• Book Report

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

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

  • Translate This Darkness

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

    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 […]

  • James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

    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.

  • Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology

    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 […]

  • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, UAP talk-circle

    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 […]

  • The Wine Covenant: Wine, Meaning, and Cultural Renewal in Our Brave New World, Pt I

    A first public preview from a work in progress— with Grégory Brun Wine once ordered time, carried memory, and shaped shared life through work, ritual, and the table. Today it circulates largely as image, category, and signal. The Wine Covenant begins with a process of deconstruction, exposing consoling narratives about sustainability, authenticity, and virtue that often function […]

  • Declaration—A Play by Steve LaRocque

    Based on actual events in 1777 when a woman printer is called upon to make new copies of the Declaration of Independence to share with the colonies. What follows is her story with the 2nd Continental Congress, who are stationed nearby, and lots of discussion/reflection on the actual meaning of the document for women at […]

  • Original Love: The Timeless Source of Wholeness—with Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD

    Original love is love from the origin, mother, or Source, and as such transcends any limitations of time or space. It is love that has always been here and always will be here, love that is timeless and whole. Glenn Aparicio Parry tells a story of how love, humanity, nature, and consciousness co-evolved. In this […]