Saturday, December 12, 2009; 10:00AM - 01:30PM
The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
and the OPUS Archives and Research Center present:
Presented by Elise Collins-Shields, Ph.D., Michele Daniel, Ph.D. and Julie Sgarzi, Ph.D.
Artifacts discovered in old Europe during prehistoric times indicate that religious life was centered around the Goddess. From the upper Paleolithic into the Neolithic period, these images of the goddess suggest that her functions and aspects focused on the generation and nourishment of life, destruction and death, and regeneration. OPUS Archives and Research Center will bring materials from the Marija Gimbutas Collection demonstrating these functions and aspects of the Goddess.
Elise will review the "story" of Marija Gimbutas the person and present an overview of the amazing breadth of her work and contributions, Michele will present a consideration of the archetypal patterns that are manifested in these early material artifacts. Julie will conclude with reflections upon the cultural aspects of the matriarchal and goddess mythology and the significance of the ?goddess? sculptures that have been recently unearthed.
Course Objectives:
- Identify images that represent the generation, death and regenerative functions of the Goddess
- Recognize the significance of different images depicting the Goddess in upper Paleolithic and Neolithic periods
- Describe the way in which the relationship of the archetypal patterns to the images demonstrates the symbolic functioning of the religious instinct
Elise Collins Shields, Ph.D., was formerly an entrepreneur while completing graduate degrees in counseling psychology and cultural mythology. She founded programs in the Middle East to include cross cultural leadership training. She is a frequent lecturer on international issues. She is currently the Executive Director of the OPUS Archives and Research Center.
<Michele Daniel, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. A former Associate Professor of counseling psychology at California State University, Bakersfield, she is currently on the faculty of the graduate programs in Consciousness Studies and Transformational Psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. Michele holds an additional graduate degree in Buddhist studies.
Julie Sgarzi, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a Buddhist practitioner and a long-time student of Jungian psychology. Dr. Sgarzi is a board member of the OPUS Archive and Research Center and serves in an advisory capacity with the Philemon Foundation.
OPUS Archives and Research Center is an active site for wonder and participation in the great questions of our time. Located on the campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, OPUS is a dynamic center for the advancement in the fields of depth psychology, mythology and the humanities, and their place on the world platform especially as they inform the areas of social justice and environmental sustainability. For more information please visit: www.opusarchives.org.
