The timing of the publication of The Red Book in 2009 was a synchronicity. It brought into focus how Jung\u2019s work was an antidote to the shadow of materialism. This has intensified in the 21st century. He was able to view what was happening from the underbelly situation almost a century ago, as he witnessed it in the unconscious. It is understandable why Jung felt he had failed to communicate, to emphasise the great value of the soul. The spiritual light grew dimmer through the consumer society, and now is overshadowed by a materialistic force that threatens to engulf the globe. Jung offered a solution. It was the tough and difficult path of consciousness, not as an intimate, personal or privileged choice but as an unrivalled objective necessity for survival.<\/p>\n
With this attitude we will study The Red Book through four seminars.<\/p>\n
The intense periods of Jung\u2019s experiments were around 1913 \u2013 1918. The work continued long after and came to a halt in 1933 when Jung discovered The Secret of the Golden Flower. Richard Wilhelm, the translator and scholar, (best known for his translation of the I Ching) sent the book to Jung for his reflections. After reading it Jung named his myth as alchemy. Again this was not alchemy in its personal application, but as a global phenomenon, on a level with Jung\u2019s description of the Anima Mundi, the World Soul. \u201cNo man is an island\u201d. . . as John Dunne said, and it is true of objective psychological work. Whoever works with himself on the objective level, works for the world. The book points to the future and challenges the spiritual condition of the souls of modern men and women.<\/p>\n
Participants will need a copy of The Red Book, the Reader\u2019s Edition, a very reasonably priced copy of the text: about \u00a320. Your local library may have a copy too. Brenda will project the images from The Red Book onto the screen so the group will be able to view them and not need the large facsimile edition.<\/p>\n
This series of seminars is not intellectually based, but seeks to go into the depth, the human aspect of the soul in The Red Book \u2013 to find what is expected of us in our times. We search, seriously, for what Jung said and experienced whilst working on this marvellous book to bring light on all our experiences. In this respect, we work objectively, rather than from a personalised angle. Closer to the time, when we know the number of participants, Brenda will send out the specific parts of The Red Book that we will study, for those who would like to read and prepare for the seminars.<\/p>\n
Seminar 1<\/strong>: 30th September 2023 \u2013 Beginnings and Jung\u2019s objective: how he searched for the truth beyond the personal.<\/p>\n Seminar 2<\/strong>: 21st October 2023 \u2013 The dark part of the journey and the shadow discoveries of the nature of the human soul. How consciousness challenges this.<\/p>\n Seminar 3<\/strong>: 11th November 2023 \u2013 How the light comes out of the awareness of the shadow. It leads Jung and it leads us all if we listen to soul whilst reading the Red Book.<\/p>\n Seminar 4<\/strong>: 2nd December 2023 \u2013 The unconscious reflects Jung\u2019s achievements and how they instruct us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The timing of the publication of The Red Book in 2009 was a synchronicity. It brought into focus how Jung\u2019s work was an antidote to the shadow of materialism. This has intensified in the 21st century. He was able to view what was happening from the underbelly situation almost a century ago, as he witnessed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":101404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[165,542],"mec_speaker":[270],"class_list":["post-101403","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-seminar","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n