The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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Redeeming the Feminine: Symbols from the Jewish Kabbalah
Mandala mosaic, Masada, Israel (c.37 BCE) “The feminine principle brings up the healing compensation by becoming active” Marie-Louise von Franz (1999)The Kabbalah is the Jewish mystical tradition that traces its roots back to the BCE era. It is considered the compendium of the divine nature of the universe and our…
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The Passionate Body: AIDS and Archetype
The unapproachable intensity of early death tied to physical passions: this is the archetypal narrative of the experience of HIV/AIDS as it exists in the ego, in the imagination, in the body, and in politics. The passionate body is a generating focus – the body that desires, that is erotic…
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Seven Sermons to the Dead
Alan Mulhern discusses Jung's mystical and Gnostic text, published privately and anonymously as being "written by Basilides of Alexandria, the city where East and West meet." The text also forms the final part of the Red Book. Alan has recorded a short podcast about the Seven Sermons. This may be a…
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Synchronicity and Humility
This event is FREE! Register “The humility, in which we remember again and again, how little we know about man , ourselves, a humility which has been acquired through sadness and despair, is in my view one of the basic values, assets of depth psychology.” Erich Neuman , Crisis and…
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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. This webinar…
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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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Brush, with Death
Register for this Webinar Charles Zeltzer writes: "Each one of us, as we age, encounters death in increasingly intimate ways. Six years ago I endured a heart attack — an acute and dangerous event that was a powerful psychological and spiritual encounter with my mortality. Prior to the attack I…
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Oxford Conference – Cancelled
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…
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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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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…