10.15.26 | Guest Lecturer Dr. Sheri Kling | Inanna Imaginalis: Dying and Rising in Story and Song
Description From the stories of Jonah in the belly of the whale or Persephone in the Underworld to Star Wars, The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, the journey to individuation and wholeness always includes a stop in wilderness places we’d rather not visit. But sometimes we don’t have a choice. And whether it’s divorce, […]
9.10.26 | Lecture: Alchemy & The Individuation Process
In 1928, after Jung received the Chinese alchemical text titled The Secret of the Golden Flower from the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, he closed the Red Book mid-sentence and devoted the next thirty-plus years of his life to researching and reflecting on the images, writings, and practices of the Western alchemical tradition. Jung was the first […]
11.11.26 | Encountering the Psyche | Module 11: Dreams & Active Imagination | Virtual Q & A Discussion
You are invited to embark on a tour of the psyche as mapped by Carl Gustav Jung, to be led by Angelo Spoto — Jungian therapist of over 35 years, author of Jung’s Typology in Perspective, and Education Director of the C.G. Jung Library of Tampa Bay. Module 11: Dreams & Active Imagination is the 11th […]
3.5.26 | Marie-Louise von Franz | The Inferior Function | Free Reading Discussion
In this volume, two world-renowned psychologists, Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman, give detailed accounts of C.G. Jung’s personality types. In her essay, “The Inferior Function,” Marie-Louise von Franz shows the inferior shadow side of each of the eight kinds of typical functioning, while James Hillman differentiates in his essay, “The Feeling Function,” genuine feeling […]
2.5.26 | Erich Neumann | The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes | Free Reading Discussion
The Israeli analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later writing to the theme of creativity. This is the third volume of Neumann’s essays on that subject. Neumann found his examples not only in the work of writers and artists—William Blake, Goethe, […]
11.6.25 | Marie-Louise von Franz | The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption | Free Reading Discussion
The Cat is a Romanian fairy tale of some complexity and great charm. It is the story of a princess who at the age of 17 is bewitched-turned into a cat. She must remain in that form until an emperor’s son will come and cut off her head . . . . eventually a simple-minded […]
10.2.25 | Rafael Lopez-Pedraza | Dionysus in Exile | Free Reading Discussion
The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society–the loss of embodied soulfulness in individual’s lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and […]
9.4.25 | Euripides | The Bacchae | Free Reading Discussion
Considered by many to be Euripides’s most important work, The Bacchae has been rousing audiences since the fifth century BC. Appearing in human form, the Greek god Dionysus has come to seek vengeance on his mortal cousin, Pentheus, King of Thebes. The Greek ruler has proclaimed that, far from being the son of Zeus, Dionysus […]
8.7.25 | Henri Corbin | Mundus Imaginalis | Free Reading Discussion
Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was a groundbreaking French philosopher, theologian, and Islamicist whose visionary work unveiled the power of the imaginal realm. Corbin’s unique approach synthesized Islamic mysticism, Western philosophy, Jungian psychology, and the perennial wisdom traditions to illumine the transformative potency of creative imagination. His penetrating insights into the mediating realm between matter and spirit […]
9.24.2022 | Workshop: Active Imagination: Cultivating Conversations with the Inner World
Active imagination is an intrapsychic dialogue that one enters into with different parts of one’s psyche that have come to live a life of their own. We will be outlining the method of Active Imagination in specific detail, using examples as models, and then putting the method to practice with personal material. The process, when […]