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 […]
The Meaning of Meaning: Jung, Jaffé, and Bohm
What do we mean by meaning? Such as, the meaning of being, as we take it up in our weekly dialogues. The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and full important our age has not as yet begun to comprehend. // A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering […]
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 […]
WHAT DID THE THUNDER SAY?—with Elizabeth Wrightman and John Dotson
In a duo-exhibition, Elizabeth will show paintings and John will show sculptures at the Pacific Grove Art Center from September 6 through October 24—under the title, WHAT DID THE THUNDER SAY? In the Book of Revelation : ...a mighty angel…cried out in a loud voice, like a lion roaring… and the seven peals of thunder […]
Reclaiming the Soul: A Map for Our Time—with Eva Rider
McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United StatesThis presentation and discussion will explore the three triangles in Hermetic Kabbalah linking Cosmos, Psyche/Soul and Matter/Body/Earth as a map to finding meaning in the epoch-changing times we navigate. Whether we like it or not, one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites through different levels of consciousness until body, […]