Lecture Friday March 25, 7:30 pm
This lecture will describe some of the ways in which Jung’s approach to spirituality and religion differs from traditional Judeo-Christian approaches. Jung believes that the individual’s direct experience of the sacred or the holy is more important than belief, doctrine or dogma. The direct experience of the transpersonal level of the psyche produces numinous experiences that may take an entirely novel form. They are recognizable by their emotional power. In this talk I will describe some of the ways in which the transpersonal psyche manifests itself, with a range of examples.
Workshop Saturday March 26, 1 pm to 4 pm
This workshop will contrast Jung’s idea of the Self as an intrapsychic image of God with traditional Judeo-Christian approaches to divinity. I will describe a range of the ways the Self manifests itself, and discuss Jung’s idea, found in his Answer to Job, that the Self has a dark side responsible for evil and suffering.