Friday Evening Lecture
The Red Book as a Work of Conscience
| Date: | September 9, 2011 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | John Beebe, M.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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Nearly one hundred years after its inception, C. G. Jung’s deeply personal Red Book has finally been published in a majestic facsimile edition with English translation. Calligraphically transcribed in Jung's own hand, the text is amplified by Jung’s mysterious, haunting paintings that are not just illustrations but icons of an emerging cosmology. Definitively documenting Jung's imagination operating in a mode of inner discovery, the Red Book consists of far-seeing dreams, fearsome visions, and fascinating conversations with inner figures.
Throughout, though never described as such, an attitude of conscience prevails. Jung comes to understand that he has the duty to help the West with a reorientation of its spiritual attitude as the counterweight to its horrific plunge into total war. The inner journey undertaken in these pages is both a spiritual adventure and a call to character development, showing Jung at his best, willing to accept the rigors of this vocation with humanity and humor. This lecture will examine moments of his self-engagement that illustrate how Jung handled the task of growing his own character.
The Image of Integrity in the Red Book
| Date: | September 10, 2011 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (break noon-1:00 p.m.) |
| Presenter: | John Beebe, M.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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Please note the extended hours.
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Jung’s self-experiment as recorded in Liber Novus (his own name for the unfinished work that he transcribed in his Red Book) begins with his wish to reconnect with his soul. Realizing this ambitious aim turns out to be an intuitive process of opening up his own character so that it can accept the soul’s demands as well as its gifts without further losing his way.
After being shown that in his inner life he has already experienced prophetic parallels to world events in the run up to World War I, Jung comes to realize, in anything but a grandiose way, that he is being charged with a responsibility to move beyond the West’s heroic zeitgeist toward an ethical attitude more in touch with the needs of the deeply human. He knows that he can only do this by permitting himself to engage more empathically with the inner persons populating his psyche, who are the forceful figures that constitute the vitality of his own, many-sided personality. Dialoguing with them, he finds that he, as well as they, can be transformed by honest mutual encounter.
In this workshop, participants will be invited to join with Dr. Beebe in imagining how Jung’s integrity was guided by his willingness to be confronted by various deep, complex aspects of himself. Contemplating together both the images and the text of the Red Book, we will explore how Jung’s personal character, psychological attitude, and religious orientation seem to grow before our eyes in the course of key encounters with inner figures. We will compare his inner journey to those that Jungians take today, in the course of reconciling the spirit of our time to what our depths are asking us to confront anew.
John Beebe, MD, author, editor, analyst, and teacher, is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Lecturing on topics related to analytical psychology, including the Red Book, has taken him to many cities in North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He is the author of Integrity in Depth and the editor of the upcoming edition of the 1915 correspondence between Hans Schmid and C. G. Jung on the subject of psychological types.
Friday Evening Lecture
The Value of Studying Joseph Campbell Today
| Date: | October 14, 2011 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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There could not be a more important time globally and personally to study the nature of myth through the writings of Joseph Campbell. This lecture will focus on several of the major tenets of Campbell's thought, including metaphor, history, the body, and narrative. It will refer to several of his key works to give a brief overview of some of his major tenets on myth.
Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Exploring the Presence of Personal Myth
| Date: | October 15, 2011 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: | Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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What are some of the contours of one's personal myth? How might they be identified through specific writing exercises? What can we learn of our own life trajectory, the life we are living and the life we are holding back from, by engaging the rite, or ritual, of writing along the corridors of our personal history? This day will also include at least one Authentic Movement exercise to connect us back to our bodies in motion.
Bring a journal to the workshop. No laptops please. We will write longhand as part of the ritual of discovery.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. is core faculty, Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. A teacher of 41 years, he has published 150 articles and has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 16 books, including three volumes of poetry, two with accompanying CDs. He has just published Day-to-Day Dante: Exploring Personal Myth Through the Divine Comedy. He is completing a manuscript, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Invoking the Embodied Patterns of Presence. Please see www.dennispslattery.com for more information and book sales
Friday Evening Lecture:
Cinderella: There is More to Her Story Than Getting the Prince
| Date: | November 11, 2011 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. |
| Presenter: | Marga Speicher, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Inwood at Mockingbird |
$20.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception) |
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Folktales have captured the hearts and imagination of generations across the globe. They tell of struggles in human existence, of ways in which we engage with forces that affect us, of means that can aid us as we move through life. They are symbolic stories that depict aspects of the archetypal world.
In the Friday night presentation, we will listen to the story of Cinderella as told in Germany and explore it as a story of inner development. It begins with the loss of the good parent and encounter with the harshness of life; it depicts experiences of envy, rejection, cruelty, and a series of tasks to be undertaken; it reveals a connection to life giving energies; and it then leads to a new phase in life. As we accompany Cinderella on her journey, we can grow with her and then come back to our world with deepened understanding. As we explore how the story’s images appear in contemporary life, we will reflect on loss, mourning, and new life that can arise; on mothers and daughters; on tasks to be done so that development and growth can continue; on sources of help in the inner world.
Folklore, Myth, and the Journey of Inner Growth
| Date: | November 12, 2011 9:30 a.m. – noon |
| Presenter: | Marga Speicher, Ph.D. |
| Location: | St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Inwood at Mockingbird |
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided) |
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In the Saturday workshop, we will explore more deeply the journey of inner growth as reflected in folklore and myths and as experienced in contemporary life. There is typically the (a) the call, often experienced as fall from innocence into experience, (b) a period of trials and tribulations (c) when helpers appear who aid the protagonist toward development so that (d) she will return with newly gained perspective and strength. Such inner journeys occur repeatedly over a lifetme and, along with a dose of good fortune, can lead us forward toward healing, growth, fulfillment. Discussion will alternate with reflection and short writing periods.
Marga Speicher, Ph.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst, San Antonio, TX. A lover of literature and folklore, she leads workshops on symbolic understanding of images in dreams, stories, and everyday life, seeing such images as opening doors to the core of our humanity, individually and culturally. Her lectures on symbols in Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, The Thousand and One Nights have been released on CD and audiota
Classes and other events in the area
Connecting to Your Inner World Through Drumming: This class offers an experiential journey towards discovery of archetypal energies deep within the psyche. Duriye will lead the group into the psychic realm through the medium of drumming. You may bring your own drum or use her percussion instruments. The approach engages each participant in a drumming process to contrast on an experiential level conditioned patterns with one’s authentic self. The process of drumming is used to connect with emotional unfinished business and its energetic manifestations as well as to move and transform the energy and create new and healthier patterns.
Call Duriye for more info and schedule: 214-207-2554
Campbell Conversations: For those struggling to get enough meaning, metaphor, and symbolism in your lives, try “Campbell Conversations,” a Joseph Campbell Roundtable that meets Sunday evenings from 6-8 pm once a month to discuss topics relating to the works of Campbell, Jung, myth, and symbol. Information is available at www.campbellconversations.org. The site can also be accessed through the roundtable section of the jcf.org website. Meetings usually consist of an hour-long video or live speaker presentation followed by an hour of discussion. Sign up for the newsletter for automatic updates. Visit the website for a schedule of upcoming topics.
