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Chapter 3, “Psyche,” pp. 45–67. We will take up this chapter in four sessions—July 3 and 31, August 7 and 21. To know the psyche at its basic depths, for a true depth psychology, one must go to the underworld . Being in the underworld means psychic being, being psychological, where soul comes first … […]

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 […]

The ego’s stability is dependent upon an inner sense of being mirrored by the Self. But when collective forms of religion fail to contain the numinosity and symbolic presence of the Self, the ego is especially hard put to gain a sense of being mirrored from the Self within. And as individuation is a process […]

Pseudologia phantastica—a peculiar talent for believing one's own lies. Quite often the "great plan" plays the leading role. It is part and parcel of the pathological liar's make-up to be plausible. It is only when it comes to the ticklish question of bringing this plan into reality that every opportunity is exploited and any means […]

"Not famine, not earthquakes, not cancer . . . but we are the great danger."—CGJ We are completing our discussions of this anthology of Jung's writings.

Our familiar term depth psychology says quite directly: to study soul, we must go deep, and when we go deep, soul becomes involved. The logos of the soul, psychology, implies the act of travelling the soul's labyrinth in which we can never go deep enough. —JH We are taking up chapters 3 through 6: PSYCHE, […]

F.N. Souza, was an Indian artist of modern Indian painting, and a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. His style exhibits both "decadence and primitivism." Janeita Singh will join us in Monterey to discuss her personal quest with the work of Souza focusing on "cultural constructs of life, body and sexuality...combining research in […]

The most frightening specter this week may not be the walking dead, but the living. We gather tonight with the Ashland Symposia in Ashland, Oregon, for a different kind of Halloween scare. While many are re-watching Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, this evening turns to his once-shelved The Amusement Park (1975): a compact commission […]