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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
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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:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T005225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T005239Z
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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:20260702T113515
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:20260702T113515
CREATED: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:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T151519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T152055Z
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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:20260702T113515
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:20260702T113515
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050312T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050312T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T151159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151159Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050311T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T151046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T151046Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050212T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050212T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T150944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T150944Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T150741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T205121Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20041023T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
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:20260702T113515
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040918T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040918T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T160523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160523Z
UID:30314-1095501600-1095519600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Hero Journey
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Joseph Campbell’s centenary\, we will focus on what he called the monomyth. The three-fold process of 1) departure\, 2) initiation\, and 3) return\, are the essentials of the journey. One can see this formula in all myth and sacred story. Can one see this process in one’s own story? This workshop will help make us conscious of how individuation follows this formula\, in some form\, for each of us.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-hero-journey/
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:20040917T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040917T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T160420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T160420Z
UID:30312-1095449400-1095456600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Burn the Barn
DESCRIPTION:The Zen Poet Masahide writes: \nThe barn’s burnt down. . .\nNow I can see the moon. \nSpirituality is the deep human longing to move the transcendent into the immanent through experience and reflection. This lecture/workshop will consider the illusions the ego builds as defenses against life’s inevitable anxiety and pain. These illusions may keep us from seeing the transcendent truth\, thus leaving us dis-illusioned. What are the barns we build that keep us from seeing the moon?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/burn-the-barn/
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:20040605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20210917T033643Z
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SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual  Meeting: Potluck Dinner Gathering
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-annual-member-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Unknown venue\, unknown\, OR
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040515T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040515T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T163707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T163707Z
UID:30348-1084615200-1084633200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Active Imagination and the Living Body
DESCRIPTION:By using the body to access and express the imagination\, individuals may discover experiences that bridge the realms of body and psyche\, instinct and spirit\, affect and image\, memory and emergence. \nThis one-day workshop will introduce movement as a form of active imagination. Sometimes called “authentic movement” or “movement in depth”; we focus attention on bodily sensations\, images\, and feelings\, which are then allowed to develop into spontaneous movement. The mover works with eyes closed\, in the presence of a witness\, whose task it is to hold and contain the experience of the person moving.   Morning and afternoon sessions include lecture\, discussion and movement experience\, with special attention to the inner experience of the mover\, the inner experience of the witness and the dynamics of their relationship.  Participants are invited to bring journals and/or art materials.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/active-imagination-and-the-living-body/
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:20040514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040514T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T163557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T163858Z
UID:30346-1084563000-1084570200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Emotions and the Archetypal Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will look at the nature of the emotions as they have evolved and continue to develop\, from the primal\, untransformed depths toward the highest values of human culture. The tendency in recent decades toward deconstruction of values may potentiate a compensatory development as individuals in many walks of life seek a differentiated experience of affects and their symbolic expression\, shaped by eternal ideals that appear to be wired into the psyche.  Lecture includes slides to illustrate.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/emotions-and-the-archetypal-imagination/
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:20040417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040417T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T162611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162611Z
UID:30344-1082196000-1082214000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Jung\, Tolkien\, and the Fate of Mythopoesis in Post Modernity
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop we will expose the residency of these themes in the tedium of daily life. Participants will bring stuff that seems the least psychologically deep. These contents are those most under the aegis of the hero\, and live\, in what Tolkien calls “Mordor”. In Jung’s theorization\, they would thus attract the most empathy from the psyche. Foreshadowed in this empathic process\, is the post-heroic figure needed in each psyche now to live past the ego’s encapsulation of consciousness and in so doing effect the transformations in consciousness necessitated by our postmodern condition.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-tolkien-and-the-fate-of-mythopoesis-in-post-modernity-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:20040416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T162504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162504Z
UID:30342-1082143800-1082151000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Jung\, Tolkien\, and the Fate of Mythopoesis in Post Modernity
DESCRIPTION:In Western Thought\, the hero\, the mythic expression of ego-development\, expands consciousness by subduing the dragon \, i.e. the “chaos” sensed by ego-consciousness in the categories of nature\, instinct\, mother. In this program we will explore the idea that while Jung initially abided by this traditional fantasy of ego-development\, there is a persistent dimension in his work that recognized the implications of consciousness becoming encapsulated in the ego-complex; this obliged Jung to accentuate the actions in the psyche that strive toward a post-ego mythology. \nThough nowadays consumed as a fashionable expression of a classic hero myth\, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings \, exposes the perplexing failure of the hero to effect psychic transformation in the contemporary ‘postmodern’ psyche. This incapacity\, ironically present as the hero’s triumph\, or\, in psychological terms the pinnacle of ego-development\, signifies\, in Tolkien\, a threat to “middle earth”\, an unprecedented waning of the mythopoeic factor of the psyche. The claim is that the hero\, through this deconstruction\, presently\, leads not\, as it once had\, into progressive states of originality\, but into regressive states of compliance. This is manifest politically as globalization\, and in current psychopathology as an “empty” depression\, both of which are instinctively felt as a distance from “mother”. I take these to be the abiding concern of Jung’s analytical psychology\, and Tolkein’s Trilogy; taken together they inform a radical rereading of the developmental psychology and heroic mythology that dominantly impose upon the current practice of psychotherapy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/jung-tolkien-and-the-fate-of-mythopoesis-in-post-modernity/
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:20040320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040320T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T162357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T024814Z
UID:30340-1079776800-1079794800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Images  in a Melancholic Voice
DESCRIPTION:The melancholic mood has a distinctive tone which can be heard as clearly in certain kinds of writing as in music.  Our discussion will continue themes introduced in the lecture\, particularly the idea that melancholy\, unlike depression\, is a creative matrix\, seeing to answer these questions:  How can we hear the Muse in our own melancholic moments?  What sort of expression does the Muse give us when we try to express something from a melancholy place in the psyche?  Why is this important for our psychic health?  Participants are asked to bring paper and pen and\, if possible\, a photograph or snapshot that has personal meaning.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/images-in-a-melancholic-voice/
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:20040319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040319T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T162302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162302Z
UID:30338-1079724600-1079731800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Images in a Melancholic Eye
DESCRIPTION:Until the mid-19th century\, melancholy was imagined as a sacred affliction from the gods\, a madness characteristic of genius and the most difficult and complex temperament.  At the height of the Renaissance\, it was imagined in personified form as a majestic female figure; artists and poets looked to her as their Muse.  But\, in the twentieth century\, melancholy all but disappeared from the professional imagination\, to be replaced by the diagnostic categories of depression.  Where did Melancholy go?  How did she lose her voice?  How can we call her into life again\, listen to her wisdom\, take new creative heart from within her depths?  This lecture/slide presentation will use both spoken word and photographs to re-discover Melancholy as Muse.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/images-in-a-melancholic-eye/
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:20040214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20040214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260702T113515
CREATED:20180606T162158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T162158Z
UID:30336-1076752800-1076770800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Spiritual Longing and Its Shadow
DESCRIPTION:The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/spiritual-longing-and-its-shadow-2/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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