The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books:  Jung, Tolkien, and the Imaginal Realm

Sunday, November 10, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. They had each stepped across a threshold and entered into another world, the realm of imagination, the world of fantasy. Jung recorded these initially spontaneous visionary experiences, which he […]

The Way to Oneself… Befriending the Unknown Inner Other

Sunday, December 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – The Way to Oneself… Befriending the Unknown Inner Other Presented by Magi Guindi, MFT Sunday, December 15, 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 pm (this program was not recorded) Based on Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quijote de La Mancha, this presentation will illustrate the evolutionary purposefulness of Imagination and the importance of becoming conscious and free of inner […]

Lakshmi, the Archetype of Wealth, Well-Being and Wholeness

Sunday, January 12, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Lakshmi: The Archetype of Wealth, Well-Being and Wholeness Presented by Mala Setty, PhD link to audio file Link to similar YouTube talk by Mala Setty, including the slides used in this lecture Sunday, January 12, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm The East teaches us another, broader, more profound, and higher understanding, that is, understanding through […]

Lest We Forget, Nazi Shadow Part II: Individuation as Antidote for the Problem of our Times

Sunday, February 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Lest We Forget, Part II Nazi Shadow: Individuation as Antidote for the Problem of Our Times Presented by Holly J. Fincher, PhD Sunday, February 16, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm “Lest We Forget” is an ongoing analytic research project which considers the catastrophe of WWII as a collective symptom of our changing god image—an archetypal […]

Transgenderism and Transformation: a Jungian Perspective

Sunday, March 8, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Transgenderism and Transformation: A Jungian Perspective Presented by Michael Marsman, LCSW Sunday, March 8, 4:00 – 6:00 pm (DAYLIGHT SAVINGS STARTS: DON’T FORGET TO TURN CLOCKS ONE HOUR AHEAD) While transgenderism as a cultural phenomenon seems, at least in part, to be based on a collective taste for the sensational, its emergence represents a collective […]

Visionary Poetry and Jungian Psychology:  Archetypal, Sociopolitical and Personal Dimensions of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Sunday, September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Visionary Poetry and Jungian Psychology: Archetypal, Sociopolitical and Personal Dimensions of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Presented by Thomas Elsner, JD, MA Sunday, September 20, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm PT link to video Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), is one of the most famous poems in […]

Pantheon of Paradoxes:  Archetypal Imagery in the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon

Sunday, October 18, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Pantheon of Paradoxes: Archetypal Imagery in the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon Presented by Jacqueline Thurston, MA Sunday, October 18, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm PT link to video Artists are drawn to Jungian concepts because these concepts illuminate their personal working experience with the creative process. Jung’s understanding of synchronicity, the intersection between the inner world […]

Fairy Tales and the Psyche

Sunday, November 15, 2020 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Fairy Tales and the Psyche Presented by Steven Galipeau, MA, MDiv Sunday, November 15, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm PT link to video “Fairy Tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes.” – Marie Louise von Franz In this presentation we will look at two Grimm’s fairytales, Iron Hans and The […]

Gifts and Perils of Aging: Psychological Development During the Later Phase of Life

Sunday, January 24, 2021 @ 4:00 pm PST – 6:00 pm PST – Gifts and Perils of Aging: Psychological Development During the Later Phase of Life Presented by Robert Moradi, MD link to video Sunday, January 24, 2021, 4:00 – 6:00 pm PT This program will also be recorded and made available for free to anyone, along with a transcript, via a link on the Past Programs page […]