Event Title: THE WAY OF JUNG: Active Imagination and the Red Book

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Monday, May 3, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Course
Who: Julie Bondanza
When: Four Mondays
Fees: $100.00, members; $125.00, nonmembers; $75.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure / Obscure! Oh vague! /
In it are images. / Vague! Oh Obscure! / In it are things /Profound.
-Lao-Tzu

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 to look at active imagination: its purpose, its methods, and its value in the process of individuation. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with several different ways of entering active imagination.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a dioplomate Jungian analyst who trained at The C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington, as well as for various Jung Societies across the country. Presently she serves on the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park, Maryland, and lives in Washington, D.C

Event Title: UNCOVERING THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, part 2

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Course
Who: Heidi Lindemann and Michael Perry
When: Six Tuesdays
Fees: $150.00, members; $175.00, nonmembers; $125.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

There is one guarantee in taking an alchemical journey: the unexpected will occur, requiring you to enter regions that were previously unrevealed to the conscious mind. In Part Two (newcomers are welcome to join us), we will continue the alchemical journey that we began last fall, remembering those who have been lost and transformed along the way, and striving to understand the events that have occurred in and around us as raw materials of the alchemical process. This six weeks will focus on the ladder (see the section on ascent and descent in Jung's Mysterium). The ladder allows us to momentarily occupy different vantage points in relationship to our psyche. Ascent allows us to witness the projection of psyche onto the alchemical vas; descent allows us to be the contents of the vas. For those continuing from last fall, we will extend on the work we began, and for those joining us for the first time this spring, we will open the alchemical circle by concentration on key alchemical passages and aspects of our individual life narratives.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

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 in the Washington metropolitan area and teach and write around the United States and in Europe.

Event Title: DREAMS: A THE INNER WORLD OF CHILDHOOD: A Study in Analytical Psychology by Frances G. Wickes, part 2

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Book Exploration
Who: April Barrett
When: Five Thursdays
Fees: $50.00, all

From the Back Matter: An early classic in child psychology,
Frances Wickes' The Inner World of Childhood explores how children think, dream, and fantasize as well as how adults often cannot help but misinterpret that inner life. Beginning with an analysis of negative parental influence on a child's unconscious, and concluding with a discussion of the role of sex in child psychology, Wickes' incisive work covers almost every topic in between, from the structure of the child's psyche to the significance of imaginary playmates. This work is still as fascinating and insightful as it was when first published in 1927. In a new introductory preface, the author reviews this work from the perspective of 60 years later. What Carl Jung said about it still holds true: "Probably no father or mother will be able to read these chapters without realizing the devastating truths of this book." The first six registrants will receive a free copy.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

April Barrett is in service to the dissemination of Jung's thought through her participation and training with the Creative Initiative Foundation, the Guild for Psychological Studies, and the Jung Society of Washington, for which she is program director, executive director, and vice-president of the board.

Event Title: SYNCHRONICITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Where: Location to be announced. Check website for updates

Friday, May 7, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

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What: Lecture
Who: Richard Tarnus
When: Friday
Fees: $20.00, all

Jung's concept of synchronicity represents one of the most fruitful efforts of the twentieth century to construct a bridge across the chasm between mind and matter, self and world, psyche and cosmos. In popular culture, the concept has been surprisingly widely embraced. The term and the phenomenon it describes play no small role in the way many individuals make sense of their lives. In the face of the disenchanted modern world view, the search for a deeper ground of purpose and meaning that trans- cends human subjectivity has become an urgent spiritual priority. For many today, synchronicities are directly relevant to this search, and are frequently experienced as provocative, if elusive, signs that such deeper structures of meaning and purpose do perhaps exist. The concept has also had a unique impact in the intellectual world, having been cited by physicists as posing a major challenge to the philosophical foundaof modern science, and by religious scholars as holding deep implicafor the modern psychology of religion. In tonight's lecture Professor Tarnas will summarize the origin and history of the concept in Jung's work, discriminate among his several conflicting formulations, discuss the experiential and transformational dimension of synchronistic events, analyze the new understanding of causality these presuppose, and address their larger metaphysical and perhaps evolutionary implications.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that became both a best seller and a required text in many universities. His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in England

Event Title: ART, CULTURE, AND THE PLANETARY ARCHETYPES: Understanding Our Moment in History

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

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What:Workshop
Who: Richard Tarnus
When: Saturday
Fees: $50.00, members; $75.00, nonmembers; $40.00 full-time students and seniors over 65

Jung's concept of synchronicity represents one of the most fruitful efforts of the twentieth century to construct a bridge across the chasm between mind and matter, self and world, psyche and cosmos. In popular culture, the concept has been surprisingly widely embraced. The term and the phenomenon it describes play no small role in the way many individuals make sense of their lives. In the face of the disenchanted modern world view, the search for a deeper ground of purpose and meaning that trans- cends human subjectivity has become an urgent spiritual priority. For many today, synchronicities are directly relevant to this search, and are frequently experienced as provocative, if elusive, signs that such deeper structures of meaning and purpose do perhaps exist. The concept has also had a unique impact in the intellectual world, having been cited by physicists as posing a major challenge to the philosophical foundaof modern science, and by religious scholars as holding deep implicafor the modern psychology of religion. In tonight's lecture Professor Tarnas will summarize the origin and history of the concept in Jung's work, discriminate among his several conflicting formulations, discuss the experiential and transformational dimension of synchronistic events, analyze the new understanding of causality these presuppose, and address their larger metaphysical and perhaps evolutionary implications.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that became both a best seller and a required text in many universities. His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in England

Event Title: THE WAY OF JUNG: Active Imagination and the Red Book

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Monday, May 10, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Course
Who: Julie Bondanza
When: Four Mondays
Fees: $100.00, members; $125.00, nonmembers; $75.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure / Obscure! Oh vague! /
In it are images. / Vague! Oh Obscure! / In it are things /Profound.
-Lao-Tzu

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 to look at active imagination: its purpose, its methods, and its value in the process of individuation. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with several different ways of entering active imagination.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a dioplomate Jungian analyst who trained at The C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington, as well as for various Jung Societies across the country. Presently she serves on the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park, Maryland, and lives in Washington, D.C

Event Title: THE WAY OF JUNG: Active Imagination and the Red Book

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Monday, May 17, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Course
Who: Julie Bondanza
When: Four Mondays
Fees: $100.00, members; $125.00, nonmembers; $75.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure / Obscure! Oh vague! /
In it are images. / Vague! Oh Obscure! / In it are things /Profound.
-Lao-Tzu

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 to look at active imagination: its purpose, its methods, and its value in the process of individuation. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with several different ways of entering active imagination.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a dioplomate Jungian analyst who trained at The C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington, as well as for various Jung Societies across the country. Presently she serves on the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park, Maryland, and lives in Washington, D.C

Event Title: C.G. JUNG IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Friday, May 21, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

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What: An Evening With . . .
Who: Susan Roberts
When: Friday
Fees: $15.00, members; $20.00, nonmembers;
$10.00, full-time students and seniors over 65

In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung makes clear that the spirit world was a powerful shaping factor for him throughout his life. Written when he was close to death and feeling the "necessary freedom to talk about" such things, the autobiography contains many astonishing assertions about his belief in spiritualist pheno-mena and the soul's continued existence after death. Indeed, if we take him at his word, we may be led to revision Jungian psychology as an activity closely allied to spiritualism, shamanism, and ancestor worship, as a psychology of and for the dead. In this evening program, we will explore Jung's ongoing dialogue with the dead, in particular the importance he accorded to the ancestors as agents of psychological wounding and healing. His willingness to talk about such "paranormal" subjects may have made Jung's theories suspect during a century dominated by scientific materialism. But in our more open-minded era, some of Jung's more far-out speculations are proving uniquely helpful in making sense of such emerging psychological phenomena as ancestral complexes, family karmas, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.

Susan Roberts, MSW, LICSW, psychotherapist in private practice in Washington, D.C., and counselor to adolescents at the Washington Inter-national School. She is a candidate in the final stage of training with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts and has also trained in the intergener-ational family systems model of German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger.

Event Title: THE WAY OF JUNG: Active Imagination and the Red Book

Where: Jung Society of Washington Library

Monday, May 24, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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What: Course
Who: Julie Bondanza
When: Four Mondays
Fees: $100.00, members; $125.00, nonmembers; $75.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure / Obscure! Oh vague! /
In it are images. / Vague! Oh Obscure! / In it are things /Profound.
-Lao-Tzu

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 to look at active imagination: its purpose, its methods, and its value in the process of individuation. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with several different ways of entering active imagination.

We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a dioplomate Jungian analyst who trained at The C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Washington, as well as for various Jung Societies across the country. Presently she serves on the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park, Maryland, and lives in Washington, D.C