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 […]

25th Annual Jungian Conference: The Wisewoman Archetype and The Remarkable Hildegard of Bingen  

Saturday, April 18, 1998 @ 8:30 am PDT – 4:00 pm PDT – 25th Annual Jungian Conference The Wisewoman Archetype In the Culture and Collective Unconscious featuring Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. best selling author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, and Gods in Everyman also an afternoon workshop The Remarkable Hildegard of Bingen presented by Nancy Fierro, Ph.D. Saturday, April 18, 1998 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 […]

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

Saturday, October 17, 1998 @ 3:00 pm PDT – 5:00 pm PDT – The Parting of the Ways The Final Break Between Freud and Jung October 17th, 1998 A Dramatic Reading The Fall 1998 Programs will open with a dramatic reading of “The Parting of the Ways”, a work written by Dr.LionellCorbett on the selected Jung-Freud letters which show the disagreements and the bitterness as these two great […]

The Genesis and Nature of Evil  

Friday, November 6, 1998 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – The Genesis and Nature of Evil Presented by Christan D. Amundsen, M.Th., M.A. November 6, 1998 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 […]

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 – Shame as Shadow’s Tenacious Gatekeeper presented by Connie Crosby, L.C.S.W. February 6, 1999 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 […]

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 […]

C.G. Jung, the Jews and the Lingering Shadow of Anti-Semitism  

Friday, February 26, 1999 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – C.G. Jung, the Jews and the Lingering Shadow of Anti-Semitism presented by Barbara D. Stephens, Ph.D. February 26, 1999 Charges of anti-Semitism and Nazi collaboration have shrouded the reputation of C.G. Jung and, in some circles, continues to negatively affect the public’s perception of analytical psychology. The Jungian community has attempted to respond to these […]

The Archetype of Pilgrimage:  The Reality of the Psyche in the World  

Friday, March 12, 1999 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – The Archetype of Pilgrimage: The Reality of the Psyche in the World Presented by Barry Williams Friday, March 12, 1999 This talk was about the archetypal pattern of pilgrimage as a journey to the center and why it has efficacious and healing qualities. Drawing from our personal, folk and sacred stories, dreams and images, Barry […]