A Depth Psychological Approach to the Divine

Friday, October 24, 1997 @ 7:00 pm PDT – 9:00 pm PDT – We are sadly in need of a new concept of divinity; the old idea of God as a divine parent, judge, or celestial mechanic no longer serves. Many people with a strong personal sense of the sacred no longer find this dimension within traditional religious systems. However, new forms of the sacred are to be […]

There Are No Accidents:  Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives

Friday, March 20, 1998 @ 12:00 am PST – There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives presented by Robert H. Hopcke Friday, March 20, 1998 Robert H. Hopcke’s talk on Jung’s concept of synchronicity is organized around a single idea: that the meaningful coincidences nearly all of us have experienced in our lives acquire their significance because our lives are […]

The Wisewoman Archetype: 25th Annual Jungian Conference, Morning Keynote Address

Saturday, April 18, 1998 @ 8:30 am PDT – 12:00 pm PDT – Two significant events are about to intersect: the millennium approaches and a huge generation of women’s movement-empowered women are entering the third phase of their lives. Some forty million American women will turn fifty in the few years preceding and following the year 2000, joining the generation that began the women’s movement, who passed this […]

The Remarkable Hildegard of Bingen: 25th Annual Jungian Conference, Afternoon Workshop  

Saturday, April 18, 1998 @ 1:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – O form of woman, sister of Wisdom, how great is your glory!   ~Hildegard of Bingen Nine hundred years after her birth, Hildegard of Bingen has re-emerged as one of the most dynamic heroines in our time. Women seeking strong role models have discovered that this 12th-century Abbess has shining relevance in their lives. Born in […]

The Parting of the Ways – The Final Break Between Freud and Jung 

Saturday, October 17, 1998 @ 3:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – A Dramatic Reading The Fall 1998 Programs will open with a dramatic reading of “The Parting of the Ways”, a work written by Dr.Lionel Corbett on the selected Jung-Freud letters which show the disagreements and the bitterness as these two great pioneers held to their convictions and differences. The work is performed by three Jungian […]

The Genesis and Nature of Evil  

Friday, November 6, 1998 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – The issue of evil has disturbed humankind from the beginning. In coming to understand the Genesis and Nature of Evil, we may also come to insights on who we are and where we find ourselves, as well as the nature of reality itself. Evil at its most basic level is an obsessive narrowing of reality. […]

Oracular Consciousness in Ancient and Modern Life  

Friday, December 4, 1998 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – Oracular Consciousness In Ancient and Modern Life December 4th, 1998 Presented by Dianne Skafte, Ph.D. Jung sometimes cast the I Ching before a session to gain a divinatory reading on the work that would follow. He used intuitive skills to such a degree that he was known to describe dream material of his patients before […]

Shadow and Fairy Tale  

Friday, January 29, 1999 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – Shadow and Fairy Tale presented by Valerie McIlroy, L.C.S.W. January 29, 1999 Valerie McIlroy uses the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” to explore the shadow in our daily lives. In this tale the little mermaid sacrifices her mermaid nature, her family, her natural habitat and her fishtail for legs and the unrequited romantic love of […]

Shame as Shadow’s Tenacious Gatekeeper  

Saturday, February 6, 1999 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – Understanding the effects of shame upon an individual’s psychological development, including its influence upon one’s shadow material, has been an abiding focus of Ms.Crosby’s studies for many years. Shame is an archetypal affect that has a purpose in our psyches. It has the hidden power to either beat up, burn, freeze or heal our process. […]

Shadow and Spirit in the American Psyche: Lessons of Pulp Fiction

Saturday, February 13, 1999 @ 3:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Film & Workshop  Few recent films have so intrigued and perplexed our country’s moviegoers as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, which engages the problem of violence in American culture.  The dialogue, the characters, the unusual structure of the film, and its balance of terror, comedy and pathos, express a paradoxical optimism toward this shadow problem that notoriously […]