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Discover the latest reflections, events, and explorations in our newsletter to keep up to date with the Jung Society’s activities this season. Read Our Latest Newsletter: Fall 2025
C.G. Jung

The Nancy Alvord Library, one of the most unique libraries in America, is housed at the Good Shepherd Center in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.

Body As Ancestral Community

with

Eugenio Ordóñez, Ph.D.

(Online)

  • Friday Lecture, October 17th, 2025
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
The body is a strange experience. We all live it, but for the most part we live it as an individual reality, as something that is personal and only affected by personal experiences. However, when explored with epistemologies that allow what Jung called the Objective Psyche to manifest and express itself, the body can clearly be experienced as a reality that is beyond the personal and affected by events that reach deep into the past — experiences that the ancestors and the community of destiny had to endure and go through in order to continue living and pass life onwards. The experience of the body can be profoundly transformed if, first and foremost, we transform the ways in which we conceive it and attend it, going from the personal into the important and immediate ancestral events that hold the individual body within a community of souls.

Somatic Explorations of the Ancestral Body

with  Eugenio Ordóñez, Ph.D.

(Online)

  • Saturday Workshop, October 18th, 2025
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The narratives within which we experience the notion of the body are neither final, nor complete. The ways in which we experience the body can be deeply transformed if we know how to delve into the past of our lineages. In order to do that we need three things: first, the proper knowledge for looking for the right and crucial information; second, a respectful and honoring attitude that knows how to integrate the pain, the suffering and the darkness of those who lived before us; and third, enough awareness of one’s bodily experience in order to ground and deepen an embodied consciousness of events from the past that keep resonating in the present in the form of illness, symptoms, disease, accidents, or even everyday ways of living the individual physical body.

THE RED BOOK

A Seminar with Bette Joram, Ph.D.

 

  • ONLINE
  • 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month
  • Time: 7 – 8:30 PM Pacific Time
  • Cost:  $ 10/ session

As Jung wrestled with powerful images and experiences sent forth by the unconscious, he was “taken to the mat” again and again.  As he sweated it out intellectually, physically, morally, and spiritually, within these pages, so will we. As we read and discuss The Red Book together, we, too, will struggle with the implications of this material for our own understanding of ourselves, the times we live in, and the meaning and consequences that our own encounters with the unconscious present to us, and the way the unconscious effects society at large. The Red Book lays the groundwork in which Jung began to formulate the constructs which later appear throughout his Collected Works.

Fairy Tale Fridays

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

Purchase a Member or Non-member ticket to join the discussion. CEU ticket sold separately.

The Jung Café

  • In the Library! Saturday Morning Discussion Group
  • 11:00 am – 12:30 pm on Saturdays
  • Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222.

Our in-person discussion group continues to meet weekly on Saturday mornings, 11am – 12:30pm 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 THE LIBRARY!)  2nd Fridays, starting November 14, 2025
For October only we will be meeting on the first Friday, October 3rd, 2025
 

In the library, Lael Cassidy hosts an in-person discussion group based on Jung’s Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1928-1930.

  • Noon – 2:00pm
  • Nancy Alvord Library at Good Shepherd Center, Room 222. 
  • The group is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10 per session. 

In this study group, we intend to invite the voice of C.G. Jung into the room and to provide a space to reflect with our whole selves. We will attend his seminar and enter into specific dreams with him. 

We are reading C.G. Jung’s Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, one lecture per month. New participants are welcome at any time. We send a PDF version of the upcoming lecture a few days before each meeting (typically about 15 pages). If you want to receive this email, please reach out to Lael Cassidy, laelcassidy@gmail.com 

(If you want your own copy of the book, Part 1 of the lecture series is readily available in paperback and on kindle where books are sold. The full volume is only available in hardback, and quite expensive, but at the current rate we won’t reach part 2 until mid-2025)

For more information, contact Lael at laelcassidy@gmail.com

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