Season: Fall 1998

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Psyche at Work

Murray Stein
Sep, 18 1998
Almost everyone participates in work groups and organizations. Often more time and energy is spent in these contexts than anywhere else. Individuals can be wounded by the power of organizations and the organizational unconscious. The question is how to grow and benefit from these involvements. The individual person’s unconscious and the unconscious of the organization ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Practicing Wholeness

Murray Stein
Sep, 19 1998
Wholeness is the goal of Jungian analysis. Indeed it is the psychological goal of life itself. It is also something that one must practice daily and in many ways. This workshop/seminar will be based on Murray Stein’s book Practicing Wholeness and will also focus on: Human nature and the practice of wholeness Wholeness and the ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Celtic Otherworld Journeys

Sylvia Brinton Perera
Oct, 16 1998
The ancient Irish, Welsh, and Scots storytellers left us a rich collection of myths dealing with the relations between the interpenetrating realms of nature and the supernatural. One category of their art deals with the journeys that adventurers, kings, and pilgrims make into the timeless Otherworld of the Land of Promise, what we would call ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Rites of the Celtic Cult of Sacred Waters

Sylvia Brinton Perera
Oct, 17 1998
The Celts believed that Otherworld powers are available to us when we journey to healing wellsprings and carry out the ancient rituals that attune us to the source. These rites are analogous to the therapeutic journey of Jungian psychanalysis. We will consider the eightfold steps and how they may apply to the healing of our ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Australian Aboriginal Dreaming: How It Works and What it Has to Teach Us

Craig San Roque
Nov, 13 1998
You may be familiar with the concept of the Australian Aboriginal Dreaming or creation stories through Bruce Chatwin’s novel The Song Lines, or through Australian Aboriginal art works or popular films and novels which convey something of the mystery and exoticism of Aboriginal Culture. This illustrated lecture will help introduce people who live on the ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

“Dead Drunk, Good God”: The Myth of Dionysus as a Basis for Understanding and Dealing With Substance Abuse

Craig San Roque
Nov, 14 1998
This workshop will continue from the basis of an understanding of how ancient aboriginal creation stories work, but take it into the European domain by introducing participants to the way ancient European creation stories operate in ways similar to the aboriginal. This will include showing a video performance and documentary video of The Sugarman Project, ... Read more
Workshop - Reed College Kaul Auditorium

The Maiden King: The Triumph of the Feminine

Marion Woodman
Robert Bly
Nov, 19 1998
Robert Bly and Marion Woodman interpret the deep psychological insights imbedded in ancient stories, in this case a Russian folktale about bringing feminine energy back into the world. The Maiden King tells of an absent father, a possessive stepmother, a false tutor, and a young man overwhelmed by a beautiful maiden and her thirty sisters, ... Read more
Lecture - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Great Hall

Cin-Imago Dei: Images of Soul in Contemporary Film

Terrill Gibson
Dec, 04 1998
What is the Soul? Where is the Soul? How do you discover Soul? Or “make” Soul? Is it possible to lose the Soul? Does the Soul have any special relationship with the body or the earth? These perceptual theological questions will be explored through the lens of contemporary cinema and Jungian psychology. If cinema is ... Read more
Workshop - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Forest Hall

Cin-Imago Dei: Images of Soul in Contemporary Film

Terrill Gibson
Dec, 05 1998
What is the Soul? Where is the Soul? How do you discover Soul? Or “make” Soul? Is it possible to lose the Soul? Does the Soul have any special relationship with the body or the earth? These perceptual theological questions will be explored through the lens of contemporary cinema and Jungian psychology. If cinema is ... Read more

“The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden, happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his wanderings among the mazes of his psychic transformation, comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles him to his apparent loneliness.”

Collected Works, Vol 14, para 623

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