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Chronic Fatigue is a complex, acquired condition whose cause is a topic of muchresearch and debate. The severity of symptoms vary, however, around a quarter ofpeople are unable to leave their home due to the multi-system impacts of ChronicFatigue. In this lecture, Robert shares examples of how Embodied Imagination canbe used to dream the dream onwards. By extending dreams into waking life, hispatients have the opportunity to experience dream characters and objects as bodystates. He explores how placebo responses can be reframed as a meaningfulresponse that can activate self-healing. Please note we include a question answerfrom the end of the lecture as it includes another valuable example of EmbodiedImagination.
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The Enclosed Garden is one of the oldest expressions of civilization, and possessesa long and direct relationship to symbolism and mythology. Such a garden creates afertile place of verdant abundance, a haven of peace and quiet, shade and water,order and pleasure and a retreat from a hostile, threatening and chaotic wilderness.The world beyond the wall is boundless, expansive, universal, timeless and chaotic.By contrast, the world within the wall provides us with a sense of palpability of therich dark earth or the âeroticâ sense of space; senses and feelings of safety, finitudeand individuality: a Temenos for the soul. This lecture explores three images of theEnclosed Garden: the Garden of Eden, the Islamic Garden and the Taoist Garden.The enclosed garden symbolises not only our coming into being, but also our journey of becoming.
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This talk explores ways to engage in climate change conversations to facilitate conscious change. Sally draws on stories from facilitating in depth discussions in a research group, where participants shared their dreams, imaginings, frustrations, grief, hopes, fears and inspirations in relation to climate change. This process enabled participants to reflect on their changing personal and collective myths, while nurturing the awareness required to sustain ongoing climate engagement and action. Engagement with the emotional and existential dimensions of climate change, can open space re-conceptualisation of the problems and innovative solutions.
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This lecture discusses the loss of feminine representation, including in the changing myths and religious stories, and its impact on society. It explores challenges for women when they feel alienated from their instinctive femininity and for men when they are only able to connect with their femininity in private. There is a strong call to re-personify the feminine values, for all genders, through the re-evocation of the goddess archetype.
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This lecture discusses electronic gambling machines known as âpokiesâ in Australia, âslot machinesâ in the United States of America and âfruit machinesâ in the United Kingdom. It explores their use of symbols, how players may be entranced by the promise of spiritual connection and let down by the lack of revelation. Regulations surrounding electronic gambling machines vary greatly around the world and continue to be the subject of fierce political and social debate in Australia.
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Dionysus the Forgotten God discusses myths of the complex and fragile God, Dionysus - born of both parents and a third time reborn of the underworld. Both the last Olympian and the first to be cast out. Where the qualities of his brother Apollo fit more easily into a patriarchal framework, the qualities of Dionysus as, the sensuous god, are often rejected in the Western world.
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Illness, Symptom & Individuation approaches the process of integration and healing through experiences of illness and trauma in the life of the body. Mary shares a personal experience of serious, prolonged illness that evaded medical diagnosis for some time. This experience led to an intense period of change where symbolism of the inner world mirrored her experience in the outer world, and led to an embodiment of spirit.
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With a focus on the big questions of the human condition â cycles of birth and death, destiny and free will, suffering and the life journey - Maureen weaves her way through ancient rituals in honour of the earth mother and Goddesses with many names, to the rise of the patriarchal era, including the Greek tragedian plays. These plays incorporated the sacred mysteries and fundamental questions, now focused on individual man. The significance of ritual in attending to and supporting our inner struggles toward Selfhood is captured in her discussion of Jungâs essay Transformation Symbolism in the Mass.
Please note, Maureen does refer to a number of images in the talk, examples of these or similar can be found on the internet.
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In todayâs talk, Mary works with Zen Buddhist 10 Oxherding Pictures and accompanying poetry to establish a way of âbeing withâ the unconscious. These ancient pictures reflect stages an individual might progress to toward enlightenment and a return to the outer world to gift their insight and care back to the community. These images are accessible on the internet.
Mary notes how attention to our dreams can convey communication between our conscious everyday reality and our capital âSâ Self. From a Jungian perspective, the paintings and poetry can be seen as a wonderful metaphor to reflect upon and be with the process of individuation. Beginning with an awareness of something not quite right, a loss of meaning, identity or energy, Mary takes us on a rich journey into the power of dreams to begin an ongoing conversation between our ego and our Self.
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In todayâs talk Annette takes us through a rich array of voices and works that speak to the question of the definitions, potential origins and purpose of the mystical experience and religion. Ranging from perspectives in sociology, neuropsychology, myth, Jung, art and sociobiology, we consider the marked differences between religious and mystical experiences and how surprisingly common the latter are. Annette raises the possibility of a partially physiological basis for a mystical or transliminal temperament and the survival value this possesses both for the individual and society.
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Exploring the many manifestations of mother in our psyche from the Great Mother to the personal mother, the mother complex to the inner mother, Margaret draws our attention to one of the fundamental qualities of the maternal. In this talk, a rich description is provided around the ways that Mother encapsulates a primordial oneness and mystery. The invitation is to consider how we mother the unknown in ourselves, and in our world. Do we embrace mystery with openness and love, or do we attempt to control what we donât know and reject our individuality?
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Beginning and ending with personal stories of his experience with depression, Peter guides us through two very different conceptualisations: A modern psychological approach that focuses on getting through depression or depression as somewhat of a curse, and a Jungian imaginative approach that takes note of the generative qualities of âtransformationalâ depression. With authenticity, experiential and academic knowledge, Peter conveys the hard earned and positive qualities to be found in a depression that takes us on a journey toward individuation and integration.
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In this meaningful talk, Reverend Curran points to the way that imagination enables us to step outside of ourselves and look at ourselves fully. With imagination we can take what we have experienced directly, what resides in our memory and what we havenât experienced, and work with these to produce not only images & possibilities but also changes in our embodied and psychological experiencing. In todayâs âpost God presentâ, Lesley highlights the necessity of imagination as a vehicle for understanding and working toward a relationship with the Divine whether you call that God, the universe, the infinite or the soul. She offers a strong claim that imagination is God or, in a softer version, imagination is an aspect of our human being that makes us most like God.
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In todayâs talk, internationally respected author and Jungian analyst Robert A Johnson speaks about the practice of active imagination, a practice that for C. G. Jung was just as important as working with dreams. With the inclusion of evocative and practical examples, Robert describes the four steps involved in active imagination toward psychological dialogue, integration and balance.
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In todayâs talk, psychiatrist and specialist child, adolescent and family psychotherapist, Dr Averil Earnshaw takes us on a journey through her innovative theory about the toxic familial waste that can plague our inner psychological space. She describes how family members can experience âage-linked major life eventsâ noting that experiences that are âundigestedâ, not spoken about or shared in the lives of adult parents, have a tendency of emerging in unexpected crises at the same age for their children. With examples ranging from Mozart to Jung to Alan Turing as well as patient cases, Averil convincingly conveys the psychological work that needs to be done in order to spare our children from unanticipated and unearned struggles.
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Jungian analyst Helen Phillips presents us with an understanding of envy from a powerful perspective, diving deep into the creative as well as destructive possibilities of envy. Drawing on a Jungian conceptualisation of the development of consciousness toward individuation, we encounter the constellation of a new archetype, coined by Brazilian psychoanalyst Carlos Byington. This Alterity Archetype seeks to open a dialogue between consciousness and the Shadow, both our own Shadow and the Shadow as experienced in others. Helen asks us to consider the ways in which envy, once relegated to the Shadow, can inform what lies at the heart of our unlived Self.
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Carl Jung described four different types of consciousness that we all possess. On one axis we have the Thinking and Feeling functions, on another Sensation and Intuition. Individuals and cultures tend to favour one type of consciousness at the expense of another, leaving the complimentary function in the shadows. In this talk, Robert explores our Western, English speaking worldâs Grail Myth, as a representation of and guide to healing our inferior Feeling function given our culture's over reliance on thinking. Like the famous Fisher King in the Grail Myth, our Feeling consciousness has been wounded. This talk explores the creation and healing of that wound. Please note a very small portion of the talk was re-recorded for quality and there are some occasional audio distortions in the question and answers portion near the end of the talk.
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Dr Peter OâConnor, a retired psychologist with an abiding interest in Jungian Depth Psychology, speaks about the âhuman fragility and human failureâ experienced at the heart of the mid-life crisis. He describes how the first half of life involves a pursuit of the qualities traditionally associated with the sex of oneâs birth but that in mid-life, those qualities of wholeness that were sacrificed, in order to pursue seemingly masculine or feminine attributes, demand to be recognised and integrated. The appearance of the Anima in men and the Animus in women heralds an opportunity for either a mid-life projection onto the external world (the affair, the career change, the pursuit of intellectual or spiritual fulfillment) and/or the integration of these once abandoned qualities into the Self.
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In this wonderful talk, Joan Harcourt brings the wisdom of Marion Woodman, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jane PrĂ©tat as well as her own life experience and work with older womenâs groups to the powerful image of the Crone. Once a source of respect, healing and wisdom, with the rise of patriarchy the image of the Crone was diminished and demonised. However, as Joan says, the word âCroneâ is derived from Corona, the word for Crown. With age and experience, the Crone conveys an ability to sit with conflict; to stay with embodied and imaginal knowing and allow the energy of grounded reality and new options to arise for both women and men.
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