Living in the Intersection of Fate, Character and Choice
CourseBy James Hollis
An Individuation Journey Through Realms of Shadow to the Mystery of Transformation
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with Richard Tarnas
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Keeping Your Own Red Books
CourseBy Susan Tiberghien
This lecture will place Jung’s thinking in the context of some of the major philosophical commitments that underpin contemporary theories of psychology and psychotherapy. Rather than compare Jung with other schools of thought on the basis of differences in clinical theory and technique, this lecture will describe Jung’s assumptions about the psyche, about human nature, and even about reality that underpin his theory and distinguish it from other approaches.
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This workshop will describe how Jung’s approach to the psyche and to psychotherapy arises out of his philosophical commitments. I will show how his is a philosophy of idealism, and how he does not see the psyche as merely a product of the brain. I will discuss Jung’s rejection of metaphysics but how he also reveals his personal metaphysical beliefs, especially his monism, based on the idea of the unus mundus. I will show how Jung acknowledges a spiritual dimension to the psyche, in contrast to most other forms of psychology, especially in terms of his ideas about the Self and the objective psyche as a source of religious experience. I will discuss the debate about Jung’s status as a scientist. Finally, I will describe how Jung and Wolfgang Pauli tried but failed to find common ground between depth psychology and quantum mechanics based on their common interest in synchronicity.
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21 Strategies for a Richer Journey
CourseBy James Hollis
Awakening of the Heart Field via Active Imagination to Titrate Relationship with the Abject in Self, Other, and the World
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Poets observe, reflect, write, reflect, and write again, and in so doing they ask us to stop and reflect a bit more than we might otherwise. The poets we’ll read in this course range from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Sharon Olds and Stephen Dunn. Loosely arranged around the topics of Desire, Troubled Times, Discoveries, and Speculations, these poems will stir in you questions, provocations, and openings to your own depths.
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with Donald E. Kalsched
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This program will discuss some of the psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories and the theology to which they have given rise. The talk is based on Jung’s ideas that “religious statements are psychic confessions” (CW11, para. 555), and “statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul” (CW11, para. 557). The program will show that some biblical and theological ideas arise from human psychodynamics, often of a narcissistic type, while some originate in the archetypal level of the psyche. Religious experiences and the theology to which they give rise are products of the psyche. They do not need to be seen as emanating from a metaphysical deity in a transcendent realm. The experience of transcendent reality reported by characters in biblical stories is the result of contact with non-ego, archetypal, or transpersonal levels of the psyche, which is the actual source of sacred experience.
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This workshop will build on the previous lecture, further discussion some of the psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories and the theology to which they have given rise. The talk is based on Jung’s ideas that “religious statements are psychic confessions” (CW11, para. 555), and “statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul” (CW11, para. 557). The program will show that some biblical and theological ideas arise from human psychodynamics, often of a narcissistic type, while some originate in the archetypal level of the psyche. Religious experiences and the theology to which they give rise are products of the psyche. They do not need to be seen as emanating from a metaphysical deity in a transcendent realm. The experience of transcendent reality reported by characters in biblical stories is the result of contact with non-ego, archetypal, or transpersonal levels of the psyche, which is the actual source of sacred experience.
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with James Hollis
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with Ann Ulanov
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by Dr. James Hollis & Jose Enrique Pardo
CourseBy James Hollis
Jung’s discovery that the psyche contains an innate God-image, a divine essence, avoids many of the problems associated with anthropomorphic, patriarchal God-images. Using examples from people’s personal experiences, we will describe and discuss a variety of ways in which the Self manifests itself in dreams, visions, and synchronicities. We will also discuss Jung’s idea that the Self has a dark side that is responsible for suffering and evil, as well as describe the ways in which this contrasts with the Christian God-image.
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Dreams as a Path to Personal Authority
CourseBy James Hollis
The Alchemy of Writing
CourseBy Susan Tiberghien
The Movement of Archetypal Powers in Our Time
CourseBy James Hollis
Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy from a Jungian Perspective
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