JUNGIAN.DIRECTORY

Consciousness – Accessible and Unbound: – Jung’s Unconscious and Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness

Bob Piller
Start Date: 13/11/2025
End Date:18/12/2025
Scheduled course
Online
more information

Overview

What shapes your reality?  This course, Consciousness: Accessible and Unbound, explores the profound impact of consciousness on our lives.  We will journey through the insights of Carl Jung and Jean Gebser, two pioneers who illuminated the depths of the human mind.  We will delve into Jung’s concept of consciousness as a “precondition of being” and Gebser’s vision of consciousness as a dynamic, unfolding process.  Through their insights, we will examine how archetypes – especially those tied to power and community – and shifting structures of awareness shape our understanding of ourselves and the world.

Weekly exercises will offer hands-on engagement with your own consciousness.

Readings:

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, edited by Aniela Jaffé, 1989, New York Vintage Books

The Ever-Present Origin, Jean Gebser, [Part One, 1949. Part Two, 1953, English Translation by Noel Barstad with Algis Mickunas, 1985] Ohio University Press

Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness, Jeremy Johnson, 2019, Revelore Press

Jean Gebser – Life and Work, www.aaroncheak.com/jean-gebser

Rendering Darkness and Light Present – Jean Gebser and the Principle of Diaphany, Aaron Cheak, http://www.aaroncheak.com/darkness-and-light

On completion of this class, you will be able to:

  1.  Identify differences and similarities between Gebser’s integrative model of consciousness and Jung’s dualistic model of consciousness.
  2. Grasp consciousness through a lens that simultaneously visualizes the perspective of Jung’s differentiation model and Gebser’s intensification model.
  3. Use your understanding of consciousness as a reference point and tool set for experiencing consciousness differently and more intensely.
  4. Summarize how the Jungian resolution of opposites and the Gebserian concept of integrality inform your sense of identity and self in this cultural moment.
Translate »