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 […]
4.16.26 | Lecture: The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures are an ancient allegory dating back to 11th or 12th century China, used to illustrate the path to enlightenment. We are going to look at the series of ten paintings through the lens of Jungian psychology. The connection with the individuation process as described by Jung over the course of 20 […]
9.18.25 | Lecture: Living Into Whole Type
For decades, Jung’s type theory has arguably enjoyed a popularity among the public-at-large even beyond the formulation of his archetypal hypothesis, his ideas on synchronicity, and his original and creative work on alchemy. For the adventuresome reader, Jung’s massive volume Psychological Types still remains a tour de force in the history of ideas. Expanding on […]