Season: Spring 2005

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

Symbolic Images and Energies of Inner Transformation

Steven M. Joseph
Jan, 21 2005
In a time of cultural fragmentation and danger, many of us yearn for wisdom and practical guidance that can help us live meaningful lives. Such wisdom and direction must speak directly to our inner lives as individuals at least as much as to our outer conduct in the world and our relations with others. Contemporary ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Symbolic Images and Energies of Inner Transformation

Steven M. Joseph
Jan, 22 2005
On Saturday, we will look at an all-encompassing “circumambulatory” transformation, as depicted in an important set of Renaissance alchemical illustrations. All three of these image systems function much like dream images which can facilitate a dialogue in depth between consciousness and the unconscious. These systems belong to psychological and spiritual lineages, which promote practical ways ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

Aphrodite’s Shadow in Beverly Hills and Hollywood

Bradley A. TePaske and Arlene TePaske-Landau
Feb, 11 2005
No mere sculpted image or poetic fragment from ancient time, Aphrodite lives mightily today in the lilt, glance, style, indeed — in the Fate of countless women and the bedazzled admirers who pursue her. Whatever Aphrodite’s claim to Beauty and the ‘erotic moment,’ hers is a shifting image whose nocturnal associations may have as much ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Dionysus and Aphrodite: Desire and the Search for Beauty

Bradley A. TePaske and Arlene TePaske-Landau
Feb, 12 2005
From Socrates or Euripides to the Inquisition to Jim Morrison or the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the irresistible power of Dionysus plays essentially the same role. Arousing erotic desires, fomenting revolt, conjuring visionary experience, Dionysus unveils religious dimensions of sexuality and the body that normative institutions invariably condemn. While the cosmos of Dionysus includes an ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

The Father: Who Is He?

Luigi Zoja
Mar, 11 2005
The Image and Reality of the Father has been increasingly precarious in this past century. From the American and French Revolution, through the Industrial Revolution in which men were demoted to chain workers, on to the experience of the young father as veteran by way of two World Wars and the Vietnam war, and witness ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

The Father: Who Is He?

Luigi Zoja
Mar, 12 2005
Three classical characters: Hector of the Iliad, Ulysses of the Odyssey, and Aeneas of the Aeneid will illustrate the ambivalence between man as Father and man as Competitive Male. A series of slides will show images of fathers in different places and times. They represent many gradations, from authoritarian to soft, and should offer opportunity ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

The Jewel in the Wound

Rose-Emily Rothenberg
Apr, 15 2005
The body plays an integral role in the expression of personal myth. Exploring the symbolic dimension of a body symptom helps to unravel the mystery of wounding and healing that lies hidden within the symptom itself. Dreams, visions and artwork will be utilized to bring meaning to such manifestations. Within this context, Ms. Rothenberg will ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Body Symptoms in Individuation

Rose-Emily Rothenberg
Apr, 16 2005
Physical illness presents us with a challenge: to turn something problematic into something meaningful. Early primal experiences are manifest both psychologically and physiologically through one’s life journey. Suffering cannot be avoided when traveling the road of individuation; yet renewal is born out of the darkness of the unconscious and of the body. This workshop will ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Joseph Campbell and One’s Personal Mythos

Dennis Patrick Slattery
May, 14 2005
“Metaphor is the language of myth.” (Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor) Morning Session From September 1954 to August 1955, the well-known mythologist Joseph Campbell made a year long pilgrimage to India, then on to southeast Asia and Japan. In that journey he slowly realized what his life’s work was to be. Looking together at ... Read more

“The task is to give birth into the old in a new time.”

The Red Book, page 311

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