nSaturday Workshop Participants\, for this event we will break for an hour and thirty minute lunch.  The workshop will end at 4 PM. URL:https://ofj.org/event/what-matters-most-living-a-more-considered-life-2/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090515T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090515T213000 DTSTAMP:20260630T085040 CREATED:20180605T185144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T185144Z UID:30117-1242415800-1242423000@ofj.org SUMMARY:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life DESCRIPTION:Apart from friends\, family\, and good work\, what matters most in our lives?   What values lead us to a freer\, larger life\, a more considered course?  Together we will examine the crippling role fear management systems play in our choices\, why we are called to choose ambiguity over familiarity\, why the world is driven by verbs not nouns\, how life is most meaningful in the face of mortality\, and how genuine spirituality is a journey not an arrival.  A more considered life asks more of us than may be comfortable\, but we are rewarded with a more interesting story. URL:https://ofj.org/event/what-matters-most-living-a-more-considered-life/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR