The Jung Society of Washington is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational membership society open to all who are interested in learning more about the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung.
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Purchase your seats for the Fall programs using your credit card. Just recently, there has finally been a publication of Jung’s Red Book, the work of active imagination developed by him over many years. In celebration of that publication, this course offers a chance more Kriya Yoga is an ancient, living, alchemical system designed to address the deepest levels of the psyche and create the energy needed for transformation. The techniques first brought to the United States by Paramahamsa Yogananda in the 1920s will be taught as a methodology for self-scrutiny and energization. more
James Hollis writes in What Matters Most of a "strange rhythm of exile and homecoming." Ralph Ellison suggests, "You have to leave home to find home." Is there perhaps a call to return more What will you do, and who will you be, in this one precious life? It is never too late to ask this powerful question, and there is no answer that couldn’t use some periodic refreshing. If we are to live to the fullest, in good times and bad, we must have some basic skills: the ability to inhabit our lives through presence, to follow our internal prompting to create our own unique life, and the capacity to more
A poetic hour on film with Jung describing some of his basic discoveries and the primary significance and vitality of the inner world of the human soul. Images from Jung's own Red Book, recently published, are included along with symbolic imagery from many traditions and art forms. All combine to present in depth the role that the inner world, a force of nature, plays in healing,. more As a devoted student of the Goddess, I have used the avenue of anthropology to study the various forms which the Goddess has taken through the ages. This lecture/discussion will cover the exploration of the rich treasures of Goddess imagery found in Auvergne, France. We will discuss the mysteries of the Black Madonna and the Virgin in Majesty by using visual images taken from my trip. We will discuss the impact of those images as we explore our own personal connection to the “Great Mother/Goddess”. more
Through discussion of selected readings and images from art, film, and dreams, we explore dynamics linked to two complimentary pairs of opposites as treated in Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis: sun and moon, king and queen. We will engage in our own alchemical experiments, observing the archetypal affects of sun and moon, king and queen as we engage in imaginative play. more It has been over twenty years since the groundbreaking publication of Marija Gimbutas’ controversial book The Language of the Goddess. As an archaeologist with a meticulous methodology, Gimbutas studied feminine figurines and imagery unearthed in Old Europe. She considered prehistoric , more
Somatic psychology is a relatively new and emerging field that focuses on the relationship between the body and the mind; the discoveries in the field of neuroscience leave no doubt that our thoughts, feelings, and emotions have an immediate impact on cells, tissues, glands, and organ systems. more
Jung’s Red Book is a medieval-looking tome filled with his seminal psychological ideas, which grew out of his 16-year self-exploration. His personal searching transformed psychotherapy from a practice mostly concerned with treating the sick into a means for the higher development of the more
In this half-day workshop, Janice Quinn will lead us through an exploration of Jung’s psychological developments in light okf the newest revelations contained in this highly creative and controversial work, focusing on various elements of Jung’s Red Book as they relate to our own personal more Jung's vision of the individual and global psyche is still light years ahead of modern psychology, religion, and science. His under-standing of the innate organizing potential of the Self and the power of the images of the collective, objective psyche to shape human experience is perhaps the greatest discovery of the last one hundred years. Our challenge and task is to understand and more
Have fun and look at your story through the magical lens of the fairy tale. Writing your own life as a fairy tale can be a unique and creative way to: look at your family and your context with eyes full of wonder, play with the power of the author to cast spells or break them, connect or re-connect to your life's task, be surprised by unknown aspects of who you are, see dynamics which may appear VERY familiar, and receive wisdom and guidance from the numinous world of archetypes. more
In our everyday way of speaking, we casually refer to very large ideas such as "the journey, "the holy grail," or "the wound," but do we stop to reflect on what we are really saying, or what images of this magnitude mean? Do we comprehend what it is that we are shaping within ourselves and our world when we speak in symbolic and archetypal language? more The wound archetype comes to us from the Ages of Stone by way of story and legend; no one can say how old they are. This archetype consists of three elements: the wound, the wounded, and the one who inflicts the wound. This triune image appears in fairy tales such as Iron Hans, and The Girl Without Hands. more
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