Season: Spring 2012

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

The God Complex

Glen Slater
Jan, 13 2012
Notions of divinity are psychoactive. Whether one is a believer, an atheist, an agnostic, a spiritual seeker or a student of religion, it is difficult to contemplate questions of God without significant investment in the answers. This lecture will discuss the “complex” psychology of our response to the God topic. It will show how a ... Read more
Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

God: Finding a Perspective for Our Time

Glen Slater
Jan, 14 2012
The role that religion continues to play in today’s secular world is distressing to some and comforting to others. Jung’s notion of a “religious instinct” and his understanding of the “God-image” in the psyche provide a point of entry into the controversy and a fitting perspective for our times. Through viewing film clips, personal reflection ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

Exploring the Visual Language of the Unconscious

Jane Zich
Feb, 17 2012
The realm of psyche is immeasurably great and filled with living reality. -C.G. Jung In her lecture, Jane Zich will explore the “living reality” of the psyche as evidenced in the visual language of the unconscious that emerges in depth psychotherapy, dreams, films, and extended active imagination processes. She will use paintings from her Vision Journey series ... Read more
Workshop - Tualatin Hills Nature Park Interpretive Center

Opening the Gift

Jane Zich
Feb, 18 2012
This workshop is designed to foster an experiential exploration of the material presented in Friday’s lecture.   After choosing a personal “orienting intention” for the workshop, everyone will select a wrapped gift.  Before unwrapping the gift, we will take time to expl ore our expectations, thoughts, feelings, intuitions, sensory impressions, and attitudes stirred by this “unknown other,” ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

The “Spiritualized Earth” and the Birth of the New Consciousness

Patricia Damery
Mar, 16 2012
“the psychological problem of today is a spiritual problem, a religious problem…” —C. G. Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interview and Encounters, “Does the World stand on the Verge of Spiritual Rebirth?” Suffering the trials of her individuation process and initiation as a Jungian analyst as well as those of a concurrent farming crisis, Patricia Damery found answers ... Read more
Workshop - Audubon Society - Heron Room

The “Spiritualized Earth” and the Birth of the New Consciousness

Patricia Damery
Mar, 17 2012
A continuation of Friday’s lecture, we will learn how both Jung and Steiner came to Goethe, as well as more fully discuss principles common to both: the law of polarity, the law of diversity, and the importance of boundaries, whether those boundaries be in the human psyche, of a farm, or in the consulting room. ... Read more
Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary

Understanding Our Moment in History: An Archetypal Perspective

Richard Tarnas
Apr, 20 2012
 Our time is pervaded by a great paradox. On the one hand, we see signs of an unprecedented level of engaged global awareness, moral sensitivity to the human and non-human community, psychological self-awareness, and spiritually informed philosophical pluralism. On the other hand, we confront the most critical, and in some respects catastrophic, state of the ... Read more
Workshop - First Unitarian Church Main Street Sanctuary

Understanding Our Moment in History: An Archetypal Perspective

Richard Tarnas
Apr, 21 2012
This will be a deeper examination of the ideas raised in the Friday night lecture: Our time is pervaded by a great paradox. On the one hand, we see signs of an unprecedented level of engaged global awareness, moral sensitivity to the human and non-human community, psychological self-awareness, and spiritually informed philosophical pluralism. On the ... Read more
Annual-meeting - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Light-Hearted Evening and Annual Meeting: The Waking Dream: Poetry’s Everyday Life

Paulann Petersen
May, 18 2012
OFJ members and their guests are invited to our annual meeting.  The keynote speaker for this event will be poet, PAULANN PETERSEN, speaking on “THE WAKING DREAM: POETRY’S EVERYDAY LIFE.”  FRIDAY, MAY 18, 7:00 TO 9:30 PM, AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, COLLINS HALL, 1838 SW JEFFERSON, PORTLAND.  This is also an opportunity to meet the board, honor ... Read more

“For where is a height without a depth, and how can there be light that throws no shadow? There is no good that is not opposed by evil”

Collected Works, Vol 20, para 271

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