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SUMMARY:Piercing the Vale: The Middle Way of Eschenbach’s Parzival
DESCRIPTION:\nThis program will be recorded and made available publicly on 
 our&nbsp\;YouTube channel. You do not need to have registered to view the 
 video.\n\n\n\nThis talk explores Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival\, wri
 tten in the early 13th century\, as a profound symbolic narrative of psych
 ological and spiritual transformation. Parzival is not only a personal sto
 ry of a knight’s quest\, but it is also a collective dream - a mythologi
 cal effort by the collective to restore the feminine dimension of the soul
 \, of God\, and of the world.  We will examine how the Grail quest - far 
 from being an irrelevant medieval legend - speaks directly to our divided 
 modern world and to the deeper psychic tension between opposites within th
 e human soul.\n\n\n\nRobert Matthews is Jungian Analyst\, trained at the R
 esearch and Training Centre for Depth Psychology in Zurich according to C.
 G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. He is in private practice in Adelaide 
 and is the current President of the C G Jung Society of South Australia. H
 e is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education\, Adelaide Universi
 ty\, teaching classroom management and the application of neuroscience in 
 education. He has a PhD in theoretical physics and has recently published 
 the book The Paradoxical Meeting of Depth Psychology and Physics: Reflecti
 ons on the Unification of Psyche and Matter. A discussion of this book can
  be found in an interview with Laura London on Speaking of Jung.\n\n\n\nLe
 arning objectives:\n\n\n\n\nExplain how Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parziva
 l\, as a symbolic narrative of psychological transformation\, presents the
  Grail quest as an inner journey from naïve unconsciousness\, through fai
 lure and suffering\, toward a more integrated relationship between thinkin
 g\, feeling\, action\, and compassion.\n\n\n\nApply Parzival’s story to 
 contemporary experiences of division and spiritual hunger.\n\n\n\n\nImage:
  Heidelberg University Library\, Cod. Pal. germ. 848 (Codex Manesse)\, fol
 . 149r\n\n\n\n\n
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