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:20060402T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20061029T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20070311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20071104T090000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090425T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090425T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T185023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T031612Z UID:30115-1240653600-1240671600@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jung Embodied: Seeking the Creative Shadow DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture. \nInformed by their backgrounds in dance\, theater\, Jungian and Somatic Psychology\, the presenters (Tina Stromsted and Meg Wilbur) will also draw from their extensive training and teaching with Marion Woodman. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-embodied-seeking-the-creative-shadow-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:20090424T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090424T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T184811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T031745Z UID:30113-1240601400-1240608600@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jung Embodied: Seeking the Creative Shadow DESCRIPTION:This experiential weekend will support exploration of the creative potential within the shadow.  Using elements from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms approach and “embodied active imagination” with it roots in the work of C. G. Jung\, we will endeavor to open to the unlived life.  Informed by their backgrounds in dance\, theater\, Jungian and Somatic Psychology\, the presenters (Tina Stromsted and Meg Wilbur) will also draw from their extensive training and teaching with Marion Woodman. \nFriday the presenters will discuss Jung’s concepts of the shadow\, particularly in relationship to energies in the body.  Clinical material will illustrate and amplify body/psyche connections.  Saturday offers an opportunity to explore the work experientially\, deepening our connection to mind and body.  Such work supports the reawakening of resonant consciousness in our cells\, invites the play of imagination\, and promotes integration through movement and voice\, enhanced by music and art.\nAuthentic movement is a gentle\, natural means to nurture oneself\, connect with buried energies\, and unfold one’s inner dance. Simple exercises in freeing the voice involve relaxation\, breath\, and sound to help release one’s authentic voice. These creative processes do not involve performance\, and are attuned to the needs of the individual. Come explore “Jung embodied” through these gateways to the unconscious. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-embodied-seeking-the-creative-shadow/ 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:20090314T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090314T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T184444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T184444Z UID:30111-1237059000-1237066200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Encounters at the Border of Our Belonging DESCRIPTION:We all need to belong and we all know what it is to exclude and to suffer exclusion. Through dream\, memory\, visual art and group process we will explore the dynamics of belonging and exclusion and bring related attitudes and behaviors to our conscious attention. We will discover how the body\, like dream and fantasy\, can awaken us to unconscious individual and group responses to those outside the bounds of our belonging.  Most importantly\, we will experience the transformative aspect of the outsider archetype through sacred image and story\, opening ourselves to the presence of the Divine in the guise of the stranger. URL:https://ofj.org/event/encounters-at-the-border-of-our-belonging/ 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:20090313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090313T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T184318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T184318Z UID:30109-1236972600-1236979800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Fragmentation and Containment in a Shrinking World DESCRIPTION:In this “global age” of limited resources\, we struggle for self-survival and species-survival while witnessing the demise of integral cultures and local economies. We observe unprecedented waves of human migration and an alarming escalation of communal warfare. At the same time\, we collectively awaken to the interconnections in nature and between people of disparate cultural origins. We witness a rising esprit of global consciousness. \nEncounters with the strange and the estranged activate powerful unconscious processes. In individuals and in groups\, an unraveling of established structures inevitably unleashes reactionary archetypal forces. We will view the constructive and destructive responses to our changing world as polarities stemming from the outsider archetype\, the archetype organizing the dynamics of inclusion\, exclusion\, and psychic transformation. URL:https://ofj.org/event/fragmentation-and-containment-in-a-shrinking-world/ 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:20090221T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090221T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T184034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T184034Z UID:30107-1235210400-1235228400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Animals in Our Midst DESCRIPTION:We are surrounded by animals\, in our dreams\, our psyches\, our homes\, and in the wild.  As pets or feral creatures\, animals inhabit our inner and outer worlds.  Who has not dreamed of animals or encountered animals in life?  We have pets and we have pet ideas.  Our complexes are pets that at times behave and at other times wreak havoc in the house when we aren’t “at home.”  Transpersonal and transconscious psychic dimensions are mirrored to us through animals. This workshop explores the ways that animals play a fundamental\, problematic\, emotional and humorous role in psychic development.  The speaker will use dreams and experiences with animals to elucidate the idea that for the human psyche an animal is always a symbol and holds the possibility of transformation and connection to the non-personal psychic realm. Animal lovers and non-lovers are equally welcome. URL:https://ofj.org/event/animals-in-our-midst/ 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:20090220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090220T170000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T183926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183926Z UID:30105-1235116800-1235149200@ofj.org SUMMARY:Violence and the Religious Instinct DESCRIPTION:We would perhaps like to forget that there is an archetypal basis for the disturbing violence that is prominent in today’s world.  This lecture describes how to understand violence from an archetypal perspective and why this task is necessary if we are to bridge the dissociation between conscious and transconscious reality. For most of us\, “psychic reality” is still in the realm of ideas\, and psychologically\, we live in a pre-Copernican world.  In his most seminal works\, Jung wrote that violence and destructiveness are inextricable aspects of psychic reality and that violence is always encountered as part of the individuation process.  The hostile and violent impact of the unconscious upon the ego often calls upon us to experience and contain intense emotions of rage and violence. This need not be “bad news” if we remain aware of the larger picture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/violence-and-the-religious-instinct/ 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:20090117T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090117T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T183820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183820Z UID:30103-1232186400-1232204400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Advaita Vedanta and the Search for Wholeness DESCRIPTION:According to Advaita (Nondual) Vedanta\, it is the superimposition of the Self on the psyche and world that is the root cause of suffering\, and as long as the Self remains undifferentiated from these causes\, true psychological health cannot be attained. Until the Self is known\, one takes the Self to be other than what it is and therefore never truly feels comfortable.  The Vedantic Self\, when added to Jung’s model of the psyche\, allows for completion of the psyche’s natural quest for wholeness that is sought through the individuation process.  The Vedantic Self can be seen as both the source of and the fulfillment of the religious function of the psyche\, in that it fulfills the psyche’s search for union with God.  The workshop will allow participants to explore in depth their personal integration of these themes through meditation and spiritual exercises that will allow experiential understanding of these concepts.  We will also discuss how these insights can be applied to therapeutic practice. URL:https://ofj.org/event/advaita-vedanta-and-the-search-for-wholeness/ 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:20090116T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20090116T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T183700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T183700Z UID:30101-1232134200-1232141400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Jung and the Path to Individuation through Indian Spirituality DESCRIPTION:C. G. Jung was very familiar with the Hindu Upanishads and the profound traditions of Indian spirituality.  He drew upon them for his understanding of core concepts of the psyche\, especially the Self within the individuation process.  This lecture will explore the nature of the innermost Self as revealed in the Upanishads and developed through the philosophical teachings of Vedanta. The distinctions between Eastern and Western models of the psyche and human selfhood will be clarified in order to define the ultimate implications of the individuation process against the background of one of humanity’s richest and most differentiated spiritual cultures\, followed by an ample opportunity for questions and discussion. URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-and-the-path-to-individuation-through-indian-spirituality/ 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:20081206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081206T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T194132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T003055Z UID:30140-1228557600-1228575600@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Unconscious as Multiple Consciousness DESCRIPTION:The Saturday workshop will focus on high-lights throughout the essay\, providing in-depth understanding of its remarkable summary of analytical psychology.  Topics will include the dissociability of the psyche and the nature of archetypes\, with a special focus on The Unconscious as a Multiple Consciousness\, a Jungian notion that will allow participants to apply his innovations to their own clinical experiences and  illuminate the variety of interior experiences that occur during the process of personal work with the unconscious psyche.  Presentations will be interspersed with informal group discussion and questions. \nWorkshop Participants are encouraged to read Jung’s essay\, “On the Nature of the Psyche\,”  CW Vol 8\, before the workshop.  Copies will be available to participants at the workshop.  Participants are invited to bring questions from their reading or to raise items of interest from the essay for discussion during the workshop. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unconscious-as-multiple-consciousness-2/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Church New Annex\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081205T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081205T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T194035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002850Z UID:30138-1228505400-1228512600@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Unconscious In Historical Perspective DESCRIPTION:Based on C. G. Jung’s seminal essay\, “On the Nature of the Psyche” (1954)\,  tonight’s lecture will examine one of the crucial concepts of 20th century thought\, the unconscious psyche.  With precursors in the 18th and 19th centuries\, psychoanalysts first formulated the unconscious from a variety of clinical and abnormal experiences\, providing the basic concept of the unconscious as we use it today. \nC. G. Jung further expanded the concept\, deepening and clarifying it by drawing on religious experience\, comparative symbolism\, paranormal phenomena\, and  the creative spirit that rises from within the personality.  The lecture\, followed by questions and answers\, will touch upon some of the core concepts and pivotal experiences that guided Jung’s path through this inner terrain\, leading to the succinct formulation found in this mature essay.  Participants are encouraged to preview the essay if possible. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unconscious-as-multiple-consciousness/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Church New Annex\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081115T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193920Z UID:30136-1226743200-1226761200@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Inner Guide: Wisdom from the Archetypal Self DESCRIPTION:There is an inherent knowingness – an aspect of the divine mind\, which the Greeks called nous – that functions in human beings. Pictured in dreams as a guide and teacher\, a wise old man or woman\, an angel\, a heavenly twin\, or a voice that speaks with authority\, this knowingness arises from the archetypal Self to reveal deeper truths. Jung conversed with a guide called Philemon\, who seemed a “living personality” representing “superior insight.” The Sufi sage Ibn ‘Arabi received teachings from Khidr\, the enigmatic figure who guided Moses in the Qur’an. In this workshop we will invite our own inner guide to have a greater presence in our lives. We will contemplate Jung’s experience of Philemon\, study images of the guide from various sacred traditions\, listen to the wisdom and humor of Sufi tales and poems\, and practice meditation and active imagination to make deeper contact with our own inner guide. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-inner-guide-wisdom-from-the-archetypal-self/ 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:20081114T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081114T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193827Z UID:30134-1226691000-1226698200@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Mystical Relationship of Lover and Beloved DESCRIPTION:Some say Sufism is Islamic mysticism; others say it is the primordial mystical tradition\, much older than Islam\, but absorbed into Islam. Perhaps Sufism is best defined as a universal path to union with God through love. One theme of this path\, expressed in the poetry of Rumi and others\, is the mystical relationship between lover and Beloved\, soul and Absolute\, human and God. In Jungian psychology there are many concepts that illumine this relationship: the ego as the center of consciousness and the Self as intelligence greater than the ego; the individuation process whereby the ego increasingly realizes its source and dependence upon the Self; the alchemical conjunction of ego and Self. Tonight\, we will use Jungian concepts\, Sufi poetry\, and teaching tales to explore the ecstatic relationship of lover and Beloved and the stages of the Sufi path whereby the soul gradually awakens to what eternally IS\, the Oneness it never really lost. We will conclude by discussing methods of inner transformation of this path. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-mystical-relationship-of-lover-and-beloved/ 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:20081025T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081025T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193720Z UID:30132-1224928800-1224946800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Context and Essence: Meaning and Transformation in Cultural and Analytic Process DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture. URL:https://ofj.org/event/context-and-essence-meaning-and-transformation-in-cultural-and-analytic-process-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:20081024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081024T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193625Z UID:30130-1224876600-1224883800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Context and Essence: Meaning and Transformation in Cultural and Analytic Process DESCRIPTION:This lecture and workshop will introduce participants to the particular method that Jung used to investigate the so-called “relatively fixed symbols\,” or archetypes\, that arise in unconscious material. Some of this has come to light in the newly published volume\, Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 (the first new volume from Jung’s archives in 40 years). \nIllustrations will be drawn from sources ranging from modern events to Flemish mysticism\, and will include a detailed  comparison between the series of the first ten images from the Rosarium Alchemicum (used by Jung in his Psychology of the Transference) and the Ten Oxherding pictures from the Zen Buddhist tradition. \nThe lecture will move quickly through Jung’s method of deriving and applying the meaningful content from the context of an image\, while the workshop will give everyone a chance to both practice it and question it.  We will then look at a particular arc of images that runs through life and in small groups apply the process that has been learned. This should give everyone an individualized set of alchemical images to contrast with the collective ones or just ponder on his or her own. URL:https://ofj.org/event/context-and-essence-meaning-and-transformation-in-cultural-and-analytic-process/ 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:20080920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080920T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193515Z UID:30128-1221904800-1221922800@ofj.org SUMMARY:Our Inner Partners – The Anima and Animus DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, the workshop will focus upon two classical components of Jungian psychology\, the anima and the animus\, by exploring the crucial role the contra-sexual inner partner plays in both a man’s and a woman’s relationship to the archetypal feminine dimension of the human personality. We will focus on how the anima/animus functions as an unconscious “other” within the psyche and discuss how this dynamic energy might consciously be employed as a creative force within the individuation process. (Please note this workshop will have a shortened time-frame and a half-hour lunch-break. Participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches.) URL:https://ofj.org/event/our-inner-partners-the-anima-and-animus/ 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:20080919T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T193417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193417Z UID:30126-1221852600-1221859800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Serpent and the Cross – Spanning the Split through Active Imagination DESCRIPTION:In our time\, the cultural split within the Western psyche has reached critical proportions—a perilous split in which Father Spirit and Mother Nature have been rent asunder. And we suffering individuals\, as microcosms within the macrocosm\, bear the task of consciously redeeming the chthonic feminine spirit that carries within it the wisdom of the serpent—the innate wisdom of the psyche that emerges from the unconscious to heal this split. \nTonight’s lecture will present a series of twenty-three archetypal images painted by the presenter out of a series of sixty-three paintings spanning the years 1959 to 1987\, along with dialogues she entered into with their symbolic figures\, portraying a life-saving inner journey to heal the maternal wound at the core of her psyche. Katherine Sanford will use these paintings and their accompanying text to reflect upon the transformative power of active imagination\, demonstrating its use as one of the most profoundly effective tools for furthering the individuation process. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-serpent-and-the-cross-spanning-the-split-through-active-imagination/ 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:20080607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20211002T001059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T010129Z UID:53546-1212865200-1212872400@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/ 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:20080510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080510T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T200020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T232056Z UID:30163-1210413600-1210431600@ofj.org SUMMARY:Art\, Culture\, and the Planetary Archetypes DESCRIPTION:As Jung recognized\, astrology provides profound insight into the deep patterns of human experience and of our cultural history\, but such insight depends on a capacity for rich archetypal perception\, something that involves not only thinking but also the emotions\, the imagination\, the aesthetic intuition\, the body\, the whole being. Because music and the arts engage all these dimensions\, this workshop will use representative works of music and the other arts with the powerful lens of archetypal astrology to explore and illuminate the deeper character of major cultural figures and historical eras. The workshop’s aim is to provide information that those new to astrology can immediately integrate into their lives\, and that advanced students can use to deepen their grasp of the range and subtlety of archetypal astrological analysis. Above all\, our time together will be devoted to getting to know more profoundly the planetary gods. Our focus will be on increasing our direct understanding and experience – intellectual\, imaginative\, aesthetic\, emotional\, and somatic – of these archetypal powers of the world soul\, the Anima Mundi. URL:https://ofj.org/event/synchronicity-and-its-implications-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080509T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080509T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T002157Z UID:30161-1210361400-1210368600@ofj.org SUMMARY:Synchronicity and Its Implications DESCRIPTION:Jung’s concept of synchronicity represents one of the most strenuous efforts of the 20th century to construct a bridge across the chasm between mind and matter\, self and world\, psyche and cosmos. In popular culture\, the concept has been surprisingly widely embraced. The term and the phenomena it describes played no small role in the way many individuals make sense of their lives. In the face of the disenchanted modern worldview\, the search for a ground of purpose and meaning that transcends human subjectivity has become an urgent spiritual priority. For many today\, synchronicities are directly relevant to the search. The concept has also had a unique impact on the intellectual world\, from religious studies to physics. In tonight’s lecture\, Dr. Tarnas will summarize the origin and history of the concept in Jung’s work\, discuss the experiential dimension of synchronistic events\, and address their larger metaphysical and perhaps evolutionary implications. URL:https://ofj.org/event/synchronicity-and-its-implications/ 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:20080412T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T000429Z UID:30159-1207994400-1208012400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Unveiling of What Is Hidden DESCRIPTION:During the Saturday workshop\, we will continue exploration and discussion of the Presence in the Psyche of Threshold Guides such as Jung’s Philemon\, Ibn Arabi’s Khidr\, and the meeting of Rumi and Shams. Via guided exercises and personal writings\, we will engage in the practice of Active Imagination. With respect for the sanctity and intimacy of these practices\, we will discuss and share our experiences of the mundus imaginalis. Participants are urged to bring writing or drawing materials. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unveiling-of-what-is-hidden-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:20080411T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T231929Z UID:30157-1207942200-1207949400@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Unveiling of What Is Hidden DESCRIPTION:In the ninth volume of his Collected Works\, Archtypes and the Collective Unconscious\, Jung selected Khidr from the 18th sutra of the Koran as an Image of the Guide in the psychological process of rebirth and transformation. His Eranos colleague\, Henri Corbin\, philosopher and Iranologist\, respected Khidr as a Threshold Figure\, an Awakener into the Imaginal World. By way of amplification\, Corbin brought to the Western world the work of the 13th century Islamic mystic\, Ibn Arabi\, who was first initiated by his experience with Khidr. In his wealth of writings\, Ibn Arabi highlighted the existence of an organ of perception that perceives a very precise order of reality\, the mundus imaginalis. In the Friday evening lecture\, we will explore the writings of Ibn Arabi\, the organ of perception and the realm of Khidr. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-unveiling-of-what-is-hidden/ 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:20080308T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080308T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T235304Z UID:30155-1204970400-1204988400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Frida Kahlo and an Exploration of Character Structures DESCRIPTION:In the Saturday workshop\, we will look at how Frida Kahlo’s basic relational pattern may be seen as a portrait of one of three identifiable relational patterns that inform our character structures. Dr. West will describe each of these structures and their underlying archetypal landscapes through various fairytales\, myths and other artists’ works\, again\, accompanied by numerous images. Following the essential Jungian premise that we transform through deeply meeting ourselves\, we will employ these perspectives on character to reflect upon ourselves individually\, as well as upon the state of our world at this time. URL:https://ofj.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-an-exploration-of-character-structures-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:20080307T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080307T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234803Z UID:30153-1204918200-1204925400@ofj.org SUMMARY:Frida Kahlo and an Exploration of Character Structures DESCRIPTION:The intense and compelling paintings of Frida Kahlo provide us with a rich context to begin an exploration of archetypal and developmental aspects of character structures. \nAccompanied by numerous images of both Frida and her paintings\, on Friday night Dr. West will address how Frida’s life and work may be seen as a remarkably courageous attempt to wrestle with the chaos of borderline experience. By embracing her own individuality\, however cruel was her experience of it\, Frida endure extraordinarily challenging encounters with the gods. Dr. West will suggest that she emerged for these encounters with a strengthened ego\, along with access to more developed defenses. URL:https://ofj.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-an-exploration-of-character-structures/ 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:20080209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080209T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234304Z UID:30151-1202551200-1202569200@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Feminine Principle in the Kabbalah: Shades of Darkness and Light DESCRIPTION:Although focusing on the feminine aspects\, Dr. Nash will keep faith with the Kabbalists by showing their masculine counterparts\, for the feminine and masculine aspects should not be split apart; splitting being the original sin in Kabbalah. The healing power of bringing about a loving union between the sexes and facing the evil that exists in Creation and in our own shadows (carefully so as not to be caught up in them)\, redeems the darkness in Creation\, which emerges as an ongoing dialogue with God in which humanity plays its important part. Through a focus on the forces of unsentimental spiritual/sexual love and its inherent dangers\, the seminar will draw parallels to Jung’s concepts of individuation\, ego-Self dialogue\, animus and anima\, spirit/matter unity and ultimately the coniunctio. The Friday night lecture will illustrate the Sephirot Tree\, sometimes called the Tree of Life\, and the myths surrounding it\, while the Saturday seminar will be a continuation of these stories interspersed with our own daily-nightly lives\, including accounts of dreams and whatever manifestations of the unconscious the participants deem appropriate. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-feminine-principle-in-the-kabbalah-shades-of-darkness-and-light-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:20080208T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080208T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T195339Z UID:30149-1202499000-1202506200@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Feminine Principle in the Kabbalah: Shades of Darkness and Light DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nash has taken much delight in this image of the Shekinah\, the feminine presence of God in Judaism\, known as the Divine Presence (literally “indwelling”)\, that accompanied the joyous recognition of the power of the feminine principle. Such joy however was popularly accompanied by a naïve glorification of “her\,” which twisted the dark side of the feminine into light\, overlooking and casting out the realities of evil and the difficult path that leads to transformation through the hard work of integrating the shadow. In accord with Jung\, the ancient Kabbalists painted a far more varied and intricate portrait of the feminine aspect of God\, both light and dark – a spectrum of potencies ranging from creation to destruction\, from loving sexual union to demonic possession. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-feminine-principle-in-the-kabbalah-shades-of-darkness-and-light/ 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:20080119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080119T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234218Z UID:30147-1200736800-1200754800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Incalculable Paradoxes of Love DESCRIPTION:Saturday’s workshop will be a continuation of the lecture themes of love\, exploring more deeply\, through discussion and exercises\, our personal experiences and reflections upon them. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-incalculable-paradoxes-of-love-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:20080118T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T195125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T162130Z UID:30145-1200684600-1200691800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Incalculable Paradoxes of Love DESCRIPTION:In Friday night’s lecture\, we will encounter what Jung called\, in his later years\, “the incalculable paradoxes of love.” Our single word “love” fails to adequately capture and express the powerful\, often contradictory feelings that drive behavior and animate one’s soul. We will turn to the three Greek words for love (eros\, philia\, and agape) and explore the psychological distinctions they express. We will look at both the inter-personal and intra-psychic dynamics of love\, as well as its light and dark sides. Finally\, we will address the healing and wounding nature of this greatest of paradoxes. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-incalculable-paradoxes-of-love/ 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:20071208T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071208T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T203154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T203154Z UID:30183-1197108000-1197126000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Quotidian Conversations: Working with Symbolic Images in Dreams and Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:During the Saturday workshop\, we will turn directly to the images themselves that arise when the unconscious psyche responds to the crises and concerns of everyday life\, and using the amplification of archetypal images\, engage in so-called conversational sketches. Conversational sketches are dream storyboards that offer us a dialogue with that part of ourselves that communicates in symbols. The psyche\, being wiser than our artistically challenged selves\, will respond with the wistful whisperings of dialogue\, inviting us to pay attention to our depths. Participants in the workshop will be shown how to use the expressive arts to bring out imagery from their own internal process and experiment with learning to amplify these symbols with the resources available today with online Jungian archives. URL:https://ofj.org/event/quotidian-conversations-working-with-symbolic-images-in-dreams-and-everyday-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:20071207T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071207T213000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T203058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T233951Z UID:30181-1197055800-1197063000@ofj.org SUMMARY:Quotidian Conversations: Working with Symbolic Images in Dreams and Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:The deeper layers of our psyches are constantly communicating with us via symbols. Amid the demands of everyday life we may notice this only in passing\, usually first giving it our attention after a dream presents us with particularly enigmatic images and we wonder what it might mean. This program is offered as a small retreat where we will take the opportunity to look at symbolic process\, the basis of Jung’s work. \nThe Friday lecture will start with a profound 28-minute film in which Yo-Yo Ma introduces his friend David Blum\, also a professional musician. David explains how\, when he left the security of his preferred language of expression\, music\, and dared to pick up some children’s pastels to draw scenes from his dreams\, he unwittingly engaged in conversation with his inner self. We follow him as he shows us his pictures and talks movingly about his own skepticism\, shyness\, curiosity and wonder\, and the unexpected reward of finding a layer of rich meaning in his colorful\, naïvely-styled pictures. In our discussion of this moving account\, we will review Jung’s ideas about symbolic images\, and include some of the newer findings from brain scans\, which unite cognition and emotion. URL:https://ofj.org/event/quotidian-conversations-working-with-symbolic-images-in-dreams-and-everyday-life/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071110T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071110T150000 DTSTAMP:20260701T155346 CREATED:20180605T202956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202956Z UID:30179-1194688800-1194706800@ofj.org SUMMARY:The Healing Value of Personal Narrative: How Writing One’s Memoir Facilitates Individuation DESCRIPTION:The Saturday workshop will involve both active imagination and writing personal narrative. This autobiographical exercise will explore one’s purpose and meaning\, that is\, one’s personal myth. This work will be shared with the group by those who wish to\, and serve as a form of creative exercise that by healing painful episodes from the past\, we enable more fulfillment in future years. We are then freed to approach the present with Soren Kierkegaard’s incisive observation- “Life can only be understood backwards\, but it must be lived forwards”- to guide us to draw on the past to live within a more individuated consciousness. URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-healing-value-of-personal-narrative-how-writing-ones-memoir-facilitates-individuation-2/ LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR