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| Tending the Dream is Tending the World: Dream-Centered Environmental Activism with Stephen Aizenstat There is a world alive behind the visible world. The “world behind the world” dreams, has a voice, and asks to be heard—then acted upon. In light of impending environmental catastrophe, we would do well to listen. DreamTending first offers a way to honor and find relationship with our own dreams. In developing a respectful and sustaining relationship with our dreams, we return to a more “indigenous” sensibility, one that is informed by the psyche of nature—an awareness that our own essential psychological spontaneities are rooted most deeply in the psyche of the natural world. In tending our dreams, we realize a deepening involvement with the World’s Dream. |
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| Post-Jungian Traditions of Depth Psychology with Richard Tarnas The years since Jung’s death in 1961 have been fertile ones for depth psychology. In this lecture, we will consider four of the most prominent streams of psychology that were profoundly influenced by Jung’s thought, yet evolved in directions that transformed, critiqued, or expanded the classical Jungian model: archetypal psychology, transpersonal psychology, ecopsychology, and post-Jungian feminist thought. While each of these streams possesses its own distinctive character and motivations, they also reflect an underlying coherence that we will seek to discover through this survey. |
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| Myth, Psyche, and the Fabric of Culture in Joseph Campbell’s Thought with Dennis Patrick Slattery A rich marriage exists between the time of history and the timelessness of myth. Myth may be understood as that force of beliefs, attitudes, prejudices, assumptions, ideals, and transgressions, as well as their storied forms that cross into the time of history while preserving its own integrity as a timeless field of meaning that recurs in various costumes throughout history. This talk will allow a time to reflect on how myth may be grasped as History's inner sleeve that supports its inner cloak of events. |
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| The Soul's Journey in Dream and Body with Marion Woodman Psyche and soma are inseparable. The unique integration developed by Marion Woodman and her colleagues incorporates working with dream imagery,voice and body. The roots of this work grew out of a deep respect for dreams, C.G. Jung’s understanding of the psyche, his deep respect for dreams and the wisdom of the body. Marion Woodman has focused on the sacred Feminine and the embodied Soul. |
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| Mining the Deep: The Legacy of Archives and Research in the Depth Psychological Traditions with Elise Collins-Shields Archives and collections of eminent scholars are treasured gifts from the past. What is valuable within the collections of OPUS Archives and Research Center lays deep beneath the surface, ready to be uncovered by both seasoned scholars and interested pilgrims alike! We will take a visual adventure together through the remarkable collections of among others, James Hillman, father of archetypal psychology; Joseph Campbell, famed mythologist; Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian archeologist and ethnographer; Jane Hollister and Joseph Wheelwright, founding members of the San Francisco Jung Institute; and Marion Woodman, internationally known Jungian analyst. Our journey through the depths will serve as an invitation to mine the treasures of the past in order to inform the abiding issues of our contemporary world through intercultural dialogue and conversation. |
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| Empathy in the Ancient Myth of Inanna and Post Modern Transformation with Maren Hansen Jung believed that the psychological function of myth is to facilitate the dynamic interplay between ordinary consciousness and the unconscious. The narrow perspective of the ego is enriched by a journey into the unknown, and returns the wiser for it. In this lecture, we will bend our ears to hear the ancient Sumerian story of Inanna. This collective story of 4,000 years ago whispers about the mysteries of transformation and wholeness. We will listen to specific verses in the text to discern the divine advice about when empathy is called for, and how to practice it. This ancient collective narrative may prescribe relevant advice for our postmodern quagmires. The question sits on the table: how might empathy be relevant to our personal, social, and cosmic transformations? |
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*Program is subject to change |
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