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The Archetype of the Heart: A symbol of transformation
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” So the fox says in Saint- Exupéry’s ‘Le Petit Prince.’ This profound truth has long been recognised by the world’s wisdom traditions and the mystical philosophies of the East. How helpful is it to follow the archetype of the…
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Autumn Conference 2021: Metamorphosis of Being – Body and Soul
Metamorphosis of Being – Body and Soul Talk 1 with Q&A: concerning Alexander Technique Saturday 23rd October 2021 11:00 - 13:00 BST (10:00 - 12:00 UTC) Keith Silvester writes: The process of psychological and emotional change cannot be divorced from the body. The problem is that the body can get…
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The Crime of the Ancient Mariner
In Coleridge’s great poem, the killing of the albatross has catastrophic consequences. But it also pushes the perpetrator of this apparently senseless crime, the mariner, to embark on a journey of inner exploration that transforms how he approaches both the natural world and those invisible realities that always had the…
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Winter Celebration 2021
Sunshine penetrating the wintry trees, illuminating leaves of former glory, and somehow intimating hope. The Guild's Winter Celebration is an informal mixture of poetry, reflections on the changing season, and almost anything which people care to bring along and share. It is open to all friends of the Guild, whether…
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Jung’s Black Books
Between 1913 and 1932 C.G. Jung recorded his unique self-experimentation that he called ‘his confrontation with the unconscious’. The Black Books are the contemporaneous and spontaneous record of his active imaginations and descriptions of his mental states together with his immediate reflections on these. The Red Book draws on…
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“The First Half of Life”: Reimagining Jung’s Forgotten Developmental Stage
The field of Analytical Psychology has largely ignored the developmental stage that Jung termed the “First Half of Life.” As a result, a great many individuals coming of age today, starving for guidance on how to live in relationship to their inner lives, find little that reflects them within the…
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Evagrius on Becoming who we Truly Are
Evagrius of Pontus (345-399) was born into a Christian family in what is now Turkey but was then the Roman province of Helenopontus, and was a protegé of the 'Cappadocian Fathers' Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzus. Highly educated, he embarked upon a promising ecclesiastical career in…
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The Eleusinian Mysteries
A film produced by Jules Cashford followed by Q&A with her This event is in memory of Diana Grace-Jones Jules Cashford writes: Diana and I had often discussed the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece in the context of a change of vision. I feel that the historical fact of the many…
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Kindle a Light of Meaning in Cosmic Darkness
Healing the Dragon: Mercurius – Spirit of the Earth (Regine Schweizer-Vüllers) For the alchemists, Mercury was a light in the darkness of their opus. He was the beginning and the end of the alchemical process; dreadful, terrifying and demonic at the beginning, but also “the philosophic gold, the carbuncle… the…
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Jung the Mystic
Throughout his career, the psychologist C.G. Jung insisted that he was a scientist, pure and simple, and that his psychology was based on hard empirical evidence. But throughout his life, Jung was deeply interested in the occult, the paranormal, the mystical, and the magical. From his early attendance at séances…