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How strange my journey was! What words shall I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you.

C. G. Jung, The Red Book (1915/2009), p. 232.

[T]he paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions, while uniformity of meaning is a sign of weakness. Hence a religion becomes inwardly impoverished when it loses or waters down its paradoxes; but their multiplication enriches because only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Non-ambiguity and non contradiction are one-sided and thus unsuited to express the incomprehensible.

C. G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1944), CW 12, § 18.

MEMBERS' EVE 2021

Ian McCallum

“The Psychology of Religion”

Ian McCallum

September 26 & October 2, 2021 | Held Online via Zoom

Lecture (9/26): Members and their guests $15

Workshop (10/2): Members and their guests $20

One of our greatest needs as human beings is the need to belong. As a species, we are seekers of continuity, meaning, values, symbols and stories, historical and mythical, that address the deep existential issues of our lives. We will always need our religions, but can we have them without the politicization and paralysis of religious dogma?

Dr Ian McCallum MD is a psychiatrist, analytical psychologist, environmentalist, and poet. He is an adjunct professor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Graduate School of Business in Port Elizabeth, and an honorary lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000). His award winning book Ecological Intelligence – Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature addresses the interconnectedness of all living things and ultimately, the survival of the human animal.

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