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Tools of Individuation
The Experience of God in the Individuation Process: From Chaos to Cosmos
Diane Croft

Sunday, May 3, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Maine Jung Center, 183 Park Row, Brunswick
Members $15, Non-Members $20

Jung had a great deal to say about God, which for him was not a belief but a fully realized, living presence: “I don’t need to believe. I know.” His God experience was so powerful, so potentially destructive, that he felt grateful “to have escaped from death.”

This lecture will explore Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “[The Self] . . . might equally be called the God within us.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with the Transpersonal Self, and how she is attempting to reconcile its sacred energies as a non-practicing Christian. Intended for believers and non-believers.

Diane Croft, EdM, is a graduate of Wittenberg and Harvard University. She spent most of her career as a vice president at National Braille Press in Boston, MA. For three years, Diane had access to a hidden, animated realm, described by C. G. Jung as “the primordial unconscious”, which she describes in her book The Unseen Partner: Love & Longing in the Unconscious. A review in Quadrant: Journal for Analytical Psychology described it as “an extraordinary book, comparable in many ways to the Red Book of C. G. Jung.”

Rescheduled to Online
Virtual Death Café
Meeting online via Zoom
Tuesday, May 5, 2020; 6 to 8 pm
FREE for Members and Non-Members

Maximum Participants: 25 (Pre-registration is Required – you will only receive a Zoom link if you register in advance)

Death is psychologically as important as birth, and like it, is an integral part of life.
~ C. G. Jung

Let’s gather together to talk about death. Not to grieve, not to seek therapeutic support, not to proselytize, but simply to have a group discussion with the intention to seek more awareness about death. Perhaps more awareness might help us to value the time that we have here on earth as fully alive human beings. How might we choose to live, imbued with more awareness of our own exit?

Death Cafés are happening all over the United States and Europe as open opportunities to the public, offering this simple intention for death to be a topic of group discussion without any agenda, objective, or conclusion. Donations may be made to the Jung Center in appreciation for providing a comfortable, accessible venue where attendees will be invited to speak and be listened to with respect and confidentiality. Please register for each two-hour event even though there is no fee. The discussion dates do not mean to imply a progression of any theme, and there is no expectation for a participant to attend consecutive discussions. Refreshments will be provided.

Martha Spruce, founder of Hearts & Hands Reiki, has been practicing and teaching Reiki in Brunswick and the greater mid-coast area for over 23 years. During much of that time she has also cared for dying people as a certified home Hospice volunteer. She also volunteered as a certified pastoral chaplain at Mid Coast Hospital. She is very grateful to the people who have invited her to be part of their lives at such a profound time of transition, because of the gifts of raw honesty and unwavering integrity that they brought along to give to those who were left behind. She has noticed that when people are dying, they usually want to talk about death, but she’d rather not wait till then. Martha has been a Maine Jung Center member for 12 years.

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Tools of Individuation
A Yoga Journey to Sacred Spaces and Places in India
Phyllis Stibler

Friday, May 8, 2020
7 to 9 pm
Maine Jung Center, 183 Park Row, Brunswick
Members $15, Non-Members $20

With a Yogi guide and four companions, Phyllis spent several weeks in southern India in January 2019. The purpose of their yoga journey was to seek “a yoke to the divine, one consciousness”. They spent time in Hindu temples, on sacred mountains, at two ashrams and in related spaces and places. Phyllis does not consider herself an experienced yogi or a master at spiritual guidance in any way. She went on this journey as a perhaps, somewhat typical New Englander who observes Congregationalist traditions, enjoys a gentle physical yoga practice with meditation, and most importantly, has an open and curious mind. The experience was intense, rewarding and thought provoking.

In her talk, Phyllis will share her experiences, sketch journal and observations while on this journey.

Phyllis Stibler received a BFA in Interior Design from Syracuse University, School of Art. Over her design career, she has been honored by the American Institute of Architects – NH Chapter, the American Society of Interior Designers, Leadership NH, Boy Scouts of America – Daniel Webster Council, Granite State YMCA and other organizations for professional achievement and community service. Phyllis also served on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee at the NH Institute of Art, from 2008 to 2017.

In retirement, Phyllis has illustrated three children’s books, serves as Chair of the Trustees for the New Castle Congregational Church, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, and travels extensively, always with a sketch journal. She enjoys any outdoor activity, any musical offering involving baroque recorders and gentle yoga. Phyllis lives in the heart of New Castle, NH.

Journey of the Universe: Conversations (2013) | Directed by Patsy Northcutt & Adam Loften
Viewing facilitated by Thankful Butler

Journey of the Universe: Conversations is an expansive, multidisciplinary project that re-imagines the universe story and the human role in the flourishing of the Earth community. The series invites viewers to become fellow travelers on an immense journey—from the beginnings of the universe, to the origins of life, to our current emergence as a planetary presence. These conversations are designed to accompany the Journey of the Universe film (screened at the Center last year), book (Yale University Press), and curriculum.

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19
Mythical Consciousness and its Reflection in the Russian Folk Tale “Ryaba the Hen”
Michael Klimov

Saturday, May 16, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Maine Jung Center, 183 Park Row, Brunswick
Members $20, Non-Members $25

In The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Marie-Louise von Franz writes “our interpretations are relative and not absolute. But we interpret for the same reason as that for which fairy tales and myths were told: because it has a vivifying effect and gives satisfactory reaction and brings one into peace with one’s unconscious instinctive substratum, just as the telling of fairy tales always did.” Michael Klimov will demonstrate how mythical consciousness emerges in “Ryaba the Hen”, among the most famous Russian folk tales and among the first that children of the Russian-speaking world learn.

Michael Klimov, MA, holds a master’s degree in Foreign Languages (English and French) from Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Modern Languages degree in Russian and French through Middlebury College in Vermont. This presentation is related to Klimov’s dissertation research on mythical consciousness in Russian fairy tales. Michael Klimov has been a member of the Maine Jung Center for a number of years, and has always appreciated its intellectual, welcoming, inspirational, and healing atmosphere.

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.

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.