“Man is in need of a symbolical life–badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things–but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.” – C. G. Jung
Conversations In Search of Meaning
Join us for the first in our series of Jungian Roundtable discussions with authors, analysts and artists featuring:
David Tacey
Ann McCoy
Jason E. Smith
Hosted by: Gary S. Bobroff and Sheri D. Kling
“We need ecstasy, which in its Greek sense (ek-stasis) means to be outside the ego. The ego is a prison, caught in time, space and rationality. We need to leave this mental prison behind from time to time, and on a regular basis. What can get us out? Poetry, love, sex, therapy, passion, nature, ritual, ceremony, music, empathy, compassion, and ‘feeling with’ the world. All of these things Jung calls ‘religion’. Religion is anything that provides escape from egocentricity, relief from the mundane, and as such he gives a Dionysian spin to religion, that seems almost contrary to what an archbishop, for instance, might mean by this term.” ― David Tacey
What role does ritual play in our search for meaning?
How can ritual break us out of the mundane?
How can we find those rituals of life that will fulfilll and sustain us?
WHY RITUAL MATTERS
A Jungian Roundtable in Search of Meaning. Analysts, Authors and Artists in Conversation + Q & A.
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FEATURING our SPECIAL GUEST PANELISTS:
DAVID TACEY -
David Tacey PhD is a writer and public intellectual who works across the fields of spirituality, religious studies, analytical psychology, literature and philosophy. He is a specialist in Jungian studies and has edited The Jung Reader and co-edited The Idea of the Numinous and is the author of sixteen books, including: How to Read Jung; Jung and the New Age; Remaking Men; Gods and Diseases; Religion as Metaphor; and The Darkening Spirit. His most recent book is The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change (2020). David conducted analytic training with James Hillman in Dallas and taught courses at the summer school of the Jung Institute in Zürich until 2010. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
ANN McCOY -
Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and artist with a fifty year career. She is known for her large scale drawings of the dream world and Ann worked in analysis with Prof. C.A. Meier in Zurich and with James Kirsch in Los Angeles. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. In 2019 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in art. Ann lectures on Jung and the artistic process from over fifty years of analytical experience and feels strongly that creative people have a unique approach to the unconscious.
Join Ann for her upcoming course: Jung, Art & the Alchemical Imagination beginning Jan. 9, 2022
JASON E. SMITH -
Jason E. Smith is an author and Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He was previously the president of the Training Board of the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston. He received his Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston with a diploma in Analytical Psychology.
Jason is the creator and host of the podcast, Digital Jung: The Symbolic Life in a Technological Age and the author of Religious But Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life (2020).
HOSTED in DIALOGUE By:
GARY S. BOBROFF -
Gary S. Bobroff is the author of Knowledge In A Nutshell: Carl jung (Arcturus, London, 2020) which has quickly become a Jungian psychology best seller. 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 founded Jungian Online in 2011 and JUNG Archademy in 2020.
Gary’s upcoming course offerings include: Archetypes of Personality begins Feb. 8, 2022 & Introduction to Jungian Psychology begins March 20, 2022
SHERI D. KLING -
Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D. is an author, speaker, consultant, and coach who draws from wisdom and mystical traditions, relational worldviews, depth psychology, and the intersection of spirituality and science to help people find meaning, belonging, and transformation. She is a faculty member of the Haden Institute and sees her mission as midwifing spiritual rebirth in individuals, organizations, communities, and culture. She is also a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and storyteller who considers herself a “voice for transformation.” Sheri can be found online at www.sherikling.com.
Join Sheri for upcoming course The Dreaming Body and Religious Experience beginning February 2, 2022.
WHY RITUAL MATTERS
A Jungian Roundtable in Search of Meaning. Analysts, Authors and Artists in Conversation + Q & A.
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