Book Launch Party for Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language —with Lisa Maroski
Tonight, we will finally celebrate the launch of Lisa’s second book. After a short introduction to it, we will toast to the forces of Synchronicity that finally allowed this book to be born. If you want, bring some food or drink to share. Books will be available for purchase. If you make a donation to […]
Book Report: Our Uncertain World: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dark Time —a Jungian Perspective (2023)
Each of us is now called upon to rethink our individual risk and safety, as well as our relationship with our community, the world, and our environment. Some of us are thinking about and tackling new and complex issues. All these challenges require an adaptation for an uncertain future. The uncertainties we each face have […]
A Soul in Search—with Katherine
Katherine will emerge from her shell and share some of her quest for self-knowledge through her provocative artwork. This being a showing of original works that have been influenced by James Hillman’s ideas of soul making, polytheism, personifying, and a poetic basis of mind. The artworks are an exploration of the artist’s feelings about herself […]
The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life
Given our inescapable awareness that the environmental crisis on Earth is deepening, we continue to consult Jung for his insights concerning Anima Mundi, the soul of the world. As he writes: “Nature, psyche, and life appear to me like divinity unfolded—what more could I ask for?” We continue readings from the anthology edited by Meredith Sabini: Chapter […]
Proprioception, an Evening of Dialogue—with Steven M. Rosen
Joining us from Vancouver tonight, Steve Rosen will describe and engage in conversation regarding proprioception, as he puts it, “a phenomenological reversal of the prevailing orientation of thinking.” Here is an abstract taken from Steve’s books Topologies of the Flesh (2006) and The Self-Evolving Cosmos (2008): The task of thinking is to think proprioceptively. We […]
Alchemy, Gnosis, and the Subtle Body: Navigating the In-between through the Map of Kabbalah—with Eva Rider
How do we hold the paradoxical tension of opposites to receive the Gnosis that is the birthright of each of us at this moment between chaos and transformation? At this Kairos moment between worlds, we will explore the meaning of Gnosis in the Individuation journey and its relationship to the psychoid realm known as the subtle body as it […]
The Collective Unconscious—Talk-Circle
What is your feeling about the collective unconscious? While Jung is widely known for his hypothesis, his meaning seems generally to be misunderstood. A sense of Jung’s actual usages of this term feels urgently needed for us in 2024, nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, as we find ourselves living out […]
Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul by Marie-Louise von Franz
What is projection? What happens when we become aware of our projections, individual and collective? We will take up chapters 5 and 6 on demons and daimons to understand how they relate to complexes and to “spirits.” In chapter 6, we will look into the tale of Eros and Psyche, so we will take a […]
The Hermetic Roots of Jung’s Undiscovered Self—with Mervat Nasser, MD, MPhil
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung Jung is perhaps one of the most Hermetic/Gnostic thinkers of our era. He wrote about the Nag Hammadi Hermetic scripture, Zosimos’s visions, and the influence that Paracelsus and Goethe had on him. Although Jung is known as a […]
Death, the Concept —with Eileen Murphy, MD
My presentation is on the concept death and the various ways Western philosophers, artists and, more recently, AI researchers have explored it. The idea of death has been trending. Many people are convinced that with the inevitable merging of humans with Artificial Intelligence, a superhuman creature who is deathless will come to be. No more death! This shocking possibility […]
Jung on Personality—Talk-Circle
Tonight, all are invited to share our various points of view about human personality. Many powers are converging to mutilate—but also to enhance the development of—our personalities. What is the meaning of an authentic, genuine, human personality? Is this question being raised in Silicon Valley C-suites? The achievement of personality means nothing less than the […]