C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleLecture: Friday, April 8, 2005, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 member, $15 nonmembers
2 CEUs
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest,
For I had lost the path that does not stray. (Dante, Inferno 1. 1-3)
Consciousness brings with it an impulse to leave the familiar confines of family,
neighborhood and routine in order to journey down unfamiliar paths and to enter
the woods where no one has yet trod. The pilgrim is not the tourist, the road
warrior or one mobile for movement’s sake. Pilgrimage is questing to satisfy some
appetite in the soul that things, possessions, or success will not assuage. It is a
double journey, both into the world and deeply into one’s self; further, it is a
journey which insists on some documenting, some recording of itself in memory,
in the act of writing. I call this action “pengrimage.” Through both journeying and
journaling its trace, we can satisfy a sacred restlessness through an experience that
transcends the normative everyday reality we inhabit.
Jung reminds us that “the quality of inwardness is missing today.” This lecture will attempt to reclaim some of that inwardness through a remembered pilgrimage.
Workshop: Saturday, April 9, 2005, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$40 members, $50 nonmembers, $35 student/senior members, $45 student/senior nonmembers
5 CEUs
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
Journeying and journaling are both mythic activities. This workshop will explore specific pages of two journals by the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell: Baksheesh and Brahman as well as Sake and Satori. Together they track in almost 700 pages his round-the-world pilgrimage of 1954–55. On that journey he discovered his life’s major work as a comparative mythologist.
We will then engage 3–4 journal exercises. The intention here will be to make more fully conscious parts of one’s personal mythology and identify what in our own myth is no longer serving us. Those souls bold enough will be invited to read their entries.
Please bring a journal, if you keep one, or paper and pen if you do not.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., is Core Faculty, Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology Programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Kent State Universe as well as a second M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature and Phenomenology from the University of Dallas. He is the author of 240 articles and author or editor of 9 books, the most recent of which include Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life and Just Below the Water Line: Selected Poems. He is co-editor and contributor, with Lionel Corbett, of Depth Psychology: Mediations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold.
This program has been approved for 7.0 CEU’s by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Provider number is #1975-157. The cost to receive a certificate is as follows: 7.0 units for lecture and workshop $15; 2.0 units for the Friday lecture $10; 5.0 units for the Saturday workshop $10.
Updated: 18 March, 2005
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