How do we understand the role of psyche and the unconscious in times of collective upheaval? In this workshop, we’ll read a bit more from Jung’s visions and those of other people during WWII and beyond. With time for personal reflection and small group discussion, we’ll explore how our own psyches are supporting us or guiding us in these times, and solutions and insight we might be gaining from this wholly “irrational” source.

Modern dream science, in attempting to solve the riddle and mystery of dreams, has advanced a variety of theories ranging from the notion that dreams are nothing but brain noise to claims that dreams are the night’s preparation for the next day’s activities and evolutionarily significant in preparing consciousness to deal with harm and threat. All of these efforts are focused on the dream’s value (or lack thereof) for conscious purposes, intentions, and agendas. This seminar will review these modern developments and offer a critique that focuses attention instead on the dream’s desire, agency, and intention. I’m looking for participants to be engaged interactively in activities that will illustrate the importance and value of psyche-centered writing. As an example, I will attempt to reconstruct my spontaneous talk I gave at the 1992 Arts Festival at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The title of that talk was “The Cost of Poetry and the Price of Its Loss.” I will emphasize the value of poetry as a way of relating to dreams and other phenomena of psyche.

Dear Fairy Tale Friday Students,

Due to Dr. Bette Joram’s current health issues, the Seattle Jung Society will be postponing The Red Book class until further notice.  We hope to start it up again in the new year.  We will send out a notice when it resumes and we will post that information on our website.  If you have already paid for it, a refund will be forthcoming. Thank you for your interest in this program and we look forward to Bette’s recovery and return to the class.

Best Wishes,  –Randy Morris (Co-President)

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.