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SUMMARY:On the Threshold of Transformation: Liminality and Symbolic Death
DESCRIPTION:On the Threshold of Transformation: \nLiminality and Symbolic D
 eath\nPresented by\nThomas Elsner\, JD\, MA\nSunday\, September 10\, 2023\
 , 4:00 - 6:00 pm PDT (UTC - 7) \nThis program will be recorded and made av
 ailable publicly on our YouTube channel.\nlink to video\nThe death of one 
 thing is the birth of another. Liminal states of symbolic death and rebirt
 h are central to the transformation of consciousness. We will explore limi
 nality as it appears in ancient and medieval alchemy\, Romantic poetry\, J
 ungian psychology\, within our dreams\, and our personal experience of lif
 e.\nIn the late 1950’s\, at the height of the Cold War\, Jung wrote that
  “we are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the wa
 y of salvation by a symbolic death.” What can individuals hope to contri
 bute to the problem of war\, the possible elimination of the human in the 
 face of cyber-physical systems\, the disintegration of religious meaning\,
  political chaos\, and other crises that confront all of us in the contemp
 orary world? Liminal imagery of symbolic death applies to contemporary col
 lective issues\, particularly the creative evolution of Western solar/patr
 iarchal consciousness (the religions of the Book\, the European Enlightenm
 ent) via a return of the repressed lunar/matriarchal consciousness of the 
 past. Applications will be offered for discussion. \nThomas Elsner\, JD\, 
 MA\, is a certified Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Barbara\, Californ
 ia\, and a graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in
  Zurich. A core faculty member and highly respected lecturer at Pacifica G
 raduate Institute for many years where he taught courses on depth psycholo
 gy and alchemy\, He has lectured and led workshops nationally and internat
 ionally. A recipient of the distinguished annual Fay Lecture series in ana
 lytical psychology\, his book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem\, T
 he Rime of the Ancient Mariner should be published by the end of 2023.\nLe
 arning objectives: \nDefine and explain the concept of liminality.\nDefine
  and explain the concept of symbolic death and rebirth.\nApply the concept
  of liminal imagery of symbolic death to contemporary collective issues.
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