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SUMMARY:Jane Smith Memorial Lecture: On Facing Reality
DESCRIPTION:"The whole laborious achievement of our lives is adaptation to 
 reality."\n\n~C. G. Jung\n\nAs human beings\, we live continuously between
  at least two realities: inner/outer\, spiritual/material\, subjective/obj
 ective\, seen/unseen. Adaptation to reality involves learning to live with
  change\, with limits\, with otherness\, and with the unknown. Maturing\, 
 that is\, the gradual growth of consciousness\, enables us to move toward 
 keener and keener perceptions of reality\, and to make creative choices in
  terms of that perception. The daily\, moment-by-moment process of sorting
  and checking and revisiting our experiences in terms of our relationship 
 to reality is the everyday practice of conscious living.\n\nWe have intric
 ate defense systems against the harshness of reality. Psychological defens
 e systems range from denial to addiction. Facing these defensive patterns 
 and allowing oneself to experience anxiety and pain in increasingly tolera
 ble increments can free one from a too rigid or avoiding posture against r
 eality toward greater participation in life. This process is often the goa
 l of psychotherapy. Jung's emphasis on archetypal reality adds the dimensi
 on of awareness of the wholeness of reality and of the individual in which
  the marvelous capacity to create one's reality through imagination is hel
 d.\n\nIs facing reality a desirable and viable goal? If so\, what are some
  tools of consciousness toward that goal? How does one identify defenses a
 gainst reality? When does one dare sacrifice the defense? How does imagina
 tion shape reality?\n\nElizabeth will lead our circumambulation of these i
 ssues\, hoping to deepen our connection to life and to inspire respect and
  compassion for life-as-it-is\, including each suffering individual.\n\nEl
 izabeth Strahan is a Jungian Analyst practicing in Fullerton for the past 
 20 years. She has served the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles as presid
 ent\, chair of the Certifying Board\, member of the faculty\, and is curre
 ntly their representative on the Executive Board of the International Asso
 ciation of Analytical Psychologists. Some may be familiar with her work as
  lecturer\, seminar leader\, writer\, and publisher of the video series\,T
 he Language of Dreams\, available in the club library or a twww.dreamweave
 rs.org
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