When Jung asked the question, \u201cWhere did the gods go when they left Olympus,\u201d he answered, they left Olympus and entered the unconscious of the modern and became \u201cdisturbances.\u201d When Jung talks of \u201cthe gods\u201d he sees them as the personification of archetypal energies. Those forces are timeless and course through all of us, so when a god \u201cdies\u201d it means the energy has left the concept, practice, ritual, dogma, gone underground, and, incognito, appears elsewhere. How do we, then, track those energies, and where do they reappear in such contemporary forms as consumerism, seduction by electronics, sociopathies, and personal symptoms?<\/p>\n
This online course will explore how today\u2019s culture copes with, or finds surrogates for the primal powers of nature, however disguised they are in contemporary cultural expressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Jung asked the question, \u201cWhere did the gods go when they left Olympus,\u201d he answered, they left Olympus and entered the unconscious of the modern and became \u201cdisturbances.\u201d When Jung talks of \u201cthe gods\u201d he sees them as the personification of archetypal energies. Those forces are timeless and course through all of us, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28064,"template":"","level_of_course":[982],"class_list":["post-28063","courses","type-courses","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","level_of_course-intermediate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n