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The Receptive and the Creative: Jung’s Red Book for our Time in Light of Daoist Alchemy
Featuring Ann Chia-Yi Li
11/7/18 at 11AM Eastern US Time
The Asheville Jung Center is very pleased to announce an upcoming webinar about the new book Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Volume 2 hosted by the co-editors Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt. In this webinar they will bring in Ann Chia-Yi Li to speak about her chapter titled “The Receptive and the Creative: Jung’s Red Book for our Time in Light of Daoist Alchemy.” Join us on November 7th as we discuss the impact of Daoist Alchemy on Jung’s Red Book.
Science has created an immense horizon and a huge extension of human life. It has developed in the way of the Yang principle of The Creative Hexagram—a strong creative action. And scientists do further research with the same perseverance, like the primal force—“strong and untiring.”
While Jung was intensively working on his Red Book, he realized that the spirit of his time was concerned mostly with “the use and value” in physical life. The power of rationalism had the upper hand:
“…our ruler is the spirit of this time, which rules and leads in us all. It is the general spirit in which we think and act today. He is of frightful power, since he has brought immeasurable good to this world and fascinated men with unbelievable pleasure. He is bejewelled with the most beautiful heroic virtue, and wants to drive men up to the brightest solar heights, in everlasting ascent.”
In our time, science and technology count more than spirituality. Their development seems to be guiding us to a new way of life in which people interact more with technology than directly with people. Life is being directed to a mode of being that is bright, clear, precise, certain, concrete, stable, and ordered. This gives an impression that in our modern time “… thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree means a man’s life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom, and no mountain still harbours a great demon,” just as Jung anticipated. Join us on November 7th as we discuss the impact of Daoist Alchemy on Jung’s Red Book.
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.
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| Ann Chia-Yi Li, M.A., is originally from Taiwan, where she studied Chinese Literature and English Literature. She is a graduate of ISAP Zurich, and maintains a private practice in Zurich. Ann has served in ISAP Program Committee since 2013, and initiated International MuShuei.Jung Conference and Retreat in Taiwan since 2015. Her latest project is to cofound a systematic Jungian study program through the establishment of Analytical Psychology School SG in Singapore in 2016. Her special interests are Daoist alchemy, The Red Book, culture and trauma, active imagination and Zen meditation.
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The Metamorphosis of the Gods: Archetypal Astrology and the Transformation of the God-Image in The Red Book
Featuring Keiron Le Grice
Recorded Video Ready
The Recording is ready for our webinar about the new book Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Volume 2
hosted by the co-editors Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt. In this webinar Keiron Le Grice spoke about his chapter titled
“The Metamorphosis of the Gods: Archetypal Astrology and the
Transformation of the God-Image in The Red Book.” A broader
consideration of the significance of Jung’s Red Book must take into
account the historical moment in which it was created. If it is relevant
not only to Jung himself, as the articulation of a personal mythology,
but also to Western civilization at large, then we must turn our focus
to the evolution of the modern West as revealed in its major historical
and religious transitions. One way this might be done, in keeping with
the tenets of Analytical Psychology, is to consider the archetypal
factors impinging upon the Western psyche and the cultural Zeitgeist in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from the time of Jung’s birth to
the creation of Liber Novus. In so doing, we might gain some
perspective on the significance of our own time and our evolving
conceptions of the spiritual dimension of experience.
Dr. Keiron Le Grice is Core Faculty and Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies
specialization of the Depth Psychology program at Pacifica. He was
educated at the University of Leeds, England (B.A. honors Philosophy and
Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San
Francisco (M.A. and Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion). He is the author of
four books including The Archetypal Cosmos: Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, Science, and Astrology, The Rebirth of the Hero: Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation, and Archetypal Reflections: Insights and Ideas from Jungian Psychology. A founding editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, Dr. Le Grice now serves as Senior Editorial Advisor at Archai and as commissioning editor for Muswell Hill Press in London. |
| | | Journaling to the Soul: Keeping Your Own Red Books
The Jung Society of Washington with Susan Tiberghien
“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can, in some beautifully bound book.” These were C.G. Jung’s words to Christiana Morgan in 1926. They are his words to us today. He urges us to look at the images in our dreams and in our memories, to let them open doorways to the soul, and to write it all down in our journals.
In this course taught by Susan Tiberghien, author of Chiron's Writing Toward Wholeness, we will look at how Jung did this in The Red Book as he searched for his lost soul. We will ask ourselves how we perceive the soul. We will look at journaling as a way to enter into dialogue with our own soul. Working with images in our journal entries, we will practice active imagination. We will read more excerpts from C.G. Jung, along with excerpts from Etty Hillesum, and Thomas Merton, each of whom journaled toward wholeness, uncovering the oneness of all creation. Our journals will become our own red books, the silent places where we find renewal.
Learning Objectives:
What is journaling
How we perceive the soul
How Jung journaled, from his Black Books to The Red Book
How Jung saw journaling as writing to the soul
The practice of journaling
The practice of active imagination
The practice of active imagination
Appreciation of excerpts from CG Jung, Etty Hillesum, Thomas Merton |
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Susan Tiberghien
is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a
degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at the
Université de Grenoble and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. She is the
author of four memoirs: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis;
Circling to the Center, An Invitation to Silent Prayer; Side by Side,
Writing Your Love Story; Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman, and the
writing book, One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every
Writer’s Art and Craft. Her new book, Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons
Inspired by C.G. Jung, was published by Chiron Publications March l,
2018. She has published extensively narrative essays in literary reviews
and anthologies.
For over twenty years Tiberghien has been
teaching creative writing at C.G. Jung Societies and Institutes, the
International Women’s Writing Guild, and at writers’ centers and
conferences, both in the US and in Europe. She is a founding member of
the International Writers Residence at the Château de Lavigny and an
active member of International PEN. Tiberghien founded and directed the
Geneva Writers’ Group (250 English-language writers) for twenty-five
years. Married with six adult children and sixteen grandchildren.
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| The Book of David DAVID HOROWITZ: Dean of United Nations Press Corps and Founder: United Israel World Union
For 10 years, author Ralph Buntyn spent many hours with renowned United Nations correspondent and United Israel founder David Horowitz. They engaged in lengthy discussions about his foundational views drawn from his experience and unique vantage point in the two world bodies. The Book of David is based on his personal notes, extensive archival records and reflections from these conversations.
In Horowitz’s autobiography Thirty-three Candles published in 1956, he wrote: “Thirty-three Candles undoubtedly calls for a sequel because much has occurred on the world scene since 1944, most of it confirming its major thesis. I feel I shall have to bow to this demand.” The Book of David is dedicated to fulfilling Horowitz’s request for an historical accounting of the period that followed.
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The Bible as Dream Seminar
Recorded Video Available
Dr. Murray Stein’s new book, The Bible as Dream: A Jungian Interpretation, looks at the Bible as a Jungian analyst would a long dream series in which a personality and a self are emerging and coming into time and space from out of the depths of the unconscious. The Bible is the story of a collective individuation process. On September 12th we hosted a live lecture where Dr. Stein reviews his work. The recording is now available for purchase and viewing.
The lectures in this book are a work of respectful and loving interpretation. The Bible presents a world elaborated with reference to a specific God image. As the mythographer Karl Kerenyi puts it in writing about the Greek gods and goddesses, every god and every goddess constitutes a world. So it is too with the biblical God. The biblical world is the visionary product of a particular people, the ancient Hebrews and the early Christians, who delved deeply into their God image and pulled from it the multitude of perspectives, rules for life, spiritual practices, and practical implications that all together created the tapestry that we find depicted in the canonical Bible. Yahweh is the heart and soul of this world, its creator, sustainer, and destroyer. The Bible is a dream that tells the story of how this world was brought into being in space and time and what it means. |
| | | The Mythmaker by Mary Harrell
The Mythmaker is a personal myth, a fiction, based on author
and depth psychologist Dr. Mary Harrell’s life. After the sudden death
of her mother, seven young children and an overwhelmed father were left
to figure out what to do. Acknowledging that seminal happenings
enwombed in our past seek re-membering, and in the tradition of personal
mythtelling, Dr. Harrell, began a writer’s journey, to re-collect the
meaning of her story. She proceeded in a series of spiralic returns
gathering meaningful shards of symbolic experience.
Dr. Harrell, as we all do, found herself asking, “Who or what is here
right now, to inform this long ago, and also, present moment?” Such
self-reflective activity took her back to memories, not as they were,
but as she perceived them to be. With each return, she found a different
fiction, an echo, a fabrication, and also the better truth that brought
her closer to coherence, that soulful state best described as
wholeness. Through this process the past emerged and the full story
found its way to the pages of this book. Beyond the death of Dr.
Harrell’s mother, an additional reality within The Mythmaker
story is irrefutable. An angel, an imaginal figure, began entering the
author’s life when she was fifteen years old. The angel’s aim was to be
an ally, thereby transforming grief into a story of healing. Her
presence reminds us that preposterous aspects of our own myth may inform
the deeper truth of our experience.
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