|
|
| A New Ethic based on Depth Psychology could bring Peace to the World
By Francesco L. Cottafavi
On a recent trip to Cuba I had the chance to visit the country extensively and in any town, or village, I took a bike-taxi, i.e. a tricycle, with me sitting behind a little man (little in proportion to my size) who bicycled at very slow speed the poorest quarters in town, where I specifically asked to be brought to. The people living there were all smiling at me, warmly, as if they recognised me as one of their own. Actually, I recognised in them the real humankind, which lived for hundreds of thousands of years in, more or less, the same conditions, with a strong bond of solidarity among them, which helped them survive. I admired them because their thinking with the heart was so natural and a strong source of orientation.
All over the island, I saw the same people participating passionately in religious ceremonies, mostly Catholic masses, where the most revered image was the Black Madonna. For them, she was Yamaya (a goddess in “La Regla de Ocha).
The Black Madonna is a very important symbol in many cultures because it “represents a compensatory perspective of the westernised world, especially that world which seems driven to excess by profit margins, religious and political fundamentalism and indifference to the place of human beings in the natural order of life.”
An archetypal compensatory perspective is necessary, not only for the Cubans, because “the downfall of the old world orientation and the resultant dethronement of man has lead to a chaotic psychological situation. Modern man now sees himself as a peripheral creature on a tiny planet in a physically dead infinity.“
There, in Cuba, I felt a strong cultural anxiety sharing the tension of my original Catholic education with the re-emerging polytheistic belief of human ancestry. I felt that cultural anxiety was a gift to energise my search for a meaning to be shared.
Cultural anxiety is a very common state of mind. We live in an Age of Anxiety were most people understand that there is not only one reality but different alternatives, equally valuables, and they should be taken into consideration. Particularly, if one, or several of those realities, had been lost or repressed into the personal unconscious, this shadow reality should be considered a vital recovery for our consciousness to pursue. Even more important will be this recovery for our living together if the suppressed or repressed values also belong to the collective society in which we live...
|
| | |
| Encounters with the Animal Soul: A Voice of Hope for Our Precarious World
Our webinar last Thursday featured Nancy Swift Furlotti who gave an incredible presentation on Red Book themes that help to process many current day concerns. Visit the series webpage for a trailer video from her webinar.
The Asheville Jung Center is very pleased to announce our Winter webinar series, Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions hosted by Murray Stein. Dr. Stein has already taken part in 6 recent webinar series including Jung and Alchemy, The Psychology of Fairy tales, World Religions, Jung and Evil, and The Life and Work of Erich Neumann. This course will consist of 4 webinars discussing the great importance of Jung’s Red Book in modern time. Participants may register for the full series of lectures for one price of $99. Participants joining anytime after the course begins can still register and catch up by watching the recorded version of prior lectures.
Since its publication in 2009, The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung has been a huge success in commercial terms and in gaining general recognition as a significant work of artistic value and of historical interest. The Red Book has been translated into numerous languages; papers and books have been written about it; conferences and seminars have been held to focus on many aspects of its historical and psychological content. Now the time has come to look at it as a work containing immense value for guiding people forward in our time, postmodernity. To that purpose, this webinar series will feature speakers who will address this topic from several different perspectives. |
| | | JUNGFLIX
Join JUNGFLIX for just $7.99/month to receive unlimited streaming access to our complete collection of recorded seminars and events. The entire Asheville Jung Center library is available for viewing with the sole exception of seminars released within the last 180 days.
Your account access lets you stream all available videos to your computer or internet connected device of any kind. Now you can watch all the talks on the go, streaming informative and captivating seminars directly to your mobile device. |
| | |
