MANDALAS
Presented by: Norbert Spencer, LMFT
Saturday, September 19, 2020, 10:00am - 12 noon eastern - PART 1
Saturday, September 26, 2020, 10:00am - 12 noon eastern - PART 2
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Sigghi Hum
(Sanskrit Chant)
"I know a series of European mandala drawings in which something like a plant seed surrounded by its coverings is shown floating in water, and from the depths below, fire penetrating the seed makes it grow and causes the formation of a large golden flower from within the germinal vesicle."
(C.G. Jung: Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, CW 13, 1929)
In 1917, while on military duty, Jung began sketching mandalas. These became the prototypes for the mandala series he painted in the Red Book and an essential chapter in his evolving encounter with the unconscious. Together we will examine Jung’s mandalas with the light of his later references and commentaries and see how this examination supports our own journey into the inner life.
The images are in the large edition of the Red Book, also in The Art of C. G. Jung. These images will be shown on screen during the presentation.
Norb Spencer practices psychotherapy in West Hartford, CT. In addition to a passionate interest in depth psychology and yoga, he has trained in gestalt therapy, family therapy, trauma therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Family Constellations.
Mandala 89 - C.G. Jung The Red Book
DIS-INTEGRATION & RE-INTEGRATION
Presented by: Penelope Tarasuk PhD, Jungian Psychoanalyst
Saturday, October 17, 2020, 9:30am - 11:30am eastern
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
DIS-INTEGRATION & RE-INTEGRATION
Working with the Alchemy of Dissolution and Coagulation
In the past nine months we have collectively experienced tremendum: a darkened numinousium of a pandemic (nearly 200,000 fellow Americans dead), a brutal murder of an African-American man by a policeman before the eyes of the world on television followed by a global reaction of grief & demands for justice, and a violent attack on peaceful protestors near & by the ‘White House’. There has been a dis-integration of personal & public health, of ideas of safety, and of the notion of peace in our country.
Now, we approach a critical Presidential election.
Personal and collective experience of overwhelming trauma requires conscious effort to heal. We need to support one another. How do we integrate this eruptive trauma? Personal and collective grief lies just below the chaos and anger. Come with paper & ‘crayons’, a listening heart, and a willingness to be present.
Let us begin.
Penelope Tarasuk, PhD, Jungian psychoanalyst, 1988 Boston, IAAP, author of Polishing the Bones (2017), and artist, who practices in Deerfield and Cambridge, MA. She has taught across the US, New England, Mexico & Greece. Served of the Training Board member of the C. G. Jung Institute of New England (formerly known as the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston). She is Certified in Grof Holotropic Breathwork and member of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group. www.penelopetarasuk.com
'Integration' Collage, Penelope Tarasuk, PhD
Experiences of God in the Individuation Process
Presented by: Diane Croft, Ed.M
Saturday, November 14, 2020, 9:30am-11am eastern - PART 1
Saturday, November 21, 2020, 9:30am-11am eastern - PART 2
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Experiences of God in the Individuation Process: A True Story
For Jung, God was not a belief but a fully realized, living presence: I don't need to believe, I know." His experiences of God were so powerful, so potentially destructive that he felt grateful "to have escaped from death."
The two-part lecture will explore Jung's belief that the psyche, is by nature, religious. "Religion", write Jung, "in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate." Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate. She will use examples from the Old and New Testaments as reflections of inner processes of transformation. "It is not time," wrote Jung in The Undiscovered Self, "that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once."
Diane Croft, Ed.M., is a graduate of Wittenberg and Harvard University. She spent most of her career as a vice president at National Braille Press in Boston. For three years, Diane had access to an individual archetypal realm, which she describes in her book The Unseen Partner: Love & Longing in the Unconscious, winner of five national book awards. A review in Quadrant: Journal for Analytical Psychology described it as "an extraordinary book, comparable in many ways to the Red Book of C.G. Jung."
The Lord Answered Job out of the Whirlwind - William Blake, 1825
IN TEMPORE BELLI
Presented by: Russell Holmes, IAAP
Saturday, March 13, 2021, 9:30 am-12:00pm eastern
(* check CAJP website for further updates one month prior to event;currently a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Dante addresses the holy muses to ask that poetry "rise up" from the dead-dead poetry (la morta poesi). And suddenly there is the word "dolce"- sweet, tender, all that is to be desired in that word in Italian. With these words W.S. Merwin describes Dante's crawl upward from Hell through the tunnel of another birth to arrive utterly undone at the sight of the Morning Star 'lo bel pianeta che d'amar conforta,' (the beautiful planet that to love inclines us).
The psyche does not rest in war time-in cultural, social, religious and economic midnights; with earth shattering emotion it displays its unvarnished savagery and ruthlessness. Jung in reference to Job's defeat, observes that ego defeats have the potential to penetrate out vitals transforming blindness into broader visions of mind and soul because for the psyche, the Morning Star never fades.
In his lecture, Holmes will discuss his choices of modern-some ancient-examples of creative expressions depicting the Visions and Revelations of the raw wounds of battered humanity and its Lamentations, calling to mind Nietzsche's attributing to the Greeks the genius of translating tragedy into an art form. Also included will be heroic models of the recreational arm of the psyche favoring Goethe's "eternal mind's eternal recreation". Among others, the stars of this presentation will include: Jung, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jeremiah, the Prophet, Martha Graham, the Gershwins & Co, Rolling Stones, F.D.R., Flannery O'Connor, Pablo Picasso, Alvin Ailey and Igor Stravinsky.
Russell Holmes, IAAP, a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich (1979), and a member of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts. Now retired from his analytical practice, he resides in Webster, NH. He has long been associated with the CAJP as a presenter and friend through his connection with Jim Scherer, a training classmate in Switzerland.
Composition Study for GUERNIA -
Pablo Picasso, 1937
THE BODY IS THE CENTERPIECE
Presented by: Jill Fischer, PsyA, APRN, IAAP
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 9:30 am-12:00 pm eastern
(a ZOOM Online Workshop)
The pandemic has so altered life as we thought we knew it. Looking at our situation through the lens of dreams, may provide a useful orientation into the strangeness of our shared catastrophe
~ Paul Lippmann,2020
Dreams are the universal language of the soul. In the first part of this workshop, participants will be guided to re-enter the landscape of dreams using a method called Embodied Imagination®. By slowly and carefully exploring the images from a variety of perspectives, (with a focus on the sensations and affective states elicited in the body), this work has been known to lead to an increased depth of the creative imagination and a profound sense of one’s own humanity.
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In the second part of this workshop the principles of embodied imagination will involve experiential demonstrations with participants. Participants will learn how to work in a hypnagogic state and leave routine consciousness behind. A special focus will concentrate on shifts of viewpoint from self to non-self perspectives that embody new information. In this work, the body is the centerpiece.
By allowing dreams to speak to us in their own manner, at the core of the stresses and fears that haunt us most, an agent of change can be found that transforms our daytime problems and brings about a different sense of being alive.
Jill Fischer, PsyA, APRN, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and a board certified, advanced nurse practitioner. With over fifty years of clinical experience, she has a private practice in Norwich, Conn., is President of the Board of Directors and is a training and supervising analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. Jill has taught and presented papers related to Embodied Imagination® worldwide, and is the Director of Clinical Services at the Santa Barbara and Malinalco Healing Sanctuary: www.santabarbarahealingsanctuary.com
In 1997, Jill became a founding member of www.cyberdreamwork.com the premier voice program on the Internet for interactive work on dreams and imagery. As the site's webmaster, she leads several dream groups in both live and virtual reality and along with Robert Bosnak, co-leads training programs in Embodied Imagination.
Jill is a Lecturer/Preceptor in the Yale University School of Nursing GEPN Program and co-wrote with Judy White, PhD the section on Embodied Imagination® in Barrett, Diedre and McNamara, Patrick, editors. Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams [2 volumes]: The Evolution, Function, Nature, and Mysteries of Slumber, Greenwood, 2012.
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Pandemic - Dreaming
JUNG'S SYMBOLS OF TRANSFORMATION
Presented by: Cynthia Swartz, MM, MD
Saturday, May 22, 2021, 9:30 am-11:30am eastern
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
JUNG'S SYMBOLS OF TRANSFORMATION
Jung’s Symbols of Transformation is a whirlwind of interconnected imagery and psychic facts urgently pressing the reality of their purposeful dynamism on the reader. Jung himself says he wrote the original version in a “white heat”, and the intensity of the creative psychic energy driving Jung to be its mouthpiece is palpable. Essential to understanding current world events and of individual suffering is Jung’s discovery of the unconscious as a creative dynamism that cannot fully be explained in a causal, reductive way. In this volume he shows thru historical and clinical examples the much broader and deeper understanding of the collective dynamic psyche. In this talk I will highlight those aspects of the book where he specifically argues against the incomplete understanding of the unconscious in personalistic and causal terms, highlight some practical clinical insights that Jung gives, and attempt to further elucidate the theme of the Hero archetype – the central theme of this volume – in its various stages of development through examples of current-day material.
Cynthia Swartz, MM, MD is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in private practice and also is a psychiatric consultant in rural health clinics in northern Vermont. Prior to going to medical school she attended the Analyst Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, and has continued her independent study of Jungian psychology. She holds a Master’s degree in Organ Performance from Indiana University School of Music and currently studies and teaches violin and plays in local orchestras.
Marduk fighting Tiamat (Assyrian cylinder seal), Ninth-century B.C.