Join us for this Pacifica Online Author Spotlight with Dr. Susan Rowland as we talk about her newest JABR detective novel, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Chiron, 15th Feb 2023). In this novel, her newest addition in a series, Susan situates the psychological impact of the climate emergency within the framework of a murder mystery featuring a feminine hero.
Jungian arts-based research places creativity at the heart of knowing and being. In so doing it promotes a soci…
Animal-assisted therapy modalities are increasing in popularity in the field of mental health. Yet, there are many ways their effectiveness is still not fully known due to the enormity of factors that shape the therapeutic encounter. The implication for interested and practicing clinicians is to continually revisit human traditions of relating to horses while incorporating new understandings about the human and animal connection. This course introduces foundatio…
“Spring and Winter are both present in the moment. The young leaf and the old leaf are really one. My feet touch deathlessness, and my feet are yours. Walk with me now. Let us enter the dimension of oneness and see the cherry tree blossom in Winter.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Overview
This symposium is an invitation to look back on our rich, long lives, contemplate our gains and losses, and distill the lessons we’ve learned. It’s also an invitation to look forward to be…
Thousands of years ago, human beings huddled around campfires to listen to stories. Since that time, we’ve moved indoors and the campfires that we once hovered around have become digital screens. However, stories remain a vital part of the human experience. It’s been said that those that can offer the most compelling story in a society have an edge in advancing their ideas in the world. Our culture has never had more avenues for telling our stories, though few of us have much un…
What you will receive:
- 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
- 4 Links to the Recordings
Course Description
The Suffering of Ghosts is a four week webinar series with Jungian analyst, Samuel L. Kimbles, Ph.D., that will explore how the cultural unconscious is organized by complexes that manifest in archetypal story formations, which Samuel calls phantom narratives. Drawing from his newly released book: Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psy…
Program Description
Previously unpublished material from world-renowned Trappist monk and author, Thomas Merton, featuring the final conference talks given in the United States before his untimely death.
In May and October of 1968, Thomas Merton offered two extended conferences at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey, a Cistercian women’s community in Northern California. Comprising over twenty-six hours of previously unpublished material, Thomas Merton in Californi…
Thomas Moore on the Work and Legacy of James Hillman
“I think we need to get very clear between us that the world is against eros and friendship. We are on the same ‘tree,’ and so we produce similar fruit.”
– James Hillman to Thomas Moore, circa August 24, 1993
James Hillman was my dear friend, from whom I learned much at our dinners, on walks and drives, and during collaborations in writing and speaking. He was devoted to the ideas of C.G. Jung and yet was fiercely willing to go his own …
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 a…
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Join us for this Author Spotlight with Matthew Bennett, Psy. D., Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology: Return to Freedom and Dignity . This book undertakes a forceful and scholarly deconstruction of behavioral and so-called evidence-based models of applied psychology that privilege empirical inquiry and epistemological certainty while marginalizing the ambiguous, irrational, creative, complex, affective, and relational values re…
Transforming Our Images of God: C.G. Jung on the Self
C.G. Jung believed that the Self is an expression of the divine within the personality. He refers to it as the “God within,” or imago dei. In this series of lectures, Dr. Corbett will describe some of the ways in which the Self manifests itself symbolically, comparing the idea of the Self with a number of classical theistic images of God in Western religious traditions. In particular, Dr. Corbett will show how Jung’s id…
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For thousands of years individuals have gone through different rites of passage to become warriors who fight and protect those whom they love. Individuals who choose to become warriors in the United States join one of five branches of military service, and may serve anywhere in the world, each experiencing a variety of environments and challenges. The United States has been consistently involved in overseas conflicts since 2001, making this t…