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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081025T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081025T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T193720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193720Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081024T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20081024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T193625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193625Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080920T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080920T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T193515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193515Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T193417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T193417Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080607T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080607T210000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20211002T001059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T010129Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080510T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080510T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T200020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T232056Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080509T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080509T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080411T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080308T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080308T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T195703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T235304Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080307T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080307T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080209T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080209T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T195438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234304Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T195228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T234218Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
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:20260701T155725
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
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T202907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202907Z
UID:30177-1194636600-1194643800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Healing Value of Personal Narrative: How Writing One’s Memoir Facilitates Individuation
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that self-disclosure in journals and autobiography in general promotes emotional and physical health. On Friday evening\, Dr. Rosen will illustrate the healing value of writing a personal narrative in the form of autobiography with a single case-study: himself. He will demonstrate the process of writing a memoir as a “haibun”-a combination of prose and haiku about his life-long pilgrimage to the center of profound mystery. His own autobiography (presented as an inner and outer journey based on his life-review\, an analysis of interviews with family and friends\, as well as dreams and experiences recorded in journals since his eighteenth year) emerged as a painful yet healing experience. When such a review is carried out in an honest and thorough way\, one’s lost soul can find its way home. As the Zen writer Matsuo Basho revealed: “Each day is a journey and the journey itself home\,” an insight echoed by Soen Nakagawa Roshi: “If you cannot return home\, your self is not your true self.”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-healing-value-of-personal-narrative-how-writing-ones-memoir-facilitates-individuation/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T202808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202808Z
UID:30175-1192303800-1192311000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dream Tending
DESCRIPTION:In the Saturday workshop\, Dr. Aizenstat will expand upon the concepts presented Friday night. He will further elaborate on the idea that images are alive and\, at root\, elemental – part of Nature’s Dreaming. Participants will learn methods of phenomenological dream animation and tools to work with the “indigenous image.” Attending to these potent “seed” images enhances psychological health and authentic being. This workshop combines DreamTending demonstrations by Dr. Aizenstat with experiential activities. Also\, he will offer training in skills intended to help participants work with their own core images.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dream-tending-2/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071012T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T202714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202714Z
UID:30173-1192217400-1192224600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dream Tending
DESCRIPTION:The “heartbeat” of DreamTending\, Dr. Aizenstat’s orientation to dreams\, is the recognition that dream images are alive. In his Friday night lecture\, he will describe his unique approach to dream work and invite us to experience dream images as living\, embodied beings — engaged in their activity\, not ours alone. DreamTending will be introduced as a system of healing\, useful in working with the afflictions of personal life as well as the conditions of the world soul\, the anima mundi. Examples and elaborations will be offered.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dream-tending/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070922T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070922T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T202613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202613Z
UID:30171-1190455200-1190473200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Eros and Addiction
DESCRIPTION:During the workshop on Saturday\, we will amplify our exploration of these symbolic and analytic themes with revealing episodes taken from myth\, fairy tale\, literature and film that will allow participants to identify these patterns in their own experience and to understand their archetypal dynamics more clearly through guided exercises and group discussion.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/eros-and-addiction-2/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070921T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T202516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T202516Z
UID:30169-1190403000-1190410200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Eros and Addiction
DESCRIPTION:The power of Eros can take us to ecstatic heights\, but also to the depths of despair. We experience this power whenever we fall in love or whenever longing for another overtakes us. As long as we remain unaware that the ideal image of the beloved is a projection of our own psychic content\, and the more our longing for wholeness is confused with the external satisfaction of erotic fantasies\, the more we can get lost in compulsive longing\, destructive relationships and sexual addictions. Understanding the archetype of Eros can help us develop a sense of how Eros can become destructively connected with addiction. We will seek to understand the nature of Eros and erotic longing in both its sensual and spiritual aspects.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/eros-and-addiction/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20210917T035549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T035549Z
UID:53206-1180810800-1180818000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Member Meeting: Jungian Concepts Presented in Song
DESCRIPTION:Miss Ruby Diamond (a/k/a Jozie Rabyor)\, Gardner Mein and The Archetones
URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-and-annual-member-meeting-jungian-concepts-presented-in-song/
LOCATION:Friendship Masonic Lodge\, 5626 NE Alameda St\, Portland\, OR\, 97213\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070512T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T204424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T204424Z
UID:30205-1178964000-1178982000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Engaging the Personal Shadow
DESCRIPTION:What is our personal Shadow? How may we come to know that which is by definition unconscious within us? A series of exercises and questions will help provide greater self-awareness. Our learning objectives will be to explore: \nWhat is meant by the concept of the Shadow? \n\nHow does the Shadow show up in personal\, psychological life?\nHow does the Shadow manifest collectively in social settings?\nHow does one gain a greater awareness of the personal and the collective Shadow?\n\nPlease bring a pen and journal for these exercises.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/engaging-the-personal-shadow/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T204330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T204330Z
UID:30203-1178911800-1178919000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Why Good People Do Bad Things: Revisiting the Shadow
DESCRIPTION:For each of us there are energies\, motives\, agendas which operate outside our conscious control and sometimes are contrary to our professed values. These energies\, which Jung collectively identified as the Shadow\, might best be defined not as evil\, but as that which makes us uncomfortable with ourselves. Such energies represent an enormous invitation for greater consciousness\, for living more ethically\, and whose integration brings a greater possibility of wholeness. This program will define and illustrate the many ways in which the Shadow operates in personal and social life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/why-good-people-do-bad-things-revisiting-the-shadow/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070414T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070414T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T204226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T204226Z
UID:30201-1176544800-1176562800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Cosmos and Psyche: Jungian Archetypes and Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Saturday will be devoted to a more in-depth survey of the observed archetypal correlations\, the relevant principles of astrological analysis\, and the new horizon of possibility this perspective opens up for facilitating both individuation and collective self-awareness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmos-and-psyche-jungian-archetypes-and-astrology-2/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070413T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20070413T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T155725
CREATED:20180605T204132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T035712Z
UID:30199-1176492600-1176499800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Cosmos and Psyche: Jungian Archetypes and Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Jung began to examine astrology as early as 1911\, when he mentioned his inquiries in a letter to Freud. That interest gradually developed into a major focus of investigation\, and in his later years Jung devoted himself with considerable passion to astrological research. “Astrology\,” he stated\, “represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.” Insights from these studies influenced many of his most significant formulations in the final\, extraordinarily fruitful phase of his life’s work\, including archetypal theory\, synchronicity\, and the philosophy of history. Since his death\, reports from his family and others close to him have revealed that in his last decades Jung came to employ the analysis of his patients’ astrological charts as a regular and integral aspect of his clinical work. \nYet astrology runs so directly counter to the long-established cosmology that encompasses the modern world view that one can appreciate Jung’s reluctance to make public the extent of his use of astrology\, and the resistance of many Jungian analysts to further explore the astrological direction their founder had pursued. However\, recent research by Richard Tarnas and Stanislav Grof gives new support for Jung’s intuition of the value of astrology and of the trans-psychic (or “psychoid”) nature of the archetypes. These observations suggest the existence of an extraordinarily consistent synchronistic correspondence between planetary movements and the archetypal patterns of human experience\, reflecting something like a cosmic anima mundi in which the human being participates. \nOn Friday\, Dr. Tarnas will summarize this evidence\, discuss the new light it sheds on the human psyche and the unfolding drama of history\, and explore the implications it holds for Jungian psychology.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/cosmos-and-psyche-jungian-archetypes-and-astrology/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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