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| Lake Maggiore and the surrounding mountains as seen from Eranos |
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Pacifica Graduate Institute has joined with the Eranos Foundation in a unique partnership whose vision is to renew the spirit of Eranos and expand its rich traditions on a global level at this crucial time of transformation and awakening. Situated on the shore of a beautiful Swiss mountain lake, Eranos was established in the 1930s as a “free place for the spirit” where the relation between the individual, the spirit, and the images of the soul could be re-imagined. Under the influence of Carl Jung, the Eranos Meetings moved toward the symbolic, archetypal, and mythological.
As part of this exciting collaboration, Pacifica will regularly sponsor events at the Eranos facilities in Moscia and Ascona, Switzerland. Our hope is that Eranos will become a cultural source spring, a fountain of deepening and expanding vision, with nature's beauty and the presence of past wisdom inspiring all who come to enter back into their worlds with renewed spirit and more profound understanding. |
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The name Eranos is derived from an ancient Greek word referring to a banquet where all the guests bring contributions of food. It was founded as an intellectual discussion group in 1933 by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn at her estate on the shores of Lake Maggiore near Ascona, Switzerland. For more than 70 years, Eranos has been a point of contact for thinkers from such diverse fields of knowledge as depth psychology, comparative religion, history, literary criticism, and folklore. It has provided a setting and a congenial group within which many of the world's greatest thinkers have gathered to discuss an incredible variety of important and far-ranging issues. |
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| Olga Froebe-Kapteyn with Carl Jung |
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