AnnouncementThe Annual Members Meeting of the Phoenix Friends of C. G. Jung will be held at 7:00 p.m., Friday, October 17, 2008, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ. This will take place immediately before the presentation by Dr. Andy Hogg, "Jung and the Tarot." All welcome.
Friday Lectures
Time: 7:30 p.m. (lasting about 2.5 hours)
Fee: Member—$10; Non-member—$15
Location: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZSaturday Workshops
Time: 10:00 a.m. (lasting 4-6 hours).
Fee: Member—$50; Non-member—$60
Location: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 2310 N. 56th Street, Phoenix, AZ
Lecture: JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AS SHAMANIC HEALING Registration Form
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG, M.D.Jung saw clearly that to be fully conscious you had to be able to think clearly, and also trust your feelings. He understood the limitations of certainty and the importance of making leaps of faith. If you had to be sure before you moved ahead, you would never appreciate the richness of life’s experience; “the great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors then with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.” (Man in Search of his Soul, 1933) Jung explicitly recognized the symbolic and mythological dimensions of the human personality. He understood that rituals and healing ceremonies provided a socially sanctioned structure and belief system that helped people makes sense of their lives. The goal of all psychotherapy was to achieve balance and integration of the conscious and unconscious parts of self. The doctor is an archetypal Shaman with the capacity to see the patient’s illness, and the ability to illumine a patient’s strengths and help find ways to mobilize them.
Workshop: THE SACRED MISSION of HEALING BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT Registration Form
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG, M.D.Using ritual, ceremony, and creative expression, we will explore the sacred work of healing mind, body, and spirit. Participants should dress comfortably and bring drums and shakers. Pre-Registration is advised so we can prepare for the number of attendees.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG, M.D. Carl Hammerschlag, M.D., has delivered keynote speeches to Fortune 500 companies and audiences around the globe. He speaks about authenticity, leadership, the quest for vision and how to thrive in rapidly changing times. Witness for yourself how Dr. Hammerschlag inspires and challenges his audiences. He has spent 20 years of his life working with Native Americans, an experience which has transformed him from medical doctor to healer. His life experiences have been summarized in three books, The Dancing Healers, The Theft of the Spirit, and Healing Ceremonies, which bridge the world of science, spirit and culture. As well, he is one of the leading authorities in the practical applications of the science of psychoneuroimmunology, or mind, body, spirit medicine.
Lecture: THINGS SEEN and UNSEEN—EXPLORATIONS from JUNG and PAULI
CRAIG HAYENGA, Ph.D.“Both of us [Pauli and Jung] seem to agree that the future of Jung’s ideas is not with psychotherapy...but with a unitarian, holistic concept of nature and the position of man in it.” (Wolfgang Pauli to Markus Fierz, 1950) “Our whole experience of reality is psychic; as a matter of fact, everything thought, felt, or perceived is a psychic image, and the world itself exists only so far as we are able to produce an image of it.” (Jung) It is recognized that Jung had a strong interest in the developments of modern physics, especially quantum mechanics. His relationship with one founder, Wolfgang Pauli, who was a founding member of the Jung Institute in 1948, is very important. Pauli developed the Exclusion Principle and earned the Nobel Prize for it in 1945. It provides the foundation of the material world in explaining how we have different types of atoms (elements) at all and provides the explanation underlying the Periodic Chart of the Elements. Less well known is that Jung referred to Pauli’s dreams in the 1935 Tavistock lecture on Analytical Psychology and in the 1937 Yale Lectures published as “Psychology and Religion.” Central to the issues that are common with Pauli in Quantum Physics and Jung in his Psychology is that of visualization. We communicate in the conscious classical world through words and pictures and expect them to make sense, that is, to be rational. Things are not so easy in the unseen world where quantum physics takes over and we have the complementarity of waves and particles and other non-(ir?)rational explanations. In the same vein, our dreams and views into the unconscious also do not translate well into the conscious rational world. We will explore how Jung and Pauli addressed the issues of what can be seen and described, and what is unseen and problematic to describe. At the core of this is the relation of observer to the observed, the unity of mind and matter, and of having one worldview adequate for both. Pauli is receiving renewed attention as many of his letters are rediscovered and translated into English. In the same vein, the problems arising in consciousness studies are seen in a new light when viewed through the work of Jung and Pauli.
Workshop: EXPLORING VISIONS of the OCCULT and the SCIENTIFIC: FLUDD, KEPLER & the MANDALA
CRAIG HAYENGA, Ph.D.Pauli wrote (on Dec. 25, 1950) to Markus Fierz that he believes “that I carry ‘Kepler’ as well as ‘Fludd’ in myself and that it is for me a necessity to arrive at a synthesis of this pair of opposites, as best I can.” (Enz, 2002) In 1952, the Jung Institute in Zurich published the book Naturerklärung und Psyche (The Interpretation of Nature and Psyche, English version, 1955). The book consisted of two essays, Jung’s now famous Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, and The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler, by Wolfgang Pauli. This essay actually has as much to say about Robert Fludd as Kepler. While we now remember Kepler more for his scientific discoveries, there is much more to learn from this dialogue. The basic purpose of this essay was to use these two figures as an illustration of the problems in the relationship between the observer and what is observed; the relations between archetypal images and sense perception. In his later life, Pauli looked for a way of going back behind Kepler to Robert Fludd with the goal of finding a new synthesis of many opposites. There is the struggle of finding the synthesis of the male and the female. Matter and Psyche show up in this dialog. We also find the transformation of 3 becoming 4 in this dialog, a concept of importance in Jungian writings in the 1950s, and the importance of visualization in our ability to describe our realities. We will explore this dialog through the alchemical imagery that Fludd and Kepler published in the 1600s. We will explore through this imagery the possibilities of a new theory which is a reunion of quantum physical theory and depth psychological experience. Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung looked for this background of the unified psychophysical reality (the unus mundus), but could not yet describe it in a scientific language. The issues of the Kepler-Fludd dialog are showing up again in the 21st century as core issues of our evolving worldview.
CRAIG HAYENGA, Ph.D. is a Physicist and Systems Engineer. He received his Doctorate in Astro-Geophysics from the University of Colorado and was an Associate Professor of Physics at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. His lifelong interest in the interactions of scientific and spiritual endeavors has found fruit with the life and writings of Jung.
Lecture: The Many Seasons of a Woman’s Life: A Jungian Perspective
Marilia Baker, MSW, LMFTAttention: This program is designed for women of all seasons and for the men who love them!
Since primordial times women have been intimately connected with the natural ebb and flow of human life and that of the natural world around them. Traditionally, most of the life cycle, from birth to death, has been in their caring hands, as bearers of life, as nurturers of the children, and as everyday caregivers of the sick and dying. Traditionally, also, women have been intimately connected with the seasons of the year, initially as gatherers, then as planters and harvesters who gave rise to farming, horticulture, then to large scale agriculture. Paying the closest attention to their own intuition and keen observation to the many subtle changes in the seasons assured survival to women, to their offspring, and to the community. This keen capacity for observation (as well as intuition) is a very complex process which has been refined over the millennia by women. Contemporary women seek to unearth this power.
Drawing from the pioneer work of M. Esther Harding, Irene Claremont de Castillejo, Nor Hall, Jean Bolen, Pinkola Estes, James Hollis, Allan B. Chinen, and others, we will look at the many seasons of a woman’s life as a metaphor to facilitate self-knowledge, evoke inner freedom, sharpen intuition and enhance empowerment.
Workshop: The Journey Toward Empowerment. Unearthing Intuition: Trusting the Doll in your Pocket
Marilia Baker, MSW, LMFTWorkshop focuses on the expansion of Friday lecture themes, deepening of self-knowledge, and journeying through women’s many seasons. Participants’ experiential processes will unfold through a version of Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ story of Vasalisa the Wise, the Doll in Her Pocket, and her seven tasks toward the retrieval of intuition and empowerment. Throughout, narrative participants are invited to pause, reflect, practice some of the exercises offered, choosing which ones best fit their temperaments, preferences & time available for daily practice.
Marilia Baker, MSW, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Scottsdale, Arizona. Keenly interested in Carl G. Jung’s teachings and depth psychology since 1961, Ms. Baker studied the Intensive Journal with Ira Progroff in the 1970s. Over the past 48 years she has sought wisdom from many Jungian luminaries who have opened up meaningful psychological and spiritual pathways throughout the many seasons of her own life. Author of A Tribute to Elizabeth Moore Erickson: Colleague Extraordinaire, Wife, Mother and Companion (2004), Ms. Baker is on the Advisory Board of Phoenix Friends of C. G. Jung.
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For information on Centerpoint Study Groups (an educational program which presents Jungian psychology in easy-to-grasp, manageable units of study), please call Patricia Cavanagh at 928-639-4389.