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Facilitated by Jennifer Morris
Second Saturday every Month:
Continuing October 5, 2019
10 to 12 pm

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: What Matters Most by James Hollis

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– C. G. Jung

Please join us for Jungian focused discussions about books, mythology, and fairy tales. Together we can explore the stories that, throughout time, give us important clues on how to live our lives more fully.

We will begin by reading What Matters Most by James Hollis. Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage readers to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality.

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice and executive director of the Jung Society of Washington. Educated at Manchester College, Drew University, and the Jung Institute in Zurich, he was a humanities professor for more than twenty years and is the author of fifteen books, including the best selling The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning at Midlife and The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other. Based in Washington, D.C., he lectures frequently throughout the country and worldwide, and has spoken at the Maine Jung Center numerous times.

Jennifer Morris’s Jungian experience started with seven years of personal work with a remarkable Colorado analyst, Katherine Kuisle, PhD. This experience profoundly changed Jennifer’s life, opening her heart to the guiding symbology around us and within us. She grew up in Yarmouth and lived in Maine for 40 years before moving to Colorado where she lived—when not working as a physician assistant in Alaska or adventuring on a sailboat in the Bahamas—for 23 years. Now retired, she and the cat are quite settled in South Portland, surrounded by her gardens.

Facilitated by Peggy Schick
Third Wednesday every Month:
Starting October 16, 2019
6 to 8 pm

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell

The Maine Jung Center is pleased to offer a new book group beginning Wednesday, October 16, that will meet to read and discuss Sherri Mitchell’s 2018 book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. The Center is also excited to announce that Ms. Mitchell will be speaking to our community on April 3-4 in Portland. 

This book discussion experience will serve as an immersion into Mitchell’s profound and loving insight around affecting true global consciousness and change. Sacred Instructions is described as a narrative of Indigenous wisdom that provides a road map for the spirit and a compass of compassion for humanity.

Sherri Mitchell is a Native American attorney, author, teacher and activist from Maine. She has been actively involved with Indigenous land and water rights and the Indigenous way of life in the US, Canada and abroad for more than 25 years. Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, in Sacred Instructions Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day, such as environmental protection and human rights. Sharing the gifts she has received from elders around the world, Mitchell urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. For those seeking change, this book offers a set of cultural values that will preserve our collective survival for future generations.

This book group will be gently led by Peggy Schick, astrologer, Reiki practitioner, activist, and co-chair of the board of the Maine Jung Center.

Facilitated by Jeff Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting October 20, 2019
10 to 12 pm

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Louise von Franz

This work is a classic of Jungian literature that at its most basic level provides a map and guide to the recognition and reclaiming of projections. More broadly, this book explores the Jungian foundation to consciousness and the collective unconscious.

The format of the discussion group will be to read one or more Chapters each month prior to the discussion group as shown in the syllabus (see website for more information). Key passages will be read again during the session so that it will be possible to not keep up with the reading, but still participate in a meaningful way in the discussion.

Projection and Re-Collection 2019-20 Discussion Group Syllabus

Jeff Pinnette is a longtime member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair. He is currently serving a new term on the Board as Co-Chair of the Program Committee.

Tools of Individuation
Psychological Implications of a Proven Reincarnation Case
Stephen Sakellarios

Sunday, January 19, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Maine Jung Center, 183 Park Row, Brunswick
Members $15, Non-Members $20

Stephen Sakellarios will be demonstrating the method by which he verified a proposed past-life match, and then exploring the question of what aspects of a person are carried forward intact from a past life, and which aspects change (including to what degree they change). In particular, Stephen will provide objective evidence that what he has dubbed the “higher mind” remains essentially the same from one incarnation to another; and he will suggest some of the implications that this has for psychology and psychotherapy.

Stephen Sakellarios, MS, has studied Eastern mysticism since 1973, and has a master’s degree in Counseling and Human Systems from FSU. In 1997, he began work on a documentary entitled “In Another Life: Reincarnation in America”, completing it over a five-year period. The program was broadcast on PBS affiliate KBDI in Denver, Colorado in January of 2003, and was accepted for distribution to universities by Films Media Group.

In 2005, Stephen became aware of a past life in the 19th century as author Mathew Franklin Whittier, and in 2009 he began researching the proposed match with the most rigorous methods available to an unfunded, lay researcher.

The Great Hack (2019) | Directed by Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim
Viewing facilitated by Jeff Pinnette

Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. It’s being weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare. People everywhere are in a battle for control of our most intimate personal details. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation with astounding access to the personal journeys of key players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. Amer and Noujaim encourage us to question the origin of the information we consume daily. What do we give up when we tap that phone or keyboard and share ourselves in the digital age?