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2020 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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October, 2019 - April, 2020 (continuing)
Tesuque
FIVE SESSION SEMINAR: Alchemical and Clinical Reflections
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.
Tesuque
FIVE SESSION SEMINAR: Alchemical and Clinical Reflections
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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MYTH, MUSIC, AND CULTURE A STUDY TOUR TO THE CUBA LESS TRAVELED JANUARY 5 – 11, 2020 Havana, Cuba Offered by the New York Center for Jungian Studies Monika's three Topics in Cuba
Monika Wikman, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has contributed chapters to books, and articles, and poems to numerous publications. A graduate of the Jung–von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, Dr. Wikman was the principal investigator of dream research at UCSD Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying.” She has a private practice in Tesuque, New Mexico, and in Gaviota, California. Along with her partner, Tom Elsner, she hosts a nonprofit project under Earthways.com, the Center for Alchemical Studies. |
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January 24 and 26
Jung Institute of Santa Fe Public Programs
Lecture: Facing Climate Disruption and Extinction with Jungian and Moral Perspectives
Friday, January 24
$10.
Guilford Dudley, Ph.D. and Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
As we continue to pass scientific thresholds of no return, two major psychological issues are emerging. One is our proclivity for self-deception and avoidance — dissociation from a reality staring us in the face like the barrel of a shotgun. Those who do look away from the shotgun as though it were not there can be appreciated with great compassion, since the reality can simply be too much to bear.
The other issue arises in those who face climate disruption and the closely connected species extinction as realities in the present, but they experience despair, bewilderment, grief, and fatigue — fatigue from facing the enormous threat to the planet, but not knowing what to do, how to contribute in ways that are effective. Grieving, though important, is not enough in light of the urgency. The fatigue is heightened by a President and his administration scathingly contemptuous of environmental efforts here and worldwide, and so we have no national support, no tribe.
The moral issue is clear. Our species represents .01% of all life forms, yet we have already caused the extinction of 83% of mammals and 50% of plants. We are just on the verge of discovering unique centers of consciousness in species like whales, dolphins, elephants, and a host of other life forms, yet we are damning them all to extinction, and they are defenseless.
However we see our lives as following Jung into more eros with the natural world, together with pursuing our own individuation and wholeness, it’s hard to imagine those pursuits without relating them to issues of extinction. The moral issue is clear: our species and ours alone is pushing all species on the planet into extinction. We will discuss what it means for psyche to come to grips with such a burden.
(For lecture information contact Guil Dudley 505-570-0577.)
Workshop (please take special note of day and place!):
Sunday, January 26
This Sunday workshop (to be held at 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM) will continue the discussion begun on Friday night, expand it in new directions, and provide opportunity for deeper group interaction.
Workshop contact person is Susan Steffy,
505-469-0430 or [email protected].
Lecture
• Friday, January 24
• 7 pm – 9 pm – $10*
• 2 CEUs or 2 Cultural CEUs
• Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe
Workshop
• Sunday, January 26
• 10 am – 4:30 pm – $65*
• 5 CEUs or 5 Cultural CEUs
• 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM
* (add $20 surcharge for CEUs)
Guilford Dudley, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He is a member of the New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts. Guil has authored two books and is completing a manuscript for a third. Before training to be an analyst, he was Assistant Professor at Temple University and a lecturer at other universities
Monika Wikman, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has contributed chapters to books, and articles, and poems to numerous publications. A graduate of the Jung–von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, Dr. Wikman was the principal investigator of dream research at UCSD Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying.” She has a private practice in Tesuque, New Mexico, and in Gaviota, California. Along with her partner, Tom Elsner, she hosts a nonprofit project under Earthways.com, the Center for Alchemical Studies.
Jung Institute of Santa Fe Public Programs
Lecture: Facing Climate Disruption and Extinction with Jungian and Moral Perspectives
Friday, January 24
$10.
Guilford Dudley, Ph.D. and Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
As we continue to pass scientific thresholds of no return, two major psychological issues are emerging. One is our proclivity for self-deception and avoidance — dissociation from a reality staring us in the face like the barrel of a shotgun. Those who do look away from the shotgun as though it were not there can be appreciated with great compassion, since the reality can simply be too much to bear.
The other issue arises in those who face climate disruption and the closely connected species extinction as realities in the present, but they experience despair, bewilderment, grief, and fatigue — fatigue from facing the enormous threat to the planet, but not knowing what to do, how to contribute in ways that are effective. Grieving, though important, is not enough in light of the urgency. The fatigue is heightened by a President and his administration scathingly contemptuous of environmental efforts here and worldwide, and so we have no national support, no tribe.
The moral issue is clear. Our species represents .01% of all life forms, yet we have already caused the extinction of 83% of mammals and 50% of plants. We are just on the verge of discovering unique centers of consciousness in species like whales, dolphins, elephants, and a host of other life forms, yet we are damning them all to extinction, and they are defenseless.
However we see our lives as following Jung into more eros with the natural world, together with pursuing our own individuation and wholeness, it’s hard to imagine those pursuits without relating them to issues of extinction. The moral issue is clear: our species and ours alone is pushing all species on the planet into extinction. We will discuss what it means for psyche to come to grips with such a burden.
(For lecture information contact Guil Dudley 505-570-0577.)
Workshop (please take special note of day and place!):
Sunday, January 26
This Sunday workshop (to be held at 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM) will continue the discussion begun on Friday night, expand it in new directions, and provide opportunity for deeper group interaction.
Workshop contact person is Susan Steffy,
505-469-0430 or [email protected].
Lecture
• Friday, January 24
• 7 pm – 9 pm – $10*
• 2 CEUs or 2 Cultural CEUs
• Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe
Workshop
• Sunday, January 26
• 10 am – 4:30 pm – $65*
• 5 CEUs or 5 Cultural CEUs
• 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM
* (add $20 surcharge for CEUs)
Guilford Dudley, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He is a member of the New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts. Guil has authored two books and is completing a manuscript for a third. Before training to be an analyst, he was Assistant Professor at Temple University and a lecturer at other universities
Monika Wikman, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has contributed chapters to books, and articles, and poems to numerous publications. A graduate of the Jung–von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, Dr. Wikman was the principal investigator of dream research at UCSD Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying.” She has a private practice in Tesuque, New Mexico, and in Gaviota, California. Along with her partner, Tom Elsner, she hosts a nonprofit project under Earthways.com, the Center for Alchemical Studies.
February 28 - March 1
Yeats and Jung
The Santa Fe Center for Alchemical Studies and The Jung Institute of Santa Fe host this Seminar:
At the Doorway Between Worlds: Jung, Yeats and the Celtic Imagination
February theme: The Shapeshifting Depths of the Psyche in C.G. Jung’s Redbook (Proteus)
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in W.B. Yeats’ Great Alchemical Work: A Vision (Mannan Mac Lir)
Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
This is another seminar in a series held for many years now, of courting the subtle body through celtic myth and poetry, with depth psychological reflection, while cultivating contemplative active imagination processes.
Yeats and Jung lived largely at the same time in history. They were deep visionaries in their own rights, both discovering alchemy at the root of their work, discovering avenues into the imaginal and generating their respective work from these encounters and reflections on the spirit of the depths, and the spirit of the times and yet neither one ever references the work of the other.
This seminar we will reflect upon Jung’s Redbook and Yeats’ A Vision.We will enter into these two works in the seminar and feel into Jung’s and Yeats’ processes and discoveries, and also seek to differentiate the nuances of the paths that sprouted out of their work and lives.
Specifically, we will focus on the shamanic oceanic watery depths of the psyche that were explored by both men. Each found a deity personifying those depths; for Jung it was Proteus, and for Yeats it was Mannan Mac Lir.
We will read these myths and discuss the parallels, and with alchemical texts reflect on the potential co-creation of the Unus Mundus mysteries underlying work with the mercurial depths.
In these mythologems from the deep-- of Proteus and Mannan Mac Lir--, there are invaluable keys for subtle differentiations that apply to our own growing alchemical work with the psyche and psychoid, and the somatic unconscious as well. As we work with active imagination we will find these keys come alive.
I hope you can consider coming and sharing in the depths and the work together.
Sincerely,
Monika Wikman
Monika Wikman and the Center for Alchemical Studies, a non-profit project with Earthways.org
Other readings of myths and poems to be emailed out upon enrollment.
• Friday 6 pm to 9 pm,
• Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (lunch included; optional potluck dinner 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm),
• Sunday 9:30 am to 1 pm.
Fee: $450 (for 13.5 CEUs, add $20 surcharge).
Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected].
April 3 - 4
Dreams, Life, Death, and the Alchemical Wedding between Worlds
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 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.
Dreams, Life, Death, and the Alchemical Wedding between Worlds
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 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.
April 10th
Boulder Jung Training Group
St. Margaret and the Dragon: Alchemical Encounters with Psyche’s Chthonic Dimensions
Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
For: Boulder Association of Jungian Analysts IRSJA training seminar, Boulder, Colorado
In this seminar, with the myth and images of St. Margaret and the Dragon, we will explore the patterns of initiation with the chthonic dimensions of the psyche, honoring the somatic unconscious in theory and practice. We will apply wisdom from alchemy transforming from dense to subtle in our work with the somatic unconscious. This leads us into the experiential reality of different chakra centers of consciousness, and has us consider the initiatory role of affect and its challenges, along with the value of this work for discovering healing states of consciousness.
This work invites us to learn to live open to healing states of consciousness, and to keep an inner eye on the goal of living more and more from an ongoing embodied state of activated imagination.
Required Reading:
1. Nathan Schwartz Salant. Gathering Information from the Somatic Unconscious, in Narcissism and Character Transformation, Inner City Books; January 31, 1982 , pg 110 to 123. (See document attached.)
2. C.G. Jung. The Dual Mother; in Collected Works, Volume 5.
3. Wikman, M. Ch. 4: The Divine Transforming in the Human Soul, in Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness,. Nicolas Hayes, 2005. (Attached is a copy of this so people do not have to buy the book)
Suggested Reading:
Eric Neumann. Art and the Creative Unconscious. Princeton University Press; 1974 edition (April 1, 1971).
Nietzche Seminars Part 1: lecture 4
Boulder Jung Training Group
St. Margaret and the Dragon: Alchemical Encounters with Psyche’s Chthonic Dimensions
Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
For: Boulder Association of Jungian Analysts IRSJA training seminar, Boulder, Colorado
In this seminar, with the myth and images of St. Margaret and the Dragon, we will explore the patterns of initiation with the chthonic dimensions of the psyche, honoring the somatic unconscious in theory and practice. We will apply wisdom from alchemy transforming from dense to subtle in our work with the somatic unconscious. This leads us into the experiential reality of different chakra centers of consciousness, and has us consider the initiatory role of affect and its challenges, along with the value of this work for discovering healing states of consciousness.
This work invites us to learn to live open to healing states of consciousness, and to keep an inner eye on the goal of living more and more from an ongoing embodied state of activated imagination.
Required Reading:
1. Nathan Schwartz Salant. Gathering Information from the Somatic Unconscious, in Narcissism and Character Transformation, Inner City Books; January 31, 1982 , pg 110 to 123. (See document attached.)
2. C.G. Jung. The Dual Mother; in Collected Works, Volume 5.
3. Wikman, M. Ch. 4: The Divine Transforming in the Human Soul, in Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness,. Nicolas Hayes, 2005. (Attached is a copy of this so people do not have to buy the book)
Suggested Reading:
Eric Neumann. Art and the Creative Unconscious. Princeton University Press; 1974 edition (April 1, 1971).
Nietzche Seminars Part 1: lecture 4
April 30 to May 3
Center for Alchemical Studies
Tesuque, NM
Santa Fe IRSJA Training Group
Somatic Unconscious and the Shared Field Imperative to Engage the World Soul
Seminar with Jeffrey Kiehl, Jerome Bernstein, and Monika Wikman
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 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:
• The Creation Matrix and exploring one’s sense of Cosmology
• Depth Perspectives on the Evolution of Consciousness from Indigenous and Alchemical points of view relevant to us in these times
• The psycho-physical medicinal effects of working with Mandalas
• The mystery of the somatic unconscious, the subtle body and cultivating shared field experience with all of nature
Dates: April 30 to May 3
Times: Thursday 6 to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday 9:30 to 4, Saturday 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.
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 - See above on other seminars
Center for Alchemical Studies
Tesuque, NM
Santa Fe IRSJA Training Group
Somatic Unconscious and the Shared Field Imperative to Engage the World Soul
Seminar with Jeffrey Kiehl, Jerome Bernstein, and Monika Wikman
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 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:
• The Creation Matrix and exploring one’s sense of Cosmology
• Depth Perspectives on the Evolution of Consciousness from Indigenous and Alchemical points of view relevant to us in these times
• The psycho-physical medicinal effects of working with Mandalas
• The mystery of the somatic unconscious, the subtle body and cultivating shared field experience with all of nature
Dates: April 30 to May 3
Times: Thursday 6 to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday 9:30 to 4, Saturday 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.
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 - See above on other seminars
June 20 to 27
Feather Pipe Ranch, Montana
Women’s Wisdom: Summer Solstice Women’s Retreat
Jean Shinoda Bolen & Monika Wikman
REGISTER
Program Tuition & Basic Accommodations: $2395
*Invite a friend(s) new to the Feathered Pipe and you both save $100!
Holding in spirit the loving and supportive presence of their soul sister and Feathered Pipe Foundation founder India Supera, acclaimed authors, Jungian analysts, activists and leading voices in women’s spirituality, Jean Bolen and Monika Wikman return to the Ranch for their second women’s wisdom retreat. India has enjoyed every women’s retreat that Jean has led—with Jan Lovett-Keen, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Barbara McAfee and Monika Wikman—and the 2020 program during our 45th anniversary is certain to be a celebration of the strong, loving and inclusive spirit with which India founded the Feathered Pipe.
The Summer Solstice women’s retreat supports women who wish to explore their inner lives in an exquisitely nourishing nature setting. Together, we will tune into womb wisdom, our connection to Mother Earth, moon cycles and the particular seasons of our lives, as the land provides the ‘alchemical vessel’ for our exploration, integration and growth. We will meet in large and small circles throughout the week, all connected by a sacred center, listening to stories and myths that teach us how to use archetypal energies to guide and direct our lives.
Tapping into highly experiential modalities such as Jung’s active imagination, dreamwork, art, journal writing, movement, bodywork, time in nature and ritual, we will ‘seed’ the imagination in a sacred process of deep inner exploration and self-expression. Building the shared field in community, this workshop brings to life the enriching fruits of inspiration, fresh perspective, compassion, shadow integration, healing, insight and laughter.
Together, we will:
— Share stories in sacred circle and participate in active-imagination and guided imagery
— Lean into transition and support the seasons of our lives
— Enjoy a scenic float down the Missouri River and gather around the fire after dark
— Reap the lasting benefits of laughter, tears and rest
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD is a Jungian analyst, activist, internationally-known speaker and author of 13 influential books in over 100 foreign editions, including Goddesses in Everywoman and Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman. The Millionth Circle, Urgent Message from Mother, Like A Tree, and Moving Toward the Millionth Circle inspire women to actively make a difference supported by being in circles with a sacred center. Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey is for patients, caregivers and their loved ones. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a leading voice in women’s spirituality.
Jean is a major advocate of the 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW-India 2022) and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. She lives in Mill Valley, California in an urban-wilderness interface zone.
Monika Wikman, PhD - see bio on prior events.
August 9 to 14
Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico USA
GTT Holotropic Breathwork module with DIANE HAUG, MONIKA WIKMAN and GTT staff
JUNG, ALCHEMY & THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Hotel information
Contact: GTT office – ph 415-383-8779/fax 415-382-1073
Email: [email protected]
In this retreat, we will explore the world of archetypes, dreams, myths, shadow, symbols, alchemy, individuation, and astrology. It will be a rich, creative journey into the depths of the psyche and the reality of the psychoid, through the work of Carl Jung and alchemy. The retreat will be highly experientially, to intricately support and illuminate our own transformational processes.
We will dive in through living mythic material and symbols that informed Jung and the ancient alchemists. We will also turn to the issues of current times that seek our attention — for transformation in this pregnant darkness — at individual and collective levels.
The focus our time together will include 1) An overview of Carl Jung’s seminal contributions to psychology 2) the power and significance of Jung’s own “spiritual emergency” rooted in and supported by his discovery of the ancient alchemists 3) and deep personal exploration into these alchemical processes using a variety of experiential modalities including Holotropic Breathwork®, Jung’s active imagination, writing, art, dream work, film, meditation, and movement.
This retreat will be enriching for anyone wishing to explore their inner lives in a safe and nourishing setting, as well as those interested in bringing a Jungian perspective into their everyday lives. This will be a wonderful opportunity to have a personal, embodied experience of Jung’s most groundbreaking contributions. The retreat will provide the ‘alchemical vessel’ for one’s own exploration, integration, and growth.
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.
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.
Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico USA
GTT Holotropic Breathwork module with DIANE HAUG, MONIKA WIKMAN and GTT staff
JUNG, ALCHEMY & THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Hotel information
Contact: GTT office – ph 415-383-8779/fax 415-382-1073
Email: [email protected]
In this retreat, we will explore the world of archetypes, dreams, myths, shadow, symbols, alchemy, individuation, and astrology. It will be a rich, creative journey into the depths of the psyche and the reality of the psychoid, through the work of Carl Jung and alchemy. The retreat will be highly experientially, to intricately support and illuminate our own transformational processes.
We will dive in through living mythic material and symbols that informed Jung and the ancient alchemists. We will also turn to the issues of current times that seek our attention — for transformation in this pregnant darkness — at individual and collective levels.
The focus our time together will include 1) An overview of Carl Jung’s seminal contributions to psychology 2) the power and significance of Jung’s own “spiritual emergency” rooted in and supported by his discovery of the ancient alchemists 3) and deep personal exploration into these alchemical processes using a variety of experiential modalities including Holotropic Breathwork®, Jung’s active imagination, writing, art, dream work, film, meditation, and movement.
This retreat will be enriching for anyone wishing to explore their inner lives in a safe and nourishing setting, as well as those interested in bringing a Jungian perspective into their everyday lives. This will be a wonderful opportunity to have a personal, embodied experience of Jung’s most groundbreaking contributions. The retreat will provide the ‘alchemical vessel’ for one’s own exploration, integration, and growth.
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.
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.
September 6 to 12
A Breathwork Retreat at Ocamora, New Mexico
LIVING WITH DYING: The Death / Rebirth Experience as a Metaphor for Change
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]
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.
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.
NOVEMBER 5–12
A STUDY TOUR TO SEVILLE, SPAIN
MYTH, MAGIC & MYSTICISM
Exotic Seville — heart of Andalucía and seat of power and glory in medieval Spain—is the destination of our 2020 annual study tour abroad. The birthplace of flamenco (considered the “Soul of Andalucía”), Seville is renowned for its music, gypsy culture, Moorish influence, and mystical heritage. Its famous Royal tobacco factory (now part of the University of Seville) was the hub of Spanish commerce in the eighteenth century and the setting for the legendary Carmen of literature and opera.
During the course of this unique study tour, we will explore the cultural and historic sites in Seville and learn about the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mystical traditions. Noted scholars and Jungian analysts will help us explore the archetypal link that these three great Western religious traditions have in common. Added features will include touring such sites as the Museo de Bellas Artes; Seville Cathedral and La Giralda (originally a mosque and now the third-largest cathedral in the world); the Alcazar; and the Ceramic Museum in Triana.
Some highlights of our week will be a fiery and captivating evening of flamenco dance and music and an excursion to Cordoba, renowned for its tenth-century achievements in art, architecture, philosophy, medicine, poetry, and science.
Here, where Christians, Moors, and Jews once lived together in harmony, and Islamic and Jewish mysticism enriched each other, we will visit the awe-inspiring Mezquita, with its vibrant, striped arches, and walk through the heart of La Judería (old Jewish quarter and birthplace of Maimonides).
Led by Aryeh Maidenbaum and Diana Rubin, our faculty will include noted Jungian analysts Sylvia Perera and Monika Wikman, as well as scholar Earl Collins.
Tentative Daily Schedule
Thursday, November 5
Arrive in Seville and check in to our hotel, the Hospes Las Casas del Rey de Baeza, which is well situated in the historic center of Seville and within walking distance of some of the city’s most famous sites.
We will gather in the late afternoon for a presentation by Earl Collins, “Christian Mysticism: An Introduction,” followed by a time to get to know one another, and our opening dinner (included).
Friday, November 6
After our full breakfast (provided daily at the hotel) we will depart for the Santa Cruz area of Seville. We will begin with a visit to the Catedral de Sevilla, originally the twelfth-century Great Mosque of Seville. The cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral in Europe — and La Giralda, its bell tower with city-wide views — are a legacy of the original Moorish structure. Our day’s tour will also include a visit to the Real Alcázar, a breath-taking fourteenth-century royal palace, a true jewel in the heart of Seville. There will be ample time for lunch on our own.
The evening presentation will be by Monika Wikman, “Mystical Visionary: Teresa of Avila,” with dinner on our own to follow.
Saturday, November 7
Our morning begins with Sylvia Perera’s presentation, “Connecting with the Spirit of My Hidden Spanish Roots.” After we will walk to the Casa de Pilatos, one of the finest palaces in Seville and known for its Mudejar (Moorish) style and magnificent azulejos glazed ceramic tiles. From here, our tour will amble through the charming Santa Cruz area, with its wrought iron balconies overflowing with red geraniums and enticing courtyards. This is one of the oldest barrios in Seville and was known as the Jewish quarter in medieval times.
Lunch will be on our own in Santa Cruz area where there are plenty of eateries to choose from — many serving the region’s traditional tapas.
Our afternoon will be unscheduled — free for you to explore the city. Or rest up in preparation for a captivating evening out: flamenco dance, music, and dinner (all included).
Sunday, November 8
Today, we will explore the west bank of the historic Guadalquivir River — the second longest river in Spain — spending the day in Triana, one of the most colorful neighborhoods in Seville, with its lovely views of the river, and many tapas bars to choose from (day and night). Each Sunday, this district, where old and new Spain meet, is the site of the lively Charco de la Pava Flea Market. Once the heart of Seville’s Roma (Gypsy) quarter as well as the birthplace of flamenco culture, Triana is also renowned for its ceramic production and was the home to many famous bullfighters. On our walking tour in Triana, we will visit Centro Cerámica Triana (Tirana Ceramic Museum), the Iglesia de Nuestra de la O (Church of our Lady of O), and the Museum of the Inquisition.
Lunch on our own at one of the many tapas bars and restaurants in Triana.
We will return to our hotel for the evening presentation by Monika Wikman, “Spain as Alchemical Vessel,” followed by dinner on our own.
Monday, November 9
Today we will travel to Cordoba. One of the most stirring and dazzling cities in Spain, Cordoba was once the capital of a rich and powerful caliphate and is renowned for its tenth-century achievements in art, architecture, philosophy, medicine, science, and poetry. At one time, it was also a place where Islam, Christianity, and Judaism enriched and cross-fertilized each other. In Cordoba, we will see the vast Mezquita and experience its immense striped arches and pillars. Originally the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Mezquita was converted to a church in the thirteenth century. Our walking tour through the city will include a visit to the famed medieval Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos — one of the primary residences of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille — and the Juderia de Cordoba (Jewish quarter of Cordoba), where Jews lived and flourished between the tenth and fifteenth centuries.
We will lunch on our own during the course of the day, returning to Seville in time for dinner on our own.
Tuesday, November 10
This morning, we will visit the Parque Maria Louisa, an elegant nineteenth-century park, with charming, colorful tiled benches and fountains. The Parque Maria Luisa, formerly the gardens of the Palace of San Telmo, is an elegant nineteenth-century park to the south of the city centre, close to the river, with hundreds of exotic trees lining shady avenues, and historic, fairytale buildings, with exotic touches provided by colorful tiled benches, and Moorish fountains and pools.
Once part of Seville’s Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, today, the park is the site of several museums. During our visit we will go to the Plaza de Espana and the Archaeological Museum, with its unique Roman sculptures, statues, and mosaics.
Following lunch on our own, we will embark on a guided tour of the Museo de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts). The former Convento de la Merced Calzada, it has been restored to create one of the finest art museums in Spain. Its impressive collection of Spanish art and sculpture spans from the medieval to modern times and includes the work of such well-known Spanish artists as Goya, Murillo, Vazquez, Velazquez, and Zurbaran.
Our evening presentation by Sylvia Perera, “Seville: City of Light and Shadow, Myth and Reality,” followed by dinner on our own.
Wednesday, November 11
Our final morning in Seville will begin with a presentation by Earl Collins, “Archetypal Dimensions of Mysticism,” and include a closing discussion between participants and faculty.
The afternoon is open. Meander Seville on our own, take an optional tour of Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza, Spain’s most magnificent bullring and museum.
On this final evening together we will gather for a festive closing dinner.
Thursday, November 12
Departure for home.
Accompanying Faculty
Sylvia Brinton Perera, MA, an internationally known Jungian analyst, lives, practices, writes, and teaches in New York and Vermont. Faculty and board member of the Jung Institute of New York, she lectures and leads workshops internationally. Her publications include Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women; The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt; Dreams, A Portal to the Source; Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective; and The Irish Bull God: Image of Multiform and Integral Masculinity.
Monika Wikman, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has contributed articles, and poems to numerous publications. A graduate of the Jung–von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, Dr. Wikman was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying.” She has a private practice in Tesuque, New Mexico, and in Gaviota, California. Along with her partner, Tom Elsner, she hosts a nonprofit project under Earthways.com, the Center for Alchemical Studies.
Earl Collins, PhD, abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, 2011–2016, studied philosophy and holds a doctorate in Byzantine mystical theology. A former monk of Glenstal Abbey, he studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich and was a professor of theology at the Benedictine University in Rome. Author of The Glenstal Book of Icons and Meeting Christ in His Mysteries, Dr. Collins is interested in the history of spirituality—particularly, the phenomenon of mysticism in Christianity and world religions.