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When we look at human history, we see only what happens on the surface, and even this is distorted in the faded mirror of tradition. But what has really been happening eludes the inquiring eye of the historian, for the true historical event lies deeply buried, experienced by all and observed by none. It is the most private and most subjective of psychic experiences. CW 10 - par 315

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It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to discover how enormously different people's psyche are. If the collective equality of the psyche were not a primordial fact, the origin and matrix of all individual psyche, it would be a gigantic illusion. But despite our individual consciousness it unquestionably continues to exist as the collective unconscious--the sea upon which the ego rides like a ship. For this reason also, nothing of the primordial world of the psyche has ever been lost. Just as the sea stretches its broad tongues between the continents and laps them round like islands, so our original unconsciousness presses and round our individual consciousness. CW 10 , par 285

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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. Body and soul have an intensely historical character and find no proper place in what is new, in things that have just come into being. That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 237

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Of course, if I knew a remedy that could be injected into ten thousand people at one go, that would be popular, especially if one didn't have to do do anything about it oneself. But the very idea that you should begin by yourself, that is totally out of question. One must always have something that is good for a hundred thousand, for a million people, but not for the individual, for he is far too uninteresting... And the individual is utterly convinced of his nothingness that he makes no effort to get anywhere with himself, to develop inwardly in any way... It is naturally a false view that the individual is nothing. The individual is the vessel of life. Every individual is the bearer of life. C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 460-461

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All time-saving devices, amongst which we must count easier means of communication and other conveniences, do not, paradoxically enough, save us time but merely cram our time so full that we have no time for anything. Hence the breathless haste, superficiality, and nervous exhaustion with all the concomitant symptoms--craving for stimulation, impatience, irritability, vacillation, etc. Such a state may lead to all sorts of other things, but never to an increased culture of the mind and heart. CW 18 - par 1343

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There is nothing without spirit, for spirit seems to be the inside of things... Whether that is our own psyche or the psyche of the universe we don't know, but if one touches the earth one cannot avoid the spirit. Interpretation of Visions, p. 459

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For it is the body, the feeling, the instincts, which connect us with the soil. If you give up the past you naturally detach from the past; you loose your roots in the soil, your connection with the totem ancestors that dwell in your soil. You turn outward and drift away, and try to conquer other lands because you are exiled from your own soil. Zarathustra Seminar, p. 1541

Public Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2011; 7:30 - 9:30PM

Psychological Forgiveness:
Relating Beyond Projections
Presented by Jennifer Sandoval, M.A.

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The irresistible tendency to explain everything on physical grounds corresponds to the horizontal development of consciousness in the last four centuries, and this horizontal perspective is a reaction against the exclusively vertical perspective of the Gothic age. CW 8 - par 656

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So far as we can see, the collective unconscious is identical with Nature to the extent that Nature herself, including matter, is unknown to us. I have nothing against the assumption that the psyche is a quality of matter or matter the concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that "psyche" is defined as the collective unconscious. Letters, II, p. 450

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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away--an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute unity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Memories, Dreams, Reflections - p.4

Public Program

Friday, June 17, 2011; 7:30-9:30PM

The Analytical Psychology Club presents

Synchronicity's Organizer:
The God(-dess) Behind the Curtain

Presented by Chris Miller, M.A.

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The psyche, if you understand it as a phenomenon occurring in living bodies, is a quality of matter, just as our body consists of matter. We discover that this matter has another aspect, namely, a psychic aspect. It is just as though you were seeing into another aspect of matter. This is an idea that is not my invention. Old Democritus talked about the "spiritus insertus atomis," the spirit inserted into atoms. That means the psyche is a quality which appears in matter. C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 303

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Small and hidden is the door that leads inward, and the entrance is barred with countless prejudices, mistaken assumptions, and fears. Always one wishes to hear of grand political and economic schemes, the very things that have landed every nation in morass. Therefore it sounds grotesque when anyone speaks of hidden doors, dreams and a world within. What has this vapid idealism got to do with gigantic economic programs, with the so-called problems of reality. CW 10 - par 328

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By way of compensating for the loss of a world that pulsed with our blood and breathed with our breath, we have developed an enthusiasm for facts--mountains of facts, far beyond any single individual's power to survey. We have this pious hope that this incidental accumulation of facts will form a meaningful whole, but nobody is quite sure, because no human brain can possibly comprehend the gigantic sum total of this mass-produced knowledge. The facts bury us. CW 2, par 767

Public Program

Sunday, June 12, 2011; 12:30 - 2:30PM

The Analytical Psychology Club presents

Creativity and the Individual Psyche Series:
Art and Poetry The Vision and the Word
Presented by Barbara Blatt and Diana LaCom

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Public Program

Saturday, June 11, 2011; 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Clothes in the Analytic Relationship:
Not for Women Only
Presented by Samoan Barish, D.S.W., Ph.D.
and JoAnn Culbert-Koehn, L.C.S.W.

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Every man should have his own plot of land so that the instincts can come to life again. Jung Speaking, p. 201

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Friday, June 10, 2011; 7:30PM - 9:30PM

Persephone and Hades:
Transformational Experiences in the Underworld
Presented by Pamela Tait, M.F.T.

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The idea that man alone possesses the primacy of reason is antiquated twaddle. I have even found that men are far more irrational than animals. Letters, I, p. 119

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Gleaming islands, indeed whole continents, can still add themselves to our modern consciousness. CW 8 - par 387

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Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense--a man who has achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness. CW 10 - par 149.

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If, then, man cannot live without society, neither can he exist without oxygen, water, albumen, fat and so forth. Like these, society is one of the necessary conditions of his existence. It would be ludicrous to maintain that man lives in order to breathe air. It is equally ludicrous to say that the individual exists for the society. CW 16 - par 223f

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If you will contemplate your lack of fantasy, of inspiration and inner aliveness, which you feel as sheer stagnation and a barren wilderness, and impregnate it with the interest born of alarm at your inner death, then something can take shape in you, for your inner emptiness conceals just as great a fullness if only you will allow it to penetrate you. If you prove receptive to this "call of the wild," the longing for fulfillment will quicken the sterile wilderness of your soul as rain quicken the dry earth. CW 14, par. 190

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Man's task is ... to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading its destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 326