Season: Fall 2010

Lecture - Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Cosmic Dreams

Melanie Starr Costello
Sep, 17 2010
Jung made the distinction between the personal dream and the big dream, noting that, while the personal dream helps us maintain day-to-day psychic balance, the big dream concerns universal human problems and occurs during critical phases of life.  We will explore the images, symbols, and callings stemming from dreams that appear at critical junctures and ... Read more
Workshop - Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Cosmic Dreams

Melanie Starr Costello
Sep, 18 2010
The workshop provides a deeper examination of the ideas presented in the Friday night lecture.
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Everyday Life

Morgan Stebbins
Oct, 22 2010
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Thodol, is a manual or guide for the 49-day period between a person’s death and their next rebirth.  Written in Tibet in the middle ages, it describes the entities and experiences that await all of us in the bardo, or the in-between.  Many strange and scary things happen ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Everyday Life

Morgan Stebbins
Oct, 23 2010
Our workshop will make it clear that The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not just for the dead!  Using Jungian tools to decipher the text we will see just how and when we can act to change our patterns of behavior during the critical “bardo” or in-between phases of experience.  Our extra time will give us ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism

Jacqueline West
Nov, 12 2010
The American psyche has typically been seen as narcissistic. Indeed, we readily identify with the heroic, the good, and the brave. However, these noble portraits cast a long shadow. In this Friday evening lecture, Dr. West will supplement a Jungian exploration of this complex reality with slides and discussion about the works of a contemporary European artist, ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism

Jacqueline West
Nov, 13 2010
In the Saturday workshop, we will turn to a more in depth discussion about how individual and collective trauma underlie the development of character structures. Again, with reference to the work of Anselm Kiefer, we will see how these images evoke a shudder, a chilling recognition of the devastation left by the eruption of the ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

Stories Told, Stories Untold, Stories that Tell Us

James Hollis
Dec, 03 2010
Our lives course with stories – stories that run through us from ancestors, stories we tell others and tell ourselves, and stories of which we are unaware and thereby tell us.   We will reflect on the role these stories play in the shaping of our lives, and how they invite us to greater consciousness of ... Read more

“Happily, nature sees to it that the unconscious contents will irrupt into consciousness sooner or later and create the necessary confusion.”

Collected Works, Vol 14, para 672

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