The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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Summer Conference 2022: The Way of the Heart – WEBINAR
We are delighted to welcome back Robert Mercurio and Giulia Valerio, whose joint presentation in 2017 was so warmly received. The pathways of reason and of logic are both linear and straight, without curves or bends. They are for the most part foreseeable and lead us to their destination without…
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Summer Conference 2022: The Way of the Heart – IN PERSON ATTENDANCE
We are delighted to welcome back Robert Mercurio and Giulia Valerio, whose joint presentation in 2017 was so warmly received. The pathways of reason and of logic are both linear and straight, without curves or bends. They are for the most part foreseeable and lead us to their destination without…
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Jung the Mystic
Throughout his career, the psychologist C.G. Jung insisted that he was a scientist, pure and simple, and that his psychology was based on hard empirical evidence. But throughout his life, Jung was deeply interested in the occult, the paranormal, the mystical, and the magical. From his early attendance at séances…
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Kindle a Light of Meaning in Cosmic Darkness
Remembering - the Dawn of Modern Alchemy in Dark Times (Regine Schweizer-Vüllers) Regine Schweizer-Vullers modified her talk to focus on the relevance of alchemy in times of war and destruction. Regine wrote: 'In this talk I will mainly look at Marie-Louise von Franz's first book on alchemy, her commentary on…
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Kindle a Light of Meaning in Cosmic Darkness – WEBINAR
Remembering - the Dawn of modern Alchemy in Dark Times (Regine Schweizer-Vüllers) Regine Schweizer has proposed a change to her talk to focus on the relevance of alchemy in times of war and destruction. Regine writes: 'In this talk I will mainly look at Marie-Louise von Franz's first book on…
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The Eleusinian Mysteries
A film produced by Jules Cashford followed by Q&A with her This event is in memory of Diana Grace-Jones Jules Cashford writes: Diana and I had often discussed the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece in the context of a change of vision. I feel that the historical fact of the many…
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Evagrius on Becoming who we Truly Are
Evagrius of Pontus (345-399) was born into a Christian family in what is now Turkey but was then the Roman province of Helenopontus, and was a protegé of the 'Cappadocian Fathers' Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzus. Highly educated, he embarked upon a promising ecclesiastical career in…
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“The First Half of Life”: Reimagining Jung’s Forgotten Developmental Stage
The field of Analytical Psychology has largely ignored the developmental stage that Jung termed the “First Half of Life.” As a result, a great many individuals coming of age today, starving for guidance on how to live in relationship to their inner lives, find little that reflects them within the…
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Jung’s Black Books
Between 1913 and 1932 C.G. Jung recorded his unique self-experimentation that he called ‘his confrontation with the unconscious’. The Black Books are the contemporaneous and spontaneous record of his active imaginations and descriptions of his mental states together with his immediate reflections on these. The Red Book draws on…
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The Crime of the Ancient Mariner
In Coleridge’s great poem, the killing of the albatross has catastrophic consequences. But it also pushes the perpetrator of this apparently senseless crime, the mariner, to embark on a journey of inner exploration that transforms how he approaches both the natural world and those invisible realities that always had the…