• The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman

    We continue our reading… Images are somewhere. The fundamental language of all the underworld is that of contained space . Look at the dream as if it were a theater program. Everything that happens, happens there. For the underworld view, what matters is not how the story comes out, but where it is taking place, […]

  • Our Dream Lives, talk-circle

    Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature… Dream symbols are the essential message carriers, and […]

  • Inhabiting Space: Memory and the Places We Live In

    We move through spaces every day without thinking much about them: a house, a hallway, a room. Yet some places stay with us, while others feel strangely empty or unsettling, even when nothing is visibly wrong. There are spaces that seem to carry something, and others that seem to resist being held onto. This evening […]

  • The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life

    We are completing this anthology edited by Meredith Sabini: “The way is ineffable. One cannot, one must not, betray it. It is like the way of Zen—like a sharp knife, and also twisting like a serpent. One needs faith, courage, and no end of honesty and patience.” — C. G. Jung, p. 217

  • The Adorata by Tiziana DellaRovere

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

    The greatest wound of humanity is our disconnection from Divine Mother. Now is the time to reconnect our hearts with Her heart and be the embodiment of Her love on earth. This is the inspiration for my art.—Tiziana DellaRovere Tiziana DellaRovere is an author, artist, teacher, and ordained priest whose work explores the deep psyche […]

  • Preparing for the Transition to the AI Era: Talk-circle

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

    The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition. If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off. —Bill Gates 08/26/2026 Never has humanity had such power […]

  • G*D: Talk-circle

    Tonight we will discuss various understandings of G*D—theistic, non-theistic, personal, impersonal, the limits of language in speaking of G*D, the relationship of belief and experience. Oddly enough the paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions, while uniformity of meaning is a sign of weakness. Hence a religion becomes inwardly impoverished when it loses […]

  • Figments and Faeries—with Katherine Moore

    It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening though which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. . . The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in even the smallest nursery fairy tale—as the flavor of the […]