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Four Tuesdays:
April 10, 17, 24 and May 1, 2018
Members $80, Non-members $90

In this course, we will review the historic and cultural context, Hebrew and Hellenistic, at the time of Jesus; what is known about the historical Jesus based on modern scholarship and the Common Sayings Gospels (“Q”); the development of the “post-Easter” Jesus; and, look at various movements and traditions that grew in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries, including the Roman Church, the Gnostics, the Manicheans, and others.

Dr. William Holt, a retired eye surgeon, has presented several times at the Center on themes relating to Jung and the Gnostic Christians. Coming from a family full of ministers, he has long sought to understand the actual story of the development of Christian thought. His quest has extended over many years and includes extensive reading and courses on the early figures and concepts that contributed into what is now called Christianity.

Core Course: Individuation and the Self
Three Sundays:
April 15, 22, 29, 2018
Members $60, Non-members $70

The course will examine mythological symbols relating to the birth, maturation and transformation of the Divine Child as a metaphor for the process of individuation.

The possibility for individuated life is “born” in the psyche and enters human experience through the aegis of the Ego Self Axis. In other terminology, it is offspring of the union of God and Man. Individuated life provides the possibility for greater depth when sacred and eternal underpinnings participate creatively with the full complexity of lived human experience, a process that changes both the human and the divine. It manifests in a cycle of hopeful beginning, bewildering abandonment and loss, continual reorientation, and eventually death and renewal of the living entity this potential has become in the individual’s psyche. Jung took this process very seriously, maintaining that it represents the only hope for the future of the universe, the “thin thread” on which everything depends. He saw the central question facing humanity as whether the individual’s engagement in this transformative process can moderate and reshape the dark forces in the psyche that will otherwise lead to its destruction.

Will Furber, J.D. is a Jungian analyst from North Bath, Maine. He helped found the Maine Jung Center 30 years ago and is a former board chair. He is a faculty member of the Boston Jung Institute, where he co-leads a recurring seminar which has as one of its principal aims the enrichment and development of collective life.