Friday Evening Lecture: September 17, 2010
Exploring the Red Book
Bernice H. Hill, Ph.D.
Registration 6:30 p.m. / Lecture 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
General - $15 / Students & Seniors - $10 / Members: Free
With the publication of C.G. Jung’s Red Book in Autumn 2009, a great wave of excitement has swept through the Jungian community. Some have written, “It is considered to be the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.” Jung’s personal journal, secluded in a vault for decades, has only now been released for publication. The large, red, substantial volume is a rich, colorful record of Jung’s own encounter with the personal, as well as the collective unconscious. These experiences over time deeply informed the development of his basic theories. In these pages, Jung unfolds his fundamental process of active imagination, which also became a pillar of his work. In this presentation, we will explore why it was so important for Jung to create this account at a particularly critical time in his life, how the book was made, and a few highlights of its content. The talk will be visually illustrated.
Bernice H. Hill, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst and member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She serves as a Board Member and Senior Training analyst of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado and has a private practice in Boulder. She has written several reviews in the following journals: Journal of the International Society for the Study of Energy and Energy Medicine, Quadrant, and Psychological. Her recent publication is “Sophia and Sustainability” in the anthology, The Love: of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm.
Saturday Workshop: September 18, 2010
Our Lives in Dreams and Imagination – An Experiential Workshop
Nancy Ortenberg, M.A., LMFT
** This is a Dream Challenge workshop. All fees will go the the Dream Challenge Fund as a tax deductible donation.
Registration: 8:30 a.m., Workshop: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Continental breakfast provided. Workshop registration fees vary.
Registration: Click here to download a PDF version of the registration form.
C. G. Jung’s Red Book is a testament to the rich, abundant and transformative images born of the unconscious. This workshop will be an opportunity to personally experience the depth of messages from the unconscious through an active imagination process. Looking first at a client’s two-year dream process imaged in paintings as an example, the group will then explore their own creative expression of dream images in paintings and drawings. Group members will share the dreams and images with each other, evoking enlightening emotional experiences, the possibility of new personal consciousness, and illuminating collective symbolic themes.
Nancy Ortenberg, M.A. LMFT is a Jungian psychotherapist and is a candidate with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has been in private practice for nearly thirty years and currently practices in Boulder. She has studied at the C.G. Jung Institutes of Zurich, Los Angeles and Denver, and taught at Naropa and Regis Universities. She has also lectured for and served on the Board of Directors at the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado and the Boulder Friends of Jung.
Friday Evening Lecture: October 15, 2010
Ancient Gnosis and the Modern World
Timothy Freke
Registration 6:30 p.m. / Lecture 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
General - $15 / Students & Seniors - $10 / Members: Free
Those who look without dream, those who look within wake up. - C.G. Jung
Carl Jung regarded the ancient Gnostics as early psychologists. This talk will explore the controversial theory that the Jesus story is an allegorical myth, created by Gnostic Christians, and is based on pre-existent Pagan myths of a dying and resurrecting godman. If seen in this way, Jesus is the hero of a spiritual parable that teaches us how to awaken and experience gnosis. Jung also said, “All old truths want a new interpretation, so that they can live on in a new form. We need to take these thought-forms, which have become historically fixed, and melt them down again and pour them into the moulds of immediate experience.” Using Jung’s ideas as a starting point, Freke will present his understanding of the ancient gnosis in a new language, making it easily accessible to the modern mind. Thus, some may understand gnosis as a state of ‘lucid living’ in which we recognize the dreamlike nature of reality.
Saturday Workshop: October 16, 2010
The Experience of Gnosis
Timothy Freke
Registration: 9:30 a.m., Workshop: 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Lunch provided. Workshop registration fees vary.
Registration: Click here to download a PDF version of the registration form.
To explore the profound relationship between the Self and the personal ego and to become conscious of the Universal Self in ourselves and each other, participants of this workshop will be led through a number of simple but powerful ‘I to I’ exercises. We will discuss the importance of the for its necessary role in sustaining knowledge of the Self. Paradoxically, it is the process of individuation that allows the experience of oneness. In becoming a more distinct ‘someone,’ we can become conscious of ‘the One’. Based on his experience of lucid living, Freke will offer his understanding of the Collective Unconscious as the ground of being from which everything arises: the unconscious dreamer of the life-dream.
Timothy Freke lives with his family in the UK and is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality, specializing in ancient Gnosticism. He has authored many books, including The Jesus Mysteries, a top 10 best-seller and ‘Book of the Year’ in the UK Daily Telegraph. His latest book is How Long is Now? Tim is an innovative ‘stand-up philosopher’ and has been featured in many films and documentaries in the global media, including BBC 1 and the History Channel. For more information, visit www.timothyfreke.com.
Friday Evening Lecture: November 12, 2010
Sustaining Earth, Sustaining Soul
Jeffrey Kiehl, M.A. LPC
Registration 6:30 p.m. / Lecture 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
General - $15 / Students & Seniors - $10 / Members: Free
Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. -C.G. Jung (CW 18, par. 585)
How can we sustain our world and soul at the same time? Living sustainably means living in a supportive and creative balance with Nature. Psychologically, living in balance with the world brings a feeling of inner wholeness. Healing our outer connection to Nature creates healing within. Furthermore, when we connect to the natural world, our actions in the world become more centered and thoughtful. We truly experience the interconnected web of life. Often the busy world we live in pulls us away from this experience of interconnectedness. Carl Jung recognized that the seemingly separate inner and outer worlds were really one world, the Unus Mundus. In this presentation, we will reflect on how to live a more balanced life within the world and embark on new ways of living sustainably. We will look at the concept of the world soul or Anima Mundi and deepen our awareness of how we can sustain both world’s soul and our soul.
Jeffrey Kiehl, M.A., LPC is a Jungian Analyst in Boulder. He is a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association of Analytical Psychology. Jeffrey has presented on the topic of Psyche and Nature at workshops and conferences around the U.S. He is also a climate scientist who has worked on the issue of global warming for thirty years. He holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science and an M.A. in psychology. 
