What you will receive:

• 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 4 Links to the Recordings
• 4 CECs

This course weaves together interpersonal and Jungian analytic perspectives, informed by indigenous Andean shamanism, and contemporary scientific understanding of time in an exploration of a more expansive, vision of the world. It will provide different perspectives on experiences central to contemporary depth psychology – i.e., the subjective experience of time and trauma. The instructor will draw on her experience as a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst as well as her immersion in Andean shamanistic practice. The commonalities in the conceptual framework of quantum theory, complexity theory, and fractal dynamics will be described and used in examining underlying links between mystical and clinical experience.

This Course is Ideal if:

• You’re a therapist or mental health practitioner
• You’re a student interested in Depth psychology and Andean shamanism
• You’re a shamanic practitioner

Course Overview: (Weekly Titles/Themes)

Week 1: Overview of Incan Codes and Andean Shamanism and Cosmology

• An Overview of the Origins of the Conceptualization of Time in Psychoanalysis and Depth Psychology
• Temporal and Atemporal Experience in Andean Medicine
• Psychic States in Andean Medicine
• The Paqos’ Direct Experience—Shifting States of Awareness through Ritual
• Q and A

Week 2: A Discussion of Atemporal and Temporal Experience from Jung’s Perspective, the Analytic Encounter, Trauma States – The Re-Entry Transition from Atemporal States

• Mystical and Re-Entry Experience
• Phases in the Re-Entry Experience
• Making Sense of the Re-Entry Experience: The Aftermath Experience
• Q and A

Week 3:  New Directions Emerging in Clinical Application in Complexity Theory, Intersubjectivity, and Fractal Dynamics and the Relationship with Jung’s Objective Reality

• Jung’s Objective Reality
• Complexity Theory, Intersubjectivity, and Fractal Dynamics
• Quantum Theory, Human Experience, and the Analytic Encounter
• Q and A

Week 4: The Relevance of Quantum Theory in Understanding Implicit Trauma States and the Reentry Experience After Shamanic States of Ecstasy

• Navigating Temporal Reality: The Subjective Experience of Time
• The Subjective Experience of Time in the Clinical Setting
• Q and A
• Closing Meditation

By the End of This Course You Will Be Able To:

• Describe Andean medicine and its relevance to psychoanalytic practice
• Discuss similarities and differences in the ways atemporal states are understood in Jung’s concept of the unconscious and objective psyche, Andean shamanism, quantum theory and clinical application.
• Explain the relevance in understanding atemporal dimensions in working with implicit states in the analytic process.
• Conceptualizing the psychoanalytic process from a broader perspective that includes Jungian psychology, fractal dynamics, and shamanism

CEC Objectives:

• Attendees will be able to identify four key principles of Andean cosmology and shamanic practice.
• Attendees will be able to name four techniques used in Andean shamanism in shifting between states of consciousness.
• Attendees will be able to describe five aspects of Andean shamanism that are relevant to clinical analytic practice.
• Attendees will be able to discuss four different theories and perspectives in understanding temporal states (ego consciousness) and atemporal states (the timeless unconsciousness) in the context of psychic healing.

Course Addendums:

Major Text:

20% discount code on the Routledge website: AEV24

Time and trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy: The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism (Bryon, 2024) – Routledge.

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