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“If I did not show you my nothingness, what would I be useful for?” Jalal ad-Din Rumi
This talk will explore the problematic and intriguing concept of humility from a Sufi perspective, using poetry, teaching stories – often amusing - chants and meditative practice. It will examine psychological and spiritual dimensions, based in the illuminating teachings of Sufi scholars and poets. The aim will be to demonstrate…
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Who can teach us how to die…?
Who can teach us how to die, not just physically but ‘to our natural self’ so that we can be reborn to our spiritual self? Such, as I see it, is the purpose of the mid-life crisis and also the ‘usefulness’ of spiritual vision. The second self serves the needs…
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“Too Humble is Half Proud” (Yiddish saying)
A psychological, Jewish and personal perspective on some of the paradoxes that surround the concept of humility. Tickets available on the door: FREE for Guild members, £15 for non-members, £9.00 concessions
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Re-enchanting the World: Necessity, Theory and Experience
"Our civilisation is dangerously out of balance, dominated by our “disenchantment of the world” (Max Weber) and “monotheism of consciousness” (C.G. Jung).Re-enchanting the world offers a psychological approach to healing our broken relationship with nature within and nature without. Such a metanoia is needed if we are to negotiate the…
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Guild AGM
MEMBERS ONLY The Annual General Meeting will start at 4.30pm following the talk by Brian Stevenson: Humility and Psychiatry, thoughts from a psychotherapist (see lecture entry below for further detail). Last year we re-scheduled the AGM to occur on the same day as a Guild lecture and we were encouraged…
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Humility and Psychiatry, thoughts from a psychotherapist
Humility is often portrayed in a religious context as an ideal quality. It has something of an aspirational character; a saintly quality impossible to achieve. For psychotherapy to be effective the humility of the analyst may often be the essential element - something allowing them to acknowledge to themselves their similarities…
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Oxford Conference – The Eros of Humility
“Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other:…” Jung,C.G. (1917) ‘On the Psychology of the Unconscious’, CW7 Further details about this conference will be available early 2020
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The Archetype of the Binarius and the prehistory of the computer
The binary thinking of computer technology is omnipresent in the contemporary world and has deeply embedded itself in the modern psyche, but it has perhaps not been given due consideration at the archetypal and imaginal level. At the time when Francis Bacon first conceived the seed idea of the computer…
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Soul and contemporary civilisation
Confronted today by an unprecedented destructive impact of civilisation upon its so-called environment – in fact upon the very conditions of life - the question arises whether this crisis results from the very core of the human psyche or if it results more particularly from its Western impulses. SAVE THE…
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Yoram Inspector
Details to follow