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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:20260704T035337
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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:20260704T035337
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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:20260704T035337
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:20260704T035337
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001118T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
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:20260704T035337
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001014T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190410T022321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022321Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001013T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190410T022048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T022048Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20001005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190410T021610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T023503Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000923T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190410T021106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T023558Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20210521T023103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T034956Z
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SUMMARY:Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000513T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000512T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T033334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T033334Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000415T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T032936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T034832Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000414T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T032819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032819Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000318T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000317T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T032235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T032235Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000219T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T031820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190421T185107Z
UID:35593-950954400-950972400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Anima\, Animus and the Ego-Self Axis
DESCRIPTION:Saturday will begin with a viewing of Nicholas Roeg’s groundbreaking movie Walkabout. We shall then discuss the way in which the animus attempts to open a young woman to world she has never known\, how she responds\, and how it ends up. We shall then look at the cultures the film brings together\, and how they fare in coming to terms with each other. Finally\, we shall question why the film was severely cut in its original release\, how the director’s cut restores the original intent of the film\, and what it means to us today.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/anima-animus-and-the-ego-self-axis/
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:20000218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000218T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T031553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T031553Z
UID:35591-950902200-950909400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The Archetypal Dynamics of Relationships
DESCRIPTION:How is it that relationships\, which bring us the greatest joy in life\, also confront us with the greatest difficulties? Why do so many of us simply give up in the face of the humiliating hurts that relationships engender? Well\, acording to Jung\, it’s all in the service of our individuation. The more conscious we are of the dynamics at work in relationships\, the less turbulent will be their effects on us. In a little-known section of Volume VII of the Collected Works [para 374-406]\, Jung speaks of the “mana personality.” This archetypal element holds the key to understanding why relationships can become problematic. This weekend we shall look at the dynamics of relationship. We shall focus particularly on the anima and animus\, those bridge dynamics that connect the ego with the Self.  \nFriday night we’ll review Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair\, which can either be read in book form or seen in the movie (currently in release). What can we learn from a man’s encounter with the Self\, as facilitated by his anima\, which is fixated on a woman with whom he is having an affair?
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-archetypal-dynamics-of-relationships/
LOCATION:Kaiser Permanente Town Hall\, 3704 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T031122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190421T185336Z
UID:35589-948535200-948553200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Relationships: The Psychodynamics of Self and Other; What Creates Our Attractions\, Our Patterns\, Our Yearnings\, Our Repetitions?
DESCRIPTION:We will seek to discern\, through a series of questions and exercises\, the sense of “self\,” the percepts about the Other\, and the transactions which have been generated by our history. What creates our attractions\, our patterns\, our yearnings\, our repetitions? These are the open-ended questions we shall examine together.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/relationships-the-psychodynamics-of-self-and-other-what-creates-our-attractions-our-patterns-our-yearnings-our-repetitions/
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:20000121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20000121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190420T030851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T030851Z
UID:35587-948483000-948490200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Relationships: The Psychodynamics of Self and Other
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between Self and Other carries always the imprint of first relationships. In any present relationship we are inevitably inmeshed in the psychological mechanisms of projection and transference of the primal\, intrapsychic imago of relationship. This lecture will explore the mechanisms of the projection/transference dynamics\, “the Eden project”\, which our hidden agenda embodies\, and the search for the Magical Other.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/relationships-the-psychodynamics-of-self-and-other/
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:19991211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T032314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T032314Z
UID:35968-944906400-944924400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Nowhere is the confluence of the relationship between matter and psyche more clearly expressed than in the formation of patterns. Existing within both the internal world of psyche and the outer natural world\, archetypal patterns are expressions of an innate ordering process which gives matter its specific form and design. We find these deeply textured patterns present within the world of fairy tales\, myths\, and dreams. We can see similar archetypal patterns expressed in our architectural designs\, cities\, cultures\, and even on a personal level in our choice of spouse\, employee\, or therapist. In fact\, with a discerning eye\, we can often intuit the expression of the destiny that is suggested by the patterns established within our lives. \nIn this lecture and workshop Dr. Conforti will discuss the formation of patterns and their relationship to archetypes. Much attention will be given to the work of what he terms “Archetypal Pattern Recognition”\, and its application with the therapeutic\, personal\, corporate and global arenas.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/patterning-in-the-psyche-and-the-natural-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:19991210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T031931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T031931Z
UID:35964-944854200-944861400@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Nowhere is the confluence of the relationship between matter and psyche more clearly expressed than in the formation of patterns. Existing within both the internal world of psyche and the outer natural world\, archetypal patterns are expressions of an innate ordering process which gives matter its specific form and design. We find these deeply textured patterns present within the world of fairy tales\, myths\, and dreams. We can see similar archetypal patterns expressed in our architectural designs\, cities\, cultures\, and even on a personal level in our choice of spouse\, employee\, or therapist. In fact\, with a discerning eye\, we can often intuit the expression of the destiny that is suggested by the patterns established within our lives. \nIn this lecture and workshop Dr. Conforti will discuss the formation of patterns and their relationship to archetypes. Much attention will be given to the work of what he terms “Archetypal Pattern Recognition”\, and its application with the therapeutic\, personal\, corporate and global arenas.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/patterning-in-the-psyche-and-the-natural-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:19991120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991120T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T032533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T032533Z
UID:35971-943092000-943110000@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The House as a Mirror of the Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the evening lecture will be explored in greater depth. Participants will be involved in a number of experiental exercises to understand the significance of dwelling places in their lives. The workshop format will be a combination of lecture\, discussion\, and personal sharing in small groups.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-house-as-a-mirror-of-the-self-exploring-the-deeper-meaning-of-home-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:19991119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T031512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T031512Z
UID:35960-942998400-943030800@ofj.org
SUMMARY:The House as a Mirror of the Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marcus will speak on themes raised in her book House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the deeper meaning of home. Her talk\, illustrated with slides of her subject’s art work\, will explore various ways in which the psyche is expressed in the choice\, decoration\, and maintenance of a dwelling.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/the-house-as-a-mirror-of-the-self-exploring-the-deeper-meaning-of-home/
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:19991024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T031053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T031053Z
UID:35958-940759200-940777200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Paradise and Millennium: A Jungian Reflection on Cinematic Images of the Perfection of Soul in Times of Intense Collective Transition
DESCRIPTION:We all long for paradise. No matter our psycho-spiritual persuasion\, no matter how mature and individuated we fancy ourselves to be\, no matter how suavely world-wise\, we all long for paradise when things get tough. Paradise is home\, the peaceful\, generative home of full and final beauty and peace we never seem to find in this world. Paradise is the abode of the Soul. \nFilm and Jungian psychology have many images of this paradisiacal home. These seem to be intensifying and deepening as the millennium approaches. This lecture and workshop will respectfully explore these images and reflect on their possible guidance and challenge in our journey toward the Gates of Paradise. As always with such conversations\, no answers are promised\, just a broadening and enhancing of our questions.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/paradise-and-millennium-a-jungian-reflection-on-cinematic-images-of-the-perfection-of-soul-in-times-of-intense-collective-transition-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:19991023T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:19991023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260704T035337
CREATED:20190501T030850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T030850Z
UID:35956-940707000-940714200@ofj.org
SUMMARY:Paradise and Millennium: A Jungian Reflection on Cinematic Images of the Perfection of Soul in Times of Intense Collective Transition
DESCRIPTION:We all long for paradise. No matter our psycho-spiritual persuasion\, no matter how mature and individuated we fancy ourselves to be\, no matter how suavely world-wise\, we all long for paradise when things get tough. Paradise is home\, the peaceful\, generative home of full and final beauty and peace we never seem to find in this world. Paradise is the abode of the Soul. \nFilm and Jungian psychology have many images of this paradisiacal home. These seem to be intensifying and deepening as the millennium approaches. This lecture and workshop will respectfully explore these images and reflect on their possible guidance and challenge in our journey toward the Gates of Paradise. As always with such conversations\, no answers are promised\, just a broadening and enhancing of our questions.
URL:https://ofj.org/event/paradise-and-millennium-a-jungian-reflection-on-cinematic-images-of-the-perfection-of-soul-in-times-of-intense-collective-transition/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, Collins Hall\, 1838 SW Jefferson Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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