The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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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…
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Summer Conference 2022: The Way of the Heart
We are delighted to Welcome back Robert Mercurio and Giulia Valerio, whose joint presentation in 2017 was very warmly received. The pathways of reason and of logic are both linear and straight, without curves or bends. They are for the most part foreseeable and lead us to their destination without…
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The Wolf
Geraldine writes: "This work on the Wolf Symbol has been deeply transformative, reflecting key myths of my life. The wolf is a symbol of how we have treated the 'other' through centuries of projections, reducing wolf to a sign of the devil and destroying a living creature in 'God's name'…
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The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves
How do we understand ourselves? What stands in the way of greater self-awareness? What life force seeks expression through us? This program will explore our internal resistance to self-knowledge, the paradox that our defences become our chief obstacles, and the necessary engagement with our “stories” that bind us to our…
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Awakening to a New Reality both after our Death and in the Here and Now
In this talk, in which I will draw on my own personal experience, we will especially explore the continuity of consciousness after death and the expanded reality that await us on the ‘other side’. Some of the “conversations across the horizon of death” in my latest book describe a…