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Jung Society member potluck on Saturday, July 16th, 7:00pm
Jung Society of Utah blog posts
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Dear Jung Society guest,
This Saturday July 16th we will have a super fun Potluck at a gorgeous house with the great creative, soulful people of Utah. The weather will be great and allow us to stroll in the garden and muse with each other.
We intend to continue in season 8, and we need your support in the form of being a member. Therefore, we coined it a members event, so members can come for free and non-members just need to enroll on the evening itself. You can bring a guest for free.
We hope to see you all there!
The Jung Society of Utah Team
Two things we want to point out!
Jung Society blog posts. Did you miss any of this season's posts from our local talented blog team? Check out the third text box for these great articles on Jungian topics!
James Hollis online course: do you want to stay connected to Jung, soul, and stimulating thoughts this summer?
Then we recommend an online four week webinar with one of the best Jungian teachers:
James Hollis
. More info below or click
HERE
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We invite you to join us for a special Jung Society Member potluck on July 16th!
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Come enjoy a beautiful summer evening together on
Saturday, July 16th, 7:00pm.
Connect with people you already love and make new, interesting friends.
Archetypes, poetry, embodiment, spirituality, what did you learn from Malidoma Som
é?...and did you hear we're working to bring Thomas Moore this fall?
So much to talk about with kindred spirits in our wonderful community.
Thank you to Danielle Lin for offering her marvelous yard!
MEMBER EVENT:
This is a chance to join the Jung Society, make sure your membership is current and if it already is...get a big hug and a thank you for supporting all the good work that the Jung Society does.
July 16th
Time:
7pm
Location:
2210 E Walker Ln
Salt Lake City, UT
84117-7618
We hope to see you there!
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Catch up on the
Season 7 posts from the Jung Society
blog!
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Love and Individuation
"Nothing is possible without love...for love puts one in a mood to risk everything."
- C.G. Jung
That same "shattering, emotional power" may also be found in love. Jung considered
Eros
to be a "kosmogonos
, a creator and father-mother of all higher consciousness."
Read this blog on LOVE HERE.
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Pop Psychology? Jungian Concepts in Popular Music: The Shadow
"The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself and yet is always thrusting itself upon him directly or indirectly."
- C.G. Jung
Heavy metal is caricatured and even promoted as being anti-religious because of the aggressively iconoclastic posturing of many of its devotees. But the explicit opposition to Christianity that some of the musicians and listeners claim is more complex than a simple moral depravity or hostility to goodness. Moral depravity and cruelty are too often cloaked in shows of righteousness and correctness in our world, and heavy metal is often motivated by conscientious objection to such hypocrisy. Black Sabbath's classic "
War Pigs" is a perfect example of this.
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Projection:
You Are My Mirror and I Am Yours
"Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face."
- C.G. Jung
Projections are images we have of others, which are generated by the psyche and based in our own fears, desires, impulses, and unresolved issues, most of which are unconscious. Jung
wrote, "We must bear in mind that we do not make projections, rather they happen to us."
Projection happens when we are "certain we know what other people think or what their true character is," and interact with with them based on those
assumptions.
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Psychology of the Psychopath
Psychopathy is one of the most chilling and morally perplexing mental disorders we face. Much has been researched, but we are left with very little recourse that is of any help. Psychopaths are individuals who have no conscience and no remorse. They are intelligent and know how to work any system to their advantage. Therefore, there is little we can do to support those with the disorder in overcoming their disturbing, destructive, oftentimes violent tendencies. However, if we take a closer look, there is much that we can learn from the mental disorder of the psychopath.
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African Wisdom Traditions and Individuation
"The process of individuation is founded on the instinctive urge of every living creature to reach its own totality and fulfillment."
- C.G. Jung
What does it mean to become who you truly are and live an authentic life? Carl Jung created the term
individuation
, describing it as a process in which one becomes aware of one's true, inner self. Jung believed that: "Man is not a machine that can be remodeled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind."
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The Art of Cowry Shell Divination with Malidoma Somé
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"Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life."
- C.G. Jung
For those who have children and pay attention to them, observing their behavior is a gift of grace: an opportunity to re-connect with the rituals that meant the most to us as children, and hopefully to rediscover rituals that our souls may need again - or still.
Throughout his life, Dr. Jung sought not only to find and understand, but to enact what his soul needed to be whole. As an adult, he came to understand the importance of ritual and "
the symbolic life." In his work with his own unconscious he revived activities which he had dismissed as child's play.
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Conversation with the Other World:
Indigenous Counseling Therapy
Starts November 2016
This is a very special opportunity to enroll in a one year educational program with Malidoma Some.
For whom is this education?
Are you intuitive? Do you trust your instincts? Do you have vivid dreams that sometimes wake you up in the middle of the night? Do you sometimes feel the energy of people around you? An affirmative to any of these questions signal a diviner in you.
Teacher: Malidoma Patrice Somé is from Burkina Faso, West Africa. In his native language, Malidoma means "be friends with the stranger". A gifted medicine man of the Dagara tribe, he holds three master's degrees and two doctorates, from the Sorbonne and Brandeis. He is the author of Of Water and the Spirit. He is a spokesperson and storyteller of the African Wisdom tradition.
Weekend Training Course Dates:
November 19-20, 2016
March 18-19, 2017
June 24-25, 2017
October 19-22, 2017
Time: Saturdays
9-6pm
Sunday
8am-12/
noon
Location: Orlando
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A four week course with Jungian analyst James Hollis
We are pleased to host a 4-week
webinar course by the internationally acclaimed Jungian Analyst, teacher, and author James Hollis, who will present this course on four important life topics.
Each class is 60 minutes + 30 minutes bonus discussion between Hollis and the Cape Town participants.
Course:
Week 1: On the Psychology of Men
Week 2: On The Psychology of the Second Half of Life
Week 3: On the Psychodynamics of Relationships
Week 4: The Personal Myth in Turbulent Times
Cost:
$75
(incl. audio copy of each lecture)
Read more about this fascinating course and enroll
HERE.
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Volunteer Positions
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Gallery:
Season 7 Finale with Malidoma Somé
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Become a Member!
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We're all in this together, and volunteering is a great way to meet and get to know others in yo
ur community.
- Website Manager
- Social Media Manager
- Event Manager
- Meetup Manager
Contact Machiel Klerk for these positions:
Other positions:
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Check out photos from the Jung Society of Utah's sensational season finale
HERE.
Malidoma Som
é spoke about gift and purpose, and how "trouble" can serve as a guide that gives us direction along our individual path. Trouble can be "what pushes us to the edge, because the edge is where the psyche expands enough to awaken to our gifts...The blessing of trouble is that it hides an opportunity for healing."
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Help us bring enlightening events to our community.
Membership has its benefits:
- 10% discount on workshops.
- Members only emails.
- Free copy of Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.
- CEs for our local mental health professionals
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