C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleNaturally, society has the indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so
far as society itself is composed of de-individualized persons, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless
individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes– it is just this
banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so
readily to a dictator. A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately
everything depends upon the quality of the individual, but the fatally shortsighted habit of our age is to
think only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world has
seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman.
–C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self, Chapter 4, page 67, New American Library Mentor Book, 6th printing
Price Increase for Lectures
The price increase for lectures, announced at the September 2006 annual meeting, is now in effect: $15 members, $25 nonmembers. Scholarships are available for lecture and workshop attendance. Please contact Paul Collins, president, by way of the office phone or email if you have any questions.
Society Multimedia Gallery
See the new multimedia gallery, now featuring audio (MP3) from Society events, a presentation, and photos from the January 2006 Twelfth Night event, September 2006 annual meeting and Dr. Corbett workshop, and November 2006 workshop with Dr. Holllis.
Walking the Camino de Santiago, May 12-25, 2007 
The C.G. Jung Society, Seattle is hosting a special event, "Journey to El Camino de Santiago de Compostela." This Jungian-oriented pilgrimage into the ancient Western Mystery tradition will be take place May 12-25, 2007, with leaders Terry Gibson and Linda Leonard. As of the December 9 preregistration deadline, there are 8 remaining openings for registration. Final registration is March 1, 2007. For anyone registering or thinking of registering, please send an email to: debra@thelandmarkgroup.com.
Terry Gibson's PowerPoint presentation from the December 9 participant meeting is available to view after December 26. This introductory immersion into what promises to be a deeply personal journey for the participants is available at:
www.pastoraltherapywa.com
Click "Terry Gibson," click "Private," then enter username: terry, password: ants
See the following Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents for more information:
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies
of the cosmos pour into human manifestation...
–Joseph Campbell – Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell is best known for The Hero’s Journey and The Power
of Myth, but his wide-ranging interests included shamanism, Arthurian romance, Kundalini
yoga, and Native American myth. He learned Sanskrit so he could read Indian texts in the
original language. Campbell often noted that artists are a culture’s mythmakers; his work
continues to influence and inspire contemporary artists, writers, and filmmakers.
This informal series offers a forum to explore Campbell’s influence on contemporary popular culture and humanities studies. We’ll also discuss C. G. Jung, Heinrich Zimmer, and others whose theories and insights helped to shape Campbell’s ideas about the importance of symbolism, archetypes, and the power of mythologies as creative manifestations of our human need to explain psychological, spiritual, and social realities.
Tentative dates are late February, early March. Specific information about location and times will be sent out in January and posted on the website. The series format includes research presentations, films, and open discussion. Admission is free, participation encouraged.
New titles include:
Living in the Borderland: The evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing
Trauma, by Jerome Bernstein
Jerome Bernstein addresses the psychological and clinical problems of the borderline personality
considered to be conditions beyond the rational and yet not pathological. He argues that a new
borderline consciousness can bridge the mind-body divide and provide for new possibilities for
understanding and healing, confounding clinical and developmental enigmas.
Jung Stripped Bare by His Biographers, Even, by Sonu Shamdasani
Sonu Shamdasani, the author of a recent biography, Jung and the Making of Modern
Psychology: The Dream of a Science, which challenged the “Jungian Legend,” has written
a short book discussing other biographies of Jung, including those by Barbara Hannah,
Vincent Brome, Gerhard Wehr, Frank McLynn, Deirdre Bair, et al.
Evil: The Curatorium of the Zurich Jung Institute
A collection of essays by eight eminent scholars who analyze evil from the perspective
of their particular disciplines and interests. Essays are by Marie-Louise van Franz, Carl
Kerenyi, Karl Lowith, Lillian Frey-Rohn, et al. Published in 1967 by the C.G.Jung
Institute, Zurich.
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, by Bill Plotkin
A depth ecopsychological guidebook to an exploration of how the anima mundi calls each
one of us on a unique path. “Soulcraft practices spring from nature-based cultures, modern
depth psychology, the poetic tradition, and wilderness rites of passage to comprise a truly
contemporary Western path to soul discovery and soul initiation.” For more about Bill
Plotkin’s work, see www.animas.org/whatIsSoulcraft.htm.
The Heavens Declare. by Alice Howell
Alice O. Howell’s view of astrology presents a bold syntheses of history, religions, mythology,
and Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious. She traces the evolution of consciousness
through five of the great astrological ages of the past one thousand years and infuses astrology
and depth psychology with a vital quality too often lacking in both.
Spring Journal 49, 1989
Long missing from our collection of Spring Journals, this issue has articles by Peter Bishop, James
Hillman, David Miller, and several brief book reviews, including Jung’s Nietzche’s Zarathustra.
We now have A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago, by John Brierley, and The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson. These two books are available for loan and provide a great introduction to the Pilgrimage to El Camino de Santiago de Compostela tour we are hosting in May 2007.
Several books by Phil Cousineau will be available for sale on December 8 when he comes to give his lecture and workshop on "Joseph Campbell and the Art of Pilgrimage." The titles include: The Art of Pilgrimage, Once and Future Myths, Coincidence or Destiny, A World Treasury of Riddles, and Soul Aflame.
A DVD of Lionel Corbett’s 09/15/06 lecture “A Depth Psychological Approach to the Sacred”
is now available for lending in the Library. Thanks to Todd Boyle for making this possible.
-- Bunny Brown, Librarian
In an egological psychology, we can say that the ego strives to pull the world into its sphere.
This allows that same ego to reduce others to oneself. It establishes itself as the measure of all
things and in its quest for security pushes one to possess. The modern quest for knowledge, led
by European Enlightenment thinkers, attempted to understand the world through possessive
techniques that imposed themselves on both the natural and social worlds. Yet, by grasping at
them, the ego places these worlds in the service of its own struggle to be. Its relation to others
imposes a reductiveness that is both practical and noetic, involving a relating that tries to
functionalize them. It is, thus, always a matter of consumption. The ego’s conatus essendi, as we
see, can in the extreme eliminate others through murder. Nevertheless, this denial of others can
also occur in more subtle ways, for example, by functionalizing and consuming them without
murder. Forms of colonialism and kinship practices are good examples. As we approach the end
of the calendar year, perhaps we ought to contemplate Hobbes’s adage that we are “wolves to one
another.” If we can escape the belief that we can totalize the other by thinking him, perhaps we
begin to overcome the predicament with which both Newton and Descartes left us. Perhaps,
also, we can re-think our own provincial attitudes toward consumption and patriarchy.
Happy holidays!
Respectfully,
–Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M.
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