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We are so hemmed in by things which jostle and oppress that we never get a chance, in the midst of all these "given" things, to wonder by whom they are "given". CW 11 - par 841

Public Program

The Red Book as Medicine for Our Time

Presented by
Nancy Furlotti, M.A.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011; 7:30 - 9:30 pm

The Red Book, written between 1913 and 1930, a difficult and dangerous time in the world, reflects not only Jung's personal experience of his life, but an understanding of the larger collective experience. With the publication of The Red Book 78 years later, we see that our current global situation is not that dissimilar from the period when Jung took up this work. This lecture will explore the questions of its relevance to us today in our post-modern world, The Red Book can contribute towards the development of a healthier sense of self and world view.

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Agnosticism maintains that it does not possess any knowledge of God or of anything metaphysical, overlooking the fact that one never possesses a metaphysical belief but is possessed by it. CW 11 - par 735

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It is no easy matter to live a life that is modeled on Christ's, but it is unspeakably harder to live one's own life as truly as Christ lived his. Anyone who did this would run counter to the conditions of his own history, and though he might thus be fulfilling them, he would he would none the less be misjudged, derided, tortured, and crucified. CW 11 - par 522

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Moral law is nothing other than an outward manifestation of man's innate urge to dominate and control himself. This impulse to domestication and civilization is lost in the dim, unfathomable depths of man's evolutionary history and can never be conceived as a consequence of laws imposed from without. Man himself, obeying his instincts, created his laws. CW 4 - par 486

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The psyche is part of the inmost mystery of life, and it has its own peculiar structure and form like every other organism. Whether this psychic structure and its elements, the archetypes, ever "originated" at all is a metaphysical question and therefore unanswerable. The structure is something given, the precondition that is found to be present in every case. And this is the mother, the matrix--the form into which all experience is poured. CW 9 - par 187

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What if there were living agency beyond our everyday human world--something even more purposeful than electrons? Do we delude ourselves in thinking that we possess and control our own psyches, and is what science calls the "psyche" not just a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a door that opens upon the human world from a world beyond, allowing unknown and mysterious powers to act upon man and carry him on the wings of the night to a more than personal destiny? CW 15 - par 148

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Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. The primordial images undergo ceaseless transformation and yet remain ever the same, but only in a new form can they be understood anew. Always they require a new interpretation if, as each formulation becomes obsolete, they are not to loose their spellbinding power. CW 16 - par 396

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The evolutionary stratification of the psyche is more clearly discernible in the dream than in the conscious mind. In the dream, the psyche speaks in images, and gives expression to instincts, which derive from the most primitive levels of nature. Therefore, through the assimilation of unconscious contents, the momentary life of consciousness can once more be brought into harmony with the law of nature from which it all too easily departs, and the patient can be led back to the natural law of his own being. CW 16 - par 351

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Personality is a seed that can only develop by slow stages throughout life. There is no personality without definiteness, wholeness, and ripeness. These three qualities cannot and should not be expected of the child, as they would rob it of his childhood. CW 17 - par 288

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The fundamental error persists in the public that there are definite answers, "solutions," or views which need only be uttered in order to spread the necessary light. But the most beautiful truth—as history as shown a thousand times over—is no use at all unless it has become the innermost experience and possession of the individual. Every unequivocal, so-called "clear" answer always remains stuck in the head, but only very rarely does it penetrate to the heart. The needful thing is not to know the truth but to experience it. CW 18 - par 7

Public Program

Wednesday, January 19, 2011; 7:30-9:30PM

In the series The Red Book:

The Red Book and Jung's Typology

Presented by Steven Galipeau, M.A., M.Div.

Pre-registered: $25 / At door: $30

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This class is part of the series The Red Book

The other class in this series is:

The Red Book as Medicine for Our Time

presented by Nancy Furlotti, M.A.

Wednesday, February 2 from 7:30 - 9:30 pm.

Public Program

Saturday, January 15, 2010; 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Using Sandplay to Bridge
an Early Split in the Mother Archetype

This class is part of the series: The Feminine

Presented by

Harriet Friedman, M.A, M.F.T., J.A.
and Rie Rogers Mitchell, PhD., A.B.P.P.

For registration, course objectives, and presenter biography, please click here

Pre-registered: $30 / At door: $35