Fifty years ago, Stephen Aizenstat began a community experiment in depth psychological scholarship set along the Pacific coastline. With the peace that Pacific refers to in mind, he set out to offer a new place for the story of Jung’s psychology to grow and thrive. In those decades, Pacifica Graduate Institute hosted the luminaries of our tradition including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman and numerous others. Today OPUS hosts their archives, allowing new scholars to find inspiration in their work. Perhaps most importantly, Pacifica’s campuses have been a temenos – a place where people made contact with something greater than themselves. The tens of thousands of hours of personal and interpersonal processing, discovery and soul work and dream work done on the land there have made it not only an educational institution but a church for meaning.

We consider our JUNG Archademy an outgrowth the community that Steve began and are very proud to be hosting him to honour what he has given to us.

We look forward to reflecting with Dr. Aizenstat on the tremendous history of Pacifica, its BELOVED luminaries and his hope for its bright future ahead.

Come join us for this free live-video event.

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Celebrating
50 Years of Pacifica

with Founding President
Dr. STEPHEN AIZENSTAT

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026

4-6pm Pacific (Los Angeles) /
7-9 pm Eastern (New York)
+ Video recording available for all guests

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Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D

AUTHOR & FOUNDING PRESIDENT,
PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within each of us. He is the creator and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His methodologies extend from traditional dream work and a vision of an animated world where the living image is experienced as embodied and as originating in the psyche of Nature and persons.

His first book, Dream Tending, describes new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, the creative process, relationships, nightmares and the World's Dream. His second book The Imagination Matrix presents a new paradigm for thinking more creatively and for living more authentically. You can check out our interview with Steve on this book here.

He speaks and leads workshops around the world. He has served as an organizational consultant to leading companies and as a content advisor to Hollywood film makers. He has spoken at the United Nations and is honoured to be affiliated with its Earth Charter International project.

His website is https://dreamtending.com

The seminars will first explore fear – its physical and mental signatures, the way judgment (external and internal) narrows attention, and how complexes manifest in comparisons, perfectionism, and labelling, which distort our sense of self. We will see how product-over-process thinking fuels over striving, procrastination, and creative blocks, turning joy into shame or self-sabotage. By mapping these interferences —audience projection, idealized futures, collective standards, and the “addiction to perfection”—we will gain a precise language for understanding performance anxiety and creative blocks.

From there the series will focus on recovery: cultivating non-judgmental awareness, learning to witness rather than identify with the thoughts and emotions of our complexes and remaining within the protected space of creativity where play, experimentation and discovery can emerge. Through patience, surrender and a renewed relationship with time we can indeed learn to relinquish excessive control, reconnect with our art and creativity and expand beyond the limitations of a fixed persona.

Offered once a week over four consecutive weeks, each session combines a presentation of key concepts from the psychology of performance with experiential exercises in relaxation, breathing, and body awareness. Time is also devoted to self-reflection and group discussion, allowing participants to integrate their learning and apply it to performances, presentations, professional challenges, and everyday life.

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Performance Without Fear:

Art as a Doorway to the Transcendent
and Creativity as a Path towards Individuation

with Jungian Analyst
ELISABETH POMÈS

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4 Sessions
Mondays
 November 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026

4-6pm Pacific (Los Angeles) /
7-9pm Eastern (New York)
+ Video recording will be available

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Sale pricing ends August 27

Elisabeth Pomès- IAAP

Elisabeth first realized her love for psychology and psychotherapy when she started working with artists. Starting her career as a singer and later a voice teacher, she came in contact with artists who experienced debilitating stage fright and at times were blocked in their creativity. She started developing Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in Yoga, Qigong, Meditation and Psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. 

At the same time, she discovered the works and psychology of Carl Jung and began her training in Analytical Psychology at the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She graduated in 2009.  

Elisabeth’s focus is to assist someone in their unique Individuation Process. She believes that there is a potential for wholeness in each human being, an urge towards freedom, completeness and self-realization similar to that of a blade of grass, which manages to find its way to the sunlight even through rock and rubble. That is what gives life hope and meaning. 

Elisabeth is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA).  

www.elisabethpomes.com

One of Carl Jung’s seminal contributions to psychoanalysis is his development of “typology,” i.e., his differentiation of four basic types of “psychic functioning,” and his creative use of these ideas in the service both of diagnosis and of healing analytic patients. However, though Jung’s contribution has been enormously influential in certain areas of psychology, especially through the famous Meyers-Briggs test, some of the deeper and more therapeutically relevant aspects of Jung’s theory have perhaps remained underdeveloped or ignored, even within the Jungian world. This situation is particularly troubling when we speak of the feeling function, because emotional disturbances – disturbances of the feeling function – are among the most important reasons our patients come to us.

In this course, we will discuss and clarify Jung’s notion of the feeling function, both spelling out its nature in detail and developing ways of working with it clinically. Our conception of the feeling function will be drawn not only from Jung’s and other Jungian writings but also from understanding something of the intellectual milieu in which Jung developed his ideas. Based on these reflections, we will articulate some technical principles for working clinically with the feeling function and discuss ways to help our patients differentiate and develop their feeling life on their own.

Seminar Objectives:

Describe the nature of psychic functions in contrast to other sorts of mental activity and differentiate the feeling function from other forms of psychic functioning.

Describe the nature of value, how values are experienced as the “objects” of feeling, and how an understanding of value can aid in the process of identifying and working clinically with feelings and affects.

Develop a clinically useful notion of love as well as recognizing one of love’s important and widespread opposites, ressentiment.

Course Outline:

WEEK ONE: What is a “psychic function”?

A general discussion of the nature of psychic functions, of Jung’s differentiation of four basic functions, and of his understanding of how the functions themselves – not just their content – can be unconscious.

WEEK TWO: The nature of the feeling function

A discussion of the nature and specific activities of the feeling function as well as some of the specific clinical challenges of working with it.

WEEK THREE: Value as the object of feeling (emotional) experiences

Jung describes value as the object of feeling experiences, a point that causes some confusion among English-language commentators. We clarify the meaning of “value” for Jung by setting his own statements in the intellectual milieu in which he was writing and also explore some issues of clinical technique when dealing with the feeling function.

WEEK FOUR: Love as a clinical phenomenon

Though arguably the most important of feeling experiences, few clinicians seem to work from a clinically differentiated notion of love. We develop both a clinically useful notion of love and discuss one of love’s opposites, what philosophers have termed “ressentiment,” as an example of a deformation of the feeling function.

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Working with the Feeling Function
For Mental Health Professionals

with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

TUESDAYS
NOV 17 & 24 and DEC 1 & 8
4-6 pm Pacific (Los Angeles) /
7-9 pm Eastern (New York)
Live Via Zoom
+ Video recording will be made available

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ALL WELCOME

Required Reading:

Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types (A revision). Princeton University Press. Paragraphs 556-671; 681; 723; 730; 731

White, J. “Ressentiment: Its Phenomenology and Clinical Significance,” in Roger Brooke, ed., Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences, Routledge, 2024.
Will be provided by faculty as pdf.

JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

John R. White, Ph.D., is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He received his M.A. In counselling from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2011, and his diploma as a Jungian psychoanalyst from the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts in 2017.

He is currently the Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh as well as the President-Elect of the Board of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

John has more than forty publications in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and organizational theory. He is the author of the book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and co-editor of Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire. At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma (Routledge, 2024).

James Hillman believed that we all have a unique calling – our personal daimon – an innate potential that unfolds over the course of our lives. If we pay attention, in the messiness of our lives we will start seeing an underlying myth that serves as a unique expression of our soul. It weaves our experiences into one coherent life story, which can bring profound healing, allowing us to integrate any disowned parts and find our way back to wholeness.

However, the roots of that story reach deeply into the ground of collective cultural complexes that provide a setting for our myth and shape how our daimon comes into realization. Often, we are unaware of the dynamics that this connection creates in our lives.

In this experiential live-video workshop, we will use art materials and journaling prompts to connect to our personal myth and gain a deeper understanding of our path.

Each session, we will start by looking at the Jungian framework that will help us set a structure for exploration. We will then spend some time journaling and drawing/painting, followed by our sharing and joint reflections in smaller breakout rooms. To provide a safe space for all participants, we will not record the sessions. We kindly ask you to have your cameras on during the workshop to facilitate a sense of community. Please bring your journal and any art materials to draw or paint. We will spend 2-2.5 hours for each session.

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Finding Your Personal Myth

with irina avdeeva, M.A.

TWO Sessions

Dec. 5 & 12

10-12:30 Pacific (Los Angeles) /
1-3:30pm Eastern (New York)
Live-only via Zoom + No recording

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Irina Avdeeva, M.A.

Irina is pursuing training in Jungian analysis at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She combines her passion for Jungian psychology with a strong background in analytical work at international organizations and international education projects. She holds two Master's degrees in International Affairs from Berlin, Germany and from the Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC. She has a BA in Cultural Studies from the Humboldt University in Berlin. Irina has published academic articles on global energy politics and organized debating workshops in Europe and North America. Having lived in several countries and being proficient in multiple languages, she has learned to appreciate the importance of the collective unconscious in shaping dynamics within different cultures and across borders. In her own practice, she works with dreams and connects to the unconscious through painting, singing, and dancing.

In a time marked by cultural unraveling, spiritual hunger, and the relentless pull of distraction, a new figure is required within the psyche—not the hero, not the martyr, but the Sage.

This four-part online seminar with Jungian analyst Muriel McMahon explores the development of the Sage archetype through the life, symbols, and visionary consciousness of St. John the Evangelist.  Valuable for men and for women who want to grow within and without.

Drawing from her book,  St. John’s Wisdom and in deep continuity with last year’s work from  Baba Yaga’s Wisdom, this series invites participants into a mature psychological and spiritual stance—one capable of perceiving truth in times of chaos, holding paradox, and speaking from a place of grounded vision rather than reactivity.

Through lecture, symbolic amplification, guided reflection, and active imagination, we will explore how the Sage emerges not as an escape from the world, but as a way of seeing it rightly.

Session I — January 9

Exile and Initiation: The Making of the Seer

The Sage is not born in comfort. He is formed in exile.

In this opening session, we enter the psychological and symbolic terrain of Patmos, where John is cast out of the known world and into radical solitude.

We will explore:

• Exile as a necessary condition for the emergence of vision

• The breakdown of persona and the loss of collective identity

• The distinction between isolation and initiation

• The early stirrings of the Sage archetype

Practice: Guided active imagination — Entering the Cave

Session II — January 16

Vision and Symbol: Learning to See in Images

The Sage does not interpret the world literally—he sees symbolically.

This session explores John’s visionary language and its resonance with Carl Jung’s understanding of the psyche.

We will explore:

• The symbolic imagination vs. literal consciousness

• Apocalypse as unveiling—not prediction

• Archetypal imagery: beasts, cities, angels, fire

• The danger of concretizing vision

Practice: Image amplification and reflective writing

This seminar unfolds as a movement—from exile to vision, from collapse to clarity, from fragmentation to the steady gaze of the Sage.

If Baba Yaga initiates through ordeal,
St. John teaches us how to see after the fire.

Arc of the Series

Across these four weeks, participants will be invited to:

• Deepen their relationship to symbolic consciousness

• Recognize the signs of the Sage archetype within themselves

• Develop psychological and spiritual steadiness in uncertain times

• Move from reactivity to visionary presence

St. John’s Wisdom:
Awakening the Sage in an Age of Revelation

with Jungian Analyst Muriel McMahon

LIVE-video WORKSHOP SERIES

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4 Sessions
SATURDAYS
January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2027

9-11am Pacific (Los Angeles)
/ Noon-2pm Eastern (New York)
/ 4-6pm GMT / 5-7 pm BMT
+ Video recording will be available

Sale price ends Aug. 9, 2026

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Session III — January 23

The Collapse of the World: Holding Steady in Times of Revelation

The Sage does not turn away from collapse—he endures it without losing sight.

Here we engage Revelation as a psychological map for our time.

We will explore:

• Cultural and personal apocalypse as psychic process

• The collapse of false structures (inner and outer)

• Inflation, fear, and projection in times of crisis

• The Sage as one who can witness without being overwhelmed

Practice: Containment ritual — Standing in the Fire Without Burning

Session IV — January 30

The Voice of the Sage: Speaking from the Center

The final movement is not silence—but true speech.

The Sage speaks not to persuade, but to reveal.

We will explore:

• The emergence of authority rooted in the Self

• Logos as living word

• The integration of suffering into wisdom

• Becoming a voice that carries truth without violence

Practice: Writing from the Sage — A Letter to the World

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst

Words, nature, dreams and story are sacred texts. They inscribe and articulate the pattern and the meaning of our lives. As a literature teacher, writer, and a Jungian analyst for close to 40 years, Muriel McMahon’s professional experience is vast and varied.  Her personal passions include writer, iconographer, teacher, grandmother and steward of 100-acres of woods in Ontario, Canada. You can find samples of her writing @ Substack

recommended reading

Baba Yaga's Wisdom by Muriel McMahon

The Feminine In Fairytales: Marie-Louise von Franz

COURSE OUTLINE:

Week 1: The Primordial Powers

• An overview of Jung and the tarot

• The dichotomy of Masculine and Feminine

• The cards: the Magician, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, and the Lovers

Week 2: The Developing Ego

• Stages of individuation & the tarot sequence

• The ego vs the Self

• The cards: the Chariot, Strength, the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice

Week 3: Confrontation with Shadow

• The history and archetypal origins of the Tarot

• The process of ego-dissolution

• The cards: the Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, the Devil, the Tower

Week 4: The Arc of Transcendence

• A primer on using the cards for psycho-spiritual growth

• The psychological goal of wholeness

• The cards: the Star, the Moon, the Sun, Judgement, the World, the Fool

Carl Jung described individuation as the process of “coming to selfhood”: the lifelong pursuit not of the ascension of the ego but union with the Self and the achievement of psychic wholeness. Or, in Joseph Campbell’s much more mystical way of putting it, it is the lifetime journey to discover and integrate “the seeker [who] is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.”

The tarot is one of the best depictions of this journey, presented to us in twenty-two steps. It reveals not only the psychological stages of individuation, but the spiritual process alongside it. In this four-part class, we will walk through this sacred journey together, discovering the sequence of archetypal encounters in the Major Arcana that mirror the passages of the human psyche as it unfolds and grows toward union with the Self. 

Whether you are new to tarot or an experienced practitioner, you will gain a richer understanding of how the tarot reflects the timeless quest to become our most authentic selves.

Tarot & the Sacred Journey to Wholeness:

THE MAJOR ARCANA
As archetypes of individuation

with Mariana Louis

Live-Video Seminar Series

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4 SESSIONS
WEDNESDAYS
Jan. 13, 20, 27 & Feb. 3

4-6pm Pacific (Los Angeles) /
7-9pm Eastern (New York)
+ Video recording will be available

Early registration pricing ends Nov. 12

Mariana Louis, M.A.

Mariana Louis, M.A. is a professional tarot counselor, scholar, and creator of Persephone's Sister, a platform for psycho-spiritual education and guidance. After stumbling upon The Undiscovered Self in her grandfather's attic library, Mariana entered into Jungian analysis and began her academic study of analytical psychology. This led her to pursue a degree in Western Intellectual Traditions at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she focused on archetypal perspectives of occultism and transformations of the feminine principle. Mariana then integrated her scholarship into her developing expertise in the tarot and formulated an approach she calls Archetypal Tarot. She teaches this approach, which marries Jungian concepts with the symbolic depth of the tarot, in the well-received Archetypal Tarot School. Mariana also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Hunter College, and is a published lyricist and poet. Learn more about Mariana at: https://persephonessister.com/

The Odyssey by Homer is one of the oldest stories we have, and also one of the strangest: a tale of monsters, gods, and a man who spends twenty years finding his way home, told in a form that still shapes how we understand journeys, identity, and return.

This is a "book club," depth-mythology style.

Each week we will read closely and talk about Homer's craft as literature, while also asking what the poem reveals psychologically through a Jungian and archetypal lens: the descent to the underworld, the trials of individuation, the figures Odysseus must pass through or past, and the long, slow work of becoming ready to come home.

No prior background in Homer, mythology studies, or depth psychology writ large is required, only a willingness to read the assigned chapters each week and talk about them together.

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The Odyssey:
A Soul's Night-Sea Journey

with Teddy hamstra, ph.d.

BOOK CLUB SEMINAR SERIES

5 Sessions
Mondays starting Feb. 1, 2027

4-6pm Pacific (Los Angeles)
/ 7-9pm Eastern (New York) • Live via Zoom
+ Video Recording will be available

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Early registration pricing until Nov. 18

Week 1:
The Telemachy (Books 1–4)

Week 2:
The Wanderings, Part I (Books 5–8)

Week 3:
The Wanderings, Part II (Books 9–12)

Week 4:
The Return and the Reckoning (Books 13–24)

Week 5:
Odysseys Across Art and Time: Models for Your Own Reimagining

Teddy Hamstra, Ph.D.

Dr. Teddy Hamstra is an author and educator based in Austin, Texas. An English Literature & Visual Studies PhD recipient of the University of Southern California, his dissertation was entitled "Enchantment as a Form of Care: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Mysticism." He has published numerous online articles ranging from the fiction of Patricia Lockwood to the cinema of David Lynch to the music of the Mississippi Delta Blues, and is a frequent collaborator with the Back from the Borderline podcast. He works with the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and has taught online courses on mystical and mythological topics from the Eranos Conferences to Mary Magdalene.

An Invitational Creative Project

Throughout the course, you are invited, optionally, to begin imagining your own personal Odyssey: a creative reimagining of the hero's journey drawn from your own life, in whatever form speaks to you (a piece of writing, a visual work, a mapped-out "wandering," or something else entirely). There is no assignment and nothing to submit (unless you wish to!), only an invitation to notice, as we read, where your own journeys, trials, and returns might echo Homer's. In our final session, we will look at how two major writers each took up this same invitation on a grand scale, as inspiration for whatever shape your own reimagining might take.

In C.G. Jung’s analysis, the modern person’s alienation from their own soul is at the root of many psychological, cultural and ecological problems. An important part of this estrangement has to do with our relationship with the “shadow”, those aspects of the psyche that are repressed and rejected because they seem unacceptable to the conscious personality. When left unexamined, shadow material constellates symptom formation, projection, moral inflation, and collective polarization. When engaged consciously, it can become a vital gateway in the process of individuation.

Through short lectures, guided experiential practices, reflective writing, and dialogical work, participants will engage shadow material as it appears in their lived experience rather than an abstract concept alone. Particular attention is given to working with projection and symbolic material in a way that supports ego–Self relatedness rather than premature integration or spiritual bypassing.  In a supportive and mindful learning environment, participants learn to encounter shadow phenomena with curiosity, discernment, and care in personal, therapeutic and cultural life.

Shadow work supports personal growth and individuation:

· Deepened self-awareness and relational capacity: Through a clearer understanding of personal shadow dynamics, one develops emotional insight, reduced reactivity, and ultimately more authentic, grounded relationships.

· Greater skill in navigating cultural and interpersonal tensions: By recognizing projection and collective shadow processes, one becomes more equipped to engage difference, conflict, and polarization with curiosity, discernment, and maturity.

· A stronger connection to the deeper Self: Through conscious engagement with disowned aspects of the psyche, one can experience a renewed sense of inner coherence, vitality, and alignment with their deeper psychological center.

This 4-week experiential course offers a depth-psychological inquiry into personal and collective dimensions of the shadow, grounded in Jung’s model of the psyche and informed by post-Jungian developments. Participants are invited to explore how shadow dynamics operate intrapsychically and in the field between self and other, as well as within cultural and historical contexts.

Week 1: Intro to the Shadow
Week 2: Shadow in Family and Intimate Relationships
Week 3: Shadow in Professional and Spiritual Environments
Week 4: Shadow in Society and Culture

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Befriending the Shadow

A Jungian Experiential Inquiry

with Helge Michael Osterhold, PhD

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4 Sessions
Thursdays
Feb 18, 25, Mar 4 & 11, 2027

4-6pm pacific / 7-9pm eastern
Live via Zoom + Video recording will be available to all guests

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Sale pricing ends Oct. 18

Dr. Helge Osterhold

Dr. Helge Osterhold is a psychotherapist, purpose guide, and a member of CIIS’ East-West Psychology’s core faculty, where he teaches courses in Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Dreamwork, Spiritual Counseling, and the Psychology of Death and Dying. For 10 years, Dr. Osterhold served at the University of California San Francisco, in pediatric palliative care and as an educator and program director on mindful caregiving and clinician resiliency at UCSF Children's Hospital and faculty at UCSF School of Medicine. Originally from Germany, he pursued higher education in California, earning a B.A. in Human Relations, M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology, and Ph.D. in East-West Psychology. He is a licensed psychotherapist and maintains a depth-oriented private psychotherapy practice with a focus on life transitions. 

The music of the Beatles is replete with character based narratives, particularly the songs of Paul McCartney. This online course is a playful creativity-based exploration of the various villager archetypes in the music of the Beatles.

In this 5 week studio class, we will discuss the Beatles, archetypes and particular character based songs and lyrics, listen to music and create works of art (visual, musical, written or anything else of the participants’ choosing) to embody the exploration and then share with each other in the group. Any type of creative expression is welcome and beginning artists or newer fans of the Beatles are welcome as well.

Come together in March 2027!

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Villager Archetypes
in the Music of the Beatles 

WITH JUSTIN HAMACHER

5 Thursdays
starting March 18, 2027

5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern

Live via Zoom
+ Video recording will be made available

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Early registration pricing ends
Nov. 17, 2026

Justin Hamacher

Justin Hamacher is an artist, Jungian practitioner, composer, performer, author and past professor of Human Computer Interaction & Design at the University of Washington. He is a teacher at Pacifica Graduate Institute and an advisor on pedagogy at the Kristine Mann Library in New York (C.G. Jung Institute New York / Analytical Psychology Club of New York)

Related to his work and research with the imaginal, he is the recipient of the 2024 Kristine Mann Library Research Award for his forthcoming book 'The Visual Jung: An Artist's Journey Through Jungian Training' and also winner of a 2021 Gradiva Award from the NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.)

He lives in Portland, Oregon where he is an Oregon State Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, and offers analysis online and in-person. He is in his final year of training as a Jungian analyst and is a diploma candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. You can work via video with Justin through Jungian Online.

Course Description

This series focuses on the progressive integration of the anima in Homer’s Odyssey and the re-emergence of the archetypal imagery of the divine feminine in the poem’s portrayal of the immortal nymphs during the Sea Wanderings. The course will:

• Interpret the archetypal symbolism of the feminine in the Sea Wanderings of Odysseus.

• Explore Joseph Campbell’s approaches to the mythologies of the Goddess in the 8th c. BCE.

• Explore the integration of the Anima in the individuation process as exemplified in the poem’s portrayal of Odysseus.

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The Re-Emergence of the Goddesses
in Homer’s Odyssey

LIVE-VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

with dr. evans lansing smith

SIX MONDAYS
Starting April 5 2027

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
Live via Zoom + Video recording of all sessions will be available to guests

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Course schedule

This course consists of six sessions focusing on the detailed iconography of the Goddesses and the progressive integration of the anima, leading to the reunion with Penelope.

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Weekly reading schedule to be added soon . . .

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Dr. Evans Lansing Smith

Dr. Evans Lansing Smith is Professor of Mythological Studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he has taught for 20 years, serving as Chair for 10.
He is the recipient of awards for distinguished teaching from Midwestern State University in Texas, and the Pacifica Graduate Institute. His Ph.D. is from The Claremont Graduate School, and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch International, and his B.A. from Williams College. He is the author of three books of poems, two novels, and ten books and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology. His edited volume of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Grail Romances was published in 2015, and his edition of the Selected Correspondence of Joseph Campbell in 2019.

Recommended ReadinG

• Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God Occidental Mythology, Vol.3, New World Library, 2002

• “Joseph Campbell on the Great Goddess.” Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning.” 5.4. November 1980.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Born in 1875 in Basel, Switerzland, C. G. Jung was a medical doctor and psychiatrist who, along with Freud, opened up our research into the nature of the human unconscious and founded psychotherapy. Their work led to the modern re-popularization of interest in dreams and archetypes.

Jung gave us the psychological type categories that led to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and coined the terms introvert and extravert.  He also coined the terms synchronicity (and his writing on that topic is the main reason for its continued popularity in our culture today) and collective unconscious – giving us a term for the deeper layer of the psyche that transcends the personal.

Jungian psychology is a larger on-going tradition rooted in psychotherapeutic approaches to the unconscious.

JUNGIAN FUNDAMENTALS SERIES:

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Overview of Jungian Psychology

WEEKLY TOPICS:

1. Jung’s attitude to psychotherapy. The ego; the unconscious and its levels; the archetypes

2. The archetypes continued; archetypal motifs in myth and folklore

3. The archetype of liminality and initiation; archetypal structures in the psyche; the shadow; anima and animus

4. Complexes; puer-puella; the divine child; the trickster; the wise old man

5. The symbol; individuation; Jung on myth

6. The Self; Jung on religion; dreams and active imagination

7. Jung on alchemy

8. Jung’s typology; the Freud-Jung break

Video Seminar Series:

7 Sessions
10+ Hours

with author and Jungian Analyst
dr. lionel corbett

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology.

The late Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett was a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he taught depth psychology.

He was the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. He was the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.

Dreams speak to us at night and shed light on what we miss and can’t see during the day. In the morning, its language escapes us and so often we lose the thread that was so clear the night before, we forget. Although elusive and enigmatic, if you learn to listen you will find that, dreams speak of what is kept most secret and intimate about who we are. In working with the unconscious, we come to find that dreams are the royal road to soul.

Video One: INTRODUCTION TO C.G. JUNG’S APPROACH TO DREAMS

This session introduces C.G. Jung’s approach toward analyzing dreams and explores their compensatory function in our psyche.

1. Dreams and their function in the psyche

2. From subjective to collective: Types of dreams

3. Connecting the dots: Dream analysis through associations

4. Getting a wake-up call: Meaning of nightmares

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The Symbolic Language of Dreams

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2 Videos + Bonus Material
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In this 2-part course we look at C. G. Jung’s way of working with dreams and some of his approach to their symbolic language. We consider how one can cultivate a dream practice and come to gain some insight into one’s unconscious. We’ll try to get a grasp at what it’s like to honour and interpret a dream.

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Video One: INTRODUCTION TO C.G. JUNG’S APPROACH TO DREAMS

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Short bonus video - How to enter the dream setting.

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

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david pressault, Iaap

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

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Video Two: DREAM INTERPRETATION

The second session looks at the nature of dream symbols and reflects on the significance of recurring dreams and how to identifying the most common dream themes.

1. Missing the message: The meaning of recurring dreams

2. Dream interpretation: The art of asking questions

3. Layers of meaning: Working with symbols and dream images

4. Analyzing common dream themes

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This lecture series will contrast Jung’s notion of the Self, which he refers to as the God within, with traditional theistic approaches to the divine.

Dr. Corbett will illustrate the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche. We will look at the ways in which Jung’s approach avoids the philosophical problems associated with the idea of God found in the Judeo-Christian tradition and allows for the development of a personal spirituality rather than one based on doctrine and dogma.

Dr. Corbett will contrast Jung's approach to the Self with the Atman of the Upanishadic tradition. We will consider Jung’s notion of the dark side of the Self – as illustrated in his Answer to Job – and the arguments with theologians this book produced.

Throughout the course, participants are invited to reflect upon their personal experiences of the Self.

“Jung’s approach gives us a personal connection that does not require a Bible or a religious hierarchy. It frees us from being told what to believe, and it frees us from notions such as the idea that we are intrinsically sinful creatures. We no longer have to believe that some people are specially chosen or saved . . . We don’t need the tribalism and hostility that religions have fostered. We don’t need to be bound to the belief systems that began in the Bronze Age or in the early 4th century. We have a different consciousness than those people; we need a [different] spirituality.”*

– Lionel Corbett

Session One: Jung’s Approach to Spirituality

Session Two: The God Within

Session Three: The Projection of the Self

Session Four: The Dark Side of the Self

Session Five: Criticisms of Jung’s Approach

Session Six: Experiences of the Self

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The God-Image and the Self: From Antiquity to Jung

with Acclaimed Author
and Jungian Analyst Dr. Lionel Corbett

VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

6 Sessions / 8+ Hours

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• All pricing in US dollars.

with acclaimed author
and Jungian Analyst
dr. lionel corbett

The late Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett was a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

He was the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. He was the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.

His video course offerings will remain available on our site in perpetuity:
Overview of Jungian Psychology - Available now free newsletter subscribers
A Depth Psychological Approach to the Bible - Coming Soon!
The Question of Evil - Coming Soon!

We herald the return of the feminine as the antidote to balance what has been damaged in the West by too much masculine. In modern men and women, the hero’s quest has dominated our consciousness and the maiden’s quest has been largely ignored. That being said, anything that has been denied, repressed, or disavowed, rarely returns intact. A feral animal is infinitely more dangerous than a wild or tame beast. Let us not be naïve. When She returns, her rage and her wrath must be calibrated with consciousness.

Join Jungian analyst and Keeper of the Stories, Muriel McMahon as we explore the archetype of the Crone. Figured as ‘Baba Yaga’ in Slavic tales, and deformed into a ‘Witch’ in more Eurocentric tales, this ambiguous figure of the feminine at the crossroads must be understood or else we be devoured by her. We must learn how to look her in the face, tend to her wounds, and remind her and us that the feminine in women and in men is a fierce energy that is rightly both feared and revered.

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Through a Jungian archetypal lens, we will address the following:

1. Acquaint ourselves with Jung’s essays: The Dissociability of the Psyche (CW8~365) and The Psychological Foundation for a Belief in Spirits (CW8~570).

2. Learn and practice a formula for Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis

3. Discover an orientation to the archetypal figure of Baba Yaga

4. Recognize the distortion of the wise woman in our western culture

5. Prepare consciously for the re-emergence of the feminine in both men and women

Session One

‘Kissing the Witch’ and ‘Mother Holle’

Session Two

‘The Witches’ Excursion’ and ‘La Loba’

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VIDEO SEMINAR

2 Sessions / 4 Hours

+ Available for immediate purchase and viewing

 In this TwO Seminar series we will
collect the bones of the old woman,
and sing them back to life

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst who leads an international weekly fairy tale seminar. Trained extensively in indigenous wisdom traditions, Muriel is a Keeper of Stories. She formerly served as chair of the Fairy Tale Certification program with The Assisi Institute, a training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, the managing editor of the Assisi Journal, and the director of studies for The Assisi Institute’s Archetypal Pattern Analyst program. Based in Canada, she has a busy online international praxis and has offered workshops and teachings in Russia, Zurich, Colombia, France, United States, and Canada. Muriel has a passion for story and the ways in which our wounds and our wonders are expressed in the enduring narrative of our lives.

www.murielmcmahon.com

This course will discuss some of the psychological processes that underpin various biblical stories. The course is based on Jung’s ideas that “religious statements are psychic confessions” (CW11, para. 555), and “statements made in the Holy Scriptures are also utterances of the soul” (ibid., para. 557). The course will show that some biblical and theological ideas arise from human psychodynamics, often of a narcissistic type, while some originate in the archetypal level of the psyche.

Religious experiences and the theology to which they give rise are products of the psyche. They do not need to be seen as emanating from a metaphysical deity in a transcendent realm. The experience of transcendent reality reported by characters in biblical stories is the result of contact with non-ego, archetypal or transpersonal levels of the psyche, which is the actual source of sacred experience.

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A Depth psychological Approach
ato the Interpretation of

The Bible

and the Religious Traditions
that Arose from It

VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

with dr. lionel corbett

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6 Sessions
6+ Hours

Dr. Lionel Corbett

The late Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett was a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

He was the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. He was the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.

One way in which depth psychology can contribute to collective transformation in the 21st century is by helping us to move beyond the disenchanted worldview. This disenchantment arose out of our cultural monomyth of rational science being redemptive, which began with the Enlightenment.  With this in mind, we can understand Jung’s experiences during his Red Book period as amply demonstrating his efforts, conscious and unconscious, to re-spiritualize the world. 

In this presentation, we will look at how the concepts of individuation, synchronicity and the psychoid aspects of the archetypes entered Jung’s formulations of the psyche and nature.  Following upon this, we will reexamine these ideas in terms of complexity theory which offers tools to help us envision a re-enchanted world. These tools will help us listen to synchronistic attunements linked to ecological awareness along with opening the psychoid imagination to help us better detect and understand our relationship with the universe.

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SYNCHRONICITY
&
RE-ENCHANTMENT

WITH DR. JOE CAMBRAY, IAAP

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Within every woman lies a powerful force. Yet, somewhere along the line, the burdens of responsibility and desire to nurture the ones they love cause that fire to dim, and they lose their sense of self.  The Vital Spark brings women on an immersive journey that reunites them with their innate humor, cunning, and assertiveness.

Combining personal stories, intercultural fairy tales, and deep analysis, Lisa Marchiano shares resources that inspire women to break free from the conditioning that has kept them confined to rigid roles and muffled the sound of their soul. Here, she invites us to explore eight core aspects of ourselves: shrewdness, disagreeableness, desire, trickiness, sexuality, anger, authority, and ruthlessness. Each chapter reinforces the truth of our relentlessly human narrative in the truest sense―allowing for the retrieval of our “outlaw” energies and deepest parts of our authentic selves.

The Vital Spark:

Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies
and Find Your Feminine Fire

LIVE-VIDEO BOOK PRESENTATION
AND Q&A

with author and analyst
Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

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“Using myths, fairy tales, and clinical anecdotes, Lisa Marchiano describes how many traits that are essential for women to thrive get banished into the unconscious shadow. As a result, the vital spark that connects us to our aliveness, power, and authenticity is snuffed out. She takes the reader’s hand and gently guides us through timeless tales to re-find our essential selves.”

– Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul and Meeting the Shadow.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

Lisa Marchiano is an award-winning author, podcaster and certified Jungian analyst. Her highly-acclaimed books use draw upon the healing wisdom of fairy tales to help women connect more deeply with themselves.

Lisa is a host of the popular depth-psychology podcast This Jungian Life. With over 10 million downloads and a loyal following that includes artists, journalists, and celebrities, This Jungian Life is a top podcast in the US in the health and fitness category.

Lisa obtained her BA from Brown University. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Master of Social Work from New York University. She trained at the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

She is the author of three books published by Sounds True, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself, The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire and the forthcoming Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams.  She has a private practice in Philadelphia.

The Vital Spark

New book is available here

In his recent exhibits Self-Summoning (shadow work) and Shadow Work (chapters) (both 2022), Lehmann Maupin artist Dominic Chambers’ work pours color into the Jungian concept of the Shadow. He shares how working with Carl Jung’s theory of shadow was revelatory for his artwork. 

We are pleased to present Dominic in conversation with artist and JUNG Archademy faculty Chantal Powell for a special event Saturday Jan. 20, 2024.

Dominic sees the Shadow as an enduring presence to be encountered, “It’s always there. The shadow manifests when a light source hits it”.  He will be discussing his use of color and light in depicting the shadow, and the power of art to give expression to unconscious processes.

“Shadow working is essentially when you do some introspective work to uncover parts of your identity or your personality you have potentially neglected or not addressed, but effect your personality and your life. So you have to go back and uncover what has happened to you, relationships with people and environments, and to re-contextualize those things and to revise them in a way that’s suitable for your life today.”
- Chambers, interview with ArtNet: Painter Dominic Chambers on How Jungian Theory Shaped His Art, and the Transformational Role of Therapy in His Own Life

Transferring his personal learnings within Jungian therapy, his recent paintings point to the importance of looking inward and the transformative power of the imagination.

“In Chambers’s vivid paintings figures rest, read, and reflect in quiet peaceful settings straddling real and imaginary worlds. The bucolic landscapes are at once familiar and nostalgic, yet magical in their tonality. The rainbow-colored ghostly silhouettes in To encounter a shadow (2022) and Self-Summoning (shadow work) showcase Chambers’s connection to spirituality and self-actualization. A strong sense of vulnerability provides moments of respite and empathy for the viewer.”  –  Folasade Ologundudu for Art Seen - Dominic Chambers: Soft Shadows

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Soft Shadows

DOMINIC CHAMBERS, M.F.A.

IN CONVERSATION

with

Chantal Powell, Ph.D.

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Hosted by Chantal Powell

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Chantal is also the founder of the artist residency program Hogchester Arts in West Dorset and hosts the speaker program "The Red Book Club". She presents illustrated talks and workshops on psychological alchemy from an artist’s perspective and has co-curated exhibitions with a focus on archetypally symbolic art. 

Dominic Chambers (b. 1993 St. Louis, MO; lives and works in New Haven, CT) creates vibrant paintings that simultaneously engage art historical models, such as color-field painting and gestural abstraction, and contemporary concerns around race, identity, and the necessity for leisure and reflection. Interested in how art can function as a mode for understanding, recontextualizing, or renegotiating one’s relationship to the world, the artist sees painting as a critical and intellectual endeavour, as much as an aesthetic one. A writer himself, Chambers draws inspiration from literature, especially Magical Realism and the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois, particularly Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, and one of its central themes―the veil. A product of racial injustice that is a metaphorical lens through which Black bodies are observed and experienced, references to the veil appear throughout the artist’s work, whether in the large swaths of color that obscure the figures in his Wash Paintings series, or in his recurring use of a raindrop motif as both an active and passive element in his paintings. Many of Chambers’ compositions incorporate Fabulist elements, including ghostly silhouettes meant to be stand-ins for the artist and surreal landscapes that feel both familiar yet unplaceable.

Chambers received his B.F.A from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI in 2016, and his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2019. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA (2020); Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy (2020); The Millitzer Studio and Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2017); and the Residential Gallery, Des Moines, IA (2017).

Chambers’ work is in a number of private and public collections, such as the Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL.

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Dominic was included on Forbes - 30 Under 30 to watch in 2021.

Can psychoanalysis and evolutionary astrology complement each other? Is a marriage between them possible? Jung himself seems to have been open to the idea, but it never came to fruition. I’ve been active as an astrologer all my life as well as being an enthusiastic Jungian “fan boy.” I simply could not do my work without his work. Still, in this talk, I will resist the easy temptation to blow the trumpets for a brave new world in which psychoanalysis and astrology march hand-in-hand into the future. Their synthesis is not that easy. But I do believe it is possible.

Let me start with a definition. Evolutionary astrology is exactly what the term implies: a form of astrology that assumes change and growth in the psyche over time. We are miles from pop astrology and its twelve little “personality” boxes.

What the issue boils down to is that astrology is an oracle, and psychoanalysis is a conversation. Even though their aims are fundamentally identical, there is an archetypal friction between them. While an oracle can inspire and inform an analysand, it can also silence him or her. While it can serve the analyst like an X-ray serves a surgeon, it can also potentially blunt the analyst’s experience of serendipitous discovery.

Still, one day the two systems might yet learn to dance . . .

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“One may expect with a fair degree of
probability that a given well-defined
psychological situation will be accompanied
by an analogous astrological configuration.
Astrology, like the collective unconscious
with which psychology is concerned,
consists of symbolic configurations:
the“planets” are the gods,
symbols of the powers of the unconscious.”

– CG Jung to the French astrologer,
André Barbault, May 1954

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ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGY:

A ROCKY, FRUITFUL MARRIAGE?

with Steven Forrest

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STEVEN FORREST   

Gazing through astronomical telescopes in his early teens led Steven to begin exploring astrology. He received a B.A. in Religion in 1971 from the University of North Carolina in the USA and shortly thereafter began to establish his astrological practice. 

In 1984, Bantam Books published his first book, The Inner Sky. In the years that followed, he authored or co-authored another sixteen books, all of which have become foundational texts for the movement called evolutionary astrology – a form of astrology which integrates free will, grounded humanistic psychology and ancient metaphysics. In 2019, he published the first volume of his monumental work on the four astrological Elements: The Book of Fire, The Book of Earth, The Book of Air and The Book of Water. 

Currently, Steven and his team run the Forrest Center for Evolutionary Astrology, which is an online portal for learning his style of astrology..

His personal website is forrestastrology.com

Balan’s new book Why Am I Like This? A Journey Into Psychological Astrology provides an excellent overview of the basic archetypal approaches to the planets and signs of astrology. This symbolic approach to self-understanding is a path that provides a middle way between the empty solely rational modern worldview and the rigidity of older dogmatic approaches.

In this conversation, we discuss how astrology provides a language for understanding our most important life experiences. Planets, aspects, signs and houses when viewed with an archetypal eye, enable us to discover ourselves as living in a meaning-filled world.

We talk about the gods as drives within us. We look at Saturn - the god of time - in our charts, Mars - the archetypal Warrior and the process of getting curious about our own patterns.

“Part memoir, part astrology, Jungian psychology and global mythology, Why Am I Like This? is an orchestral overview of the moving parts that come together to create what OG wellness influencer Carl Jung calls “wholeness”.

Wholeness, as Judy writes, “is not about becoming better or perfect, nor is it about aspiring to some collective standard of what is good, beautiful or successful. In the Jungian sense, wholeness is about becoming yourself or all that you potentially are, by facilitating a dialogue and a connection with your unconscious, and all the parts of you that are trapped in there.”

– Priyanka Mookerjee,
review on Scroll.in

Why Am I Like This?

A JOURNEY INTO
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY

A Conversation with author Judy Balan

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60 min

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Author Judy Balan

Judy Balan is a writer and consulting psychological astrologer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Jungian Studies. Her most recent work Why Am I Like This? A Journey Into Psychological Astrology was published by Simon & Schuster, India in Feb 2023 and is equal parts memoir and primer in natal astrology through a Jungian lens. Judy lives with her daughter and two retrievers in Chennai, India.

Interview hosts:

Gary S. Bobroff is the founder of the JUNG Archademy and Jungian Online. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada and a master’s degree in Jungian-oriented counselling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of Knowledge In A Nutshell: Carl jung (2020) which is a Jungian psychology best seller.

Irina Avdeeva is a business development manager and course host for JUNG Archademy. She holds two Master's degrees in International Affairs from Berlin, Germany and from the Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC. Irina has published academic articles and organized political debating workshops in Europe and North America. Irina has a passion for studying the works of C.G. Jung and applying the archetypal lenses to the analysis of world politics.