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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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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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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“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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In Service to the Inexplicable and Paradoxical
“The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical.” - C.G. Jung (The Red Book p. 229) Jung’s view of psyche is rooted in an appreciation of opposites and their role in our individuation…
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THE UNION OF OPPOSITES; CREATION, DESTRUCTION AND THE PSYCHE
The Union of Opposites: Creation, Destruction and the Psyche SYNOPSIS Dr. Alan Mulhern, a Jungian analyst, presents two talks on the fundamental archetype of creation and destruction—the "union of opposites" that structures both the cosmos and the human psyche. Talk 1 explores the ubiquity of the archetype, showing its indispensable…