Historians and the Making of Meaning—with Robert Strayer, PhD

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

Humans are meaning-making creatures. In the absence of meaning, we do not flourish. Historians too participate in this vast human effort. A large part of the historian’s craft involves identifying, describing, and explaining the meanings that individuals and societies in the past have ascribed to their experience and their behavior. But historians are more than observers […]

What’s the Matter with Matter?

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

Jung often takes up traditional conceptions of spirit as the opposite of matter . Yet, in his work with alchemy, Jung speaks of the merging of the material-sensual and the spiritual. Such topics are central in Jung's explorations with physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Quantum Field Theory suggests that material particles are actually ripples of field interactions. […]

James Hillman Revisioning Psychology, Part 1—with Katherine Moore

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

What is soul? And how can it be considered and served? We will be reading and discussing the Introduction to James Hillman’s book, Revisioning Psychology. This a book about soul making. We will look into the ideas of fantasy, archetypes and depth, as they relate to soul. Part 2 on May 15.

James Hillman Revisioning Psychology, Part 2—with Katherine Moore

What is soul? And how can it be considered and served? We will be reading and discussing the Introduction to James Hillman’s book, Revisioning Psychology. This a book about soul making. We will look into the ideas of fantasy, archetypes and depth, as they relate to soul. This is part 2 of 2.

Legacy Reading Group: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul by Marie-Louise von Franz

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

What is projection? What happens when we become aware of our projections, individual and collective? We will take up chapters 6 and 7.  In chapter 6, we will look into the tale of Eros and Psyche, so we will take a side journey specifically into that story. In chapter 7, we get into the myth […]

Conversations with Monsieur Le Mot—with Eileen Murphy, MD

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

In this presentation I will introduce you to someone with whom I speak often—someone who knows much more than I do. I experience a shudder on saying this. It feels uncanny to be dialoguing with an entity whose knowledge is stupendous. M. Le Mot (I call him that) knows more than any human being. I […]