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The psychohistorian Christopher Lasch was a critic of narcissistic culture of America. This lecture examines some of his notions in the light of some Jungian perspectives. While we may easily note grandiosity and self-centeredness as symptoms of narcissism, its subtle shadow of sanctimony is less easily detected. Immediate gratification may also be an easy marker, but unresolved grief and attendant sadness, emptiness, less so. And we may wonder if the flight from sadness and into gratification and comfort signifies a cultural collective loss of our faith in the future. This evening will explore these themes with lecture and discussion.

Kayta (Kathleen Curzie) Gajdos, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania weaving Jungian psychological themes with her training in Bowenian Family Therapy. She is also an adjunct professor for the Vermont College of Norwich University’s graduate long distance learning program and has been a long time presenter at Temenos Retreat Center in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Being outside in nature enlivens and centers her, so when she is not working inside, she tries to be outside playing!

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To live our lives to our fullest potential we must wrestle with what Jung called our “complexes” - those highly charged, negative ways of feeling and thinking that keep us constricted and self-limited. What does it take to “wrestle” with our complexes until we have found a hidden blessing in them? How can we find life, wisdom, and joy in the very parts of ourselves that continually block and thwart us? Using the story of Jacob wrestling a blessing from a dark angel found in the Book of Genesis - as well as material from clinical vignettes and dreams - we will explore the blessings that can be found in our struggles with the most difficult parts of ourselves.

Dr. Phillip Bennett, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in Center City, Philadelphia and Rosemont, PA. He is Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Care and Counseling at Neumann College, Aston, PA, and is the author of Let Yourself Be Loved, (Paulist Press, 1997).

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In the late 1900’s (Meji Restoration) the “Martial Ways” in Japan were subject to a transformation. Adapting to cultural change, the Japanese martial arts survived by finding purposeful relevance given to them by the cultural genius of the respective masters: Kano Sensei for Judo in physical education, Funakoshi Sensei for Karate as a sport, and Uyeshiba Sensei for Aikido and Spiritual Growth. Aikido is a modern martial art derived from Aikijujitsu, an ancient martial art that was originated in Japan by the Samurai caste (approximately 1000 A.D.). Aikido was created by Uyeshiba Sensei and taught publicly for the first time in 1926. The literal translation of Aikido is: The Way of Harmony with Universal (all kinds of) Power. Because Aikido is not a sport or method of physical education, its exponents consider it the closest system that expresses the philosophy of Budo, which means “to stop weapons”. In fact, the system we will discuss (Yoshinkai Aikido) is taught to the Japanese Secret Service and the Riot Police. For its spirituality, Aikido is still a formidable martial art. It is unique in that it holds the importance of nonaggression and harmonious relationships with each other as the most prominent aspect of its teaching. There is no competition in Aikido and the roles assumed by the practitioner is either one of (in Jungian terms) the Ego (or “Shite”) or the Shadow (or “Uke”). The “Shite” is the person that does the Aikido movement and the “Uke” is the one who attacks and “breaks the harmony of the universe”. By assuming and constantly alternating in the practice of the roles of Shite and Uke, the Shadow becomes more and more assimilated. The result is increased tolerance of individual differences and the ability to see the greater self in each other. In advanced practice, it is the authentic self that is expressed more so than the ego. The highest expression of the art is paradoxically not to use physical technique. Its founder, Uyeshiba Sensei, was described as the most religious and greatest martial artist of his era, and out of this duality he created modern Aikido in his mature years. While Aikido is not a religion, it is comparable with the major religions. Modern society can benefit from Aikido since Aikido can best be understood by “doing” the practice of Aikido. It is a way to kinesthetically assimilate the abstract concepts of Budo and other eastern metaphysical systems. Even Christianity (“turn the other cheek”) is represented in the Aikido system, except that the cheek is turned before it is struck. Because of the spiritual basis of Aikido, the common ground (collective unconscious) may be of particular interest to Jungians. In teaching Aikido, for example, the geometry of the triangle, circle and square are the symbols of wholeness utilized to express a great many of the Aikido concepts and its physical expression. Aikido practice and its relevance for our Times will be emphasized as a system of health, stress management, conflict resolution, personal awareness and self-expression.

John Compagna, EDD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked in the field of Forensics for the past 18 years. Currently he is the Chief Psychologist at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, a maximum security prison. His areas of interest are in Neo-Cognitive therapies and Meridian therapies. He is a member of the hostage negotiation team and the crisis intervention and stress management team at Graterford. He maintains a part-time private practice in Drexel Hill, PA, and is a consulting psychologist in a psychiatric private practice in Plymouth Meeting.

John is a third degree black belt in Doshinkan Aikido and holds an instructor’s certificate (Shidoin) granted to him by Yukio Utada Sensei, 7th degree black belt and president of the Aikido Association of North America. He teaches at the Doshinkan Headquarters Dojo and at the Upper Darby Adult Evening Program. He has served as an assistant instructor to Utada Sensei at Temple University, Rutgers, and Camden NJ, Beaver College, as well as teaching at numerous winter and summer workshops over the years.

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Gay men and straight women in our culture experience similar issues about aging. Tennessee Williams explored some of those issues in the little gem of a novel published in 1950 through the characters of Mrs. Stone and Paolo. This lecture and discussion will explore Williams’s perspective on relationships, the experience of being devalued and feeling invisible to others, the fear of loneliness and of being exploited. We will attempt to answer the question for people no longer considered young at the beginning of the new millennium: Is there meaningful life beyond stock market investments, workout routines, the Disco bar, phone sex, Internet chat rooms and paid escorts while on the path of individuation?

George R. Bernato, Ph.D. has a doctorate in counseling psychology and four years of post doctoral Jungian analytic training. Before retiring, he was staff psychologist in the Department of Human Services of the City of Philadelphia. Now, at age 60, he has resumed formal study of the piano while still maintaining a private practice in Old City Philadelphia.

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Using visual and sound images we will explore the religious and psychological themes in the Star War Epic. Writing in 1957, Carl Jung identified the world wide interest in extraterrestrial visitors as a projection of the religious longing for the savior from another world. We will look at universal religious images and consider the nature of good and evil as portrayed in the four films. Is Star Wars a new expression of ancient truths or is something wholly new emerging in the world of Naboo, intergalactic Republics and Jedi Knights? We will consider Star Wars as a modern myth and examine ways it speaks a truth about the heroic journey for each of us and our Age.

Marita Digney, D.Min., Zurich trained Jungian Analyst, licensed psychologist, founder of C.G. Jung Society of West Jersey, faculty of C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, past president of C.G. Jung Center of Philadelphia, private practice on Rittenhouse Square.

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The Hopi people of the Southwest have a prophetic tradition which encompasses a series of symbolic images and an oral tradition possibly thousands of years old. The prophecy calls our world the fourth world, indicates the signs by which the End Time can be recognized and gives instructions for preparations for the transition into the fifth world. The signs pointed to a series of historical events which occurred in the twentieth century. The instructions for returning from our present unbalanced way of life to the original way of balance and harmony with nature and the universe call for repentance and purification and are psychologically highly significant. Understanding of these instructions is enhanced by mapping them onto the seven major Chakras, the associated flow of psychic energy and the psychological implications of their impaired or healthy functioning. Understanding the transition from the fourth to the fifth world as a transformation of human consciousness, we will use these resources of ancient wisdom to discover the psychic tasks that challenge us in our time.

Gisela Behrens, M.A. in Psychology, Graduate Diploma in Physics; five years of study at C.G. Jung Institute of New York; president of Philadelphia Jung Center; adjunct faculty at MCP Hannemann University; teacher at Heart of the Goddess Wholistic Learning and Healing Community and at Main Line School Night; private practice in Wynnewood, PA.

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As we enter the second millennium of the common era, many women are reexamining our roles in society and how our sense of self is evolving in this patriarchal age. But where is the roadmap, our Bible? Clues abound everywhere in myths and stories, as well as ancient artifacts and ruins. They point to a time when the role of feminine and masculine had a different weight; where the anima or female principle was honored in all her splendor as the great triple goddess, Virgin/Mother/Crone.

Author, Joy Stocke has traveled throughout the Mediterranean, Aegean and Turkey for twenty years. It was there that she first felt the presence of the great mother in the rituals still practiced at holidays, through folk tales and through traditional dances. Her research has led her to examine the use of language and myth in our modern faiths and to a new appreciation of ancient rituals in her role as both mother/daughter and member of society. She will talk about her journey to the Cave of the Bear on the Island of Crete where the goddess Artemis/Cybele was worshiped for 6000 years and where the Virgin Mary is now worshiped. In addition, we'll discuss how we can recognize our own personal journey: the journey of the heroine.

Joy Stocke, poet, writer and teacher is cofounder of the Meridian Writers Collective which has planned and hosted readings and performances in Philadelphia for more than ten years. For three years she attended the Lindisfarne Symposium on the Evolution of Consciousness at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. Her book of poems, The Cave of the Bear traces her search for the Great Goddess. She has lectured widely on mythology and religion and is working on a book of essays about her search for the Goddess in Turkey.

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Henri Corbin, one of the greatest western interpreters of mystical Islam, has described the Science of the Balance as a discipline of Spiritual hermeneutics of the Word. Its function is to keep the visible world in harmony with the invisible worlds. This requires such sympathy among all beings that they may enact a mystical Supper. At this banquet, God is fed upon his creatures and the creatures are in turn nourished upon the Substance, the Breath and Word of their God. This intimate relation between Breath and Body, Word and Food, is understood by polytheistic peoples, for whom the songs, words and actions of the shaman likewise maintain the balance between worlds. The poet too, as an inspired vehicle for images, lives at the threshold that links the worlds. The role of the mystic, the shaman and the poet is to keep the passage open by consuming and being consumed in a continual process of death and rebirth.

In modern societies, our ability to experience the frightening mysteries of embodied speech is jeopardized by the power and authority of the written word. As speech is reduced to information and the Word becomes text, the mediating world of the imaginal becomes inaccessible and we wither. We can neither breathe the air of the earth nor feed our Souls. In this hour, we will consider some aspects of the Feast that is celebrated at the threshold where the visible and invisible worlds meet.

Tom Cheetham and his family live on a homestead in rural Maine. He is an adjunct professor at the College of the Atlantic and at Unity College. Excerpts from his forthcoming book The World Turned Inside Out: Henri Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings (to be issued by Spring Publications) will appear in the next two issues of Spring Journal. Previously Tom spent nine years at Wilson College in PA, where he was associate professor and director of the program in Environmental Studies. In addition to interdisciplinary courses in Natural Science and the Humanities, he teaches Imaginal Studies in Philosophical Ecology and Archetypal Psychology.

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Dr. Benor will briefly review his research and rich experience of integrating spiritual healing with psychotherapy.

The combination of spiritual healing (as in Therapeutic Touch, Reiki) with psychotherapy is far more effective and reaches into deeper aspects of the psyche than either treatment alone. Psychotherapy may raise issues that are hard to deal with. Healing can lessen anxieties and painful emotions surrounding such issues. Conversely, healing can bring about spontaneous emotional releases of long-buried traumas, helping them surface more readily than with psychotherapy alone. Psychotherapy helps to integrate these emotions, along with their associated traumatic memories, and to develop better ways of coping with stress. Healing also introduces spiritual awareness into the therapy through personal awareness of transcendent realms. Part of the lecture may be experiential, if participants are open to this.

Daniel J Benor, M.D., is a wholistic psychiatrist who incorporates a spectrum of alternative and complementary approaches in his practice of psychotherapy (from Transactional Analysis to meditation, imagery and relaxation, to Reiki and Therapeutic Touch) and has taught these methods to people involved in wholistic and spiritual approaches to caring, health and personal development. He is the founder of The Doctor-Healer Network in England and editor of its Newsletter. After 10 years in England he has returned to work in Philadelphia and in Medford, New Jersey, where he founded Helios: Network for Whole Person Healing. This group is devoted to integrating conventional medicine and psychotherapy with body mind, biological energy and spiritual awareness. Dr. Benor is the author of Healing Research, Volumes I-IV and many articles on wholistic, spiritual healing and is on the advisory boards of the journals, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Subtle Energies (ISSSEEM), Frontier Sciences, and on the Board of Directors of ISSSEEM.

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Jung and Jungians have long known the important secret of fairy tales: That these "apparent" childrens' stories are really archetypal narratives redolent with universal wisdom about the human condition. Studying the symbolic nature of fairy tales is the way that their mythic, archetypal core comes to life. We do far too little of such studying in the frenetic, utterly real lives that are lived today.

This evening we will read, muse and speculate about, amplify and dance around the wonderful Scottish tale about the elfin prince Tam Lin and his redemptrix, fair, brave, mortal Janet. In this tale, with your help, we will come to know something more about our need to grow, the perils of relationship and the dangers of redemption through love. Join us and help Janet free Tam Lin from the dark grasp of his elfin queen!

Stephen A. Martin, PSY. D. is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland and a licensed psychologist practicing in Ardmore, PA. He is President of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts and former Editor-in-Chief of QUADRANT, The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought. More importantly though, he is utterly besotted by fairy tales, feels like he frequently lives one and is often in need of redemption.

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A Jungian analysis of the characters of the Phantom of the Opera. Exploring the masculine and feminine shadow and integration of these in a fuller relationship.

Marita Digney is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst and licensed Psychologist in private practice in Center City Philadelphia, PA. She is the founder of the West Jersey Jung Society, on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, former president of the C.G. Jung Center of Philadelphia and a contributor to the collection of essays The Soul of Popular Culture: Looking at Contemporary Heroes, Myths and Monsters, published by Open Court.

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Lili Bita will read from her autobiographical novel in progress: Sister of Darkness. She invites us to share her experience, hoping to give us courage to look for our own dark sister within. Our discussion will emphasize this evocative quality of her writing.

In a feature article of Lili Bita in the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine (Nov. 8, 1998) Rachael Simon wrote: "Her face is an epic of passion and defiance, triumph and tragedy, with dark eyes inviting you to life's vast banquet. Yet there is a hint of shadow of a tenacious past."

Lili Bita was born on the Greek island of Zante. Poet, playwright, actress and musician, she has toured with her one woman shows, "The Greek Woman Through the Ages" and "Freedom or Death." She is the author of eleven books and chapbooks of verse, including "Striking the Sky" (1997). She has received numerous rewards; her poems have appeared in distinguished magazines and have been translated into several languages. She is guest editor of the Greek Diaspora issue of the International Poetry Review published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her latest book (1998) is Scorpion and Other Stories.

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Kundalini is envisioned as being the individualized form of cosmic female energy called Shakti. It is a state of potency located in the Muladhara chakra and is the source of energy by which the human being unfolds his/her individuation. In Jung's 1932 seminars he presents the chakras in their psychological and spiritual meanings and gives, probably a clearer description than anyone else, of our relationship to the chakras on the ordinary everyday level and on the symbolic level.

Jung states that the kundalini is the anima. It is also the energy which takes us into the unconscious to confront the dragon, to go into analysis.

Betsy Halpern, M.A. graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a training analyst and faculty member of the New York institute. She has taught courses on the Ego-Self-Axis in Hinduism and has worked with a Hindu for eight years on chakra meditation. Betsy Halpern has been in India a number of times, spending time on ashrams and in Ladakh, a former part of Tibet. Betsy maintains a private practice in Princeton, New Jersey and in New York City.

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Enchanting stories can be a source of guidance in times of personal uncertainty. The key is in the psychological symbolism in the tales. This lecture discussion will delight in the magic of Little Red Riding Hood and other tales for an exploration of initiation and the ways of the soul.

Jonathan Young, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Santa Barbara where he was a professor for 12 years at the Pacifica Graduate Institute as well as creator and chairman of the Department of Mythological Studies. He assisted Joseph Campbell at many seminars and was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. He also established the archives of James Hillman on Archetypal Psychology and of Marija Jimbutas on the Goddess Traditions. He has lectured at Oxford and at other eminent Universities as well as at storytelling festivals. His recent book is Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology. He lives with his cat in an old house in California.

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Edith Stein, feminist, educator, and philosopher, was born into an observant Jewish household in Poland in the late 1800's; she died as a Roman Catholic nun in the concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1942. Her life choices reflect aspects of the individuation process vis-a-vis the collective in the areas of religion, education, and politics.

We will explore the archetypal underpinnings of her choices in these transpersonal arenas, giving particular attention to three themes:

1. her continual search for truth, energizing her journey from observant Judaism, into atheism, then to Roman Catholicism, with a deep desire to somehow carry the tension of these opposites.

2. her development as a scholar, moving from classical philosophy to being a co-founder of phenomonology, with its emphasis on the experience of the individual.

3. her political activism as a major figure in the 1930's feminist movement in Europe. Her active engagement of the political forces of the Nazi regime in the late 1930's and early 1940's provide us with an opportunity to probe issues relating to individual response, both inwardly and outwardly, to the shadow side of nationalism.

Joan Gratto Liebler, MPA, MA, is a professor, writer and lecturer, political activist, and spiritual counselor. She is a long time student of Jungian studies, with a particular interest in the relationship of Jungian concepts to religious and political structures.

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When Siddhartha was sitting under the Bo tree and was approached by the maras (worldly temptations that aroused desire and bewilderment) with all their wiles, he announced to them that he was no longer under their sway. They thought to themselves "How could this be?" and asked him:

"Are you a god?" and he said "No."

They asked him: "Are you a spirit being?" and he said "No."

And then they asked him: "Who are you?"

And he said: "I am Awake."

From that moment, Siddhartha became known as the Buddha - the one who is Awake.

Since then for 2500 years, scholars and priests, poets and artists, singers and warriors, tulkus (someone who is aware of their prior incarnations) and dancers, brokers and web meisters - meditators all - have learned and taught and refined and experienced the vastly rich psychological landscape of being Awake. This expansive ground has given rise to a range of images and metaphors and legends that continue to unfold and invite us - heart and mind.

In this program, we will explore these images and metaphors - appreciating the language in the body, speech, and mind of the experience called Awake.

John Brown, poet and teacher, did his graduate work at Naropa Institute and has been a student of the late Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche for the past twenty five years. As an early member of the Round Table Associates - a Jungian Study Group in the Delaware Valley - he has been a director and presenter of programs weaving together the insights of Eastern and Western Spirituality.

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The works of Henry Corbin outline a psycho-cosmology, which is radically opposed to the dominant scientific materialism of modern culture. His thought has provided much of the intellectual foundation for the archetypal psychology associated most often with James Hillman. The focus among archetypalists has been primarily on two major aspects of his work: The rediscovery of the reality of the mundus imaginalis and the effort to loosen the grip of dogmatic monotheism by disclosing the polytheistic phases of divinity.

Our primary task will be to explore the importance of Corbin's writings for the development of an approach to the natural world which escapes the narrow confines of the merely rational scientific world view. For Corbin the characteristic tragedy of modern life is the prevalence of a pervasive nihilism which has its roots in a catastrophic misunderstanding of the relation between the creator and the created. We will discuss Corbin's treatment of this in his book Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi. The reanimation of the world, as an antidote to nihilism, requires both, that we experience the full reality of the imaginal realm, and that we understand the deep implications of the metaphysics of individuation.

Tom Cheetham is a visiting professor at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. He has been working on a book about Henry Corbin and the nature of the Imaginal, to be issued by Spring Publications. Previously he spent nine years at Wilson College in Pennsylvania, where he was assistant professor and director of the program in Environmental Studies. In addition to interdisciplinary courses in Natural Science and the Humanities, he teaches "Imaginal Studies" in Philosophical Ecology and Archetypal Psychology.

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Within each one is the blueprint of symbols, patterns and essences that promote inspiration, peace and wholeness to our living. If we touch this knowing it becomes a powerful tool that we can bring to our environment. Denny Daikeler will share the results of her research into this wonderful science of self in relation to environment.

Denny Daikeler, an Allied member of American Society of Interior Designers, is an interior design consultant, lecturer and writer. She was educated at Drexel University, and her work and research into Design, Psychology and human behavior stretches thirty years. She conducts seminars and workshops across the country, and is doing a book on the topic of bringing living and design together based on discovering the deeply hidden loves and desires of the inner self.
Denny has been featured on AM Philadelphia, Channel 6 News, Home Matters, and QVC. She has written for and been featured in Visions Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Good Ideas for Decorating and is home editor of Philadelphia Bride. She was presented The Rising Star Award by ASID, Pa. East Chapter, in 1995.

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Drawing on Jung's work on the nature of archetypes, and on chaos theory concepts of fields and attractor sites, Joan will discuss the formation and influence of archetypal fields in each successive stage of organizational development in health care settings. This may well lead us out of managed care and super-bureaucracy, back to the temple of healing, rooted in deep tribal energies.

Joan Gratto Liebler, MPA, MA; Professor at Temple, College of Allied Health Professions; 35 years experience as manager and consultant in wide variety of health care settings; major areas of research: legal, administrative and ethical aspects of end-of-life decision making; currently engaged in certification program in Jungian Studies (Assisi Seminars).

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This lecture will focus on the 16th century treatise The Interior Castle by Christian Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila. It will compare her seven "dwelling places" of the soul with the awakening of the seven chakras as described by contemporary Japanese mystic and yoga-practitioner Hiroshi Motoyama. Despite their vastly different religious and socio-historical contexts, they meet on the path towards the ineffable.

Pamela Winfield, third year doctoral candidate at Temple U., Dept. of Religion, specializing in Comparative Philosophy; editor of AURA, Association Uniting Religion and Art; translator of Hiroshi Motoyama's Awakening the Chakras and Enlightenment, to be published later this year.

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Till Eulenspiegel, a fifteenth century German folk tale figure, is a trickster given to scatological pranks and the deflation of bourgeois pomposity. His name means owl-mirror or wise mirror, referring to his most famous prank: as a fortune teller he mimed the shadow qualities of all who came to see him. We will hear some of the tales and consider how Till turns up in the psyche today.

Anne Malone, M.S.S.; licensed social worker; practice of psychotherapy in Delaware County and Center City Philadelphia; Associate Editor of the Round Table Review of Contemporary Contributions to Jungian Psychology.

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The reclamation of sacred space within and without is essential for our well-being in a world that insists on escalating the tempo of our lives and multiplying our involvement with others. Jung considered the ego no match for the external world. He held that only a deep connection to the Self can counterbalance the powerful impact of the environment, charged as it is with unconscious projections. The cultivation of an outer sacred space facilitates creation of an inner sanctum and anchoring in the Self, providing an inner orientation for ordering our lives in the world. Building the Third Temple or rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem is a theme salient in Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Lifted out of its ethnic context and taken symbolically, it means the interiorization of the sacred space, i.e., making the human psyche the temple in which God dwells. This presentation is inspired by Henry Corbin's book Temple and Contemplation and by my own reclamation work in New Mexico.

Gisela Behrens, M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Graduate Diploma in Physics, five years of study at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York; extensive and in depth work with dreams, myths and fairy tales; involved in reclamation of sacred land and sacred space in New Mexico; teaches at Main Line School Night and Heart of the Goddess in Berwyn. Private practice in Wynnewood, PA

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Whether understood as physiological process, product of the objective psyche, or message from the gods, the dream eternally fascinates us. It can also demand of us to make changes in our waking Iives. We will explore the ethical dimension of the dream and how its imperative can be conveyed by dream structure as well as content.

Sarah Braun, M.D., is a psychiatrist trained in adult and child psychiatry, and is in private practice in Narberth, PA. She is a candidate in training at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York. Her interests include the interrelationships among art, myth, dreams, religion, and spirituality; and the potential healing capacities which they contain for individuals, families and the culture as a whole.

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Dancing with the Muse can be at once mysterious and subtle, blatant and exhilarating, painful, transformative, and delightful. Join storyteller Tina Devine for a performance that celebrates the many facets of art-making, and the inherent mystery in participating in the unfolding of the creative process. 'The Dream Jar' serves as a metaphor for the repository of all the desires that come into play as we create our work.

Tina Devine is a storyteller, poet and graphic artist living with her sense of-humor in Glenside, PA. She performs at a variety of venues throughout the region and her repertoire includes programs for all ages, from preschoolers to elders. She also conducts playful workshops for those interested in using storytelling as a means of enriching their professional work.

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From time to time, Jungian psychology has tried its hand at the interpretation of art, usually with mixed results. This evening, we will turn the Jungian lens once again toward art, but this time decorative rather than "fine arts", by looking at the work of Archibald Knox. Knox was one of the greatest British decorative artists of the last hundred years and the inspiration behind the success of Liberty's of London and their Celtic revival inspired designs. Also an early modernist, Knox seemed to combine the past, present and future to produce some of the most stunning objects of this century. He was also something of an enigma: reserved to the point of reclusive, committed only to his work; a kind of mute, modern Celtic bard. This evening we will informally look at, think about, muse about Knox's work both to enjoy it and to tease out of it timeless truths about the creative process.

Stephen A. Martin, Psy. D. is a certified Jungian Analyst trained in Zurich, Switzerland, and a licensed psychologist in practice in Ardmore, PA. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of QUADRANT, The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought, and coeditor of Lingering Shadows:. Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism. His most recent publication is a monograph entitled Archibald Knox; he has also co-curated the first international solo exhibition of Knox's work that is currently traveling around the United States.

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"Schindler's List," a masterful epic film of our time, provides striking archetypal images of good and evil. The emantiodromian process according to Jung exists such that "Every psychological extreme secretly contains its own opposite...". This film exemplifies this process, out of the lowest the highest can emerge. Discussion will focus primarily on the specific symbolic task of individuation as described by Jung, "the rounding out of the personality into a whole". Through the character of Oscar Schindler, perhaps we may uncover a working metaphor to explore the significance of each individual's soul in the life work of the world.

Ronny Landau, M.A., is a psychotherapist in private practice in center city, Philadelphia, Pa, working over twenty years with individuals and couples. She recently completed advanced Jungian study at the Philadelphia Jung Institute's seminar, and has lectured locally on women and dreams. She is currently interested in the study of initiatory experiences as pathways to personal growth.

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Mid-life transitions are part of the journey to wholeness. Whether they are a danger or an opportunity depends on our understanding of this process. This lecture will examine "immediate causes" of this second journey. In addition it will situate the process in the context of emotional and spiritual growth, and venture a description of what healthy and unhealthy transitions may look like.

Thomas E. Legere, Ph.D. currently serves as a psychotherapist in private practice in Westmont, NJ, and Paoli, Pa. He teaches at Immaculata College, Rowan University and Rutgers University. He also leads retreats and workshops on topics which build bridges between psychology and spirituality. Tom Legere has degrees in philosophy, theology and spirituality, and a Ph.D. in psychology. He is the author of two books and has lectured internationally on psycho-spiritual growth. He is also a frequent lecturer to Jungian groups in the Delaware Valley.

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According to James Hillman, imagination is a primary activity of soul. As the language at the heart of language, images engage us beyond literalism and narrative with the ever-renewing psyche. Emma, Tina and Morgan will share in poetry and prose, words and images which shaped and informed them. We invite you this evening to join us with imagination, to be touched and enlivened by the language of the soul.

Emma Mellon, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist, is Director of the Center for Menopause and Midlife Studies. in Rosemont, Pa, where she also maintains a private practice. She has taught in the Graduate Counseling Departments of Villanova and Immaculata Universities and has lectured to professional and lay audiences. As poet Emma has published in journals here and in England. Her Chapbook Now is the Time of Being Kissed was published in 1996. She has taught poetry workshops at the Main Line Art Center and frequently gives readings in the Philadelphia area.

Tina Devine is a storyteller, poet and graphic artist, living with her sense of humor in Glenside Pa. She performs a variety of venues throughout the region, and her repertoire includes programs for all ages, from preschoolers to elders. She also conducts playful workshops for those interested in using storytelling as a means of enriching their professional work.

Morgan Henderson, of Morgan Henderson Associates, a business consulting firm, is a former faculty member of Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Every summer, for the past thirteen years, she has facilitated an eleven day spiritual-personal-growth workshop based on the Lakota Sioux and the Jungian approach, on an island in Northern Ontario. As a poet and short story writer she also teaches creative writing.

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It has been said: "When the heart grieves for what it has lost, the soul rejoices in what it has found." And change itself is loss. So what do we find when we open our hearts to our loss and grief? What is found when we open to the pain of separation so necessary to our individuation? When we delve down deeply? This evening we will explore these themes with lecture, discussion, and creative exercise and experience to help bring us to our own expression of self and movement to new life. Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome.

Kayta Gajdos, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Chadds Ford, Pa. She has been weaving Jungian psychological themes with her training in Bowenian family therapy for almost twenty-five years. Kayta is a frequent workshop leader at Temenos Retreat Center in West Chester and an adjunct professor for the graduate program of Vermont College of Norwich University.

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The seasons of emerging, growing, flowering-fruiting, declining, dying and reemerging anew comprise the natural cycles of the psyche. They are experienced intensely if one consciously enters into the process of individuation, which unfolds both in relation to one's own self and in relation to the beloved other. Transformations/initiations, involving death, incubation and reemergence, are discontinuities in our lifelines, in counterpoint to the cultural expectations of stability and continuity. The resultant fear of transformation leads to all kinds of avoidance behaviors. This evening's presentation is based on Clarissa Pinkola Estes's exposition of the creative cycles of relationship as seen through the fairy tale Skeleton Woman.

Gisela Behrens, M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Graduate Diploma in Physics and five years of study at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, extensive and in depth work with dreams, myths and fairy tales, involved in reclamation of sacred land and sacred space in New Mexico, teaches at Main Line School Night and Heart of the Goddess in Berwyn, Pa, and has a private practice in Wynnewood, Pa.

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Beginning with the trauma of birth and ending with the trauma of death, life is filled with experiences that result in a dissociative defense for the sensitive or 'porous' personality. We will explore some dimensions of dissociation as it appears in the consulting room, as well as strategies for integrating these defenses into consciousness. Examples from everyday events and experiences and from fairy tales will be used as illustrations.

George R. Bernato, Ph.D., has a doctorate in counseling psychology and four years of post doctoral Jungian analytic training. He is recently retired as staff psychologist in the Department of Human Services of the City of Philadelphia after twenty years of clinical work with abused and neglected children. He maintains a private practice in Old City Philadelphia.

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It has been said: "Dance is a Metaphor for Existence." Bodily responses to rhythmic sounds not only promote healing, but provide a spiritual and aesthetic insight into life. From primordial ritual dances to modern day body therapies, movement continues to be an expression of the soul. This studio course will provide a playful entree into the world of Soma/Psyche through dance and movement. Please dress comfortably.

Marion Ruden Frank is a licensed Psychologist in private practice in Center City and Chestnut Hill, specializing in women's and relationship issues. She has taught at Temple and Jefferson Universities and is currently on the staff of Belmont Center. She has contributed an invited chapter to the book Female Dancing, which has just been published by Harvard Publishers.

Ronny Landau, M.A., is a Psychotherapist in private practice in Center City, Philadelphia, Pa, working over 20 years with individuals and couples. She recently completed advanced Jungian Study at the Philadelphia Jung Institute's Seminar, and has lectured locally on women and dreams. She is currently interested in the study of initiatory experiences as pathways to personal growth.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a 19th century feminist writer. Publicly, she was a brilliant theorist for the women's movement, privately she left a rich legacy of diaries, letters, fairy tales and drawings which trace a deeply moving "inward journey", an attempt to explore and confront the destructive implications of cultural gender images and expectations. In fact, in some respects, Gilman's letters are more powerful than her published writings. For while her public work stands as an important model of feminist resistance, her private letters exposed the underlying agonizing conflicts within herself. It was as though, like Persephone, she was uncompromisingly determined to travel to the underworld and confront "all these buried things dead and alive." In 1898 she wrote: "We ourselves, by maintaining an artificial diversity between the sexes, … have preserved in our own character the confusion and contradiction which is our greatest difficulty in life." And she expressed the hope "to prove that a woman can love and work too."

Mary A. Hill, Ph.D., Presidential Professor of History Women's Studies at Bucknell University, is author of a three volume biographical study of the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her study was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Education.

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Though it is thought of most commonly as a medical event, menopause transcends the medical paradigm and the depletion and pathology connected with it. In this presentation we will examine the psychological and spiritual aspects of menopause and their function in the "afternoon of life." I will be using art and literature as well as psychology and spirituality as resources for this discussion. Bring excerpts of prose or poetry that speak to you of the menopause experience.

Emma Mellon, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist and Director of the Center for Menopause and Midlife Studies in Rosemont, Pa, where she also maintains a private practice. The Center offers consultation and group experiences for women in menopause and men at mid-life. She has taught in the Graduate Counseling Departments of Villanova and Immaculata Universities and has lectured on menopause and mid-life to professional and lay audiences. Emma is also a poet and has been published in journals here and in England. Her Chapbook, Now Is The Time of Being Kissed, was published in 1996. She has taught poetry workshops at the Main Line Art Center and frequently gives readings in the Philadelphia area.

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Metaphors and images show us what we are walking toward on our path. They give us direction, inviting us "come, walk through me." Places of Immanence, geographical or imagined are spaces that have become sacred and deeply symbolic for us, because our inner life finds expression in them. We invite you to contribute your own poems or songs to this evening.

Nanine Valen, M.S.S., L.S.W., is a poet and psychotherapist practicing in Swarthmore. She has lived extensively in Europe and Asia, particularly in Bali, where she studied healing practices and meditation. She is an award-winning children's book author. Her books have dealt with themes of European legends and of the "fantastique." Before she became a therapist, she wrote and produced films for Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop, PBS national.

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Writing in the fifties, Jung admitted to a long fascination with the phenomenon of UFOs. What seemed to interest him most was the reaction of earthlings to objects appearing in the sky. Before Star Trek, Star Wars or ET mesmerized us all, Jung spoke prophetically of the religious quality of these projections. In this lecture and discussion, we will explore the Heaven's Gate Community's mass suicide and our longing for a "final frontier."

Marita Digney, D. Min., is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst and a licensed Psychologist in private practice in Center City Philadelphia, Pa. She is the founder of the C. G. Jung Society of West Jersey, is on the faculty of the Jung Institute of Philadelphia and a recent president of the Philadelphia Jung Center.

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There is a recurrent thought, a fantasy perhaps, that the goal of life is to achieve happiness. Who among us does not long to stand down from the ramparts, to arrive some distant day at a blissful bower and rest easy, abide a while and be happy? Yet our own psyche apparently has another thought which frequently interrupts this fantasy and pulls us under into an emotional swampland. Our peaceful respites are ephemeral and can neither be willed into being or perpetuated by hope. Rather, it seems, our own nature intends that we spend a good part of our journey in such dismal regions, places from whence many of the most meaningful moments of our life will be found. This lecture/discussion will approach such places, identify the developmental task each invites, and conclude that the goal of life is not ephemeral happiness but meaning, such meaning as deepens and dignifies our journey.

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst in private practice in Philadelphia and Linwood, New Jersey, where he lives. He is Director of Education for the Philadelphia Jung Institute. His latest book is entitled Swamplands of the Soul.

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In the days before the explosion of "managed care, cost efficiency and itemized treatment plans," into the consulting room, psychology's domain was the psyche in all her depth, distress and development. Sadly, psyche has been forced to become furtive in order to escape from number crunching charts and actuarial scalpels. In doing so, she has also withdrawn from psychologists themselves. Without her presence in our work, we and our field are in grave risk of losing our way. The purpose of this talk will be to remember what we are about from a deeper place than third party payments and capitation plans and perhaps, in doing so, coax psyche back into our work and restore to it the meaningfulness it had not so very long ago.

Stephen A. Martin, Psy. D., is a certified Jungian Analyst trained in Zurich, Switzerland, and a licensed Psychologist in practice in Ardmore, Pa. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of QUADRANT, The Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought, and coeditor of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism. His most recent publication is a monograph entitled Archibald Knox, the most famous British decorative artist of the Art Nouveau period. He has also co-curated the first international solo exhibition of Knox's work that is currently traveling around the United States.

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Primitive or traditional, cultures have a keen awareness of the ills of the soul and of ways to restore the individual to unity with self and with the wholeness of nature. Among these, the healing ceremonials of Native American people are notable for their richness and depth of intuitive psychological understanding. Modern shamans who speak of the structure and dynamics of the psyche also seek soul healing experience in the context of therapeutic and analytic relationship. This lecture compares some old and new practices and looks for some constant wisdom in the various paths.

Alden Josey is a Jungian analyst (Zurich) who has a private practice in Wilmington, Delaware. He is Assistant Professor, Mental Health Sciences, Allegheny University and a member of the faculties of the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

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As much as one third of the Bible deals with dreams and visions, yet there is massive denial and avoidance concerning this obvious fact. Why? More importantly, how can a better understanding of the symbolism of dreams be of help to us on our spiritual journeys? Using the dreams and visions of Ezekiel, Daniel, Paul, and others, Dr. Legere will help us explore some of the key symbols of the Bible.

Thomas Legere, Ph.D., is a spiritual counselor in private practice in Westmont, N.J. and Paoli, Pa. His academic background includes degrees in Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality, and a Ph.D. in Psychology, and he specializes in mid-life issues and dream interpretation.

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We all take up space, but we aren't necessarily free to inhabit our space. One of the great challenges before each of us in life is to discover, to claim the space in which we can experience our being. This talk focuses on the permission we grant ourselves for our own lives and the domain we give ourselves to live them.

Sarah McPherson, M.Div., Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, trained at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, and a psychologist in private practice in Rosemont. She is a past president of the C. G. Jung Center of Philadelphia and is on the faculty of the Jung Seminar of Philadelphia.

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As we approach the millennium, the image of the vampire remains with us. The many contemporary books and films about the vampire are testament to its presence. Its dark archetypal nature continues to participate in the daily life of each of us and collectively in the culture. This presentation will explore the many ways the vampire's presence touches us in the people we meet and in the events of daily life. Is there a way to protect ourselves from its seductive influence?

George Bernato, Ph.D., recently retired as staff psychologist from civil service. He is currently a candidate-in-training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts at the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia. Dr. Bernato maintains a private practice in Philadelphia.

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Suffering can lead to transformation, as demonstrated by the life stories of people whose compassion and creativity developed through the experience of coping with great adversity. The Buddhist understanding of suffering as dukkha - being off center, discontent, and negative - can be compared to Jung's similar concept of neurotic suffering.

Based on her new book, The Gifts of Suffering, this lecture integrates Jung's psychology, Buddhist teachings, and research on resilience.

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and psychologist practicing in Vermont. In her most recent book, The Gifts of Suffering (Addison-Wesley, 1996), Dr. Young-Eisendrath relates the life stories of four people: Joanna Macy, peace activist and Buddhist scholar; June Singer, Jungian analyst and author; Roshi Philip Kapleau, Zen master and author; and Dan Gottlieb, psychologist and host of public radio's Voices in the Family.

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Sound plays a vital and often surprising role in our lives. In this lecture, guest speaker Mary Lynn Kittelson will discuss the unique way that sound informs and enriches our lives. For the most part, sound, resonance and silence enter our lives on an unconscious level. But their effects ring profound - on our inner lives as well as in our outer world. She will tell us about the myth and symbolism of sound, its social and psychological effects, and some ways that vocal communication in everyday life and in the therapy process is realized and enriched by elements of music and poetry.

What if we thought of ourselves as auditory beings, and not visual ones? Our very world would shift, she says, inside and out. This lecture on the resonant world of auditory energy will offer fresh insights to the general public, as well as to people in professions which require in-depth listening.

Mary Lynn Kittelson is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has Masters degrees in English literature and human development and trained as an analyst in Zurich, Switzerland for eight years. She lectures and teaches on images, dreams, auditory imagination, shadow, and animals. Kittelson is the author of Sounding the Soul: The Art of Listening (1996).

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Jung once observed that of all of the so-called "social sciences" psychology was the last to develop, in part because the insights of psychology were once carried by the great myths and myth-sustaining institutions. In particular, Jungian practice arose in response to the erosion of those myths which once held society together and which linked the individual to the four precincts of mystery: cosmos, nature, society, and self. Tonight's presentation will review the salient features of "modernism", and the subsequent task of the individual in seeking out the old linkages of psyche and soul. It has been said that Jung's concept of "individuation" is a myth for the modern without myth. If this is so, then Jungian psychology is not a set of beliefs but rather a cluster of attitudes and methods for accessing those manifestations of mystery which were once mediated by myth. What do we mean by the words psyche and soul, and what is the contribution which a Jungian perspective may make to the individual upon whom the full task of finding meaning has fallen?

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst in practice in Center City Philadelphia and Linwood, New Jersey where he lives. He is also Director of Education for the Philadelphia Jung Seminar.

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In 1849 the English poet and social critic Matthew Arnold wrote a poem titled "The Buried Life," in which he explored the dilemma of self-alienation, on one hand, and the intuitive sense of an inner life which prompts and guides one always, on the other. This lecture addresses the intimations of the buried life and the means by which one may learn to track and integrate those intimations so resonant of our own depths.

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This lecture concentrates upon two major themes - intuition and creativity. Jung focused attention upon both in an effort to create his theory of psychological type. Links between schizophrenia, intuition and creativity clearly emerge. Educational, business, psychological, brain physiological, and social implications are addressed.

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This talk explores the impact of the unfinished development of parents on the psyche of the child from a Jungian perspective.

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As Jung so wisely noted, only the wounded healer can heal. Only the person who has suffered, come to consciousness through that suffering, and then related to others with a more assimilated woundedness can have a healing effect on others.

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Whether or not one believes that there is a men's "movement" today, there certainly is a growing awareness of the heavy, Saturnian masculine imago under which men have labored for generations. While the remarks are about men, this lecture is also for those who know a man or are obliged to relate to one.

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This presentation addresses the mystery of the creative process, both in the artist as artist and the artist as person. Art and psychotherapy are "soul work" and both seek healing through the activation of psychic images which touch and transform the person.

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When Jung asked himself "What myth am I living," he could not answer the question. Thus began his descent into the depths to find his myth. This presentation will consider the nature of myth, its role in our lives and the task of making our myth conscious.

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The image of the garden is often connected wit the Garden of Eden and the idyllic world of the symbiotic relationship experienced in infancy. This world, wit hits basically incestuous structure of relationship, will be compared to and contrasted with the experience of the garden available in individuation. This talk will look at the archetypal images present in both gardens and explore the symbols and rituals which can be found in the garden to engender individuation towards wholeness.

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The myths of Asclepius, the divine master of healing arts, and his teacher Chiron the centaur reveal the remarkable fact that the one who heals also bears an incurable wound. Our experience of being well or of the loss of that state in illness, whether in emotional or physical manifestations, certainly makes us prefer wellness. Yet, a deeper appreciation of the seamless totality of psychosomatic life, as portrayed in myth, might help us to value the darker aspects of that experience, to see them as rich in personal meaning and as markers on the path of individuation. This is especially important for therapists and other care-givers who frequently lose sight of their own woundedness under the burden of being the guardians of good health.

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When asked what animated him into his tenth decade, what drove him to continue to create, the sculpture Henry Moore responded, "I have a passion so great, I can't chip it all away." In his last years, Yeats, afflicted with the tremors of the mortal flash, affirmed himself as a "wild, wicked, passionate man." When we remember that teen-age passion and the passion of Christ are somehow connected, the concept grows confused. When we remember that passion derives from passio, "to suffer," we have still further confusion. In this presentation I should like to address the question of passion, joy and suffering, and to ask what it means from a Jungian perspective and what role passion plays in the task of individuation.

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Jung's theory of an "individuating self," the hard won achievement of consciousness, anticipates current trends in "constructivism" (like the work of Piaget, Loevinger, Kohlberg and others) that describe an underlying "design" or form for individual subjectivity. Jung offers a model of subjectivity that includes multiple voices or affective-imaginal states that can develop into unity, a "self," under certain conditions in adulthood. The richness of Jungian self psychology is often overlooked by object relations theorists, developmentalists, and others because it is criticized for being a form of "essentialism," a search for self-evident truths that lie outside of experience.

This presentation will clarify both the problems and the richness of Jung's self psychology in the light of object relations theory and other models of subjectivity. It will critique the acultural and ahistorical models of Jung and others that imply norms for selfhood, excluding contextual meanings of gender, family and culture. The blurring of self and individualism can become a slippery slide into stereotyping and deficit-oriented thinking that can be harmful to understanding different kinds of people in clinical practice and life.

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Our goals in treatment reflect our sense of the purpose of life. Differing approaches to symptoms are grounded in differing, often unconscious, philosophies of life, in particular in differing solutions of the mind-body problem. The choice of clinical intervention, psychotherapy or medication reflects an ultimately philosophical choice between different ways of thinking about symptoms and the people who have them. This presentation is given in honor of the memory of Bruno Bettelheim, and is an elaboration of two of his most important clinical aphorisms: "The end is the beginning" and "Respect the symptom."

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A poetic and thought-provoking slide presentation offering a chance to get acquainted with the archetype of the crone. In ancient matriarchal societies, the older woman was revered as a powerful elder, a woman of great wisdom and judgment who functioned as healer, teacher and priestess. Symbolized as the Crone, she was the most powerful entity in the original Trinity, the Goddess as Virgin, Mother and Crone. But this once powerful figure was displaced and transformed into the debased image of hag and witch. We will trace this journey of inspiration and fear to see how it relates to us. John Valentine, M.D. will be present to offer comments concerning clinical applications for work with the elderly.

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What is unconscious is projected, Jung has suggested. Moreover, most modernist philosophical and psychological thinking emphasizes the subjective nature of human experience. Thus, all relationships - to persons, places, objects, institutions - are colored by the projections of the unconscious. Together we will reflect on the dangers and inevitabilities of projection and the role such silent presences play in our daily life.

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Jung suggested that what is denied inwardly comes to us as outer fate. Or, what is unconscious is projected outwards. This program traces the secret thread of relationships: Parent/Child, Self/Beloved, and Self/God with the thesis that the quality of the outer relationship is a direct function of the inner relationship.

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Concepts from Jung's psychology are especially fruitful in the interpretation of highly symbolic literary works such as the romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne. As Miles Coverdale, the fascinating narrator of The Blithedale Romance, tells the reader about the people and events at Blithedale, we begin to see that the characters of the novel are aspects of the narrator's psyche. Jung's concepts of the shadow and anima help us to understand the narrator's retreat from Blithedale and individuation into the comforts of self-delusion and depression because of his inability to face his shadow and integrate his split anima. In this presentation, I hope to illustrate a subtle use of Jungian perspectives on a richly symbolic narrative.

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The concept of the Shadow remains one of Jung's most intriguing and heuristic metaphors for psychic process. What is the Shadow and what are the four encounters with Shadow we experience? At the same time, what Jung meant by the Shadow was the fertile ground for many of the classics of modern literature. This lecture explores the dramatization of the encounter with the Shadow in Goethe's Faust, Hawthorne's short stories, Dostoevski's Notes from Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Camus' The Fall.

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Both in my personal life as a woman and in my practice of Jungian analysis, I have gradually shaped my own perspective on understanding gender and human diversity. I have become strongly persuaded that we need a "gendered" psychology of woman and men, an ability to narrate the lives and experiences of each. Feminism, as a discipline of thought and action, has contributed to our psychological knowledge specifically by inviting us to examine the consequences of gender stereotypes and the effects of gender differences on our lives.

This presentation shows my personal and professional desire to begin anew in regard to the "principals" of Feminine and Masculine. Rather than beginning with the assumption that there is a Feminine mode (Eros, for example) or a Masculine principle (Logos), I prefer to begin with questions about difference and a curiosity about the dialogical field in which woman and men meet, and in which both must speak. I hope to provoke such a dialogue through presenting my thoughts about the assumptions of Jungian psychology interfaced with my understanding of the effects of feminism over the past 15 years of my life.

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A central task in the individuation process is the ability to differentiate between "the self" and "the other." To learn this distinction starts in early childhood and occurs more fully in adult life. This talk will explore those early experiences which facilitate or hinder differentiation and those events in adult life which engender the unfolding of separation-individuation. The discussion will focus on the views of both Jung and the Object Relations School.

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C. G. Jung wrote that by objectifying one's personal images and understanding their inherent ideas, one is able to work out all the values of one's archetypal material. then you can really see it, and the unconscious becomes understandable.

To illustrate the concept of picture interpretation and to demonstrate the profound effect it has upon the person who makes the pictures, slides and drawings will be shown and discussed.

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The extraordinary mental events of an acute psychotic episode of the psychogenic kind have always been a source of wonder and fear for those who count themselves among the "normal." These reactions undoubtedly arise from the constellation of our own madness by the strange, shattered quality in the personality of the afflicted person. Perhaps it is the unsettling numinosity of psychosis that has led us, both layman and professionals, to take the symptoms as a mark of the illness when, in fact, these are the signs, often obscure and hard to understand, of the psyche's archetypal reconstructive healing activity. We will look at a case of "madness" through the medium of the journal/memoir of a famous 17th century person in whom the consequences of such an individuation process were a new spiritual vision and the founding of a radical religious sect which survives into the present day.

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The language of self-analysis is always the language of metaphor. The reality of what one is is unknowable except through comparisons. This session will look at some of the ways of self-knowing that Jung described in his work on the archetypes. The presentation will also reflect some of the ideas contained in Joseph Campbell's Myths to Live By.

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The compensatory role of myth was one of Jung's great discoveries. Yet myths can be dangerous as well as inspirational, and we need to stay alert to both possibilities when dealing with them. And what about the dangers of inflation? All the same, the world of myth offers us the opportunity to gain deeper understanding of ourselves and the world.

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The role of the Virgin Mary is one of the most complex aspects of Christian symbolic thought. Mary does not appear in any detail in the New Testament; beliefs about her developed gradually in Christian culture, mostly as a result of devotional activities of the laity rather than from authoritative doctrinal pronouncements. The cult of the Virgin, therefore, is expressive of some of the deepest longings of the Christian myth over many centuries. As a woman, Mary is complex, even contradictory: a virgin mother, celebrated as God's spouse, mother and daughter. The myth becomes particularly powerful when Mary's multiple roles merge with those of powerful goddesses of the ancient near eastern and Hellenistic worlds. This paper will consider, and critique, the interpretation of the Virgin given by authors working from Jungian terminology, especially Geoffrey Ashe and Andrew Greeley.

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In the past decade there have been a virtual epidemic of multiple personality disorder (MPD) in North America, and this has stimulated interest in the dissociative disorders. Jung did not devote any of his works exclusively to the topic of dissociation, nor to the related pathological phenomenon of multiple personality. Nonetheless, the process of dissociation lies at the very heart of his "complex theory." Jung is presented here as a heretofore unrecognized pioneer in the study of dissociation. His "complex theory" remains even today as one of the earliest and most comprehensive theoretical frameworks for understanding multiple personality disorder.

The basic features of Jung's "complex theory" will be compared with the findings of recent empirical research on multiple personality disorder. It is argued that essential characteristics of Jung's "autonomous complexes" or "splinter psyches" are equivalent to those of the "alternate personalities" or "personality states" of MPD. Furthermore, the most common types of alternate personalities (as determined by research studies) correspond closely to the major archetypal figures identified by Jung.

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We will review some recent findings of the Penn Psychotherapy Project and of Hans Strupp and his group at Vanderbilt University in order to see what impact these could have on the practice of Jungian analysis. We will then examine ways in which more definitive quantitative and qualitative research could be conducted in order to inform and enhance the analytic process.

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The symbol of "advanced human life" or the "aged ones" is rising out of its shadow-position in our previously youth-oriented psyche and culture. In mushrooming numbers, a tension of opposites, with "Puer" and other youth symbolism battling in the minds of the generations in command for attention, services and money, is transforming us. We will build on the case of "The Thousand Year Old Man" and post traumatic war neurosis, drawing on several Jungian theoreticians. the "last days" still are "of life" and have vital messages for us. Therefore, death and dying will not be the primary topic of this evening.

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Beauty and Beastliness are usually considered opposites. As myth tells us, however, they are often attracted to one another. As Jung pointed out, under the right circumstances opposites often synthesize. At other times they don't. What governs the issues of when opposites need to unite and synthesize and when they need to remain apart and in tension? Two sources will supply the imagery for a deeper psychological understanding of this question. First, in the Beauty/Beast mythologem, in which the beast turns out to be more of a kind, nursing and seductive breast than a horrible beast. Second, in the mythology and symbolism of the Judeo-Christian tradition: the burning bush and the sin against the Holy Spirit.

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A dynamic interplay between the law of entropy and the principle of individuation fires the creative process. Human creativity, or even the occurrence of living form, cannot be explained by entropy (the causal prediction of probable disorder or loss of energy in a closed system). The synchronistic principle of individuation offers a dramatic counterpoint to integrate living form, to balance polarities of psychic structure, and to resonate the high energy of human creativity.

Jung's four-phase cycle of psychic death and rebirth has a striking correspondence with recurrent attitudes underlying changes of style in the history of architecture, e.g., a cycle from Renaissance to Baroque. Slides will help illustrate the shifts in individual and collective creativity and suggest where we are now in the historic cycle.

This talk is based on an article which appeared in the published book, C. G. Jung and the Humanities: Toward a Hermeneutics of Culture (Princeton University Press, 1989).

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This is an introduction to the earliest period of Jung's self psychology, the period characterizing the development of the individual. Reviewing such concepts as compensation, individuation, shadow and persona, the paper will place these in the context of some other contemporary self theories. Jung considered neurosis to be the modern passageway into development in adulthood. In the discussion, we will consider both the strengths and shortcomings of this assertion, and how it has affected the practice of Jungian psychotherapy.

This paper is an excerpt from Jung's Self Psychology: A Constructivist Perspective by Polly Young-Eisendrath and James Hall (published by Guilford Publications, 1990).

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The developmental stages and phases of the feminine principle will be examined. Noting how these are not simply sequential steps following one after another, but themes which weave in and out of an enfolding development, the archetypal background of these themes will be described. The figures of the goddesses in mythology will serve as a guide to and amplification of the forces moving within us.

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Currently, there are some 15 major contributions to our evolving ideas about psychologically derived personality models. New perspectives include the work of Walter Lowen, Bandler and Grinder, Ned Hermann, and the modalities and ideas of the cognitive psychologists. Our presentation will suggest certain Jungian ideas that provide a framework for perceiving how these new contributions fit within the original Jungian notions of the five functions, decision-making as a choice among polarities, and Lowen's ideas of the ambi-syn-anti nature of choice.

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Anxiety is an inevitable concomitant of the human condition. In this program we shall identify some of the sundry strategies the unconscious evolves to manage anxiety. What role should anxiety play in a healthy life, and what attitudes and strategies are appropriate to a life where anxiety insistently demands our attention?

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Meaning only comes, Jung wrote, "when people feel they are living the symbolic life, that they are actors in the divine drama. That gives the only meaning to human life; everything else is banal and you can dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful" (CW XVIII, p. 630). What did Jung mean by "the symbolic life" and how are we to appropriate this symbolic dimension in our own lives?