When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred. Jung offers an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred, which can appear by means of dreams, visions, synchronistic events, creative work, the body, the natural world, and, surprisingly, our psychopathology. These experiences are forms of individual revelation, and they can be described using the language of depth psychology rather than traditional theology.
During the course of the weekend, Dr. Corbett will contrast Jung’s notion of the Self as the God within with traditional theistic approaches to the divine and will describe the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche. He will discuss Jung’s notion of the dark side of the Self in his Answer to Job, and the arguments with theologians this book produced. Participants will be encouraged to describe their personal experience of the Self.