Francis of Assisi: A Wise Man Who Is Mad? or a Madman Who Is Wise?  

Friday, January 28, 2005 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – Francis rides out of Assisi to do battle. He is a young man of privilege. His Parents are proud and cheer as he rides away. Five years later, Francis stands naked in the town square before his father and the Bishop of Assisi. His father is so angry he disowns his son publicly. Standing before […]

Francis of Assisi: A Psycho-Spiritual Biography

Saturday, January 29, 2005 @ 9:00 am PST – 1:00 pm PST – During Saturday’s workshop, we will further explore the life and individuation process of Francis of Assisi. There will also be and opportunity for participants to explore their own spiritual autobiography and share it with the group if so inclined. David Bona, Ph.D, spent 25 years as a Capuchin-Franciscan Catholic priest and has MAs in Theology, […]

SEVEN:  A Musical Meditation on Spiritual Evolution and Transcendence

Friday, February 11, 2005 @ 8:00 pm PST – 10:00 pm PST – SEVEN A Musical Meditation on Spiritual Evolution and Transcendence presented by Seth Osburn Friday, February 11th, 2005 8:00pm In this program, pianist and composer Seth Osburn will discuss his original composition, SEVEN, a solo piece based on the seven stages of alchemical transformation. He composed SEVEN during two years of intense research and meditation, and […]

Psyche and World: Depth Psychology and Contemporary Events (32nd Annual Jungian Conference)

Friday, March 4, 2005 – Saturday, March 5, 2005 @ All Day – Our culture tends to seek historical, sociological, economic, and political explanations for the many crises we face while ignoring the unconscious underpinnings of such problems. It is rare to speak of the intense emotions and complex unconscious motivations that influence social policy decisions, thereby treating these decisions as if they were impersonal. Yet there is […]

Emigration: A Heroic Journey

Friday, March 4, 2005 @ 8:30 pm PST – 9:45 pm PST – Amplifying the psychology of emigration by comparing it to stages of classic Greek tragedies, and drawing upon personal life experience as a first generation emigrant and psychiatrist who has treated hundreds of first and second-generation Persian emigrants in Southern California, Dr. Moradi will examine how this crisis of emigration creates a ripe circumstance for the […]

Violence as Sacrament: Unconscious and Spiritual Roots of War

Saturday, March 5, 2005 @ 9:00 am PST – 10:15 am PST – Many unconscious motives for war have been described, but war and militarism in general also have important spiritual sources. Various authors have noted that, for many people, war is a kind of sacrament or blood ritual that draws on the archetypal energies within the psyche. It is not surprising that religious passions so often produce […]

George W. Bush and the American Psyche: The Meaning and Function of the Love and Loathing of Our Nation’s Leader

Saturday, March 5, 2005 @ 10:30 am PST – 11:15 am PST – What is being hosted from the unconscious depths by our president? The intensity of feeling and reaction, both for and against the iconic public persona and actions of George W. Bush, serve as symptom and indicator for our contemporary collective process. This talk will focus on an understanding of the way in which a leader […]

Screens and Shadows:  Collective Consciousness and the Manufacture of Consent

Saturday, March 5, 2005 @ 1:15 pm PST – 2:30 pm PST – Jung’s insight into language, collective consciousness, and the archetypal structures of popular myth offers us powerful means for exposing America’s imperial agenda and confronting the powerful force of corporate media in today’s ceaseless information war. In this ardent plea for individual consciousness and collective responsibility, the kindred observations of Noam Chomsky’s classic Manufacture of Consent […]

Psyches and Cities of Hospitality

Saturday, March 5, 2005 @ 2:45 pm PST – 4:02 pm PST – Through reflection on the example of the U.S./Mexico border, this talk and small group experiential work will focus on the psychological orientation that eventuates in the building of walls between neighbors. We will take heart from an idea proposed in Europe by Jacques Derrida and others to create Cities of Hospitality for those forced to […]

The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

Friday, March 18, 2005 @ 8:00 pm PST – 9:30 pm PST – Basic Jung: Some Essentials of Analytical Psychology Friday, March 18th, 2005, 8:00 PM The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Led by Elizabeth Strahan This overview of the psyche in terms of structure and function, will include definitions of terms, descriptions of psychological processes, individuation, and the growth of consciousness. These Orange County Jungian analysts […]