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What: Course
Who: Swamis Jyotir Vakyananda and Abhipadananda
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $150:00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
Our point of departure is from Jung's forward to the Evan-Wentz translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Jung says that if you read it backwards, then:
. . . the sequence of events as I have described it offers a close parallel to the phenomenology of the European unconscious when it is undergoing an 'initiation process', that is to say, when it is being analyzed.
So we will do just that-read it backwards. The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation Through Hearing, more commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, presents an initiation cycle and as such you can start from any point as long as you successfully bring your encounters from the subconscious to the conscious mind.
We will give special consideration to the yogas of death and dreaming in relationship to Jung's work on dreams and their meaning, and to his notion of "symbols of transcendence" - the means by which contents of the unconscious can be made to enter the conscious mind and be recognized by the individual. This movement is a fundamental goal of all yogas - especially the yogas of dreaming and dying as presented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Swami Abhipadananda (Heidi Elizabeth Lindemann) and Swami Jyotir Vakyananda (Michael Anthony Perry) are lineage holders in the Kriya Yoga tradition and are authorized to initiate and teach Kriya Yoga and its related teachings. The Swami order is one of the oldest, continuous, living initiatory systems extant. Ordained priests, they perform all traditional sacraments and initiations; they derive great meaning from making Indian yogic teachings accessible to western minds. They are a married couple who reside the Washington metropolitan area and teach and write around the United States and in Europe.
For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Note: For this program, it is our intent to have CEUs available for Social Workers.
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