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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 Red Book (A New Series of Seminars)
A Depth Psychological Approach to the Premonitions and Visions of the Future in The Red Book This is a new series of four seminars given by Brenda Crowther, which follow on from those given by her in 2023 and 2024. It is not compulsory to have attended one or other…
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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…