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"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson September 2015 VOL. TWO ISSUE #9

Psychological Perspectives and the C.G Jung Institute recently sponsored a conference here in Los Angeles: “Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth” featuring Ecologist, David Abram, and three Jungian colleagues. I prepa red a handout which was given to each participant. Given this context and the urgency of the environmental issues facing all of us, I would much appreciate your including this colorful document for our members to contemplate and hopefully act upon. Thank you, Brad TePaske

“What we neglect in ourselves blends itself secretly into our actions towards others.” C.G. Jung

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“I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul.” CG Jung September 2015 VOL. TWO ISSUE #9

The Jung Institute of Philadelphia ~ Introduction to Jung Series

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Through telling, discussing, and analyzing ancient African myths, you will discover elements of the stories that you are living and unseen burdens you may be carrying as you walk the road of life. Brief writing exercises in response to penetrating questions pertaining to the myth will help you explore the myth while the myth explores you.

G. Kwame Scruggs, PhD, (http://alchemyinc.net/g-kwame-scruggs-ph-d/) has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of urban male youth. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Kwame also holds a MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. He has conducted numerous workshops on the use of myth to engage urban youth and is also a Certified Facilitator of the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage).

Kwame is the Founder and Executive Director of Alchemy, a non-profit organization based in Akron, Ohio. Since its inception in 2004, Alchemy has worked with over 1,750 male urban youth in group settings. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the nation’s highest honor for afterschool and out-of-school programs. Alchemy is also the backdrop in full-length documentary film “Finding the Gold Within” by Karina Epperlein (http://goldthefilm.com/). Three years in the making and released in 2014, the film has been featured in Mill Valley Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival.

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“One does not live one's self; it lives itself.” CG Jung September 2015 VOL. TWO ISSUE #9

The C. G. Jung Center of New York CNASJA Council of North American Societies of is pleased to announce

Jungian Analysts A Red Book Event

You are invited to attend a March 4-5, 2016 GATHERING From February 29 to April 1, 2016, an exhibition of the Digital Fusion Of Jungian Analysts, Candidates and prints from Jung’s Red Book will take place at the Salena Gallery of Long Significant others - this time in Santa Fe! Island University - Brooklyn. You are cordially invited to the Opening Reception on Friday evening, March 4, at the gallery at One University On the Edge and in the Center: Place, Brooklyn. These magnificent 25x33 inch reproductions of Jung’s paintings made their art world debut at the 55th Annual Venice Biennale in 2013, where the original manuscript of the Red Book was on display.

In conjunction with the exhibit, a Conference will be held on Saturday, March 5, at the C. G. Jung Center of New York, 28 East 39th Street. Entitled Snakes, Dragons, and other Scaly Creatures, the Conference is co-sponsored by the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, the New York Association for Analytical Psychology, the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, and the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Presentations will be 30 minutes in length plus time for discussion afterward. More details and

Exploring Patterns in outer/inner worlds registration information will follow. Hotel Santa Fe, located near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico Thursday – Sunday, Snakes, Dragons, and other Scaly Creatures September 24 – 27, 2015 The C. G. Jung Center of New York th 28 East 39 Street The theme of this gathering sets the stage for us to join in explorations of New York, NY questions that penetrate the assumptions of our work: Is there a center or Saturday, March 5, 2016 many centers to psyche? What lies at the edges and beyond? How do we CALL FOR PAPERS imagine the interaction between center and edges in both individual and collective dynamics, in both intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions? This one-day conference will focus on the image of the snake and its To launch our time together, we have invited two scholars, each renowned and in the center of their own fields, who are dynamically edgy and thus multivalent representations, which appear frequently in the Red Book. stimulating to Jungian thought. We open on Friday with introductions of Jung asserted that when we meditate on a particular image, it comes alive their cutting edge investigations into the complex realms of community and takes on an independent life of its own: “That is the case with any and city life. On Saturday we gather our own voices around the theme of fantasy image….It gets restless, it shifts, something is added, or it edges and centers through brief presentations and communal discussions. multiples itself; one fills it with living power.”* We invite you to muse on the symbol of the snake. Let the image speak to you and stir your GATHERING fee for analysts, candidates and significant others imagination. Follow your ideas into realms such as psychological theory, (who attend the full conference) is $170 post-marked by April 1; mythology, clinical practice, and contemporary culture. All Jungian after that it is $195 until August 1, after which it becomes $220. analysts and training candidates who are interested in presenting a thirty minute paper should send a proposal of 300 words or less to  To Register Contact David Zerbst: [email protected] by September 15. Submissions should [email protected] also include contact information, a brief biography, and a description of any planned audio-visual elements. Notification of acceptance by  Send proposals for 10 minute presentations by March 1 November 15. to: [email protected] *Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C. G. Jung, ed. Claire  Hotel Reservations: HOTEL SANTA FE. Telephone: Douglas (Princeton University Press, 1997), Vol. 2, p. 661. (877)259-3409; [email protected]. Image from THE RED BOOK by C.G. Jung, edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. © 2009 by the  For updates, please visit www.cnasja.org Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

“Insight into the nature, the essence, of the Self is purchased only at the price of great suffering.” Marie-Louise von Franz September 2015 VOL. TWO ISSUE #9

The Jungian Analysts of Washington Association (JAWA) and The 7th International The Jung Society of Washington (JSW) present: Conference of TRANSFORMING TRAUMA Through Myth and Image from African Analytical Psychology Village to American Inner City

and Saturday, September 26, 2015 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM —12:00 to 1:30 Lunch on Your Own GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, FOUNDERS HALL Chinese Culture ROOM 111 3351 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201 Metro: Orange Line, Clarendon or Virginia Square Confronting Collective Trauma: In recent years much attention has been given to the Archetype, Culture and Healing study and treatment of traumatized individuals in the clinical setting. But what of the communities October 21--23, 2015 that suffer monumental social problems in the face of our contemporary global epidemic of collective violence? How might traumatized communities heal Macau the brokenness that trauma imposes upon social and People's Republic of China cultural identity? This symposium views collective trauma through the unique lens of Jungian Click here to download the program psychological theory and demonstrates how two distinguished Jungian practitioners work toward and registration materials transformation of trauma outside the bounds of the consulting room.

A.M. Session: On the Art of Social Transformation: A Depth Psychology Perspective Presenter: DR. EBERHARD RIEDEL, Jungian Analyst, Seattle, Washington Stemming from his extensive work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Riedel will demonstrate how “purposeful action” energizes communities to overcome the paralysis of trauma and effects long-term change. P.M. Session: The Message of Myth: Finding Meaning and Healing on the Journey Presenter: DR. G. KWAME SCRUGGS, Founder & Director of Alchemy, Akron, Ohio Dr. Scruggs will speak of his twenty-year odyssey fostering the development of urban American youth through myth- telling. Participants will experience this unique approach through personal engagement with an ancient African myth.

To register: www.jung.org General Admission: $90; Admission plus 6 CEs for psychologists: $100 This program is sponsored by The Jungian Analysts of Washington Association (JAWA). JAWA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. JAWA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

FOR FULL PROGRAM, SEE: Events Calendar at www.jungiananalysts.org

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

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“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery September 2015 VOL. TWO ISSUE #9

Messages from the Heart

Nine Bows, Buddhist Contemplation “Homage to all that is healing Who might I ask about this - Jung quoted calling in a person’s life, himself a Luddite and the problem of the new in traditions, technology (which was the radio) and the risk of psychosis. Maybe even in film? and in the world. Homage to all that is healing Susan Negley in the lives of saints and sages, [email protected] in this practice, . and in my own mind, and

homage to all that is healing in the stream of ancestral teachers, in the immediate community of support, and in our positive motivations. Many many bright blessings on you and yours. May all beings benefit.”

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