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As a thoughtful learning community, we strive to make Jungian and depth psychological thought available to the general public through workshops, seminars and other resources that help liberate the soul and transform culture.

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Steven Herrmann, Ph.D. MFT

Spiritual Democracy and the World Soul- A Jungian Vision for the Future

Friday, April 19th,  2024

7 – 9 PM PST

ONLINE LECTURE

Spiritual Democracy is an idea whose time has come. It is uniquely American, founded upon the Iroquois myth of the Peacemaker, and it found its most eloquent voice in early American poetry. It exists in three stages: 1) political, 2) economic, and 3) religious. Spiritual Democracy is linked to the cosmic science of nineteenth century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, whose work Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson were all well aware of. It is found in the pragmatism of William James and the works of G.G. Jung. Spiritual Democracy is an ideal that involves making the shadow conscious; it is not a condition of peace alone. Spiritual Democracy advocates responsibly living out one’s vocation as a path of sacred action. Today we need to understand the foundation stone of Spiritual Democracy, which is central to the mythos of America, to combat the toxic political climate in which we are living.

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Steven Herrmann, Ph.D. MFT

Spiritual Democracy – Its Current Relevance in American Culture and Jungian Analysis (Workshop)

Saturday, April 20th,  2024

1 – 4  PM PST

ONLINE WORKSHOP

In this workshop we’ll be examining Jung’s vision of a spiritually democratized world grounded in a sense of the common reality of the psyche along with the great 19th century explorer Alexander von Humboldt’s feeling for the immense unity-in-diversity that he perceived when contemplating the entire Cosmos. I’ll be drawing a connection between Humboldt, William James, and Jung, great figures on either side of Walt Whitman, in an effort to give participants a synoptic view of how the notion of Spiritual Democracy incubated itself throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. As a Jungian analyst, I believe Spiritual Democracy is the logical outcome of an important line of the later Jung’s thoughts, since behind it lies the idea of the unus mundus, Latin for “one world”: the result of bringing spirit, soul, and body together in a transformative, alchemical synthesis, a convergence of science, poetry, and religion that could unite the world.  .

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Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy – Portal to the Soul with George Callan Ph.D.

Towards a Jungian Wisdom School of the Heart:  Seminar 

April 13, 27 & May 4, 11,  2024

Saturdays, 10-11:30 am

HYBRID: ONLINE &  IN PERSON AT GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER 

Carl Jung reminded us to venerate the archaic, the archetypal image revealed in myth, dream, reverie, cinema, poetry, literature and art—and in cultural rituals and practices throughout the ages. The current emergence of psychedelic medicine into the culture in our era is consistent with the trajectory of the mythic journey.  By way of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, we are being called, in our time, into an initiatory and oneiric consciousness.
 Our personal and communal illnesses arise out of our separation from vital encounters with the divine, with nature and cosmos, and with community. Depth psychology and psychedelic medicine break through the cultural membrane to summon us toward the possibility of collective alchemical transformation.  We are invited back into the healing arms of the Mystery, once revered in all cultures.   
Seminar #1- A Psychedelic Psychology for Our Time; A Cultural Orientation in the Direction of Soul
Seminar #2- A Medicine of Remembrance: Drawing on the Wisdom of the Ancient Healing Centers and Mystery Schools
Seminar #3 – Archetypal Consciousness and Oracular Wisdom
Seminar #4 – Psychedelic Justice in a Fragmented World

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Astrology and Jung- Evoking Wonder, Supporting Individuation, Restoring Meaning with Dan Keusal 

 

Towards a Jungian Wisdom School of the Heart:  Seminar 

March 9, 23, 30, and April 6, 2024

Saturdays, 10-11:30 am

ONLINE 

“All are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars.” ~Ursula Le Guin
Astrology, which may be the oldest form of psychology, offers the modern world 1) a return to enchantment, 2) guidance for our individual and collective journeys, and 3) a restored sense of our place in the cosmos. This Wisdom School class will begin with a look at the sense of wonder inspired by the night sky that gave birth to astrology. It will then provide a detailed overview of what astrology is and how it works (including the essential role of consciousness and freedom in empowering wise choices). We will also explore astrology’s many connections to Jungian psychology. Finally, we’ll do a deep dive into one birth chart to give participants an actual experience of the valuable guidance that astrology can offer.

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Fairy Tale Fridays

January 5, February 2, March 1, April 5,  May 3, 2024

6:30-8:30pm PST 

ONLINE meetings held on the first Friday of every month. 

A study and discussion of various fairy tales facilitated by Stephanie Gierman, Jungian Analyst, and our very own Co-President, Bette R. Joram, Ph.D.

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Jung Café

In Person Discussion Group: Saturday Afternoons

*New Hours* 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222.

Our in-person discussion group continues to meet weekly on Saturday afternoons 4:00 to 5:30pm in the Nancy Alvord Library, room 222 of the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle. Participants suggest and discuss a variety of Jungian and depth psychological topics and benefit from community connection. Please join us!

Contact Laura at arweninrivendell@gmail.com with any questions, or just drop by.

We look forward to seeing you!

Jung Library Study Group

In person study group occurring the first Wednesday of every month starting, September 6th.

Noon – 2:00pm

Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222. 

Please join members Tamara Walker and Lael Cassidy for a new study group, which will meet the first Wednesday of each month from 12-2pm in the library. 
The intention is to invite the voice of C.G. Jung into the room, and to provide a space to reflect on them with our whole selves. We will be working with the text of Jung’s Dream Analysis Seminars of 1928-30.  All reading will happen in the meeting. Participants can read outside of class, but this is not expected nor required. Reading materials will be provided, and art supplies will be available for those who wish, so that the unconscious feels invited to participate. There will also be time to discuss–to share art and other feeling/thinking responses to the work. This event is free to whoever would like to attend.
Based on Jung’s (1984) Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1928-1930.  The group is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10 per session.  For more information, contact Lael: laelk@comcast.net

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