Free Event
The Solstice Season has long been a time for communities to celebrate the balance between the Dark and the Light. For many years, the Seattle Jung Society has held a gathering in December or early January to acknowledge the season and celebrate our accomplishments for the year. This season we would like to invite you to a Soul Night, a gathering of our members to share their creativity with the community as a whole. When we share what has inspired us from the unconscious, we become portals and oracles for the healing power of the Anima Mundi, the world soul. Out of the Darkness of the personal and collective unconscious are generated images and stories. When we bring them into the Light of a receptive community, goodwill and cheer are made manifest.
Everyone is welcome to join the gathering. It will open with rituals to gather the Invisibles and bring our hearts into coherence. Then we will ask those members who have signed up in advance to take no more than five minutes each to present to the group some product that has emerged from their unconscious – a particularly powerful dream, a poem, a painting, a song, a short story, a teaching vignette, etc. After each presentation, there will be a short moment of silence to allow the ‘soul offering’ to echo into the soul of the community, before we turn our attention to the next offering. When all of the offerings are complete, we will have an opportunity to dialogue about how the images have echoed within our own souls. In this way, a Community of Soul is generated. We will end with a toast to the season and a song.
If you are interested in making an offering, and we truly hope you are, here are the guidelines.
- In addition to obtaining a free eTicket here, please sign up in advance so that we can know how many presentations are going to take place.
- You can sign up by contacting Randy Morris and Akesha Baron at office@jungseattle.net. Give us a brief description of what you would like to present, and we will let you know the order in which you will go.
- There will be time for 10-12 presentations, but unlimited room for community witnesses.
- Please be very conscious of the timing of your presentation. You will have no more than five minutes, which is all the time you will need.
- We hope you will give some context for your offering and, if possible, something of the learning that you derived from it.
- Our goal is to create a space that is receptive to what John O’Donohue calls ‘the quiet light that shines in every heart’. The creative products we have made from the inspirations of the unconscious are precious to us, but they are not for us alone. Your offering may be just what someone else needs to hear; your healing may also be theirs. To that end, we ask that whatever you present come from your own creative process. For example, a poem written by someone else may have moved your soul, but we would rather hear a poem that you have written yourself.
