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Active Imagination and the Mystical Life: Jung and Ignatius Loyola
Jung, a Swiss Liberal Protestant, and Ignatius Loyola, a Counter-Reformation Catholic Saint, might seem like odd bedfellows but as Jung saw, there are important connections between their visions of God and religious life. Jung lectured on Ignatius’s 'Spiritual Exercises' between 1933 and 1941, after recent engagement with Eastern forms of…
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Forgiveness: A Jungian Approach
Forgiveness is an intensely personal experience. The theological understanding of forgiveness differs across various schools of thought. Indeed, Jung wrote very little about forgiveness. However, the archetypal experience is central to the individuation process. This talk will focus on psychological and spiritual growth, with the soul’s development central to one’s…
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Creative Minds in Dialogue: C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann
This lecture will explore the relationship between C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann. In 1933 Erich Neumann decided to leave Germany for Palestine, foreseeing what was emerging in his country of birth. He stopped in Zurich to work with C. G. Jung. Neumann and Jung, with a 30-year age difference,…
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Harvest: The Psyche’s Time of Fulfillment
Scattered throughout the Bible are references to many features of the farming world, in particular the seed-time and the harvest, and the unpredictable seasons of growth and ripening in between. The images and stories that Jesus describes in the Gospels are those of someone familiar with this work of the…
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Spring Conference 2025 – WEBINAR
Talk 1: Alan Fatar: Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life Image: Book Cover: Waking Dreams by Alan Fatar, published by TransPersonal Press, ISBN: 9781912698080A waking dream sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present. Waking dream practice (also known as ‘active imagination’ and…
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Spring Conference 2025 – IN PERSON
Talk 1: Alan Fatar: Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life Image: Book Cover: Waking Dreams by Alan Fatar, published by TransPersonal Press, ISBN: 9781912698080A waking dream sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present. Waking dream practice (also known as ‘active imagination’ and…
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In Service to the Inexplicable and Paradoxical
“The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical.” - C.G. Jung (The Red Book p. 229) Jung’s view of psyche is rooted in an appreciation of opposites and their role in our individuation process.…
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2025 Summer Conference – IN PERSON
Dancing with God - Striving for Wholeness: Reflections of Archetypal Patterns in the African Psyche The significance for Jung of his travels in Africa is strongly expressed in his autobiographical work, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Upon glimpsing a distant figure standing motionless, leaning on a long spear and looking down at…
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The Eternal Feminine Draws Us on High
The Eternal Feminine Draws Us on High (Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan): Jacob Boehme, Sophia and the Eternal Feminine In Hellenistic philosophy and in Judeo-Christian theology the figure of Sophia is a personification of Divine Wisdom. More recently, in Orthodox theology a school of Sophiology has emerged, building on the…
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Autumn conference – Older Women in European Myth and Fairy Tales: An Archetypal Analysis
There is no clear image of a viable female elderhood in the contemporary cultural mythology of the West; it seems not to be an archetype we recognise any more. Older women are mostly ignored, encouraged to be inconspicuous, or held up as objects of derision and satire. But our myths…