Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Myth, Ritual, Symbol and Meaning
In the Terry Lectures, Jung informs us that the central symbols of the great religious traditions and their corresponding rituals possess profound psychological meaning. He describes these symbols and the myths in which they are embedded as standing in “a relationship of living reciprocity to the psyche from whence they originated in the first place.” These collective archetypal motifs arise as individual products of unconscious origin and it is their universal nature that allows them to be refined and purified into religious contents that have the power to live in people’s hearts and inform the meaning of their lives over centuries. Since these motifs continue to arise through numinous individual experiences, a continuing evolution of the religious instinct takes place and we can chart this evolution through careful observation of dreams and other manifestations of the unconscious in contemporary time. This series explores these central symbols which Jung referred to as “natural” as they occur in major historical religious traditions, but also, as they continue to evolve in individual consciousness.
This series consists in 7 lectures. See list of individual lectures for more information.
Course Objectives:
See individual lectures for objectives.
Pre-registration (recommended) until 5:00pm of the lecture day for evening lectures; or Friday, 5:00pm for week-end workshops. At Door fee applies after.
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