The Archetypal Theater Inside You

The Center for Psychology in Rogers, Arkansas, will host Jungian Analyst Constance Evans Romero speaking on The Archetypal Theater Inside You on Saturday, March 19, 2016 from 8:30am–12:30pm. For more information, see the Events page.

Archetypes and Gods

From the online article “On Gods and Stained Glass Windows” on Patheos by John Halstead:

“Water represented, for [Jung], the vivifying energies of the unconscious, what we might call ‘eros’, the energy of life.  This ‘water’, he says, comes from deep down in the unconscious and runs along secret channels before it reaches the daylight of consciousness.  The underground channel though which it runs is the archetype.  The place where the water springs forth is marked by an archetypal image or symbol.  This symbol merely marks the place, the locus, of the experience of the archetype.  But the symbol should not be confused with the experience (drinking the water) or the archetype (the underground channel through which the water flowed) or the collective unconscious (the source of the water).

The point is that when the connection to the source is broken, then religious forms become empty and powerless. . . .”

Are the Maya Right?

The Asheville Jung Center is hosting a 3-hour internet seminar live from Zurich and Washington, DC on November 29th titled The Apocalypse / “End of the World” – An Archetypal Image! You can watch live or the recorded version and continuing education credits are also offered. Presenters are Murray Stein, Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAPZurich) in Zürich, Switzerland; Karin Jironet, a Jungian psychoanalyst in The Netherlands and Vice President of De Baak; and Nancy Furlotti, a Jungian psychoanalyst in Los Angeles and Colorado.

Click here for more information.

Jung and the Chilean Miners

This is a link to an online photo with caption about the Chilean miners’ crisis of a few weeks ago. One of the comments includes the following: “… as this incredible rescue effort continues — pulling miner after miner out of the deep, cold earth. And why does it capture us so? Because these images tap directly into our collective unconscious and our deeply hard-wired death and rebirth schemas. Carl Jung wrote of the resurrection archetype (Jung, 1964) Each miner brought up from the dead is Jesus the Christ emerging from his tomb.”

Read more of “Mr. Bloggy’s” comments on  the resurrection archetype, Joseph Campbell, etc., below the photo. Another example of Jung in the 21st century?