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Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love.  And then, for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire.   
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[W]e are in the deepest sense the victims and instruments of cosmogonic "love."  I put the word in quotation marks to indicate that I do not use it in its connotations of desiring, preferring, favoring, wishing, and similar feelings, but as something superior to the individual, a unified and undivided whole.  Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole.  He is at its mercy.  He may assent to it or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it.  He is dependant upon it and is sustained by it.  Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see.  "Love ceases not" – whether he speaks with the tongues of angels, or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source.   – C.G. Jung                                                                                                                                                                       
[I]f we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence "God is love," the words affirm the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead.  In my medical experience as well as in my own life, I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love and have never been able to explain what it is. 
Like Job, I had to "lay my hand on my mouth.  I have spoken once and I will not answer" (Job 40:4f).   
– C.G. Jung

[These quotes appear in Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness, pages 163, 202, and 212.]

NEW ARTICLE by Dr. Bud Harris
This is a transcript of The C.G. Jung Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Jung Society of Washington, D.C. Presented at the Embassy of Switzerland, June 3, 2011,
Individuation: The Promise in Jung's Legacy and Why Our Culture Has Trouble Accepting It
 

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This, our first webinar, will focus on the relationship between dreams and creativity. During the 90 minute web presentation, examples of different forms of artwork, music, and individual dreams will be used to describe the relationship between dreaming and creativity.  Participants will have the opportunity to explore the way in which dreams influence the creative process and how the instinct for creativity influences dreams.

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"It seems to me that Barak Obama is not only receiving our projections onto him as a transformative new leader; he is also mirroring back to us a reflection of our own projections and ideals.  He does so with the implicit question of, “And what about you?  Can you rise to this task you have given me?” more
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"...behind the subjective mist there lies an objective reality." Yoram Kaufman
  
Beyond the personal, lies the transcendent and the transcendent expresses the world of the self and what some have called, the ineffable. Through the lens of everyday life, we come to understand the world by the perceptions we have about it, however psyche and self exist independently of our personal perceptions. Our dreams are a threshold into a world of deep meaning and resonance; which Jung has called "The Self" and the "Objective Psyche", and what the ancients before him have called the "wisdom traditons". However, to truly unlock this inner wisdom, a recognition and knowledge of the objective truths that are gifts from our unconscious needs to be the foundation.
  
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For over fifty years, the Guild for Psychological Studies has conducted seminars that bring together the depth psychology of Carl Jung, the Records of the Life of Jesus (Synoptic Gospels), the Hebrew Scriptures, and material drawn from myth, poetry, world religions, and the evolving images of modern culture and science. Using a process based on Socratic inquiry and dialog, seminar participants carefully attend to images and feelings, discover connections between the personal and collective psyche, and often find a new commitment to the deep and unfolding truth that has been called the Self or Soul. Visit http://www.guildsf.org.

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