The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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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?…
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Spring Conference – The Lightness of Being: Jung, Neuroscience and Self-Regulation – IN PERSON
This conference can be attended both in person and online. Click 'Book now' for tickets to attend IN PERSON in London; click here for the webinar Jung took it for granted that his audience knew what he meant by the body’s capacity for self-regulation, and used this analogy to teach about…
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Spring Conference – The Lightness of Being: Jung, Neuroscience and Self-Regulation – WEBINAR
This conference can be attended both in person and online. Click 'Book now' for the WEBINAR; click here for tickets to attend in person. Jung took it for granted that his audience knew what he meant by the body’s capacity for self-regulation, and used this analogy to teach about psyche’s…
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Enchantment – Wonder in Modern Life
We consider the experience of enchantment through some personal accounts of deep wonder, and by exploring its chief characteristics, dynamics and conditions. These include relationality, participation, wildness, metaphor, and 'concrete magic' (Max Weber). We shall also consider its rootedness in more-than-human nature. Although enchantment is a universal human experience it…
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Archetypal Nonviolence: Jung, King and Culture through the Eyes of Selma
The lecture focuses on the March from Selma to Montgomery and the development of culture through the implementation of the eightfold path of nonviolence (Gandhi’s concepts of Satyagraha and Ahimsa and King’s six tenets). The talk will utilize the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s; specifically, the march…
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Gaia and the Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is an ancient image that comes to us from deep within psyche. It has appeared across different cultures and throughout the ages. It has enabled many individuals to realise that their true happiness is inseparable from the well-being and health of nature, of Gaia, of 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 draw on my own personal experience, we 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 reality that may…
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Autumn Conference 2022 – Towards a 21st Century Model of the Psyche
Altered States, Oracles and Intelligences Joseph Cambray will explore Jung's ideas of the Unconscious in the light of the latest ecological formulations that offer a richer more complex model of the psyche and its interconnection with the living forces of the universe as a whole. Lecture One: Exploring the Unconscious…
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Fake News, False Selves
The economy of the internet is driven by commodifying our attention. The more that a media company can draw and direct our attention the more money it makes. Internet media companies track all of our interactions on the internet to create algorithms which show each of us an individual filtered…