LECTURE
Friday, September 28, 7:30 pm
St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) and the
Privilege of Poverty
by Russell Holmes
The
Franciscan movement was an example of what Jung called in Aion, "uncommon agitations and
commotions" of the human spirit at the beginning of the 2nd Millenium. St. Clare was the soul-sister and collaborator
of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan tradition. In his presentation, Mr. Holmes will discuss the life and
role of Clare in this undertaking, including her relation to Francis. The radical renunciation of material possessions they
espoused will be discussed through the meaning of the mysterious conjunction of matter and spirit.
Russell Holmes is a Jungian Analyst, trained in Zurich. He is also a training analyst associated
with the Boston Jungian Institute, a member of IAAP, NESJA, and the Guild of Psychology and Spirituality in London.
$8 Members $12 Non-Members
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LECTURE
Friday, November 16, 7:30 pm
The Voice in the Fire: A Dialogue with the Greater Personality
by Ron Kittel
"The encounter between Moses and Yahweh is one of the grandest individuation
dramas of the Western psyche."(E. Edinger) After briefly sketching the life of Moses and the main components of the
Exodus story, we will focus on the life-transforming event which "descends" on Moses at the burning bush. (To refresh your
memory, read Exodus: 3 & 4.) We will explore two pivotal questions: Is Moses, in his five responses to Yahweh, trying
to evade a task imposed by the Self, or is he defending the ego with respect to the enormity of that task, namely, wrenching
the Israelites free from the domination of the Pharaoh? In either case, Moses’ story is exemplary for us on our journey
of individuation.
Ron Kittel, Th.D., received his doctorate in New Testament Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
CA, has published papers in theological journals, and is a longtime student of Jung’s writings and psychology. He lives
with his wife, Mike, and about 300 sheep and three magnificent sheep-guarding dogs, on a farm near Earlton, NY.
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LECTURE
Friday, January 18, 7:30 pm
Psyche, the Individual, and the Progressive Incarnation of the Diety
by James Scherer
In
a letter dated 3 March, 1958, Jung said to Rev. Morton T. Kelsey: "What one once called the ‘Holy Ghost’ is an
impelling force, creating wider consciousness and responsibility and thus enriched cognition. The real history of the world
seems to be the progressive incarnation of the deity." The psychological complexity imposed on us by the word "deity" will
be explored from various directions within Jung’s writings. With these insights, we will turn to history, dreams, visions,
and the world of art to see the incarnatio continua as a living reality.
James R. Scherer is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, a member of the New England Society of Jungian
Analysts and the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He lives in Hartford, CT, and has had an analytical practice
there for 21 years.
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LECTURE
Friday, March 14, 7:30 pm
Dreaming Animals
by Penelope Tarasuk
"The animal is sublime and, in fact, represents the ‘divine’ side of the human psyche. You remember
that the purpose of the Dionysian mysteries was to bring people back to the animal...to the animal within..." [C.G. Jung,
VISIONS]. Using a series of dreams which contain a variety of animals from a profoundly creative woman who was in analysis
for eight years, we will discover instruction, beauty, and assistance in a life’s completion. Epiphany, the direct experience
of Deity, came to this individual via dreams and in a vision of an animal. The dignity and depth of Jungian psychoanalysis
is visible in this series of dreams which are illustrated with art, photos, and poetry.
Penelope Tarasuk, Ph.D., is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute-Boston, with a private practice in South Deerfield
and Cambridge, MA. She is currently serving on the Training Board and a faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute-Boston.
A lifelong artist and naturalist, she has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 40 years.
$8 Members $12 Non-Members
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LECTURE
Friday, May 9, 7:30 pm (See Below Saturday, May 10, Workshop)
Dancing Between Heaven and Earth: the Oriental Dreams of a Western Scientist
by J. Gary Sparks
Wolfgang Pauli was part of the team that discovered quantum physics in 1927. Despondent over the atomic devastation
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pauli turned to Jung after the war for help in understanding his inner reactions to the nuclear
age. This lecture will investigate a motif central to Pauli’s interior life during this period: the dream and fantasy
image of an oriental woman. Her message to Pauli’s distress - then to western science, religion, and culture - will
be presented throughout the evening.
J. Gary Sparks, IAAP, is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, and maintains an analytical practice in
Indianapolis. He lectures widely throughout the US, has edited two books for Inner City Books, and teaches at the Jung Institute
in Toronto, Canada. His new book, AT THE HEART OF MATTER: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament, is now
available from Inner City Books.
$8 Members $12 Non-Members
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WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS DURING 2007/2008 CALENDAR YEAR ARE LISTED
BELOW
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SEMINAR
A Study of Jung's MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS
A Seminar with James Scherer
7 Saturdays, Oct 6 - Nov 17, 9:30 to Noon
3
Northcliff Drive, Bloomfield, CT
This class continues our study of Jung’s important interpretation of alchemical literature, Mysterium
Coniunctionis. Alchemy’s focus was on facilitating a union of spiritual opposites which resided with matter, hoping
ultimately to achieve a mystical goal, the creation of the lapis Philosophorum, the Philosopher’s stone. Its
light, the lumen natura (the light of nature) - experienced as an enlightenment - can be compared with the wisdom
of the self revealed spontaneously by the unconscious. The modern parallel to the alchemical opus is the psychological process
of individuation, which Jung once suggested is at bottom a continuation of the spiritual quest of the alchemists. Mysterium
provides a psychological elucidation of the thinking and images found in alchemy. These insights become beacons of light that
we can shine into the darkness of our own lives. Required texts: Jung’s MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS and Edward
Edinger’s THE MYSTERIUM LECTURES.
James R. Scherer is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, a member of the New
England Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He lives in Hartford, CT,
and has had an analytical practice there for 21 years.
$140 Members $175 Non-Members
Preregister by Oct 1
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SEMINAR
A Study of Jung's VISIONS SEMINAR
A Seminar with James Scherer
7 Saturdays, Jan 5 - Feb 23, 9:30 to Noon
307c Brittany Farms Road,
New Britain, CT
Jung’s patient was an American woman, married and a mother, in her early
thirties. The images in her visions anticipate the developments within a modern process of individuation, especially as experienced
by a woman, as they describe the demands of spirit on the contemporary person during this difficult time in our history, which
includes the transformation of the Western God-image. Jung’s spontaneous discussion of this material - at once serious,
pithy, and humorous - opens vistas to anyone, woman or man, interested in the meaning inherent in the images from the unconscious.
Required text: VISIONS: Notes of the Seminar 1930-34, Vols. 1&2, (ISBN 0-691-09971-5), Princeton U. Press. (See
bio above.)
$140 Members $175 Non-Members
Preregister by Dec 31
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WORKSHOP
Part II: Jung’s SEVEN
SERMONS TO THE DEAD, of 1916
A
Workshop with John Peck
Saturday, March 8, 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
3 Northcliff Drive, Bloomfield, CT
We shall continue the study, which we began in last year’s workshop, of Jung’s
pivotal active-imagination episode from the middle of World War One, in which he adopted the identity of the 2nd-century Christian
gnostic and leader Basilides of Alexandria. Among other things, we’ll glance sideways at (1) related episodes of active
imagination recorded during the same period, one of which takes up the necessity, in Jung’s view, of a pre-requisite
phase of "having broken one’s heart over the Lord Jesus Christ," (2) the little we actually know from scholars about
Basilidean Christianity, (3) the ways in which the episodes’ written protocol conforms to a creation myth, and (4) continue
our look into forward-amplifications from Jung’s later published work - e.g., on the nature of the ego complex, on individuation,
and on the psychic quaternio.
John Peck practices as a Jungian Analyst and freelance editor/translator in Higganum,
CT. His eight books of poetry include most recently RED STRAWBERRY LEAF, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
$60 Members $95 Non-Members
Preregister by Mar 3
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SEMINAR
A Study of Jung’s NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA, Notes
of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939
A Seminar with James Scherer
6 Saturdays,
Mar 29 - May 3, 9:30 to 12 Noon
307C Brittany Farms Road, New Britain, CT
Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, like Goethe’s Faust, stands as one of the pillars
of Western literature. At its core, it describes the tension within the modern individual resulting from the metaphysical
world having dropped out of heaven and having landed in the human psyche. The result is that the problem of opposites is now
our problem, to be experienced on this earth, in this life, as consciously as possible. Jung understood that the fate
of humanity, perhaps even the earth, itself, as it has been known for thousands of years, rests on our capacity to be up to
this challenge. In this remarkable seminar series, Jung discusses Nietzsche’s great work and his solution to the problem
that God is dead. By shedding light on its strengths and weaknesses, Jung lays bare the challenges that consciousness brings
to the modern individual. Required texts: Jung’s NIETZSCHE’S ZARATHUSTRA: Notes of the Seminar, 1934-1939,
Vol. 1 and Nietzsche’s THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. (See bio above.)
$140 Members $175 Non-Members
Preregister
by March 24
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WORKSHOP
Despair and Dreams: The Spiritual Ordeal of a Modern Scientist
A Workshop with J. Gary Sparks
Saturday, May 10, 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
3 Northcliff Drive, Bloomfield, CT
This workshop will explore the dreams and fantasies
of atomic physicist Wolfgang Pauli. From the end of World War Two until his death in 1958, Pauli paid close attention to his
inner life during an intense period of personal questioning. As one of the founders of the atomic age, Pauli sought to understand
the destructive aspect of nuclear science by examining his personality’s role in its creation. By considering Pauli’s
interior imagery during this distressing time, we will recognize the healing response of the collective unconscious to today’s
unstable world and discern its clear reply to the atomic threat of world annihilation. In Pauli’s deliberate and painful
return to the problem of himself, we will find illuminated the possible path toward a more certain future for our world.
J. Gary Sparks, IAAP, is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, and maintains
an analytical practice in Indianapolis. He lectures widely throughout the US, has edited two books for Inner City Books, and
teaches at the Jung Institute in Toronto, Canada. His new book, AT THE HEART OF MATTER: Synchronicity and Jung’s
Spiritual Testament, is now available from Inner City Books.
$60 Members $95 Non-Members
Preregister by May 5
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