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SUMMARY:Special Film Seminar Weekend: "The Way of the Dream"
DESCRIPTION:This unique documentary\, produced and directed by Fraser Boa\, is a series of 20 half-hour films on the dreams of ordinary people. \nIncluded in this series is a montage of people around the world responding to three questions: Do you dream? Do you think your dreams are important? Can you recall a dream? The film crew traveled over 25\,000 miles\, to Canada\, England\, France\, Switzerland and the United States\, for these spontaneous reactions. \nThe basic structure of the series is a more formal telling of personal dreams by a smaller group of men and women followed with interpretations of these dreams by Dr. von Franz. Certain motifs and archetypes are illustrated in these dreams and include : The male shadow; the negative and positive anima; patterns in dreams; the female shadow; negative and positive animus; dreams of our culture; dreams of relationships; dreams of The Self. Some of segment titles are: The Devouring Mother\, The Inner Bride\, The Hanged Man\, and Hell Has No Mirrors. \nOur The Way of the Dream weekend will include discussions led by local Jungian analysts. Though the film is segmented\, it is continuous thematically and the two-day attendance is encouraged. This is the first showing of Boa’s film in Oregon in over ten years\, a rare opportunity for our community.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/special-film-seminar-weekend-dr-marie-louise-von-franz/
LOCATION:Linfield School of Nursing\, 2255 NW Northrup St.\, Portland\, OR\, 97210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010602T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010602T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T012646Z
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SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-annual-member-meeting/
LOCATION:West Hills Unitarian Fellowship\, 8470 SW Oleson Rd\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010519T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010519T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T012420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T202951Z
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SUMMARY:Body and Soul: A Spiral Dance
DESCRIPTION:Body and soul are inseparable and mirror each other. Our bodies contain instinctual wisdom that we have been trained to ignore. In this workshop we will encourage a dialogue between the conscious and the unconscious (body) through a gentle non-structured movement meditation. To become whole we must go beyond learned patterns. If we listen deeply to our natural rhythms\, movements\, sounds and images\, we can become more fully embodied and heal the rift between psyche and soma\, body and soul. Verbal sharing will aid us in beginning to integrate our experience. Prior movement experience is not necessary. Wear comfortable clothes to allow ease of movement for this event. This workshop is limited to 24 participants.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/body-and-soul-a-spiral-dance/
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:20010518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010518T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T012212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T012212Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Manifestations in the Individuation Process
DESCRIPTION:“The body is merely the visibility of the soul\, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So it is really one and the same thing.” (Jung\, Zarathustra Seminars\, p. 355.) \nIndividuation is a second half of life process when we consciously return to our personal unconscious and our archetypal roots. We know much about working with personal unconscious material. Jung\, however\, pushes deeper in his work and invites us to research and work with archetypal forces that manifest in our personal process. These experiences are often pathologized\, although they have been experienced\, observed and discussed since the beginning of human consciousness. This lecture will discuss the importance of recognizing\, witnessing and containing these archetypal energies when they become embodied and emerge in our lives and in our analysis. Case material and video clips will help to illustrate the subject matter.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-manifestations-in-the-individuation-process/
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:20010421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010421T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T011830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T011830Z
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SUMMARY:Orphanos Exoikos: The Precarious Possibility of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will amplify the lecture’s exploration through work on dreams and a fairy tale. This approach to the neurotic and the healthy orphan amplifies Jung’s pre-occupation with “being all alone in the world\,” ie. individuation.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/orphanos-exoikos-the-precarious-possibility-of-wholeness-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:20010420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010420T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T011657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T011657Z
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SUMMARY:Orphanos Exoikos: The Precarious Possibility of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be an archetypal exploration of orphanhood as a state of soul in clinical practice\, dreams\, myth and fairy tales.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/orphanos-exoikos-the-precarious-possibility-of-wholeness/
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:20010407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010407T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T011327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T011327Z
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SUMMARY:Working With Dreams
DESCRIPTION:The half-day workshop will focus on a general study of dreams. It will begin with an overview of the scientific findings – the discovery of Rapid Eye Movement and its relationship to analytical psychology. The workshop will continue with an overview of Jung’s theory of dreams. To illustrate archetypal themes\, initial dreams will be discussed and interpreted from different vantage points.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/working-with-dreams/
LOCATION:Kaiser Permanente Town Hall\, 3704 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010406T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T011135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T013848Z
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SUMMARY:Origins of Analytical Psychology in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Jung’s analytical psychology has developed in many places in the United States and in the world. Much of the spread has been during the past quarter century. As we enter into the twenty-first century\, there has been a tendency not to remember how analytical psychology developed in this country. It is the purpose of this talk to briefly review the founding of analytical psychology in three areas: New York\, San Francisco and Los Angeles. These were the three areas in the United States where Jung’s psychology developed during the lifetime of Jung\, and as a result\, he influenced how these professional groups developed. In these localities the founders had had their analyses with Jung\, which had an important bearing on how each professional society developed. This talk will be illustrated with photos of the founders of the different Jungian societies. Implications for the state of analytical psychology today will be presented.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/origins-of-analytical-psychology-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Kaiser Permanente Town Hall\, 3704 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010317T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T010637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T010742Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Silence: The Mother of Soul
DESCRIPTION:The workshop explores the spiritual psychology of Silence. We will recover the importance of Silence for the life of images\, prayer\, healthy soul life\, inner contemplation and for the speaking of the heart. The nature of Silence is described and differentiated from solitude along with how Silence belongs to creative speaking\, the therapeutic relationship and a presence to the Soul of the World. Specific imaginal exercises will be presented that help develop sensitivity to the many layers of Silence and how to tell where you are in the region of Silence. We’ll also discuss how the rhythm of Silence opens and deepens intimate relationships and professional life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-silence-the-mother-of-soul-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:20010316T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010316T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T010353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T010717Z
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SUMMARY:Archetypal Silence: The Mother of Soul
DESCRIPTION:In Gnostic myth\, Sige\, Silence\, is the mother of Sophia\, the Soul of the World. Silence is the medium\, the matrix of soul life. We know when we are in soul when we experience an inner silence\, even though we may be speaking with others or there are sounds around us. Silence is an autonomous phenomenon\, more like a region we can learn to step into than simply the absence of noise. This weekend explores Silence as basic to soul experience. \nThe evening lecture explores the barriers to the region of silence through the imagery of the Isenheim Altar and some of the writing of St. Anthony the Great. We will see that we have to find the gateway to Silence. Guardians have to be met and faced. How these guardians function in the present world is presented\, along with suggestions concerning how to recognize them and how to honor their autonomy.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/archetypal-silence-the-mother-of-soul/
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:20010217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T005836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T013743Z
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SUMMARY:“My Name is Legion” – Archetypal Images of Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Some depth psychologists have avoided talk about the “spirit\,” preferring instead to speak about soul. But archetypal psychology may have much to teach about images of so-called “spirits\,” and especially about its shadow side\, that is\, about the dangers of spirituality to the individual and collective psyche. This workshop will explore the varieties of “spiritual” experience in everyday life and the different ways such experience is imagined. Ancient myths and religions will be explored for their stored-up treasury of images of “spirit” — images such as “wind\,” “breath\,” “fire\,” “frogs” and “pigs.”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/my-name-is-legion-archetypal-images-of-spirit/
LOCATION:OR
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010216T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010216T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T005638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T005911Z
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SUMMARY:“Testing the Spirits” – False Prophets and True Healers in the Old Age and in the New Age
DESCRIPTION:The title alludes to a saying from the Christian Bible. In its original context\, the advice to test the “spirits” implies a warning about the many varieties of spirituality promoted in the second-century world\, and it offers a warning against trusting every so-called “spirit” that advertises itself as healing. Discernment is necessary. But how can one tell one “spirit” from another? \nThis presentation will explore responses to this question from religious traditions and also from contemporary depth psychology\, since in these first days of a new millennium there are as many winds of “spirit” blowing as there were two thousand years ago. Today there is talk about this “spirituality” and that one in many realms: politics\, media\, religions\, New Age spirituality\, advertising and athletics. How is one to judge what is going on spiritually in our time? This is as perplexing a problem now as when C.G. Jung wrote in 1928: “I believe that the spirit is a dangerous thing and I do not believe in its paramouncy!”
URL:https://ofj.org/event/testing-the-spirits-false-prophets-and-true-healers-in-the-old-age-and-in-the-new-age/
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:20010120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010120T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T005053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T005053Z
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SUMMARY:Writing as Spiritual Practice
DESCRIPTION:Creating a regular space to find words that express our deepest nature is a spiritual practice. We give a name to the wild thing that leaps to mind; we give voice to the stranger in our dreams; we follow the path of our own sacred words. \nIn this workshop we will discuss how to develop a writing practice. We will listen to poems that express the sacred and use writing exercises to open ourselves to the language of soul. Participants are asked to bring a poem they love\, their own or someone else’s\, that expresses a connection to the sacred.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/writing-as-spiritual-practice-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:20010119T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20010119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190404T004927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T004423Z
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SUMMARY:Writing as Spiritual Practice
DESCRIPTION:Poetry has been an expression of soul\, a way to sing praise\, lament\, invoke\, tell stories\, pray\, since the beginning of human culture. Poets keep their ears to the ground of the changing myth; they are the instruments on which the gods play their music. It is the poets who can guide us in a time like our own\, when the myths are changing. Poets know how to follow the waves of the cultural unconscious\, how to fish in the vast waters of the collective unconscious\, bringing up treasure from the deep. \nThis talk is an act of imagination\, an articulation of an inner dialogue with the poetic Self. We will consider what poetry has to do with Jungian analysis. We will listen to the news as told by the poets\, especially those who are bringing the goddess back to consciousness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/writing-as-spiritual-practice/
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:20001209T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001209T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T023301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T023301Z
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SUMMARY:Inanna: Warrior\, priestess\, lover\, androgyne
DESCRIPTION:The variety and potency of the images of the Divine Feminine in Mesopotamia suggest that these ancient people had access to energetic expression long since stifled in men and women in the west. Because the divine beings of Mesopotamia are direct precursors of Judaism and Christianity\, they are latent in the western psyche as the shadow of an overly exclusive masculine god. We will explore through slide images\, text and discussion such shadow figures as the ecstatic priestess\, the warrior goddess\, the divine life force as sexuality\, and the androgyne\, all of whom carry a balancing potential for the traditional western individual and offer the possibility of a greatly expanded consciousness.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/inanna-warrior-priestess-lover-androgyne/
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:20001208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T023129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T023129Z
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SUMMARY:Inanna: The carved-out ground plan of heaven and earth
DESCRIPTION:The Mesopotamian goddess Inanna wears on her robe “the carved-out ground plan of heaven and earth\,” thus declaring herself to be the architect of perceived reality. Her plan\, as described by the poet and priestess Enheduanna\, encompasses both the beauty\, joy and goodness of life as well as sorrow\, tragedy\, pain\, violence and death. Inanna herself embodies paradox and creates for her human subjects all the difficult opposing forces of the outer and inner worlds. From Jung’s psychology we learn that the demanding contradictions that challenge every human being are the whet stones on which we hone our individuality and widen the circumference of our consciousness. We will explore transformative strategy of embracing dark and light\, examining this process as a gateway to understanding the Divine Feminine.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/inanna-the-carved-out-ground-plan-of-heaven-and-earth/
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:20001118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001118T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T022836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022918Z
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SUMMARY:Caves of the soul
DESCRIPTION:We will explore more intensively examples of ancient image-making and experiment with our own creative image-making efforts around personal experience of the mysterium. We will also use a fairy tale to examine a more modern expression of the age-old search for the healing connection of ego and Self.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/caves-of-the-soul-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:20001117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T022726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022726Z
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SUMMARY:Caves of the soul
DESCRIPTION:The metaphor of the cave that one enters bearing only the modest candle of one’s intention to light the unknown depths and darkness is a very apt image of the exploration of self. With that image in mind\, this lecture will retrace a recent pilgrimage to the Dordogne region of southwestern France to explore prehistoric caves and rock shelters of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon humans where painted images suggest early stages of mankind’s differentiation. We will also re-trace the traveling group’s visit to the great Cathedral at Chartres to experience another kind of “cave” made by men above the ground. These sites of exploration offer similar impressions of the perennial search in the deep places of the soul for\, and the experience of\, a transcendent Other. The lecture will discuss some of these cave sites and show slides of some of the surviving paintings. Using these images we will “go into the caves” together to examine the process of opening oneself to the personal depths of Psyche\, to the experience of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. We will explore the psychological meanings of sacred space and the “thin places” in the world where the ego and Self\, the human and the Divine\, meet in fruitful exchange.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/caves-of-the-soul/
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:20001014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001014T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T022321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022321Z
UID:35402-971517600-971535600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The vision thing: Myth\, politics and psyche in the world
DESCRIPTION:Building on the basic premises of the lecture\, this workshop will explore in greater depth the relationships between mythology\, politics and psyche. Drawing from several essays in The Vision Thing: Myth\, Politics and Psyche in the World\, we will explore the complex intermingling of mythological themes\, psychological forces and political conflicts in contemporary life. Everywhere we look — be it politics\, sports\, economics or entertainment — the experience of our individual and collective lives is permeated by the interplay of myth and psyche. The workshop will examine several “case studies” that tease out these relationships. Some of the material includes: the feminine in politics; race relations in America; ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Pol Pot’s Cambodian genocide; the relationship between myth and vision in leadership; the link between Alexander the Great and cyberspace; and the challenge of practicing politics in the economic myth. Even the Wizard of Oz has an honored place in the exploration of The Vision Thing.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-vision-thing-myth-politics-and-psyche-in-the-world-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:20001013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T022048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022048Z
UID:35398-971465400-971472600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The vision thing: Myth\, politics and psyche in the world
DESCRIPTION:George Bush\, the elder\, did not have in mind the fundamental interconnectedness of myth\, politics and psyche when he inadvertently coined the phrase “the vision thing.” Yet\, the very awkwardness of Bush’s phrase points to the inherent tension between the real and the visionary between the conscious and unconscious. Indeed\, the “vision thing” problem is at the heart of ongoing paradoxes in our individual and collective lives and in our mythological and political orientations. This lecture will explore the “vision thing” through examples from contemporary American and international political conflicts.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-vision-thing-myth-politics-and-psyche-in-the-world/
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:20001005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T021610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T023503Z
UID:35393-970774200-970781400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Special Program: Bone:  Dying into life
DESCRIPTION:Marion Woodman is renowned as a chronicler of women’s experience. In her latest work\, she combines her trademark insight with a personal lesson in wisdom and strength. On November 7\, 1993\, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Bone is the story\, told in journal form\, of her illness and healing and the journey to transforming herself. \nMore than a meditation on illness\, Bone offers insights into healing and the role of art and poetry in the soul’s journey toward balance and wholeness. Woodman is extraordinarily honest about the factors she feels led her down the path to cancer\, physically and spiritually\, over the course of her early life. She also details the harrowing aspects of her journey and how she ultimately returned to health. Filled with art\, line drawings\, quotations from Rumi\, Emily Dickinson\, William Blake and others\, Bone is a unique and sensitive testament to the human spirit and to the courage of this extraordinary woman.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/bone-dying-into-life/
LOCATION:1615 SW 5th Ave\, Portland\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Special Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000923T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T021106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T023558Z
UID:35390-969703200-969721200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Transforming depression: Healing the soul through creativity\, egocide\, symbolic death\, and new life
DESCRIPTION:This format will allow for the in-depth presentation and discussion of an actual case (a depressed and suicidal patient). Participants will learn how the egocide and transformation model is applied and how it works. The patient\, guided by the analyst\, symbolically kills (or analyzes to death) negative aspects of the ego and shadow (egocide and shadowcide) and the related depressive and suicidal state is transformed through the creative arts. \nSuicide is literally a dead end. Whereas\, egocide involves a symbolic death and rebirth experience. Egocide and transformation allows the suffering melancholic individual to live\, heal the soul through creativity and find meaning in life.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/transforming-depression-healing-the-soul-through-creativity-egocide-symbolic-death-and-new-life-2/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Fireside Room\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190410T020843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T020843Z
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SUMMARY:Transforming depression: Healing the soul through creativity\, egocide\, symbolic death\, and new life
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will cover: understanding depression and the quest for meaning\, knowing suicide and its creative potential\, and egocide and transformation (an innovative Jungian humanistic therapeutic paradigm). Egocide and transformation entails healing depressive and suicidal states through the creative technique of active imagination. In other words\, the symbolic death of a destructive ego (and shadow) — ‘the false self’ — and the subsequent creative expressions lead to the birth of the ‘true self.’ Dr. Rosen will also talk about crisis points (such as adolescence\, mid-life\, divorce and loss of a loved one) and how egocide can help.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/transforming-depression-healing-the-soul-through-creativity-egocide-symbolic-death-and-new-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:20000601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20210521T023103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T034956Z
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SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Member Meeting
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URL:https://ofj.org/event/light-hearted-evening-3/
LOCATION:West Hills Unitarian Fellowship\, 8470 SW Oleson Rd\, Portland\, United States
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000513T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T033504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T000002Z
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SUMMARY:Dreams  as the Journey With the Soul; Working with Jung’s “Confrontation With the Unconscious” from Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections and “Stages of Life”
DESCRIPTION:The Saturday workshop will consider the many ways in which dreams\, as provided by participants\, capture both the crucial moments of a life process representing both hurdles and possibilities. Giannini divides Jung’s two stages of life into four quadrants based on typology’s Compass of the Soul as a framework for exploring how our dreams play into and through our critical life transitions. Participants are urged to prepare by reading the chapter entitled “Confrontation with the Unconscious” in Jung’s Memories\, Dreams\, and Reflectionsand “Stages of Life” in the Collected Works\, and also by bringing their own dreams to share.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-as-the-journey-with-the-soul-working-with-jungs-confrontation-with-the-unconscious-from-memories-dreams-reflections-and-stages-of-life/
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:20000512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T033334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T033334Z
UID:35608-958159800-958167000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Dreams as the Journey With the Soul
DESCRIPTION:The Friday lecture\, entitled “The Hundredth Dreamer”\, will outline the historical and cultural factors and attitudes that\, in effect\, have eclipsed dreamwork in Western society\, in spite of the work of Freudians and Jungians. These factors have typological characteristics that have produced resistances to the type of consciousness needed for dreamwork\, namely introverted\, intuitive\, and feeling traits. We will see this in Jung’s early life\, as described by him in his 1925 seminar. It will be shown how these resistances have dampened dreamwork in our society and how they often appear within a dream consciousness and content.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/dreams-as-the-journey-with-the-soul/
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:20000415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000415T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T032936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T034832Z
UID:35606-955792800-955810800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Tao of Story: From Dracula to Bodhisattva - Exploring the Myths\, Fairy Tales\, Legends\, and Favorite Stories by Which We Live
DESCRIPTION:The Saturday workshop grapples with the remaining three narrative crises. First is wandering among stories — after we escape a stuck plot\, we must find another to live by\, but often do not know how to choose\, and so end up drifting indecisively among different tales. The biblical story of Babel and the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty dramatize the relativism and fragmentation of the situation\, especially painful at midlife and in our postmodern time. The nine Muses from ancient Greece help here by revealing the logic of stories\, which gives us criteria by which we can judge among tales\, separating better from worse\, true from false. The next narrative quandary is failing a story\, and is exemplified by Sisyphus and King Arthur\, who both follow specific scripts\, but fail to reach their chosen ending. How to transform such failed dramas is the subject of the Buddhist tale\, “The Brave Parrot”\, and the Jewish story\, “The Golden Tree\,” which dwell on what might be called the practice and spirit of story. The fourth and perhaps most difficult narrative dilemma is being wounded by a story. The Flying Dutchman\, Tristan and Isolde\, and the Fisher King illustrate such wounding tales\, where a desire or quest can never be attained. Goethe’s “Faust” and a Tibetan story\, “The Old Meditator\,” reveal an unexpected resolution to this painful plight in what can be turned “attunement” to the “soul of story\,” which closely resembles spiritual illumination. Throughout the lecture and workshop various exercises will help us explore the myths\, fairy tales\, legends and favorite stories we live by\, and how we can use them deal with our stuck\, lost\, failed and wounding life tales.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tao-of-story-from-dracula-to-bodhisattva-exploring-the-myths-fairy-tales-legends-and-favorite-stories-by-which-we-live/
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:20000414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000414T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T032819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032819Z
UID:35602-955740600-955747800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Tao of Story: From Dracula to Bodhisattva
DESCRIPTION:Stories inspire and shape our lives\, from the archetypal dramas we unconsciously enact\, to the jokes we make about the boss at work. Yet stories also plague us\, and this weekend’s lecture and workshop will focus on four such problematic situations. \nThe Friday evening lecture addresses the problem of being stuck in a story\, endlessly repeating the same script — a plight dramatize by Dracula\, who was compelled by the vampire curse to feed on the living. Fortunately Scheherazade from “The Thousand and One Arabian Nights” shows a way out of stuck stories\, by using the psychology of five fundamental genres of narrative — myth\, fact\, fairy tale\, legend\, and the favorite tale: transformation results from experiencing each genre in that specific order — a sequence characteristic of initiation rituals.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-tao-of-story-from-dracula-to-bodhisattva/
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:20000318T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T032435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032435Z
UID:35599-953373600-953391600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Psychological and Spiritual Problem of Giving Yourself Away; Working With the Tale of “Rumpelstiltskin”
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will examine the basic assumption that the mother is the single most important influence on her child’s development (exclusive of father\, peers\, and the cultural surroundings)\, and show how and why it is wrong and misleading. Drawing especially on Jung’s theory of the Divine Child archetype and the history of motherhood\, the workshop will offer a new interpretation of the traditional fairy tale\, Rumpelstilskin to show how and why the idealization of mothers and children serves us so badly. There will be ample time for discussion and a variety of film clips to illustrate the psychological consequences of “hothouse mothering”.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-psychological-and-spiritual-problem-of-giving-yourself-away-working-with-the-tale-of-rumpelstiltskin/
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:20000317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000317T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T002452
CREATED:20190420T032235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032235Z
UID:35595-953321400-953328600@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Psychological and Spiritual Problem of Giving Yourself Away
DESCRIPTION:Women often agonize over a single question – am I too selfish? – struggling with the belief that focusing on ourselves is selfish when it comes to spiritual or religious concerns. \nAll religions instruct us to pay close attention to our intentions and actions in order to become responsible for our ethical and spiritual development. And yet\, women have been uniformly discouraged in acquiring a knowledge of self-determination in their major life roles.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-psychological-and-spiritual-problem-of-giving-yourself-away/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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