The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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The Red Book: four seminars led by Brenda Crowther – (1)
Seminar 1: Beginnings and Jung’s objective: how he searched for the truth beyond the personal. The timing of the publication of The Red Book in 2009 was a synchronicity. It brought into focus how Jung’s work was an antidote to the shadow of materialism. This has intensified in the 21st…
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A Postmodern Approach to the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: post-Jungian and much more
The Hebrew Bible is a sacred text to millions of people around the world, and yet some of its content is really difficult to understand and make meaningful. This presentation will consider some of the challenging texts in the Hebrew Bible and whether an approach that includes dialogics and queer…
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Elixir
Kapka will deliver a talk about her book, ‘Elixir’, before discussing its themes with Dominique Keeling. Elixir is the third in a quartet of novels, each of which delves into a particular region of the Southern Balkans. These are ancient realms of rich nature-culture ecologies, scarred by political trauma. Through…
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The Call of Destiny—and Beyond
Saturday’s presentation will explore the evolution of Jung’s opus into a coherent world view throughout his lifetime. The focus will be on his understanding of psychological transformation as it began with his confronting the unconscious (1913 – 1928) through his last mature writings (1951 – 1954). I would like to…
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Autumn Conference – On the Mystery of Creation of Consciousness: Images from the African Psyche
These two talks aim to amplify the archetypal connections between primordial images and modern ways of thinking in the light of Jungian Psychology and Alchemy. The first will focus on the creation myths of the Dogon. The second will focus on the myths of the Eland people of the Kalahari…
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Trust in the Self and Hope: how Jungian Psychology helps us cope in times of existential threat and destruction
“The self effectively compensates chaotic conditions no matter by what name it is known.” Carl Jung (CW 11, para 444). Whether we are in the midst of a personal upheaval or facing times of crisis collectively, this citation by Carl Gustav Jung offers us help and comfort and a depth-psychological…
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The Red Book: four seminars led by Brenda Crowther – (1)
Seminar 1: Beginnings and Jung’s objective: how he searched for the truth beyond the personal. The timing of the publication of The Red Book in 2009 was a synchronicity. It brought into focus how Jung’s work was an antidote to the shadow of materialism. This has intensified in the 21st…
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Summer Conference : On the Threshold – The Experience of Liminality – IN PERSON
In this year's conference Monika Wikman and Tom Elsner will explore with us the experience of liminal states with reference to working with the somatic unconscious and growing the subtle body; and as a symbolic death central to the transformation of consciousness. Monika writes 'the alchemical waters of the unconscious…
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Summer Conference : On the Threshold – The Experience of Liminality – WEBINAR
In this year's conference Monika Wikman and Tom Elsner will explore with us the experience of liminal states with reference to working with the somatic unconscious and growing the subtle body; and as a symbolic death central to the transformation of consciousness. Monika writes 'the alchemical waters of the unconscious…
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“She is not dead but sleeping”
The image of a young woman bound in a death-like sleep is to be found in the Bible, in Myth and in Fairy Tales. When we look more deeply into their stories, their relevance for humanity at just this point in time becomes apparent. Who then is the Sleeping One?…