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The Eleusinian Mysteries
A film produced by Jules Cashford followed by Q&A with her This event is in memory of Diana Grace-Jones Jules Cashford writes: Diana and I had often discussed the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece in the context of a change of vision. I feel that the historical fact of the many…
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Evagrius on Becoming who we Truly Are
Evagrius of Pontus (345-399) was born into a Christian family in what is now Turkey but was then the Roman province of Helenopontus, and was a protegé of the 'Cappadocian Fathers' Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzus. Highly educated, he embarked upon a promising ecclesiastical career in…
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“The First Half of Life”: Reimagining Jung’s Forgotten Developmental Stage
The field of Analytical Psychology has largely ignored the developmental stage that Jung termed the “First Half of Life.” As a result, a great many individuals coming of age today, starving for guidance on how to live in relationship to their inner lives, find little that reflects them within the…
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Jung’s Black Books
Between 1913 and 1932 C.G. Jung recorded his unique self-experimentation that he called ‘his confrontation with the unconscious’. The Black Books are the contemporaneous and spontaneous record of his active imaginations and descriptions of his mental states together with his immediate reflections on these. The Red Book draws on…
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The Crime of the Ancient Mariner
In Coleridge’s great poem, the killing of the albatross has catastrophic consequences. But it also pushes the perpetrator of this apparently senseless crime, the mariner, to embark on a journey of inner exploration that transforms how he approaches both the natural world and those invisible realities that always had the…
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Autumn Conference 2021: Metamorphosis of Being – Body and Soul
Metamorphosis of Being – Body and Soul Talk 1 with Q&A: concerning Alexander Technique Saturday 23rd October 2021 11:00 - 13:00 BST (10:00 - 12:00 UTC) Keith Silvester writes: The process of psychological and emotional change cannot be divorced from the body. The problem is that the body can get…
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The Archetype of the Heart: a symbol of transformation
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” So the fox says in Saint- Exupéry’s ‘Le Petit Prince.’ This profound truth has long been recognised by the world’s wisdom traditions and the mystical philosophies of the East. How helpful is it to follow the archetype of the…
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Summer Conference 2021 with Donald Kalsched
Transformations of Imagination in the Healing of our Personal and Collective Trauma Talk 1: Democracy and Autocracy in the Individual and the Collective: Reflections on Psychological Factors at Play in our Polarized World Friday 27th August, 17:00 to 19:15 BST (16:00 to 18:15 UTC, 12:00 to 14:15 EST) In this…
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“Too Humble is Half Proud” (Yiddish Saying)
A psychological, Jewish and personal perspective on some of the paradoxes that surround the concept of humility. Rabbi Howard Cooper's talk is built around nine quotations (ten if you include the title of the talk); these were available on printed sheets during the lecture and are reproduced here in a…
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Jung and the Recovery of the Religious Attitude and Function:
Theological reflections on a natural process of transformation. Photo by nibras al-riyami on UnsplashJung believed that regaining one’s religious attitude was an important part of the task of individuation. In this talk I offer some theological reflections on this process. First, I provide a sketch of Jung’s understanding of…