Season: Spring 1998

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Jung and the Split Feminine: A Psychohistorical Exploration of the Building of a Theory

Peter Mudd
Jan, 16 1998
In Memories, Dreams and Reflections, Jung describes his own early life as a gravely troubled period in his individuation. Nowhere is this disturbance more profound than in his relationship with his mother, which Jung himself describes as deeply split, highly conflicted, and fraught with anxiety. The consequences of this most primary of Jung’s relationships shaped ... Read more
Lecture - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Great Hall

The New Mary Magdalene

Bradley A. TePaske
Feb, 20 1998
The true identity of Mary Magdalene – an alleged prostitute, visionary and the disciple who Jesus loved the most – is as elusive as the biblical, Gnostic and popular accounts of her are diverse. With the help of a remarkably varied collection of some 120 images from the history of European painting, fascinating new scriptural ... Read more
Workshop - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Fireside Room

The New Mary Magdalene

Bradley A. TePaske
Feb, 21 1998
The workshop will review the nature and origins of Western Gnosticism, Jung’s fascination with the subject, and the varied mythical contexts in which the Gnostic Magdalene appears. We will carefully consider the visionary “Gospel of Mary” (from the Nag Hammadi Library), as well as the Gnostic myth of Sophia’s descent from supercelestial origins to become ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

The Relationship Between Psychology and Architecture: The Interaction Between the Built Outer World and the Humane Inner World

Ruth Ammann
Mar, 20 1998
We have to consider the fact that houses are works of people for people. Architecture and psychology are inseparably bound together. If we build a simple little hut in our garden or if we are planning and constructing a complicated building, the psyche of the architect or worker is always involved. The symbol of the ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

The Relationship Between Psychology and Architecture: The Interaction Between the Built Outer World and the Humane Inner World

Ruth Ammann
Mar, 21 1998
We have to consider the fact that houses are works of people for people. Architecture and psychology are inseparably bound together. If we build a simple little hut in our garden or if we are planning and constructing a complicated building, the psyche of the architect or worker is always involved. The symbol of the ... Read more
Lecture - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Fireside Room

Creation and Recreation: Ancient Egypt and Modern Life

Beverley Zabriskie
Apr, 24 1998
The engaged and considered life demands many beginnings. The multiple creation myths of the most mindful of peoples, the ancient Egyptians, not only addressed their questions about the origins and nature of the universe and human life, but offered stirring images for the first and continuous emergences of physical awareness, psychic consciousness, creative reflection and ... Read more
Workshop - Westminister Presbyterian Church - Fireside Room

The Depth Psychology of Ancient Egypt

Beverley Zabriskie
Apr, 25 1998
Five thousand years ago, vital Egyptian minds were expressing humankind’s concerns about the know, the unknown, and the unknowable. Just as we do, they confronted tensions between order and chaos, and sought balance between harmony and tension, attraction and aggression, good and evil, life and death, light and dark, mortal time and a timeless eternal. ... Read more
Special-event - Portland Art Museum

The Splendors of Ancient Egypt

Beverley Zabriskie
Apr, 26 1998
In the beauty and grace of their art, the ancient Egyptians created images which expressed some of the simple truths about the well-lived life and the most profound hopes about an ongoing life after death. The objects of their daily routines, their animals, and their gods were imagined and approached as vital representations of the ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Merlin-Jung Enchained

Pauline Napier
May, 15 1998
From Heinrich Zimmer’s The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil, this lecture will make a first attempt to explore the story of Merlin’s enchainment by the goddess with that of Jung’s enchainment by the anima.. What relationship, if any, does this phenomenon play in the connection that a man has ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Room 202

In Search Of

Pauline Napier
May, 16 1998
There are multitudinous ways in which the soul reveals itself for each individual. During the day-long workshop, we will journey into the past as a way of bringing to consciousness the ground out of which one’s individual soul – one’s individual myth – emerged. Each participant is asked to bring a journal and some form ... Read more

“The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.”

Collected Works, Vol 8, para 187

Sign Up for our Newsletter