On line Study Group - Pat Berry's Book on Dreams, facilitated by Rose F. Holt

In this Fall 2019 study group to be conducted online, participants will read and discuss three chapters of Pat Berry's book, Echo's Subtle Body, chapters that provide an excellent overview of a Jungian approach to dreams.  To join the study group, participants will need a computer with a camera and high-speed internet connection.  We will use the Zoom service, which is extremely user-friendly and requires only responding to an invitation to the group meetings.

For further information or to enroll, please go to www.jungstl.org.  If you have questions or concerns, please e-mail me at www.rosefholt@gmail.com.

Readings on Jung Study Group - September, 2019

I will be facilitating a seminar-style study group for the C. G. Jung Society of St. Louis in September, 2019.  The study group will read and discuss two chapters on the topic of dreams in Patricia Berry's acclaimed work, Echo's Subtle Body.  The study group will meet from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on Wednesday, September 04, 11, 18, 25.  

This Study Group is one of three the Society has organized in advance of its upcoming Jung in the Heartland Conference for which Patricia Berry and Thomas Moore are the featured presenters.

For more information or to register, please go to www.jungstl.org.

Learning Objectives:

1.     Practitioners will gain a broad perspective on approaches to dreams.

2.     Participants will develop an appreciation for the value of dreams and their place in one’s personal psychology.

3.     Participants who are practitioners will understand the value and importance of separating their own biases and attitudes from those of their clients so that the dream can be allowed to “speak for itself.”

OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY

The Heartland Association of Jungian Analysts (HAJA) is preparing for its third year of seminars in Jungian Studies.  The seminars meet one weekend a month for nine months, beginning in September, rotating locations in St. Louis, MO, and Rogers, AR.  Teaching is done by Jungian analysts, and the seminars can be an avenue for eventual training to become a psychoanalyst.  The program is open to anyone with a four-year college history and an interest in Jungian Psychology.

For further information, visit www.heartlandjungians.org or contact me at roseholt@aol.com or 314-740-6207.

BTS and "Jung's Map of the Soul"

BTS, the young Korean pop group, has suddenly become a worldwide phenomenon.  Group members are interested in Jungian Psychology and have taken the title of Murray Stein's book, Jung's Map of the Soul, as the title for their newest album.  [BTS translates to Beyond the Scene.]

Here are some links to recent information about the group:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preview-behind-the-scenes-with-k-pop-sensation-bts/

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47965524

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47965524

https://youtu.be/dj3a_Qvs98U?t=2773

https://speakingofjung.com/podcast/2019/4/14/episode-44-map-of-the-soul-persona

Tickets Selling Fast! Don't miss out.

C. G. JUNG SOCIETY PLAY PRODUCTION

“ANSWER TO JOE” by Rick Vaughn

Produced by the C. G. Jung Society of St Louis

            

March 22 and 23, 7:30 pm.  March 24, 2:00 pm
Kranzberg Arts Center

501 N. Grand Blvd.

St. Louis, MO  63103

Tickets available December 15:   $25    ($20 for Society Friends – for information about becoming a subscribing member, go to www.cgjungstl.org) 

All tickets through MetroTix.com  (314) 534-1111

https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/answer-to-joe

Or Fox Theatre Box Office

2 CEU's available for attendance at a performance and the following discussion. ($15 Fee).  Apply before performance or at break between the performance and the discussion with the playwright and a Jungian Analyst.

The C. G. Jung Society is producing a new play, “Answer to Joe.”  The play is loosely based on Jung’s Answer to Job, and deals with the same themes—the nature of God, the reality of the divine vs. an individual’s image of it, and the psychological implications of an individual’s often unconscious god-image.  Though these are deeply serious topics, the play presents them in modern understandable dress and treats them with considerable humor. 

Rick Vaughn, author of “Answer to Joe,” has long been interested in Jungian Psychology and its potential for resolving inner conflicts in ways that release creative energies.  In presenting his work for possible production by the Jung Society, he said, “My intention was to communicate some of the profound, transformative insights that I discovered from reading Answer to Job. In the process of writing, it became clear that the work was much more personal.  This story is mystory.  It may well be a story for many others.  Job’s working out his relationship with the overwhelming and overpowering energies of Yahweh-- which Jung equates with an individual’s coming to terms with the unconscious—has been my quest for decades.  My own god-image of a punitive, demanding, and intractable old patriarch needed considerable updating.  In writing the play, I knew I was somewhat describing my own inner conflicts and working them to a more satisfying end.  I seemed to be engaging the energies bound up in an old god-image and tempering some of them so they could be directed creatively.  I’m happy with the result, and in some strange way, I feel my ‘god’ is, too.” 

“Answer to Joe,” is the second play the Jung Society has produced.  In February 2017, our first one “Casting Shadows” by Carol Haake was presented to sold-out audiences for three performances.  We hope for similar enthusiasm for “Answer.”

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THE CALF PATH

• by  Sam Walter Foss  (1858-1911)

• One day, through the primeval wood,
  A calf walked home, as good calves should;
  But made a trail all bent askew,
  A crooked trail, as all calves do.
  Since then three hundred years have fled,
  And, I infer, the calf is dead.
  But still he left behind his trail,
  And thereby hangs my moral tale.
  The trail was taken up next day
  By a lone dog that passed that way;
  And then a wise bellwether sheep
  Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep,
  And drew the flock behind him, too,
  As good bellwethers always do.
  And from that day, o’er hill and glade,
  Through those old woods a path was made,
  And many men wound in and out,
  And dodged and turned and bent about,
  And uttered words of righteous wrath
  Because ’twas such a crooked path;
  But still they followed — do not laugh —
  The first migrations of that calf,
  And through this winding wood-way stalked
  Because he wobbled when he walked.
  This forest path became a lane,
  That bent, and turned, and turned again.
  This crooked lane became a road,
  Where many a poor horse with his load
  Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
  And traveled some three miles in one.
  And thus a century and a half
  They trod the footsteps of that calf.
  The years passed on in swiftness fleet.
  The road became a village street,
  And this, before men were aware,
  A city’s crowded thoroughfare,
  And soon the central street was this
  Of a renowned metropolis;
  And men two centuries and a half
  Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
  Each day a hundred thousand rout
  Followed that zigzag calf about,
  And o’er his crooked journey went
  The traffic of a continent.
  A hundred thousand men were led
  By one calf near three centuries dead.
  They follow still his crooked way,
  And lose one hundred years a day,
  For thus such reverence is lent
  To well-established precedent.
  A moral lesson this might teach
  Were I ordained and called to preach;
  For men are prone to go it blind
  Along the calf-paths of the mind,
  And work away from sun to sun
  To do what other men have done.
  They follow in the beaten track,
  And out and in, and forth and back,
  And still their devious course pursue,
  To keep the path that others do.
  They keep the path a sacred groove,
  Along which all their lives they move;
  But how the wise old wood-gods laugh,
  Who saw the first primeval calf!
  Ah, many things this tale might teach —
  But I am not ordained to preach.
  

GRASPING THE NEW GOD-IMAGE

Edward Edinger, in the slender tome, The New God Image, tells us that there are three steps involved in understanding Jung’s material concerning the new God-image. One must be able to perceive the new God-image and that requires mastering certain epistemological premises. One must actually perceive for one’s self this living reality and the impact it has on one’s own psychology as well on the psychology of the collective. Jung (and analytical psychology) can teach the how, but it is not something taken as an article of faith. It is something one must do for one’s self, a kind of God-has-no-grandchildren concept. And the third step requires a developing awareness of one’s own role in the transformation of the God-image, one’s part in the process of continuing incarnation.

Edinger manages to capture the essence of Jungian analysis in these three steps.

"Answer to Joe," a New Play - C. G. Jung Society of St. Louis Production

March 22 and 23, 7:30pm. March 24, 2:00pm.

The C. G. Jung Society of St. Louis is producing a new play,
“Answer to Joe,” by Rick Vaughn.

Tickets now on sale.

Kranzberg Arts Center
501 North Grand
St. Louis, Mo 63103

All tickets sold through MetroTix.com (314-534-1111)
or Fox Theatre Box Office

Ticket prices: $25 ($20 for Friends of the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis.
Friends received an e-mail with a code for discount purchase.)
The Kranzberg is a small theater, and, as was the case with the Society’s production of “Casting Shadows,” we anticipate all three performances of “Answer” will sell out.

Call the Jung Society (314-533-6809) or e-mail cgjungstl@yahoo.com for further information.

The C. G. Jung Society is producing a new play, “Answer to Joe.” The play is loosely based on Jung’s Answer to Job, and deals with the same themes—the nature of God, the reality of the divine vs. an individual’s image of it, and the psychological implications of an individual’s often unconscious god-image. Though these are deeply serious topics, the play presents them in modern understandable dress and treats them with considerable humor.

Rick Vaughn, author of “Answer to Joe,” has long been interested in Jungian Psychology and its potential for resolving inner conflicts in ways that release creative energies. In presenting his work for possible production by the Jung Society, he said, “My intention was to communicate some of the profound, transformative insights that I discovered in reading Answer to Job. In the process of writing, it became clear that the work was much more personal. This story is my story. It may well be a story for many others. Job’s working out his relationship with the overwhelming and overpowering energies of Yahweh-- which Jung equates with an individual’s coming to terms with the unconscious—has been my quest for decades. My own god-image of a punitive, demanding, and intractable old patriarch needed considerable updating. In writing the play, I knew I was somewhat describing my own inner conflicts and working them to a more satisfying end. I seemed to be engaging the energies bound up in an old god-image and tempering some of them so they could be directed creatively. I’m happy with the result, and in some strange way, I feel my ‘god’ is, too.”

“Answer to Joe,” is the second play the Jung Society has produced. In February 2017, our first one “Casting Shadows” by Carol Haake was presented to sold-out audiences for three performances. We hope for similar enthusiasm for “Answer.”