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SUMMARY:Jung Embodied
DESCRIPTION:This experiential weekend will explore elements from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul approach and “embodied active imagination\,” rooted in the work of C.G. Jung. \nOn Friday\, the presenters (Tina Stromsted and Meg Wilbur) will discuss theoretical aspects of Jung’s and Woodman’s work. They will highlight significant learnings from their extensive participation and training with Marion Woodman at her Intensives\, informed by their own unique backgrounds in dance\, theater\, Jungian and Somatic Psychology.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-embodied/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary\, 1211 SW Main St\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180605T224110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224110Z
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SUMMARY:“I Alone Must Become Myself; I Cannot Become Myself Alone."
DESCRIPTION:Relationships are paradoxical. We move from dependence\, to independence\, to interdependence\, to inner-dependence. In this day together\, we will discuss the quaternity of relationships; Mother\, Father\, Other and Self\, and the psychological dimension of these paradoxes.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/i-alone-must-become-myself-i-cannot-become-myself-alone/
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:20060210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060210T213000
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CREATED:20180605T224012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T224012Z
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SUMMARY:Inner and Outer Marriage
DESCRIPTION:Jung wrote profoundly of the “Hieros Gamos\,” or sacred marriage. This lecture will address the aspects of this spiritual and psychological relationship called marriage. This reflection will benefit any person who is in any type of outer world relationship. Ultimately the only relationship we have is with ourselves. Therein is where the true marriage rests\, in the inner world.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/inner-and-outer-marriage/
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:20060121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180605T223906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T223906Z
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SUMMARY:The Fate of Jung’s Psychic Objectivity in an Age of Contemporary Cynicism
DESCRIPTION:The workshop contends that Jung is a marginal figure in psychotherapy because he distinguishes between a self constructed through social experience that he called personality #1\, and a self that exists prior to and apart from socialization that he called personality #2. Because the latter is not easily influenced\, it retains a capacity for psychic objectivity. Jung’s belief in psychic objectivity places him at odds with most contemporary psychotherapies\, which consider the idea of psychic objectivity as illusory at best\, and dangerous at worst. This workshop will passionately defend Jung’s notion of psychic objectivity\, contending that only the repristination of this capacity can minister to the cynicism of the postmodern mind.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-fate-of-jungs-psychic-objectivity-in-an-age-of-contemporary-cynicism/
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:20060120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060120T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180605T223809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T223809Z
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SUMMARY:Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections: Troubleshooting the Post-Modern Ego-Complex
DESCRIPTION:Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections is conventionally taken to be Jung’s autobiography. This lecture presumes something different: Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections can be read as the ‘biography’ of an attitude that engages the distresses of postmodern psychological life. Jung is chronicling not only his personal development\, but also how consciousness might deal with the maturity of the ego-complex\, or its failure to mature. If consciousness does not confront this complex\, certain pathologies appear in personal and collective life\, both centered around the “presence of the absence” of the psyche’s natural religiosity. Tonight’s lecture approaches Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections as a manual on how to repristinate the psyche’s natural religiosity in an age of cynical postmodernism.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/memories-dreams-reflections-troubleshooting-the-post-modern-ego-complex/
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:20051210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T010339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010339Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
DESCRIPTION:We can never be free to create our lives if we are in service to fixed\, internalized\, and largely unconscious ideas. We will engage questions which stir\, sift\, and raise consciousness of these deeply ingrained “ideas” which autonomously govern our lives. With increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery of a more authentic journey. (Please bring a pad and pen for journaling).
URL:https://ofj.org/event/finding-meaning-in-the-second-half-of-life-2/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T010245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010245Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
DESCRIPTION:Finding meaning in the second half of life requires asking larger questions of ourselves\, and challenging our values. To ask these questions three things are requisite: that we recover a sense of personal authority\, that we strike a better balance between obligation to others and obligation to self\, and that we construct a more mature spirituality. How do we recover our lives\, grow as persons\, and become increasingly at home with the person we are becoming?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/finding-meaning-in-the-second-half-of-life/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T010138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010138Z
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SUMMARY:Jung\, Cosmology and the Transformation of the Modern Self
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, we will deepen this analysis while also addressing three overlapping topics: the nature of archetypes as that concept has evolved from Plato to Jung and beyond; Jung’s concept of synchronicity\, which challenged the disenchanted world view and became a major focus of his own psychospiritual practice; and the categories of “masculine” and “feminine\,” taking into account the more complex nature of those terms and of the human psyche than the simple classical polarity suggested.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-cosmology-and-the-transformation-of-the-modern-self-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:20051111T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T010042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T010042Z
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SUMMARY:Jung\, Cosmology and the Transformation of the Modern Self
DESCRIPTION:The modern mind has long assumed that there are few things more categorically distant from each other than “cosmos” and “psyche.” What could be more outer than cosmos? What more inner than psyche? Are they not informed by fundamentally different kinds of principles\, the one objective\, the other subjective? \nBut developments in many fields\, from depth psychology to philosophy of science\, now oblige us to recognize that cosmos and psyche are in fact deeply intertwined. Our understanding of the universe affects every aspect of our interior life from our highest spiritual convictions to our most intimate daily experience. Conversely\, the deep dispositions of our interior life fully permeate and configure our understanding of the entire cosmos. \nThe limits of our cosmological imagination define the limits of our existence: Do we live in a disenchanted\, mechanistic\, purposeless universe as a randomly produced oddity of isolated consciousness\, or do we participate in a living cosmos of unfolding meaning and purpose? \nOn Friday evening\, drawing on the insights of Jung and others\, we will explore the evolution of the modern world-view and the forging of the modern self\, which have affected everything from contemporary religion and psychotherapy to U.S. foreign policy and the global ecological crisis.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-cosmology-and-the-transformation-of-the-modern-self/
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:20051015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051015T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T005936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005936Z
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SUMMARY:Separation\, Sorrow\, and Individuation
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will consider in depth the stages of individuation\, with particular emphasis on separation and aloneness as the initiate enters what Joseph Henderson calls “the undefined final stage.” We will follow the path of Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld\, a five thousand year old myth from ancient Iraq\, a prototype of the journey the seeker must follow. Then\, through the poetic words of an ancient initiate and devotee of Inanna\, the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna\, we will discover who Inanna becomes after her return to the world above\, a model of completion for the seeker to observe.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/separation-sorrow-and-individuation-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:20051014T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20051014T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T005838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005838Z
UID:30265-1129318200-1129325400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Separation\, Sorrow\, and Individuation
DESCRIPTION:Inevitably in the second half of life\, we are confronted with separation\, sorrow\, and loss. Now\, as more and more of us age beyond the life expectancies of our parents\, we ask what are the later stages of individuation? Ageing brings the inevitable process of letting go. Wise sorrow becomes a surprising companion. In her capacity as teacher\, sorrow accompanies the initiate in an ever-expanding grasp of life’s meaning and reality. Not surprisingly\, we discover the wisdom of sorrow articulated in ancient Chinese texts\, in Jung’s description of inner evolution\, and in the poetry of a modern mystic. We will consider the role of sorrow in initiation\, ancient and modern.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/separation-sorrow-and-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:20050917T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050917T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T005459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005459Z
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SUMMARY:Grail\, Goddesses\, Crones\, and Circles
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop for men and women\, Jean Shinoda Bolen will bring us into the legendary\, mythic and spiritual realm of the Sacred Feminine. The Grail and the goddesses are archetypes\, symbols with depth and meaning for us all. The three phases of the Moon\, the triple goddess\, and women as maiden\, mother\, crone are stages of a women’s life; that can also be aspects of a man’s anima. Cut off from sources of meaning\, without the Grail\, the inner landscape becomes a wasteland. Listening to Jean tell these stories\, we find ourselves re-membering dismembered parts of ourselves. \nThrough a guided mediation\, we will deepen our understanding of the images within us and find the symbols that have meaning for us.\nBeginning with the premise that we are spiritual beings on a human path\, individuation takes on a soul dimension. The choices we make ripple out beyond us. In circles with a spiritual center\, feminism\, Jungian psychology\, and Morphic Field theory come together to support growth\, creativity\, and activism.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/grail-goddesses-crones-and-circles/
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:20050916T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050916T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T005225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005239Z
UID:30261-1126899000-1126906200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Urgent Message from Mother
DESCRIPTION:“Gather the women” is a message from mother archetype\, mother Earth\, mother instinct\, Mother Goddess\, the Sacred Feminine. Suppression of the feminine principle is taking life on the planet to the brink. Terrorism\, wars\, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons\, global warming and deterioration of the environment; domestic violence\, trafficking of women and girls\, and children who are traumatized and dying of preventable diseases are the toxic symptoms. “Gather the Women” is a call from the Sacred Feminine to bring the feminine principle into consciousness and peace into the culture\, to be a critical mass\, a tipping point–the metaphoric millionth circle. \nThis is not about replacing patriarchy with matriarchy. Women can be as predominated and as unempathic as men as a gender are thought to be\, and there are many men who are nurturing and empathic as women are thought to be. This is an acknowledgment that women as a gender–as a whole\, not every woman\, but women generally–have a wisdom that is needed to save the world. Compassionate activism can also be an individuation call\, a response from within to become involved in the world. \nUrgent Message From Mother is Jean Shinoda Bolen’s newest book\, to be published in September\, just weeks before this lecture.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/urgent-message-from-mother/
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:20050611T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20210917T034113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T035158Z
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SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Member Meeting: A Musical Tribute to Gregg Smith
DESCRIPTION:Miss Ruby Diamond (a/k/a Jozie Rabyor)\, Gardner Mein and The Five-Five Chorus
URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-annual-member-meeting-4/
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:20050514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050514T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151629Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Campbell and One’s Personal Mythos
DESCRIPTION:“Metaphor is the language of myth.” (Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor) \nMorning Session\nFrom September 1954 to August 1955\, the well-known mythologist Joseph Campbell made a year long pilgrimage to India\, then on to southeast Asia and Japan. In that journey he slowly realized what his life’s work was to be. Looking together at passages from the two journals he kept (Baksheesh and Brahman\, and Sake and Satori)\, we will note his method\, the content and the rising realization in Campbell of his own personal mythology as recorded in these books. \nAfternoon Session\nLike Campbell\, each of us has within a personal myth that seeks its most appropriate path in the world. We will individually\, and then together\, explore the contours of our own myth through 3-4 writing exercises designed to uncover the metaphors that comprise our personal mythology. Coming after our morning conversation\, these exercises will allow us to remember and choose an event or two in our own lives that we could acknowledge as having a powerful influence on who we have been and are continuing to become.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/joseph-campbell-and-ones-personal-mythos/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050513T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T152055Z
UID:30305-1116012600-1116019800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhen I had journeyed half of our life’s way\,\nI found myself within a shadowed forest\,\nFor I had lost the path that does not stray. (Dante\, Inferno I of the Commedia) \nA desire stirs in each of us at some point in our lives\, prompting us to leave the familiar confines of family\, neighborhood and routine and take to the road in response to one of the oldest archetypal impulses embedded in our psyche: pilgrimage. \nThe pilgrim is not a tourist\, a road warrior\, or one mobile for the sake of movement alone. Pilgrimage is a questing after some appetite in the soul that possessions or success will not satisfy. A poetic journey stirred by the process of individuation\, it is also a sacred restlessness for an experience that transcends the normative\, everyday reality we live out\, at times\, almost unconsciously. It is a journey both external and internal which insists on documenting itself in memory and in the act of writing. I call this action “pengrimage.” \nJung reminds us that “the quality of inwardness is missing today:” ie an awareness of an inner correspondence or equivalence with an actual event or situation in the world. Pilgrimage is an attempt to allow for the presence of this correspondence between psyche\, spirit and world through silence\, solitude and meditation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/grace-in-the-desert-awakening-to-the-gifts-of-monastic-life/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050416T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151358Z
UID:30303-1113645600-1113663600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Body Symptoms in Individuation
DESCRIPTION:Physical illness presents us with a challenge: to turn something problematic into something meaningful. Early primal experiences are manifest both psychologically and physiologically through one’s life journey. Suffering cannot be avoided when traveling the road of individuation; yet renewal is born out of the darkness of the unconscious and of the body. \nThis workshop will be a presentation and illustration of the role of body symptoms in reflecting and stimulating the process of individuation. It will include discussion of the archetypal dimension of diseases of the skin and the intestines. Participants are invited to bring examples from their experiences involving the body.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/body-symptoms-in-individuation/
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:20050415T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050415T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151305Z
UID:30301-1113593400-1113600600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Jewel in the Wound
DESCRIPTION:The body plays an integral role in the expression of personal myth. Exploring the symbolic dimension of a body symptom helps to unravel the mystery of wounding and healing that lies hidden within the symptom itself. Dreams\, visions and artwork will be utilized to bring meaning to such manifestations. \nWithin this context\, Ms. Rothenberg will describe her personal experience with psychic wounds that manifested as physical scars and that led her to Africa to study scarification rites. The scars\, instead of simply being the source of embarrassment and pain\, became the sacred jewels that illuminated the path of self-understanding\, thus creating a link to the spiritual meaning embedded in a body symptom.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-jewel-in-the-wound/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050312T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050312T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151159Z
UID:30299-1110621600-1110639600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Father: Who Is He?
DESCRIPTION:Three classical characters: Hector of the Iliad\, Ulysses of the Odyssey\, and Aeneas of the Aeneid will illustrate the ambivalence between man as Father and man as Competitive Male. A series of slides will show images of fathers in different places and times. They represent many gradations\, from authoritarian to soft\, and should offer opportunity for analysis and discussion.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-father-who-is-he-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:20050311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050311T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T151046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151046Z
UID:30297-1110569400-1110576600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Father: Who Is He?
DESCRIPTION:The Image and Reality of the Father has been increasingly precarious in this past century. From the American and French Revolution\, through the Industrial Revolution in which men were demoted to chain workers\, on to the experience of the young father as veteran by way of two World Wars and the Vietnam war\, and witness to the downfall of the Terrible Fathers (the dictators of the 20th century)\, there has been a historical and symbolic demise in the status and power of the Father. As shown in myths that celebrate him in Western Antiquity\, the Father has been largely a cultural construction; recent\, fragile\, and relative. That historical and symbolic change reaches us through the collective unconscious. Is it surprising then that the increasing separation of fathers from their children in every corner of the Western world is occurring? We will discuss this century-old phenomenon in light of the dynamics of our collective experience\, rather than as a sum of individual cases.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-father-who-is-he/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050212T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050212T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T150944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150944Z
UID:30295-1108202400-1108220400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dionysus and Aphrodite: Desire and the Search for Beauty
DESCRIPTION:From Socrates or Euripides to the Inquisition to Jim Morrison or the Rocky Horror Picture Show\, the irresistible power of Dionysus plays essentially the same role. Arousing erotic desires\, fomenting revolt\, conjuring visionary experience\, Dionysus unveils religious dimensions of sexuality and the body that normative institutions invariably condemn. While the cosmos of Dionysus includes an entourage of phallic deities\, his beloved Aphrodite (whose identity extends to maenad\, Ariadne\, Persephone\, Great Goddess) remains the prime image of Beauty on which eros focuses. Dr TePaske will explore this archetypal pair in various social and individual contexts\, emphasizing the intrapsychic tandem of desire and Beauty so central in the soul’s realization. (slides and video excerpts will be used).
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dionysus-and-aphrodite-desire-and-the-search-for-beauty/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T150849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150849Z
UID:30293-1108150200-1108157400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Aphrodite’s Shadow in Beverly Hills and Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:No mere sculpted image or poetic fragment from ancient time\, Aphrodite lives mightily today in the lilt\, glance\, style\, indeed — in the Fate of countless women and the bedazzled admirers who pursue her. Whatever Aphrodite’s claim to Beauty and the ‘erotic moment\,’ hers is a shifting image whose nocturnal associations may have as much to do with a night of death as a night of love. Drawing upon a childhood in Beverly Hills and her ten years as a Hollywood actor\, Dr. Landau will thus explore the impact of the archetype on women¹s lives with clinical examples\, tales of bygone actresses\, mythical amplification\, and feminine typology generally in this uniquely personal analysis of the Aphrodite archetype.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/aphrodites-shadow-in-beverly-hills-and-hollywood/
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:20050122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T150741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T205121Z
UID:30291-1106388000-1106406000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Symbolic Images and Energies of Inner Transformation
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, we will look at an all-encompassing “circumambulatory” transformation\, as depicted in an important set of Renaissance alchemical illustrations. \nAll three of these image systems function much like dream images which can facilitate a dialogue in depth between consciousness and the unconscious. These systems belong to psychological and spiritual lineages\, which promote practical ways of working on oneself aimed at fundamental inner transformation. We will discuss them in light of the seminal insights of C. G. Jung.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/symbolic-images-and-energies-of-inner-transformation-2/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T150638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150638Z
UID:30289-1106335800-1106343000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Symbolic Images and Energies of Inner Transformation
DESCRIPTION:In a time of cultural fragmentation and danger\, many of us yearn for wisdom and practical guidance that can help us live meaningful lives. Such wisdom and direction must speak directly to our inner lives as individuals at least as much as to our outer conduct in the world and our relations with others. Contemporary and traditional depth psychologies aim at facilitating essential processes of inner transformation and renewal. \nOn Friday evening\, we will explore “horizontal” and “vertical”transformations\, using two symbolic images: that of an inner psychic “law” and its liberating transgression\, and that of the psyche as an “oil lamp” which transforms itself by consuming itself.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/symbolic-images-and-energies-of-inner-transformation/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Sanctuary\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T161256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161256Z
UID:30326-1102759200-1102777200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Your Personal Myth
DESCRIPTION:A myth is an energy charged force field with an implicit narrative and a predictive scenario in which we move\, and which moves us\, whether we are conscious of its presence and effects or not. What are the outlines of your personal myth? \nThis workshop will use journaling to respond to a series of questions and exercises designed to lift this force field into greater consciousness.Without consciousness\, no real choices are possible.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/your-personal-myth/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T161159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161159Z
UID:30324-1102707000-1102714200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Divining Divinities: Reflections on the gods
DESCRIPTION:Archetypal psychology employs the metaphor of “the gods” to refer to the primal\, archaic energies which course through the cosmos\, through nature\, and through ourselves.Who or what are “the gods\,” and where are they observed in the conduct of daily life? Why does this matter to us?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/divining-divinities-reflections-on-the-gods/
LOCATION:Unity of Portland\, 4525 SE Stark\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T161035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161035Z
UID:30322-1100340000-1100358000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Riding the Untamed Dragon:  A Workshop on Active Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Active Imagination is the technique\, first described by C.G.Jung\, through which we enter the imaginal realm. Used properly\, active imagination creates a union between the ego and the unconscious\, enriches the individuation process and empowers one’s inner voice. It is the means by which the inner world becomes real. Dr. Raff has developed a series of exercises that allows beginners\, as well as those more advanced in inner work\, to engage in active imagination. This workshop is primarily experiential with some discussion of theory where required. The goal of the workshop is to increase the ability of participants to perform active imagination on their own.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/riding-the-untamed-dragon-a-workshop-on-active-imagination/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T160817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T161442Z
UID:30320-1100287800-1100295000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Wedding of Sophia
DESCRIPTION:Sophia\, Goddess of Wisdom\, is the moving force behind alchemy and the feminine aspect of the Philosopher’s Stone. Dr. Raff presents Sophia as a living being still present in the world today\, but repressed and ignored. Only by learning to engage the world of the imagination can we find a way to bring Sophia back into our world. Through an understanding of alchemical symbolism it is possible to learn more about Sophia\, the imaginal realm\, and the feminine principle.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-wedding-of-sophia/
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:20041023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041023T150000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T160713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160713Z
UID:30318-1098525600-1098543600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Bedazzled Charisma and Its Ways
DESCRIPTION:With the help of some practical exercises and in depth discussion we will explore how the charisma of certain individuals has changed our own lives\, and what this change means\, as well as\, how we can recognize and use our own charisma in a way that is both responsible and inspiring.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/bedazzled-charisma-and-its-ways-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:20041022T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260701T235911
CREATED:20180606T160621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160621Z
UID:30316-1098473400-1098480600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Bedazzled Charisma and Its Ways
DESCRIPTION:Falling under the charm or power of someone’s charisma has happened to all of us some time in our lives. Whether that someone was a teacher\, a guru\, a passionate lover or Princess Diana\, charismatic individuals have the power to provoke unpredictable and extraordinary emotions in us.They can even change the course of our lives\, for better or for worse. \nCharisma is not just a characteristic of the famous or the powerful. Many ‘normal’ people have charismatic traits but few know how to own these qualities consciously.There’s always the temptation to either refuse one’s charisma and hide one’s light under a bushel\, or to abuse it without regard for the consequences. \nIn our modern world\, charisma is getting more and more attention\, often replacing other kinds of authority and leadership. How then to recognize it\, understand it and even use it for the benefit of all?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/bedazzled-charisma-and-its-ways/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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