“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but
making the darkness conscious.”
Carl Gustav Jung
EXPERIENCING THE NUMINOSUM
With
Jerry Wright, D.Min., Jungian Analyst
"Among all my patients in the second half of life...there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life" - C. G. Jung
This workshop will explore the meaning of Jung's perspective on religion and what it may mean for the modern person to recover such a religious attitude or outlook. Jung stated that religion "designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the Numinosum." He also observed that healing for his patients in the second half of life required the recovery of a religious outlook.
We will draw upon the ancient image called the thin place, which denotes experiences when the curtain between the physical and spiritual is experienced as thin or numinous. Celtic mythology and spirituality will be discussed, including the belief that the inhabitants of the invisible world, always close at hand, become apparent in the thin times and places when the veil between the visible and invisible worlds is lifted.
The presentation will address the contemporary loss of the sense of the sacred and will examine ways to cultivate its recovery in everyday life, as well as in psychotherapy and analysis.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(Registration from 9:00 a.m.)