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URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2021-09-19-gellert/
SUMMARY:Far From This Land:  A Memoir About Evolution\, Love\, and the Aft
 erlife
DESCRIPTION:This event will consist of readings by Michael Gellert from his
  new book\, Far From This Land\, interspersed with questions and answers 
 and an open discussion.  Program registrants will be sent a link for purc
 hasing Michael Gellert’s signed book from the C.G. Jung Institute of Los
  Angeles bookstore with a 10% discount.\n​\nMichael Gellert’s new book
  is inspired by the author’s dreams and visionary experiences in respons
 e to brain surgery. Unfolding as a dialogue between different parts of his
  personality\, its story is told from the perspective of an alter ego\, a 
 skeptical part of him that could not believe and accept these astonishing 
 dreams and visions. Throughout his story he is resistant to accepting his 
 near-death experience (NDE)—an extraordinary one by most standards. He h
 as to fight his way to embracing\, reluctantly\, the implications this exp
 erience has for his personal development as well as his understanding of h
 uman evolution. The book explores such topics as the workings of the uncon
 scious mind (dreams\, visions\, and paranormal phenomena)\; the evolution 
 of consciousness and of our planet\; and the psychological and spiritual d
 imension of climate change. It presents a portrait of the afterlife that i
 s compatible with most NDE accounts\, but also offers a unique viewpoint t
 hat has profound implications for our everyday lives.\n​\nLearning objec
 tives: \n​\n\n\n 	\nGive examples of using Jung’s method of active im
 agination to work with dreams and to induce visionary experiences.\n\n 	\n
 Investigate the possible connection of the psyche to other realms\, in par
 ticular to what has been traditionally conceived as the afterlife and to w
 hat modern physics hypothesizes are parallel universes.\n\n 	\nExplore the
  spiritual ideas of Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with the aim 
 of understanding the goal of personal development and human evolution\n\n\
 n​​​\nMichael Gellert\, MA\, LCSW\, is a Jungian analyst practicing
  in Los Angeles. He was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung In
 stitute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at Vanier College\, Mont
 real. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York a
 nd has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern Cali
 fornia and Time magazine. He has lived in Japan\, where he trained with 
 a Zen master. The author of Modern Mysticism\, The Way of the Small\, A
 merica’s Identity Crisis\, and The Divine Mind (the latter two of whic
 h each won a Nautilus Book Award)\, he lectures widely on psychology\, rel
 igion\, and contemporary culture.\n\nVisit Michael Gellert's website.
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