The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
Resources
The Guild has an archive of 350 papers dating back to the 1930s and 600 recordings dating from the 1970s. You can browse these using the search facilities below; they are free to download for Guild members.
Disclaimer: The Guild’s written and audio resources are for members’ personal and non-commercial use only. The views expressed in them are those of the authors; they may not necessarily be shared by Guild members, nor represent the collective opinion of the Guild.
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‘The artist, the sign-maker, the sacrament-maker’: an exploration of the work of David Jones, poet and visual artist
Called by T. S. Eliot one of ‘the most distinguished writers of his generation,’ David Jones was a writer and visual artist of extraordinary depth and vision. His vision of art and aesthetics was caught up in the local and the physical, and yet also expressed deeply his commitment to…
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The Imagination of God; Owen Barfield, Religion and the evolution of Consciousness
The Inkling, Owen Barfield, whom both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien regarded as the most innovative of the celebrated Oxford group, argued that the experience of being human changes dramatically over periods of cultural time. Our consciousness shifts, and in the modern period it has evolved in a particularly striking…
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The Bell, the Messenger of Transformation
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The Secret of Love in Alchemy
Western Alchemy and Christianity We look at Jung’s discovery of alchemy, which emerged as an experience without a name, in his work on the Red Book. With his lover and companion, Toni Wolff, Jung shared his journey, which also became her journey, and another dimension of Christianity opened up. It…
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Where Did Jung’s Red Book Come From, and why does it matter?
The publication of Jung’s Red Book, Liber Novus in 2009 challenged the Jungian professional world to revise the various ways in which they have received and developed Jung’s thought and psychotherapeutic approach. In this talk, Liber Novus is put into the context of Jung’s life and work 1900 - 1920,…
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Unknowing in Practice
Psychotherapists often find that they don't know what is happening in a session. Are there resources in ancient and medieval philosophy and theology that can help the therapist to be aware of the many ways of unknowing? This talk will also look at some contemporary philosophical and theological ideas.Psychoanalysis can be…
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Prayer for the World Soul: Experiences of Ash and Its Alchemical Mysteries
This talk was presented as part of the 2018 Oxford Conference.
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Orienting in the Dark: Dream Wisdom addressing our Collective Times
This talk was presented as part of the 2018 Oxford Conference.
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Moving Toward the Millionth Circle
This talk was presented as part of the 2018 Oxford Conference.
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Oxford Conference 2018 – The Still Point and the Turning World
The world around us seems to be spinning, sometimes uncontrollably so. How can we get to a place of healing and peace? For ourselves as individuals and collectively for humanity? Can we transform our experience and collective wisdom into new creative energies, or will we remain stuck in old destructive…