Saturdays, February 21, 2026; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
SYNCHRONICITY, COMPLEXITY, AND THE NEW COSMOLOGY - PART 2
This presentation will begin with a brief history of the origins and development of Jung’s notions of synchronicity and the psychoid realm. Complexity and field theories will then be applied to link these concepts to a 21st-century view of a fully interconnected cosmos, stated in a modern form, with acknowledgement of various precursors from different traditions. This approach opens to the hopeful but uncertain possibility of moving towards a reenchantment of the world, which is a vision emerging in many areas of culture facilitated by revivification of emotions such as wonder, awe, and the sublime. To explore this, select materials from ecology and the arts that seek to envision and represent these realities will be offered.
Joseph Cambray, PhD, is Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; and has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals. He lectures and gives workshops internationally.
Saturdays, February 21, 2026; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
SYNCHRONICITY, COMPLEXITY, AND THE NEW COSMOLOGY - PART 2
This presentation will begin with a brief history of the origins and development of Jung’s notions of synchronicity and the psychoid realm. Complexity and field theories will then be applied to link these concepts to a 21st-century view of a fully interconnected cosmos, stated in a modern form, with acknowledgement of various precursors from different traditions. This approach opens to the hopeful but uncertain possibility of moving towards a reenchantment of the world, which is a vision emerging in many areas of culture facilitated by revivification of emotions such as wonder, awe, and the sublime. To explore this, select materials from ecology and the arts that seek to envision and represent these realities will be offered.
Joseph Cambray, PhD, is Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; and has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals. He lectures and gives workshops internationally.
