Events

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 […]

This play is an imaginative recreation of conversations at the Eranos Conferences, held every summer on Lago Maggiore. Jung was a foundation stone of these meetings, which brought together a wide array of European intellectuals. This reading will feature Suzanne Sturn as Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, the hostess of the gathering; John Dotson as Carl Jung; Lisa […]

Join us in discussion as several members review the books they are reading.

Women have been in darkness for centuries.… And when women , they translate this darkness… —Marguerite Duras, “Smothered Creativity” Tonight, we ponder the work of three women who expressed themselves artistically when women were discouraged from doing so and exercised their powers to live out their lives as they might. Hilma af Klint is regarded […]

We continue our reading of this foundational work of James Hillman: The persons I engage with in dreams are neither representations (simulacra) of their living selves nor parts of myself. They are shadow images that fill archetypal roles; they are personae, masks, in the hollow of which is a numen.

What is projection? What happens when we become aware of our projections, individual and collective? We will finish chapter 7, in which we look at the daimon through the lens of Hermeticism and through association with the Goddess/Mother (a projection of the anima). We will then get into chapters 8 (the return to the Self […]

UAP refers to objects detected in the air, sea​, and space that defy explanation. ​We will ​draw upon Jung’s ​work in Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (195​8)​: My conscience as a psychiatrist...bids me fulfill my duty to prepare those few who will hear me for coming events which are in accord with the end of […]