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Friday Evening Lecture:
Egyptian Immortality: A Pyramid Schematic

Date:	April 17, 2009  7:30 –9:30 p.m.
Presenter:	Ann Kennedy
Location:	St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Inwood at Mockingbird
$15.00 non-members (wine and cheese reception)

In this program Ann Kennedy will emphasize the Egyptian creation story and the lively archetypes that teach us about the cycles of renewal in human life and death. From books by Marie-Louise Van Franz and Joseph Campbell, Ann will take a look at Egyptian civilization as a whole and see that one of its most striking characteristics is something called a concreteness of ideas. We will seek to understand how the idea of immortality was not only conceived and taught in a religious manner, but has been acted out in matter. Many highly developed civilizations believe in a life after death in some form, but only the Egyptians have labored to ensure immortality by mummification of the body and by building enormous funeral chambers portraying every step of the dead person’s passage through the underworld.

We will attempt to make sense of a culture with an exclusive identity and mission and one that revels in life even as it is defined by death.

Ann Kennedy, M.A. is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and Nationally Board Certified. She was director of The Jung Center in Orlando, Florida for ten years before moving to Austin three years ago. She teaches the basic concepts of Jung’s psychology and Dream Interpretation as well as other Jung-related studies. She began her own study and training at the C.G. Jung Education Center in Houston, Texas in 1969 and has continued her own journey learning from many of the most renowned psycho-spiritual leaders of today each deepening her understanding of the healing potentials of enlightened consciousness.

Saturday Workshop
Picturing Egypt: A Jungian Travelogue

Date:	April 18, 2009    9:30 a.m.– noon
Presenter:	Catherine Van Bebber Gene Powell Baker, M.Div, MSSW
Location:	St. Thomas Episcopal Church
$40.00 non-members (coffee and rolls provided)

 

The Saturday workshop is a collaboration between Catherine Van Bebber and Gene Baker. Together they will contrast ancient and modern Egypt. Ms. Van Bebber has traveled extensively in Egypt and will show slides of various archaeological sites as they appear today. Father Baker will present pictures in addition to describing how medicine was practiced in ancient Egypt. Physicians in Egypt were familiar with psychosomatic medicine and even performed some surgical techniques that are still in use today.

Catherine Van Bebber’s studies include Philosophy of Religious Studies and History with a specialization in Early Greek/Roman/Christian times. She has worked for the last sixteen years for the Biblical Archaeology Society out of Washington D.C., conducting seminars throughout the United States and at Oxford. In addition, she lectures widely in the DFW area  on a variety of historical and religious topics and currently has a special interest in the study of Islam.

Gene Powell Baker is a retired Episcopal priest and clinical social worker. He first became active in the Analytical Psychology Association of Dallas, predecessor of the C.G. Jung Society, in 1977 and has remained active in the organization ever since. He holds an M.Div. from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin and the MSSW from the University of Texas in Arlington. He has done post-graduate work in clinical counseling at the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles. Gene has served in a number of psychiatric settings in the Dallas area as well as serving as a visiting priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.

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