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2019 Community Offerings Invitation to Various Public Events Presented by Monika Wikman and/or Guests of the Center for Alchemical Studies, a non-profit project of earthways.org |
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Ma’at’s Mysteries: The Roots of Renewal
Date: Sunday • January 27, 2019 Time: 4pm – 7:30pm Place: The Center for Alchemical Studies 1536 Bishops Lodge Road Tesuque, New Mexico RSVP: [email protected] Note: There is NO fee for this presentation. |
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Monika Wikman and the Center for Alchemical Studies in Tesuque, New Mexico invites you to an evening presentation by mythologist Laurie Larsen, Ph.D. Focusing on the life-death-rebirth mysteries at the heart of the ancient Egyptian culture mythologist Laurie Larsen, Ph.D. will introduce us to the goddess Ma’at and Her powerful principles of continuous renewal. Ma’at’s place within the ancient Egyptian culture reveals that these ancient people relied on Her wisdom teachings to both educate and regenerate their culture, many times over. Through years of scholarship Laurie has gathered the ancient symbolic images, myths, sacred hymns, and texts to bring Ma’at’s mysteries alive.
Ma’at’s Mysteries: The Roots of Renewal is a celebration of the Awakened Heart, and the heart’s inherent wisdom.
The ancient Egyptians advise all to “say Ma’at and do Ma’at” and to keep Ma’at in your heart. Ma’at teaches us to live in joy, harmony, and balance, for the movement of renewal we so urgently need must be imagined and held in our hearts before it becomes a reality—and each of us is capable of that!
Ma’at’s Mysteries: The Roots of Renewal is a celebration of the Awakened Heart, and the heart’s inherent wisdom.
The ancient Egyptians advise all to “say Ma’at and do Ma’at” and to keep Ma’at in your heart. Ma’at teaches us to live in joy, harmony, and balance, for the movement of renewal we so urgently need must be imagined and held in our hearts before it becomes a reality—and each of us is capable of that!
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Seminar: At the Doorway between Worlds with C.G. Jung, W.B. Yeats, and S.T. Coleridge
February 1-3, 2019 MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D. and THOMAS ELSNER , J.D., M.A. An alchemical weekend seminar (inspired by the work of Jung, Yeats, and Coleridge) courting the subtle body through contemplation of Celtic myths, fairy tales, active imagination, dream work, and writing. The seminar will offer time for active imagination and writing meditations. February 1-3 (Imbolc): with meditations from alchemy, Celtic myth and poetry. This seminar will focus on the alchemy of fire and ash in relation to the alchemical bride, led by Monika Wikman and Tom Elsner. Readings to be assigned. (See May 3 - 5 below for subsequent session in this series.) Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 9:30am-4:30pm (lunch included; optional potluck dinner 5:00 to 7:00pm), Sunday 9:30am-1pm. Fee: $450 and 13.5 CEUs for this weekend Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM. Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected]. Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology, in Zurich, she is a member of the NM Society of Jungian Analysts. Interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil. Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A., a certified Jungian analyst, is on the faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, and a member of the InterRegional Society of Jungian Analysts. His book A Flash of Golden Fire: Coleridge and the Alchemical Imagination is to be published by Texas A&M University Press. |
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Noirin Ni Riain will be in Tesuque for a day and night of song, story telling and music, and a gathering.
February 5, Tesuque, NM (note: date has changed and moved forward one day from previous posting)
Experience this wisdom with world-renowned singer and keeper of Irish culture Nóirín Ní Riain, Ph.D. in an evening of song and story celebrating the wisdom, charm and wit that the Celtic tradition holds in store for us all. Nóirín is one of Ireland's national treasures of tradition and spirituality and is a world-renowned singer and theologian.
February 5, Tesuque, NM (note: date has changed and moved forward one day from previous posting)
Experience this wisdom with world-renowned singer and keeper of Irish culture Nóirín Ní Riain, Ph.D. in an evening of song and story celebrating the wisdom, charm and wit that the Celtic tradition holds in store for us all. Nóirín is one of Ireland's national treasures of tradition and spirituality and is a world-renowned singer and theologian.
Come and explore the poetics of a new kind of listening with internationally renowned singer, theologian, writer and Interfaith Minister, Nóirín Ní Riain PhD. This will be a highly experiential and intimate workshop weaving magic through song, poetry, and personal sharing around participants. The only requirements of the attendees are an open-heart willing to step onto new ground and a willingness to go with the flow of the Spirit and open heart.
Join us to share a national treasure of Irish Tradition - as she comes to Santa Fe for this astonishing once-off performance.
Hosted by the Center for Alchemical Studies, a non-profit project with Earthways.org
Dates: Feb 5
Place: Center for Alchemical Studies, 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe.
Time: 10am to 4pm (lunch included); break 4-6; wine and appetizers and concert from 6 - 9
Fee: $300.00 (all of which goes directly to Noirin)
Enrollment limited.
To reserve a space, contact: Susan Steffy [email protected] or Monika [email protected]
Join us to share a national treasure of Irish Tradition - as she comes to Santa Fe for this astonishing once-off performance.
Hosted by the Center for Alchemical Studies, a non-profit project with Earthways.org
Dates: Feb 5
Place: Center for Alchemical Studies, 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe.
Time: 10am to 4pm (lunch included); break 4-6; wine and appetizers and concert from 6 - 9
Fee: $300.00 (all of which goes directly to Noirin)
Enrollment limited.
To reserve a space, contact: Susan Steffy [email protected] or Monika [email protected]
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Dreams, Life, Death, and the Alchemical Wedding between Worlds February 22 and 23 C.G. Jung Society of Sarasota, Florida Monika Wikman, Ph.D. When someone we love is dying or when we come close to death ourselves, the veils between the worlds can become very thin, and mysteries of life, death and the beyond can experientially reveal themselves, opening us to the psychoid and to life changing experiences in the imaginal realms of reality. How do these experiences of the threshold between life and death inform us and transform us? This lecture and workshop explore experiences and questions we live with regarding death and the beyond. Drawing on years of doctoral research at UC San Diego Medical Center on dreams of the dying, and decades of working with people in the dying process, and also drawing on experiences on the edge of life and death intensely a few times in my own life, I have gathered extensive dreams, synchronicities and experiences of archetypal phenemomen surrounding death. This material portrays and intimates the multi-dimensional living mysteries of the subtle body realms that unite spirit and matter. What do dreams, near death experiences and archetypal phenomenon surround death tell us about the mysteries of life, death and the beyond? How do dreams help prepare us for death, our own and for the death of loved ones? How do our world views alchemically change through these experiences? How does the world around benefit from our own growth as we work with these experiences? “Die before we die”, a Sufi saying, points to the value of discovering what death has to show us while we still have time to make use of this wisdom, while we are still alive in the body. The experience of the metaphor of death is continually at the center of any authentic and lasting transformational experience. Alchemy and Jung’s work are built around this as the cornerstone of transformational processes, individually and collectively. In a letter to David Cox in 1957, Jung said, “we are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.” (Jung, Letters Vol. II, p. 586) Experiences surrounding literal death can open us to the way of transformation through symbolic death when we pay deeper attention. This lecture will direct our attention to the deeper psychic dimensions operating in the alchemy of death, literally and symbolically. To die symbolically (and learn the attitudes that help this process along) before we die, (and while we die literally) is of such value to deep change, that it brings some irreplaceable offering to the collective unconscious, and to the texture, value and meaning of our lives. Jung’s work with alchemy will inform the discussion, and particularly his work on the heiros gamos, the sacred wedding as this theme appears again and again in dreams at death. Jung in his great work, the Mysterium Conuinctionis, opens the dialog about the wedding of opposites, stating opposites will war, and they may or may not marry. (1) Delving into the psychophysical realities of death we get right into the fabric of the warring and the wedding dynamisms in the psyche. And here we may also discover the transcendent function at work toward a conuinctio of opposites that carries with it a unified field. This unified field can bring experiences in the psychoid that bring meaning, transcendence and illumination enough to inform and bring redemption to the totality of our lives. Dreams, synchronicities and near death experiences illuminate the wedding between worlds that our lives are participating in, with shifts in consciousness that allow us to see things from the Self’s point of view which, of course, brings challenge and can bring profound wisdom, transformation and peace. We will take dreams that challenge us to see life and death from other points of view in the psyche besides the egos ordinary time space bound points of view. These dreams illuminate greater wisdom and broaden our sense of the psyche, and what it means to be a human being as integral part of the infinitely larger totality. Additionally, the effect of the Presences in the psyche and psychoid that accompany the experience of death will be explored. We will also play with these themes in film, myth, and music. Workshop: Alchemy, Dreams, Active Imagination and the Doorway between the Worlds: Growing the Subtle Body before we Die For the workshop, we will venture into the work of what von Franz found to be the goal for the second half of life, to grow the subtle body before we die. Applying alchemy, and working with dreams, myths, koans, images from film and the practice of active imagination, the workshop will create an alchemical laboratory for growing ones own experiences of the subtle body realms where spirit and matter together form a psychophysical unitary reality. Teachings from alchemy and Sufism and from the lecture material from the doorway between life and death will be used as spring boards for active imagination and discussion. footnote: (1) We also know they can discount and dismiss each other, creating stalemates, and aversion/avoidance/psychically-split processes, energies and dynamics. Monika Wikman, Ph.D. is Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, along with other articles, chapter contributions, etc... A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, she is member of the Northern New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts and the Inter-Regional Society. At shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com you can find 6 podcast interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issue of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, alchemy. Her work with the dying lead to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil. |
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Jung in Ireland - Need and Greed: What is enough? A Program with the Monks of Glenstal Abbey
April 1 - 7
Monika’s contribution:
Greed and Divine Appetite: Celtic Myths and Alchemical Wisdom On the Godsize Hunger under the Questions of the Age
See Jung in Ireland link: https://nyjungcenter.org
Death and the Wedding Veil
The Zentrum, St Niklaussen, Switzerland
April 7 to 21
The Zentrum, St Niklaussen, Switzerland
April 7 to 21
Seminar on Dreams and Case Colloquia for IRSJA Training in Santa Fe, NM
May 13 and 14, 2019
May 13 and 14, 2019
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Seminar: At the Doorway between Worlds with C.G. Jung, W.B. Yeats, and George Russell (AE)
June 28 - 30, 2019 MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D. This alchemical weekend seminar (inspired by the work of Jung, Yeats, and George Russell) involves courting the subtle body through contemplation of Celtic myths, fairy tales, active imagination, dream work, and writing. Seminar includes time for active imagination and writing meditations. Topic: Candle of Vision: The life and work of Irish poet and visionary painter George Russell (AE) We will explore the visionary paintings and poems of Irish visionary poet AE, a very dear friend of W.B. Yeats, and our own experiences of such states with Jung's psychology on the psychoid as the backdrop in the readings. Readings will be assigned and sent out in a few weeks. See Feb 1 - 3 above for preceding session in this series and for presenter bio. Friday 6pm - 9pm Saturday 9:30am-4:30pm (lunch included; optional potluck dinner 5:00 to 7:00pm) Sunday 9:30am-1pm Fee: $450, 13.5 CEUs for this weekend Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM. Contact Susan Steffy, [email protected]. |
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LIVING WITH DYING: The Death / Rebirth Experience as a Metaphor for Change
A Breathwork Retreat at Ocamora, New Mexico
September 2 - 8, 2019
The metaphor of death is always at the heart of any authentic and lasting transformational experience. Both Monika and Diane have worked with the dying and the psychology and spirituality around death and the doorway of death. We will consider dreams surrounding death and supportive practices for conscious dying. Using Jung's Active Imagination and Grof's Holotropic Breathwork we will explore the profound ways in which death / rebirth realities in the psyche can inform our lives today.
For more information or registration contact
Diane Haug [email protected] or
Monika Wikman [email protected]
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology, in Zurich, she is a member of the NM Society of Jungian Analysts. Interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil.
Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC,is a licensed therapist and senior member of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff, and has developed GTT training modules including Living with Dying and The World Within: Jung’s Red Book. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. She has been involved with the Holotropic Breathwork community offering training events internationally. Diane is an adjunct faculty member of the CIIS Center, Southwestern College, and the Academy for the Love of Learning.
FIVE SESSION SEMINAR: Alchemical and Clinical Reflections
October, 2019 - April, 2020
JACQUELINE WEST, Ph.D. and MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D.
In the seminars this year, we will continue to discuss Jung’s later works in which he delves into alchemical and clinical investigations, exploring the tension between the opposites and the processes involved in their conjunction. Continued readings in Alchemical Studies, Vol. 13 of the Collected Works, along with The Red Book, will lead us into further explorations about what it takes to meet and forge a relationship between the forces that have the potential to tear us apart - individually, interpersonally, and culturally - while they also have the potential to engender wholeness. We’ll review how the unimpeded emergence of flexible and humble consciousness supports the individual’s capacity first to form, and then to meet and transform, essential defensive dynamics. In these discussions, we’ll trace the alchemical operations that are at work in these processes.
(Addendum to the printed brochure: We want to note, that along with reading, studying and discussing the written passages, our poems, paintings and dreams are woven into the course.)
Five Tuesday evening (2.5 hour) sessions from 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Schedule: 2019: October 15, November 19; 2020: January 21, March 3, April 7.
Enrollment limited.
Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe.
$300.00 for series (for 12 CEUs, add $20 surcharge).
Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected].
Jacqueline West, Ph.D., co-author of The Matrix and Meaning of Character, is a Jungian analyst in Santa Fe. She lectures, teaches, and writes about character structures as they are portrayed in fairytales, mythologies, and current art. Her work is currently focused on the archetypal, individual, and collective nature of narcissistic dynamics woven into the current patterns of our lives as Americans.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D.,is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, and various journal articles and book chapters. Podcast interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil.
October, 2019 - April, 2020
JACQUELINE WEST, Ph.D. and MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D.
In the seminars this year, we will continue to discuss Jung’s later works in which he delves into alchemical and clinical investigations, exploring the tension between the opposites and the processes involved in their conjunction. Continued readings in Alchemical Studies, Vol. 13 of the Collected Works, along with The Red Book, will lead us into further explorations about what it takes to meet and forge a relationship between the forces that have the potential to tear us apart - individually, interpersonally, and culturally - while they also have the potential to engender wholeness. We’ll review how the unimpeded emergence of flexible and humble consciousness supports the individual’s capacity first to form, and then to meet and transform, essential defensive dynamics. In these discussions, we’ll trace the alchemical operations that are at work in these processes.
(Addendum to the printed brochure: We want to note, that along with reading, studying and discussing the written passages, our poems, paintings and dreams are woven into the course.)
Five Tuesday evening (2.5 hour) sessions from 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Schedule: 2019: October 15, November 19; 2020: January 21, March 3, April 7.
Enrollment limited.
Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe.
$300.00 for series (for 12 CEUs, add $20 surcharge).
Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected].
Jacqueline West, Ph.D., co-author of The Matrix and Meaning of Character, is a Jungian analyst in Santa Fe. She lectures, teaches, and writes about character structures as they are portrayed in fairytales, mythologies, and current art. Her work is currently focused on the archetypal, individual, and collective nature of narcissistic dynamics woven into the current patterns of our lives as Americans.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D.,is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, and various journal articles and book chapters. Podcast interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil.
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Imperative to Engage the World Soul
Seminar with Jeffrey Kiehl, Jerome Bernstein, and Monika Wikman Center for Alchemical Studies Tesuque, NM October 17-20, 2019 We have reached a time of great unfolding in terms of our relationship with the natural world. Our growing separation and collective dissociation from Nature has precipitated a time in which our current actions are affecting the future trajectory of life on Earth. We are tasked with a tremendous responsibility in terms of what type of world we bequeath to future generations of humans and non-humans, alike. However, rather than look upon this current unfolding through the lens of despair, we can choose to open ourselves up to the richer depths of psyche. Two years ago I had the fortune of working with Jeff Kiehl and Jerome Bernstein at the Jung and Spirituality Conference that David Solem directed. The synergy of the two of them together brings out new dimensions of depth psychological dialog and discovery for being present to the realities we face in the world today. We come together now to explore deeper understanding of working with the transformative aspects of the psyche during the dark collective times we face. This seminar will bring several transformative means forward such as:
Times: Thursday: 6 to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday: 9:30 to 4, Saturday evening: optional firepit and potluck with story telling, Sunday: 9:30 to 12:30 Place: 1536 Bishop’s Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM 87574 Fee: 800.00 CEU’s: 19 Contact Person: Susan Steffy [email protected] Jerome S. Bernstein, M.A.P.C., NCPsyA., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian Analyst in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York (1980). Jerome has a forty year relationship with Navajo and Hopi peoples. His analytic work has been influenced by Navajo healing through his collaborative clinical work with a traditional Navajo medicine man and a Navajo cultural translator. He is the author of Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma (Routledge 2005) and is co-Editor, along with Philip Deloria, of the groundbreaking book, C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions by Vine Deloria, Jr. (Spring Books: 2009), and Guest Editor of Spring Journal Vol. 87 (2012) “Native American Cultures and the Western Psyche: a Bridge Between,” Power and Politics: The Psychology of Soviet-American Partnership (Shambhala 1989, and“Beyond the Personal: Analytical Psychology Applied to Groups and Nations,” Published in “Carl Gustav Jung: Critical Assessments” 1994, Edited by Renos Popadopoulos, as well as dozens of articles covering various individual and collective clinical topics. He is a senior training faculty with the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and teaches and lectures internationally. For more up-to-date listing of publications, see http://www.santafejung.org/ under Publications. Biography: Jeffrey T Kiehl, PhD is a Jungian analyst, ecopsychologist and climate scientist. He is a senior training analyst at the CG Jung Institute of Colorado and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He has carried out research on climate change for 40 years and is an adjunct faculty member of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he teaches a course on ecopsychology. He has lectured internationally on a range of topics including: film and Jungian psychology, Jung and the Beatles, alchemy, and climate change. He is the author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future (Columbia University Press). Monika Wikman, Ph.D. For bio, see above on other seminars |
Prayer for the World Soul -
Jane Zich of San Francisco
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