The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
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The Guild has an archive of 350 papers dating back to the 1930s and 600 recordings dating from the 1970s. You can browse these using the search facilities below; they are free to download for Guild members.
Disclaimer: The Guild’s written and audio resources are for members’ personal and non-commercial use only. The views expressed in them are those of the authors; they may not necessarily be shared by Guild members, nor represent the collective opinion of the Guild.
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Redeeming the Feminine: Symbols from the Jewish Kabbalah
Mandala mosaic, Masada, Israel (c.37 BCE) “The feminine principle brings up the healing compensation by becoming active” Marie-Louise von Franz (1999)The Kabbalah is the Jewish mystical tradition that traces its roots back to the BCE era. It is considered the compendium of the divine nature of the universe and our…
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Boundary and Identity in Irish Myth
Photo: Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, Ireland, by Matteo Paonessa on Unsplash By examining various stories from the Irish mythic tradition we can gain some insight into the structure of both the normal and neurotic psyche, and into the significance of boundaries in the creation of a true sense of identity, in line…
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Architecture of the Self: Towers of Nietzsche and Jung
Drawing by Hans Olde from the photographic series, The Ill Nietzsche, late 1899The influence of Nietzsche on Jung’s ideas and Jung’s personal development is well documented. Unknown to many, however, is their common interest in architecture and the built environment, and the role this plays in their respective ideas about…
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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…
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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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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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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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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 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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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…