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Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“The Chumash Dream Helpers”


with Jean Palmer-Daley, Ph.D.
Wednesday November 12, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.

Jean will discuss the Chumash tradition of dream helpers. Dream helpers were dream figures with whom individuals formed personal relationships. These relationships provided the individuals with protection and guidance in much the same way that our dream figures can assist us. We will discuss how the dream helper relationships were obtained and tales of dream helpers' assistance. In addition, the dream helper relationship will be examined from a Jungian perspective. Participants will be invited to share their dreams and how dream figures have assisted them.

Jean Palmer-Daley Ph.D. is an MFT and training as a Jungian Analyst at the Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zurich, Switzerland. She is adjunct faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute with a private practice here in Santa Barbara.

 


$15 members, $20 non-members.
Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

 

 

Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“The Serpent and the Cross;
Healing the Split through Active Imagination
.”


with Katie Sanford, MA, MFC
Wednesday August 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.

Katherine M. Sanford, M.A., M.F.C. is a Jungian analyst in Del Mar, California. She studied at the Jung Institute in the mid-1950s in Zurich, Switzerland and trained at the Los Angeles Jung Institute where she received her certification in 1978. Katie says her real education came through her travels in the inner and outer world, sixty-seven years of marriage, children, grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The rendering of these life experiences is reflected in several papers- most recently The Muddled Milk of Motherhood (Psychological Perspectives, 2006), and her book The Serpent and the Cross; Healing the Split through Active Imagination (2006), which documents her archetypal journey through the individuation process. Katie has lectured nationally and internationally on issues concerning the feminine individuation process and is a founding member of the San Diego Friends of Jung, a member of the Los Angeles and San Diego Societies of Jungian Analysts.

"My recently published book, The Serpent and the Cross; Healing the Split through Active Imagination (2006,) contains 62 archetypal paintings and related commentaries dealing with the early loss of my mother and the compensatory responses to that loss. This is the documentation of a thirty year journey of intense inner work on the individuation process."

"This lecture will focus on the first 23 paintings, images dealing specifically with the development of a more positive relationship to the animus, putting him to work in support of my feminine authenticity. Personal narrative accompanies these paintings, giving insight and interpretation to the symbols and themes that have defined women since time began. This series of images and text represent a dialogue with the soul, addressing the deepest complexes of the human psyche."


$15 members, $20 non-members.
Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

images by Katie Sanford

 

 

Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

Celebrate Jung's Birthday
July 26th
a special event for members only

Come join us at the Hollister Ranch, about 30 minutes up the coast from Santa Barbara; an extraordinarily beautiful stretch of coastal land and a place that is intimately related to our Santa Barbara Jungian heritage. The Hollister Ranch was the birthplace of Jane Hollister who, with her husband Jo Wheelwright, were some of the first Americans to train with Jung in Switzerland as Analysts. Jane and Jo founded the Jung Institute in San Francisco and were widely regarded around the world as extraordinary analysts and persons.

This event is in honor of Jung on his birthday, and also in honor of our Santa Barbara links to the Jungian legacy through Jane and Jo Wheelwright and the land that was so close to their souls.

Doyle Hollister, a relative of Jane Hollister and a therapist in town, will present a piece about Jane, his relationship with her and his life as a Hollister. Lou Ann Wallner, a member of the board of the Friends of Jung and long-time Hollister Ranch resident, will talk about her long-standing relationships with Jane and Jo, and share from the deep well of stories she carries with her about them and their lives and their connection to Jung.

This will be a beautiful event to honor both Jung and the Hollister-Wheelwrights.

For the Board I hope that you will be able to attend and join us for this community building event. We look forward to seeing you there!

TIME: Sat. July 26th 11:00 - 3:00
PLACE: Hollister Ranch, Gaviota CA (Directions will be provided to those attending. It is about 30 min from Santa Barbara. Think carpool if possible.)
COST: We are currently adding up costs! and will keep the cost to the bare minimum. We'll let you know but wanted to make sure you save the date if you are interested.

LUNCH, BEVERAGES, AND BIRTHDAY CAKE TO BE PROVIDED BY SANTA BARBARA FRIENDS OF JUNG

SPACES ARE LIMITED DUE TO USE RESTRICTIONS SO PLEASE RESERVE A SPACE ASAP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND!! AGAIN, IT IS FOR MEMBERS ONLY SO YOU MUST BE A MEMBER TO ATTEND. PERSONS WHO WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND BUT ARE NOT YET MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN BEFORE ATTENDING.


To reserve a space please contact Lou Ann Wallner at:
orphanology@aol.com
or
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara CA 93101


Keep posted at www.santabarbarajung.com for further information about this and other upcoming events.

Best wishes, and if you have any questions please contact me at: telsner@cox.net or Lou Ann at: orphanology@aol.com

Tom Elsner


 

 

Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“St. Francis: A Madman who was Wise
or
a Wise Man who was Mad?”

A Psycho-Spiritual Biography


with Dr. David Bona, Phd
Wednesday June 18, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.

It is November 11, 1202; Francis of Assisi is riding out of the city with the other young men to do battle with the neighboring town of Perugia. He stands out from all the others, not because of his stature or his fighting reputation, but because of the magnificence of his horse, the quality of his weapons, and the lavishness of his clothes. They were the best money could buy.

Francis is the son of one of the richest men of Assisi. He is young, privileged, and fun loving, personable and known as “the King Of Revelers”. It is the best of times for Francis. We see his father and mother cheering him on to glory, so proud of their son, celebrating his dreams and their hopes for him.

Five years later Francis is standing in the crowded town square before his father and the Bishop of Assisi. His father is so angry with him that he is about to disown him publicly. Francis quietly, yet full of determination, takes off all of his clothes and stands naked before the people of Assisi. Handing his clothes back to his father, he says, “Pietro Bernadone is no longer my father. Now I say with complete freedom ‘Our Father who art in heaven’”.

Twenty years later Francis is on a mountaintop deep in prayer. Suddenly a ball of fire streams down from the heavens. A fiery angel imaged as Jesus nailed to the cross stands before him. Francis is filled with both debilitating terror and immense joy. Rays of light from the angel, like bolts of lightening, pierce his hands, feet and side. Searing pain knocks him unconscious. When he awakes the stigmata, the five wounds of Christ’s crucifixion, are permanently imprinted on his body.

What happened to that carefree, rich young man who rode out so gloriously to do battle? What mysterious psychological/spiritual forces were operating in Francis that led him to strip himself naked and disown his father? What was the architecture of his soul? How did Francis of Assisi come to be considered one of the world’s greatest saints? Why is his life so important to all men and women in every age, culture and religion?

These are some of the questions that Dr. David Bona engages in his lively presentation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi.

Dr. Bona spent 25 years as a Capuchin-Franciscan Catholic Priest and has an MA in Theology, an MA in Divinity, an MA in Education and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He wrote his dissertation on the Dreams of St. Francis and, is currently working on a book of Francis’s life from the perspective of psychology. He has served as the Chair of the MA/Ph.D Depth Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He is currently a Core Faculty Member at Pacifica.


$15 at the door. Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

 

 

Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“The World of Inner Images
and the Individuation Process
.”


with Sheherezad Shashaani, MFT
Wednesday April 16, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.

Jung’s premise is that “everything of which we are conscious is an image, and that image is the psyche.” In this presentation, Sheherezad will share her reflections on how images from dreams, visions, and active imagination transform consciousness. Stories flow out of images, and she will explore ways in which the moon-world and sun-world come together. Sheherezad will demonstrate the process by which the inner life of imagination enables one’s own personal myth to become visible and known, leading to an understanding of the purpose and meaning of life.

Sheherezad Shashaani, MFT is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist practicing in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She received her B.A. In Child Development and Family Life from Purdue University in 1974 after which she returned to Iran and lived through the tumultuous Iranian revolution of 1979 and the Iraq war. In 1984 she returned to the United States and earned a B.A. in Music from UC Irvine. In 1992 she again returned to Iran where she taught piano and formed a group to study the works of C.G. Jung and Joseph Campbell. These studies stimulated a search for her archaic roots, and she began to travel extensively, visiting and studying ancient ruins and Persian mythology. In 1996, she returned to the United States and attended Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she earned her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology.


$15 at the door. Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

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Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“The Relationship to the Beloved in Dream
as an Expression of the Transcendent Function.”
A Special Valentine's Day Event


with Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D.
Wednesday February 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute and a licensed Clinical Psychologist. His areas of emphasis include depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology. Dr. Aizenstat’s original research centers on a psychodynamic process of “tending the living image”. He has conducted dreamwork seminars for over 25 years and has recorded “DreamTending”, a seven-hour CD. Dr. Aizenstat was also featured in a documentary film on DreamTending. His publications include: “Dreams are Alive” in Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field, and “Nature Dreaming: Jungian Psychology and the World Unconscious” in Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. He is currently working on a new book, DreamTending: Teachings for a Dream-Centered Life. For more information on DreamTending visit www.dreamtending.com.


$15 at the door. Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

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An interview with Stephen Aizenstat

D is for Dream

The Santa Barbara Independent
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
By Martha Sadler

Pacifica's Stephen Aizenstat Sheds Light on Nighttime Visions

For this week’s Curioser and Curioser, Martha Sadler sat down for a chat with Stephen Aizenstat, the founder and president of Pacifica Graduate Institute, a co-founder of Earth Day, and an internationally respected expert on dreams. Aizenstat was recently named a Local Hero by The Independentfor decades of helping the community, but in this interview, we wanted to draw on his background in psychology and learn more about his field of professional expertise.

Hence, “D is for Dreams.”

Martha Sadler met Aizenstat earlier this week over warm drinks at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Coast Village Road in Montecito. The professor had just dropped off some chapters of his forthcoming book at the post office, and agreed to spend some of his valuable time answering Martha’s questions.

Aizenstat was thoughtful, sincere, and earnest in their hour-long talk, causing Martha to remark afterward: “He’s done dream-work with so many people that it’s amazing he’s still so enchanted with dreams.”

What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion. Thanks for reading, and see more of these columns here.

What are dreams?

Dreams are the spontaneous visions of the night. Some people say that when the eyes are closed, something else comes awake, and what comes awake at night are scenes from the day shaped by the imagination or shaped by the dreaming psyche.

Are they meaningful or just wacky entertainment?

Dreams may describe what is going on with us emotionally or existentially. They often present something going on in our world that we may have missed. Also, dreams are forever commenting on what's going on physiologically. They have a lot to say about our physical well-being: Dreams and images will occur first and then the symptom will always come second or third. Not only will dreams talk about what's going on, and where it goes on, they'll offer a diagnosis and something of a treatment plan, and in addition they'll give you a prognosis.

Does everybody dream?

Everybody dreams, and we dream about three or four times a night. Some people will remember their dreams frequently, but others have the hardest time remembering their dreams. They wake up and as soon as awake life comes in, dreams stop, and they can't remember a thing.

Can people learn to remember their dreams?

Remembering dreams is easily trained. There are hundreds of ways, but here are the top four that I've used all through the years. Number one is to get interested. If we get interested in dreams, they in turn get interested in us.

The second way is to take a dream journal, and pen or pencil, to your bedside, which is in itself a suggestion that, "Tonight I'm going to remember my dreams." Then you repeat that statement three times. "Tonight I'm going to remember my dreams," three times. And then the key is, before you get up in the morning, and the light rushes in, and you forget — to hang in that, what we call, liminal space, without movement, and without letting other things in, and waiting for some recall to occur.

If you're still not recollecting at that point, you take the dream journal with you to the kitchen or to the bathroom, and just give yourself that time, and within the hour or so, eight times out of 10, people remember their dream.

What if that doesn't work?

The third way is to remember the last dream that occurs to you. It may have been a year ago or five years ago, but write it down in the dream journal. For whatever reason, that stimulates recall.

And the fourth way?

The fourth way is to write to the dreaming psyche. So you say, "Dear dreaming psyche, this is Steve. I'm very interested in what you have to say. I truly am. I know it's been a long time but I am interested." Then you take the other side — just like you do in journal writing — you take the side of the dreaming psyche, and you say, "Steve, how long has it been? It's been, like, a year or two. In fact, you never ask, meshugena. You only ask when you want something." And so if you can get through the guilt, and if you use that dialogue back and forth, then you will increase the instance of dream recall.

It seems like dreams are often smarter, or certainly more imaginative, than waking life.

That's what's so phenomenal: Dreams come with a kind of intelligence that is beyond what's conscious. The psyche itself is rooted in an intelligence that is both instinctual by nature — the animal intelligence — and imaginative by nature, what Joseph Campbell or Carl Jung or any great poet or person of literature and the arts would identify as the archetypal or mythical imagination. At the same time, they are very much of this world.

But why are they organized so oddly?

There are lots of ways of explaining that, but somebody once said it's like the fool at the king or queen's court. They'll give the queen, or the king, the information. If you do it in a straight way, you might get your head cut off. But if you put it in riddle and rhyme, you get the information across without jeopardizing yourself.

So, the dreaming psyche will tell you what is so, but it will be guised often in language that is poetic, or symbolic or peculiar. In fact, the most peculiar dreams are often those that are most accurately representative of our uniqueness. A dream that is easily understood has usually already gone through a variety of what Freud called revision — it's already been homogenized by the culture.

Is there any hope for people with mundane dreams?

It’s a question that is always asked, about the mundane dreams. Those are the ones that we ordinarily dismiss, right? Oh my god, I want a big dream, like a big, grand, archetypal, mythological, imaginative dream. Instead I get this mundane daily housekeeping kind of thing that I've seen a million times and I'm bored and obviously I'm not worth much if that's all my dreams are — I hear all of this stuff.

So I decided to put that to the test one year. I worked on nothing but the daily housekeeping dreams — the ones I was certain were meaningless dreams, not as intriguing, inferior, inadequate. But they are a portal right into something.

In dreams, more than any other medium I know, the extraordinary shines through the ordinary. So I forever will say, take the ordinary and the extraordinary and work with both and see what happens. I also work with awake dreams, you can work with them in quite similar ways, because the psyche is activated.

How can you bring that sense of curiosity, wonder, and mystery that you talk about into daytime consciousness — without drugs?

That's what got me interested in dreams from the beginning, actually. Here I am, I'm a kid of the Vietnam era, drugs are going on all around me. That was the time — in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s — when things that altered consciousness were very popular: LSD, hallucinogens, mushrooms, and I was absolutely fascinated with extending consciousness from one realm to the next.

At the same time, I was watching and noticing that a lot of my buddies were not doing well on all of those drugs. They were getting in a lot of trouble physically, emotionally, in all kinds of ways.

But dreams will also take us to an altered state. They do anyway, every night. So it's, in a way, a organic, or natural way of exploring that quality of consciousness. To be in a dream at night and to work with a dream in the morning in a way is a practice that cultivates that curiosity and imagination.

Are dreams useful in a practical way?

Yes, because to reconnect with a dream opens you to an imaginative way of approaching the world, in all ways. I just got finished writing chapters on addiction, workplace, money, vocation, relationships. In all those areas dreams are very instructive and constructive. So whether I'm working at a company and listening in to that place as if it were a dream, or working with people in couples counseling and listening to dream, in all those areas, dreams have a lot to say about how we are in this world. Not because they give us the teaching necessarily, though they offer extraordinary information, but they offer new perspectives.

Remember, in the dream we're just one of many characters. The mistake is to imagine that we have dreamt that dream. In actuality, when we look into the dream, we see ourselves nine times out of 10 pictured in the dream, so then the question becomes: If we're in the dream, who's dreaming the dream?

So who's dreaming the dream?

That's where it gets very interesting, right? Somebody's dreaming the dream, and we’re in it, we're one of the many characters or figures in the dream — not to mention all the landscapes and emotions and the moods and everything like that — so there's another intelligence at work that moves through us, that we are part of. And it's an incredible intelligence that has our best interest at heart. To the extent that we care, or listen, or attend the dreams, they in turn will care for us.

What is the most amazing thing you know about dreams?

The things that for me have the greatest value are the things that make people's lives qualitatively better. Say I'm going to talk to the city council or if the county board of supes. I can go in there alone with my will power, with my sense of conviction, with everything I can muster in terms of leverage and influence, and one thing will happen. If I go in there and I bring with me a couple of companions from the dream time, I feel supported by the loving figures. Also, I’m not rocked bydifferent opinions because everybody in my dream time has a different opinion — so already I'm consulting with a diversity of opinions. Dreamwork provides a lot of resources and perspectives.

What else can you do with dreams, besides taking dream companions to city council with you?

A lot of people will get up in the morning and paint their dream. There are three ways to do that. One is to you can paint the whole dream as an entity, just as a whole scene; the second is to just do a storyboard where you paint different scenes on the page; and the third way is to take a particular image or a couple of images and allow them to come forward.

People in dream workshops over the years have become extraordinary artists that have showings all over the place as a result of bringing their dreams into the world through art. Ingmar Bergman, Einstein — that's where the theory of relativity came from, it's from a dream image — all those accounts in the Bible, Black Elk's speech. Inspiration comes from that intelligence that is outside of the construct of our egoic minds.

Keep up the conversation by leaving your comments below or emailing
Martha Sadler at Martha@independent.com
or by visiting Stephen Aizenstat’s website www.dreamtending.com

 

 

The Santa Barbara Friends of Jung is delighted to announce
a 2008 new membership “kick off” event!

Dr. Ross Woodman will be presenting on
“The Psyche and Romanticism”
February 17th, 2-5 pm.
Club Casa Mina - 620 Anacapa St. Unit C
(between Ortega and Cota Streets)

This will be a lovely gathering at a beautiful downtown location, giving us all a chance to meet each other and socialize as well as hear from Ross Woodman.

Those of you who attended Ross’s presentation last year for the Friends of Jung will know that this is really something not to be missed. Ross is an amazingly gifted speaker and teacher who brings the living spirit of poetry and depth psychology to his audiences.

Ross Woodman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto where he taught for over forty years. His early book on the Apocalyptic vision in the poetry of Shelley was followed by numerous scholarly publications. In 1993 he received the “Outstanding Scholar” award from the Keats and Shelley Association of America. His latest book, “Sanity, Madness and Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism” is an amazingly profound and stunningly crafted exposition on the origins of depth psychology in Romanticism that unites a deep understanding of Jung and a lifetime’s work in Romanticism with new developments in quantum physics and Jung’s relationship with Wolfgang Pauli.

This special event is only open to members of the Santa Barbara Friends of Jung.

This beautiful location in downtown Santa Barbara has street access. You can park very easily on the street or directly across the street at the Ortega Parking lot (entrance on Ortega). It is called Club Casa Mina. Walk through the white drive through, all the way in the back on the right. As of today, it can be recognized by the Obama headquarters on the street in front of the building.

It is free for all members. A membership form is attached to this email. Those who are not currently members may fill out this form and either bring a check for the membership dues with them to the event, or mail a check to:

Lou Ann Wallner
22 W. Micheltorena, Suite A
Santa Barbara, CA. 93101

Thank you for supporting the Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
and we hope to see you at this special gathering!


 


Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“Alchemy of Melancholy”
Transforming Depression:
Healing the Soul Through Creativity

with David Rosen, M.D.
Saturday December 15, 7:00-9:00 pm
Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Rd, Montecito, CA.


This presentation will cover: understanding depression and the quest for meaning, knowing suicide and its creative potential, and egocide and transformation (an innovative Jungian humanistic therapeutic paradigm). Egocide and transformation refers to the symbolic death of the destructive ego (shadow) and false self as well as subsequent creative expressions that lead to the birth of the true self. Dr. Rosen will discuss an actual case. The patient, guided by the therapist, analyzes to death or symbolically kills negative aspects of the ego and shadow (egocide and shadowcide) and the related depressive and suicidal state is transformed through the creative arts. Suicide is literally a dead end, whereas egocide involves a symbolic death and rebirth experience. Egocide and transformation allows the suffering melancholic individual to live, heal the soul through creativity, and find meaning in life.

David H. Rosen, M.D., a Jungian Analyst, is the holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor of Humanities in Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of over ninety scholarly articles and eight books including The Healing Spirit of Haiku, co-authored with Joel Weishaus(North Atlantic Books, 2004); Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity (Nicolas-Hays, 2002); Evolution of the Psyche, co-authored with Michael Luebbert (Praeger, 1999); The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity (Penguin, 1997). See his website for more information:
http://psychology.tamu.edu/Faculty/Rosen/index.html.


$15 at the door. Space is limited and reservations are recommended.

To reserve a space please send a check made out to Friends of Jung to:
Santa Barbara Friends of Jung ,c/o Lou Ann Wallner, M.F.T.
22 West Micheltorena Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

2 CEU’s for MFT’s and LCSW’s. - $10 processing fee for CEU’s

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Santa Barbara Friends of Jung
Presents

“A Depth Psychological Approach to Spirituality"

with Dr. Lionel Corbett
October 24, 2007
at the Montecito Library

When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred. This lecture describes an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred, using the language of depth psychology rather than traditional theology. The lecture will draw on Jung’s religious writing on sacred experience and the emerging new God-image he described.

Dr. Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England, and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His primary dedication is to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology, and to the development of psychotherapy as a spiritual practice. He is the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche, Psyche and the Sacred, and the audio series Spirituality Beyond Religion. Dr. Corbett is on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California.


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