Christiana’s Visions

Friday, May 11, 2001 @ 8:00 pm PDT – 10:00 pm PDT – Seeking relief from a general discontentment with her life, Christiana Morgan traveled to Zurich to be in analysis with Carl Jung in 1926. After a few preliminary dreams, Jung taught Christiana how to go into deep trances in order to let her mind form images and visions which could give her more waking access to […]

The Mysteries of Mythic Stories

Friday, November 2, 2001 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – The Mysteries of Mythic Stories Presented by Jonathan Young, Ph.D. November 2, 2001 From the realm of dream and fantasy, comes the enchanting tale ofThe Talking Eggs, a Bayou yarn about coping with times of trouble. In a spirit of play, we follow this magical story to learn more about the journey to wholeness. This […]

Alchemy of the Blues:  Lecture & Musical Performance

Friday, December 7, 2001 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – Alchemy of the Blues: Lecture & Musical Performance Presented by Stephen Diggs, Ph.D. December 7th, 2001 The Blues. In the last 100 years no force has had greater impact on the music of the West. But that’s only the beginning of the story of the blues. When we use Jung’s psychology to look below the […]

The Fate of America

Friday, February 15, 2002 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – THE FATE OF AMERICA Presented by Michael Gellert, M.A., L.C.S.W. February 15, 2002 The events of September 11 and the current war on terrorism have focused our attention on America’s future in a renewed and pressing way. Given our extroverted orientation, much of our focus is on the “other,” on the enemy outside of us. […]

The Mysteries and Shadows of Love:  Relationship as a Portal to the Sacred

Friday, March 15, 2002 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – THE MYSTERIES AND SHADOWS OF LOVE: RELATIONSHIP AS A PORTAL TO THE SACRED Presented by Veronica Goodchild, Ph.D. March 15, 2002 In Plato’s origin myth, we were created as ovoid, androgynous beings. Because we revolted against the gods, Zeus, in his wrath, divided us. The need for our lost other is so powerful that we […]

Affects and the Archetypal Imagination (29th Annual Jungian Conference)

Saturday, April 6, 2002 @ 9:00 am PST – 5:00 pm PST – To the extent that I managed to translate the emotions into images… I was inwardly calmed and reassured. ~ C. G. Jung   ​As far back as 1907, Jung proposed a theory that the emotions are at the foundation of the psyche.  As primal sources of the higher functions, they motivate and shape the development of […]

Listening: Psyche & Music Affects

Friday, April 19, 2002 @ 8:00 pm PDT – 10:00 pm PDT – “Music expresses in sounds what fantasies and visions express in visual imagery…” ~C. G. Jung   Music has the ability to arouse visual imagery, dance, drama architecture, and all the emotions.  Sound and music are part of our earliest awareness and experience psychologically, biologically, historically, and culturally.  Yet, sound and music, connected as they are […]

Insight Meditation: Jung’s Psychology, Complexes and the Ānāpānasmṛti Sūtra 

Friday, May 3, 2002 @ 8:00 pm PDT – 10:00 pm PDT – Jung’s psychology and Buddhist meditation are often seen as separate approaches. One is in analysis or one meditates.The goal of each seems to be different, individuation in one case and enlightenment in the other. While there are particular points where Jung’s thinking and that of Buddhism may not be complementary, a point of unification between […]

Alchemical Psychology: Transforming the Lead of the Unconscious into the Gold of an “Illumined Soul”  

Friday, May 31, 2002 @ 8:00 pm PDT – 10:00 pm PDT – Alchemical Psychology: Transforming the Lead of the Unconscious into the Gold of an “IlluminedSoul” Presented by Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D. Friday, May 31st, 2002 8:00 pm In 1997, Thom Cavalli presented a lecture on transforming alchemical recipes into modern-day use. This popular and Informative program eventually became the basis for his newly published book,Alchemical Psychology, […]

Alchemical Workshop:  Summer workshop for Jung Club members and their guests

Sunday, July 28, 2002 @ 4:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT – Summer Alchemical Workshop Sunday, July 28, 2002 at 4:00pm Centuries ago alchemists sealed mundane materials into vessels, that they repeatedly heated, cooled and reheated. As they checked the progress of their work they watched the contents of their vessels change. In their manuscripts, they comment upon the progress of the Work in esoteric passages and […]