All Programs

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month: (Except October, meeting on October 31st)
Continuing September 27, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83520116849?pwd=L3kxSFVHYytZRlBTaG1VaE8zWEJxdz09

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Core Course
Jung’s Life and Ideas
Teresa Arendell

Sundays, November 1, 8, & 15, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on October 31)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

“My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this one central point, and all my works relate to this one theme.”
 – Jung, MDR, pg. 206

“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of development.”
– C. G. Jung, CW vol. 4, pg. 784

This introductory course provides an overview of selected fundamentals of Analytical Psychology as developed by Carl Jung [1875-1961]. Starting his early career as a psychiatrist and protégé of Freud, Jung branched off and developed a unique school of depth psychology. He was committed to mapping the human psyche. His thinking, always based in human experience, was dynamic and evolved over the decades of his long life. Jung’s voluminous writings and contributions were informed by his wealth of knowledge gained from lifelong study, reflection, writing, personal growth and development, teaching, and work with patients. For Jung, psychological work is soul work, involving the human quest for meaning and realization of the Self. The course considers the cultural and historical context of Jung’s life and work, and explores primary themes in both Jungian theory and practice. These include: the structure of the psyche – consciousness, the unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, complexes, and archetypes; the religious function of the psyche; individuation and the Self. How Jungians work with the symbolic – dreams, visions, the imaginal, emotions/affects – to gain insight into unconscious psychic processes is also a major element of the course. We conclude the course by considering the extraordinary relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for the 21^st century.

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.”
– C. G. Jung, MDR, pg. 326

***

Recommended viewing in advance of the first class: Matter of Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3vPb9bmcw

Recommended reading(s): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung
And/or:
The Undiscovered Self, C. G. Jung
Jung: A Very Short Introduction, Anthony Stevens
Understandable Jung: The Personal Side of Jungian Psychology, Harry Wilmer

***

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

Facilitated by Teresa Arendell, Jungian Analyst
First Friday every Month:
Starting October 2, 2020
4 to 6 pm
Held online via Zoom (links will be sent out to registrants the day before each meeting)

FREE for members; Pre-registration Required for each month (either online or by emailing info@mainejungcenter.org)
Age 65 or over (no ID necessary)
Participants limited to: 15

“The problems that crop up at this age are no longer to be solved by the old recipes: the hand of this clock cannot be put back. What youth found and must find outside, the man of life’s afternoon must find within himself.”
 – C. G. Jung, CW7 ~114

If you’re 65 or over and keen to participate in an informal group focused on our joys, fears, and everything in between about aging and being aged, this group is for you. We keep in mind Jung’s admonition: “For the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to him- [her, them-] self.” Possible initial topic for first meeting, October 2nd: “Life in the pandemic.”

Recommended reading (3 minutes): Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance https://www.yesmagazine.org/orphan/2018/10/22/parker-palmer-on-autumn-aging-and-acceptance/

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

Core Course
Jung’s Life and Ideas
Teresa Arendell

Sundays, November 1, 8, & 15, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on October 31)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

“My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this one central point, and all my works relate to this one theme.”
 – Jung, MDR, pg. 206

“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of development.”
– C. G. Jung, CW vol. 4, pg. 784

This introductory course provides an overview of selected fundamentals of Analytical Psychology as developed by Carl Jung [1875-1961]. Starting his early career as a psychiatrist and protégé of Freud, Jung branched off and developed a unique school of depth psychology. He was committed to mapping the human psyche. His thinking, always based in human experience, was dynamic and evolved over the decades of his long life. Jung’s voluminous writings and contributions were informed by his wealth of knowledge gained from lifelong study, reflection, writing, personal growth and development, teaching, and work with patients. For Jung, psychological work is soul work, involving the human quest for meaning and realization of the Self. The course considers the cultural and historical context of Jung’s life and work, and explores primary themes in both Jungian theory and practice. These include: the structure of the psyche – consciousness, the unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, complexes, and archetypes; the religious function of the psyche; individuation and the Self. How Jungians work with the symbolic – dreams, visions, the imaginal, emotions/affects – to gain insight into unconscious psychic processes is also a major element of the course. We conclude the course by considering the extraordinary relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for the 21^st century.

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.”
– C. G. Jung, MDR, pg. 326

***

Recommended viewing in advance of the first class: Matter of Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3vPb9bmcw

Recommended reading(s): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung
And/or:
The Undiscovered Self, C. G. Jung
Jung: A Very Short Introduction, Anthony Stevens
Understandable Jung: The Personal Side of Jungian Psychology, Harry Wilmer

***

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

Facilitated by Cybele Brandow
Second Saturday every Month (Except October 10):
Starting September 12, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81898146363?pwd=WEtNQWVzVzF2aU5OMHFVMEdpRmRCdz09

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

A little more than thirty-two years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduringly popular programs ever on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics as diverse as world religion, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 60-minute segments together, then spend the second hour in informal discussion concerning what arose for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Campbell and Moyers.

Cybele Brandow is a student of late ancient Christian mysticism, biblical and general hermeneutics, and tarot. They are the current Coordinator of the Maine Jung Center as well as a writer of children’s nonsense literature that engages metaphorically with dreams, schizotypy, naming, gender cosmologies, dynamic identity, myth and fairy tale, and more. Cybele lives in South Portland atop a hill and is a devout admirer of their Seussian bungalow’s resident tortie, Persephone (‘Persy’ for short).

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Core Course
Jung’s Life and Ideas
Teresa Arendell

Sundays, November 1, 8, & 15, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on October 31)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

“My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this one central point, and all my works relate to this one theme.”
 – Jung, MDR, pg. 206

“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of development.”
– C. G. Jung, CW vol. 4, pg. 784

This introductory course provides an overview of selected fundamentals of Analytical Psychology as developed by Carl Jung [1875-1961]. Starting his early career as a psychiatrist and protégé of Freud, Jung branched off and developed a unique school of depth psychology. He was committed to mapping the human psyche. His thinking, always based in human experience, was dynamic and evolved over the decades of his long life. Jung’s voluminous writings and contributions were informed by his wealth of knowledge gained from lifelong study, reflection, writing, personal growth and development, teaching, and work with patients. For Jung, psychological work is soul work, involving the human quest for meaning and realization of the Self. The course considers the cultural and historical context of Jung’s life and work, and explores primary themes in both Jungian theory and practice. These include: the structure of the psyche – consciousness, the unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, complexes, and archetypes; the religious function of the psyche; individuation and the Self. How Jungians work with the symbolic – dreams, visions, the imaginal, emotions/affects – to gain insight into unconscious psychic processes is also a major element of the course. We conclude the course by considering the extraordinary relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for the 21^st century.

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.”
– C. G. Jung, MDR, pg. 326

***

Recommended viewing in advance of the first class: Matter of Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3vPb9bmcw

Recommended reading(s): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung
And/or:
The Undiscovered Self, C. G. Jung
Jung: A Very Short Introduction, Anthony Stevens
Understandable Jung: The Personal Side of Jungian Psychology, Harry Wilmer

***

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

Interview with Peter Kingsley “Spirit of the Depths” (2019) | Directed by Thomas Gray
Viewing facilitated by Marilyn Hardy and Cybele Brandow
Free for Members and Non-Members, No Pre-Registration Required
Zoom link to watch: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88097854081?pwd=OHlsSzhRaFdWSVVPZnloV1g1UWVPUT09

This film by Thomas Gray was the first interview with Peter Kingsley made available after the publication of Peter’s latest book, Catafalque. Spirit of the Depths offers a series of in-depth, and searingly honest, insights into the impersonal as well as personal processes involved in the writing of Catafalque. Engaging with themes that range from psychology to spirituality, from the immediacy of the present moment to the realities of the most distant past, this is an indispensable document for anyone wanting to understand the essence of Peter Kingsley’s work — and the life’s work of C. G. Jung.

“Spirit of the Depths creates a hole into the soul, forcing us to stare into its emptiness and darkness, dissolving the assumptions and prejudices heaped up on it for centuries. And it does so in the most wonderful way, moving from the level of the deepest depths to the human level and then back again, striking different chords with the skill of an experienced musician. The film is a medicine that burns and cuts, but cures effectively.”
– Prof. Laura Gemelli Marciano, University of Zürich, author of Parmenide and Die Vorsokratiker

Images of Abandonment and Repair
Edward Porter Eagan

Sunday, November 22, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on November 21)
Members $15, Non-Members $20

Abandoned children present particular claims on the experience of loss and disconnection. Sharing images of this trauma can bring added depth and feeling to an appreciation of a child’s psychic and emotional expression of such loss. Psyche has a bracing way of presenting these experiences both in therapeutic play and through dreams. We will discuss some of these symbolic expressions using clinical examples. Jungian analysts James Hillman and Yoram Kaufmann, as well as Wilfred Bion’s concept of working with an image from an “unsaturated” viewpoint, will guide us. Our orientation will rely more on the symbol itself, as a naturally emerging and adaptive message from the unconscious, orienting us toward healing.

Edward Porter Eagan, PsyD, has a private practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts where he works with patients of all ages, though a substantial portion of his practice is with children and adolescents. He has worked and trained in residential, school, and clinic settings for over thirty years. His work is deeply informed by attachment theory, neurodevelopmental research, and a strong emphasis upon unconscious communication where Psyche will have her guiding say through emergent images and narratives embedded in the moment-to-moment interactions of psychotherapy. Dr. Eagan has also held an affiliative faculty position in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Antioch University in Keene, New Hampshire.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month: (Except October, meeting on October 31st)
Continuing September 27, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83520116849?pwd=L3kxSFVHYytZRlBTaG1VaE8zWEJxdz09

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Teresa Arendell, Jungian Analyst
First Friday every Month:
Starting October 2, 2020
4 to 6 pm
Held online via Zoom (links will be sent out to registrants the day before each meeting)

FREE for members; Pre-registration Required for each month (either online or by emailing info@mainejungcenter.org)
Age 65 or over (no ID necessary)
Participants limited to: 15

“The problems that crop up at this age are no longer to be solved by the old recipes: the hand of this clock cannot be put back. What youth found and must find outside, the man of life’s afternoon must find within himself.”
 – C. G. Jung, CW7 ~114

If you’re 65 or over and keen to participate in an informal group focused on our joys, fears, and everything in between about aging and being aged, this group is for you. We keep in mind Jung’s admonition: “For the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to him- [her, them-] self.” Possible initial topic for first meeting, October 2nd: “Life in the pandemic.”

Recommended reading (3 minutes): Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance https://www.yesmagazine.org/orphan/2018/10/22/parker-palmer-on-autumn-aging-and-acceptance/

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

A Small Good Thing (2015) | Directed by Pamela Tanner Boll
Viewing facilitated by Audrey McMorrow
Free for Members and Non-Members, No Pre-Registration Required
Zoom link to watch: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82475796392?pwd=blFtQXBuUEIzTGlQTFRQWEJDU2VpZz09

For the longest time, we’ve been living as though the more we have—the more money, the more goods, the more territory—the happier we’ll be. Surprisingly, over the last fifty years as our standard of living has improved, our happiness has not. A Small Good Thing examines how our ideal of the American Dream has come to the end of its promise. The film tells the stories of people moving away from a philosophy of ‘more is better’ toward a more holistic conception of happiness—one based on a close connection to their bodies and health, to the natural world, and to the greater good.

The film follows innovative farmer Sean Stanton, social work student Tim Durrin and yoga teacher Mark Gerow, whose earlier careers in the armed forces have now shifted to service of a different kind; Jen and Pete Salinetti, a college-educated couple with two small children who have chosen to be farmers as a way to connect with their community; and Shirley Edgerton, community activist and founder of both the Youth Alive Step Team and the Women of Color Giving Circle. What these people share is a deep desire to have more meaning in their lives, a closer bond with their families and communities, and a connection to themselves and the natural world.

COVID-19: An Astrological Review of the Year Things Fall Apart
Beverly Feldt

Sunday, December 6, 2020
1 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on December 5)
Members $25, Non-Members $30

With a focus on the United States Sibley horoscope for July 4, 1776, we will review the major astrological patterns of the year and how they impact the United States particularly when the patterns are exact. In addition to the “plague year” of 2020, other themes include moral gravity, danger and the need for courage; titanic struggle; the rise of reactionary forces; disintegration of systems; the extremes of wealth and poverty; a drive for moral regeneration; and finally at the winter solstice the emergence of deep change that will take time to manifest as the existing order continues to collapse.

During the second half the group will have time to reflect upon how these themes have manifested in our lives and about “the state of the world: 2020” and what might emerge in the near future through our participatory co-creation.

Beverly Feldt, LCSW, since her first astrology class at a “University without Walls” in the late 1960s in Madison, WI, Beverly has had a life-long passion for the subject and has studied with numerous astrologers, primarily for the purpose of self-understanding and integration. Interested in Jungian Archetypal Astrology, which holds that astrology is not concretely but archetypally predictive, she sees astrology as a way to move fluidly and freely in sync with the cosmos.

Facilitated by Cybele Brandow
Second Saturday every Month (Except October 10):
Starting September 12, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81898146363?pwd=WEtNQWVzVzF2aU5OMHFVMEdpRmRCdz09

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

A little more than thirty-two years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduringly popular programs ever on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics as diverse as world religion, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 60-minute segments together, then spend the second hour in informal discussion concerning what arose for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Campbell and Moyers.

Cybele Brandow is a student of late ancient Christian mysticism, biblical and general hermeneutics, and tarot. They are the current Coordinator of the Maine Jung Center as well as a writer of children’s nonsense literature that engages metaphorically with dreams, schizotypy, naming, gender cosmologies, dynamic identity, myth and fairy tale, and more. Cybele lives in South Portland atop a hill and is a devout admirer of their Seussian bungalow’s resident tortie, Persephone (‘Persy’ for short).

Tools of Individuation
Experiences of God in the Individuation Process: A True Story
Diane Croft

Sunday, December 13, 2020
2 to 3:30 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on December 12)
Members $10, Non-Members $15

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.”

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month: (Except October, meeting on October 31st)
Continuing September 27, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83520116849?pwd=L3kxSFVHYytZRlBTaG1VaE8zWEJxdz09

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Teresa Arendell, Jungian Analyst
First Friday every Month:
Starting October 2, 2020
4 to 6 pm
Held online via Zoom (links will be sent out to registrants the day before each meeting)

FREE for members; Pre-registration Required for each month (either online or by emailing info@mainejungcenter.org)
Age 65 or over (no ID necessary)
Participants limited to: 15

“The problems that crop up at this age are no longer to be solved by the old recipes: the hand of this clock cannot be put back. What youth found and must find outside, the man of life’s afternoon must find within himself.”
 – C. G. Jung, CW7 ~114

If you’re 65 or over and keen to participate in an informal group focused on our joys, fears, and everything in between about aging and being aged, this group is for you. We keep in mind Jung’s admonition: “For the ageing person it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to him- [her, them-] self.” Possible initial topic for first meeting, October 2nd: “Life in the pandemic.”

Recommended reading (3 minutes): Parker Palmer on Autumn, Aging, and Acceptance https://www.yesmagazine.org/orphan/2018/10/22/parker-palmer-on-autumn-aging-and-acceptance/

Teresa Arendell, PhD, IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. A college professor in sociology for over three decades, she’s held multiple postdoctoral fellowships. She’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Brunswick Maine Jung Center, the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in studies of families, genders, sexualities, aging, and qualitative research methods, and continues to work on a book-length manuscript exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness. She relishes life in Maine and seeks openness to and equanimity in the vagaries of life.

Facilitated by Cybele Brandow
Second Saturday every Month (Except October 10):
Starting September 12, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81898146363?pwd=WEtNQWVzVzF2aU5OMHFVMEdpRmRCdz09

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

A little more than thirty-two years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduringly popular programs ever on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics as diverse as world religion, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 60-minute segments together, then spend the second hour in informal discussion concerning what arose for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Campbell and Moyers.

Cybele Brandow is a student of late ancient Christian mysticism, biblical and general hermeneutics, and tarot. They are the current Coordinator of the Maine Jung Center as well as a writer of children’s nonsense literature that engages metaphorically with dreams, schizotypy, naming, gender cosmologies, dynamic identity, myth and fairy tale, and more. Cybele lives in South Portland atop a hill and is a devout admirer of their Seussian bungalow’s resident tortie, Persephone (‘Persy’ for short).

God Within: The Legacy of Christian Gnosticism
William Holt

Sunday, January 10, 17, & 24, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on January 9)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

Within a few years of Jesus’s Crucifixion proto-Christian communities were emerging across the Roman Empire. The most familiar to us, initiated by Peter and Paul, made the resurrection of Jesus central to human salvation and grew to become orthodox Christianity. Gnosticism, another understanding of Jesus’s meaning and our relation to God, developed in Alexandria in the same period. Blending a revised Creation myth with a Platonic cosmology, Jesus was seen as a wisdom teacher, an emissary from the highest heaven come to teach of the Divine with our soul. Their most eloquent teacher, Valentinus, went to Rome and tried to blend the two understandings. But he did not and the church fathers declared Gnosticism a heresy. This course, an updated version of Holt’s earlier courses at the Jung Center, will explore the context, the myths, some leading figures of early Christian Gnosticism, and why C. G. Jung was so attracted. His Seven Sermons is itself a Gnostic tract. Some time will also be spent looking at the very important Gospel of Thomas.

William Holt, MD, has presented many times at the Center on topics related to the Gnostics, the early history of Christianity, and Jung’s own Gnostic thinking. Bill is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and of Harvard Medical School. A retired ophthalmologist, he is a cofounder of the Eye Care Medical group in Portland. Religion and philosophy have been lifelong interests and he has indulged these with extensive reading over many years.

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

God Within: The Legacy of Christian Gnosticism
William Holt

Sunday, January 10, 17, & 24, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on January 9)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

Within a few years of Jesus’s Crucifixion proto-Christian communities were emerging across the Roman Empire. The most familiar to us, initiated by Peter and Paul, made the resurrection of Jesus central to human salvation and grew to become orthodox Christianity. Gnosticism, another understanding of Jesus’s meaning and our relation to God, developed in Alexandria in the same period. Blending a revised Creation myth with a Platonic cosmology, Jesus was seen as a wisdom teacher, an emissary from the highest heaven come to teach of the Divine with our soul. Their most eloquent teacher, Valentinus, went to Rome and tried to blend the two understandings. But he did not and the church fathers declared Gnosticism a heresy. This course, an updated version of Holt’s earlier courses at the Jung Center, will explore the context, the myths, some leading figures of early Christian Gnosticism, and why C. G. Jung was so attracted. His Seven Sermons is itself a Gnostic tract. Some time will also be spent looking at the very important Gospel of Thomas.

William Holt, MD, has presented many times at the Center on topics related to the Gnostics, the early history of Christianity, and Jung’s own Gnostic thinking. Bill is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and of Harvard Medical School. A retired ophthalmologist, he is a cofounder of the Eye Care Medical group in Portland. Religion and philosophy have been lifelong interests and he has indulged these with extensive reading over many years.

God Within: The Legacy of Christian Gnosticism
William Holt

Sunday, January 10, 17, & 24, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held Online via Zoom (link to go out to registrants on January 9)
Members $50, Non-Members $60

Within a few years of Jesus’s Crucifixion proto-Christian communities were emerging across the Roman Empire. The most familiar to us, initiated by Peter and Paul, made the resurrection of Jesus central to human salvation and grew to become orthodox Christianity. Gnosticism, another understanding of Jesus’s meaning and our relation to God, developed in Alexandria in the same period. Blending a revised Creation myth with a Platonic cosmology, Jesus was seen as a wisdom teacher, an emissary from the highest heaven come to teach of the Divine with our soul. Their most eloquent teacher, Valentinus, went to Rome and tried to blend the two understandings. But he did not and the church fathers declared Gnosticism a heresy. This course, an updated version of Holt’s earlier courses at the Jung Center, will explore the context, the myths, some leading figures of early Christian Gnosticism, and why C. G. Jung was so attracted. His Seven Sermons is itself a Gnostic tract. Some time will also be spent looking at the very important Gospel of Thomas.

William Holt, MD, has presented many times at the Center on topics related to the Gnostics, the early history of Christianity, and Jung’s own Gnostic thinking. Bill is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and of Harvard Medical School. A retired ophthalmologist, he is a cofounder of the Eye Care Medical group in Portland. Religion and philosophy have been lifelong interests and he has indulged these with extensive reading over many years.

Facilitated by Mary Kelley
Last Sunday of every Month: (Except October, meeting on October 31st)
Continuing September 27, 2020
2 to 4 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83520116849?pwd=L3kxSFVHYytZRlBTaG1VaE8zWEJxdz09

FREE for members and non-members; No pre-registration is necessary
(Donations Graciously Accepted)

We will explore fairy tales from around the world to see what we can learn about how these timeless tales illuminate psychic processes. Hearing and reading the stories can be entertaining and soothing. Interpreting them can unearth kernels of truth. Participants are encouraged to bring their love of stories.

Mary Kelley is a local psychotherapist, and a former member of the Maine Jung Center Board of Directors. She recently taught a class at the Center “Understanding Ourselves Through Fairy Tales”.

Facilitated by Cybele Brandow
Second Saturday every Month (Except October 10):
Starting September 12, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81898146363?pwd=WEtNQWVzVzF2aU5OMHFVMEdpRmRCdz09

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

A little more than thirty-two years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduringly popular programs ever on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics as diverse as world religion, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 60-minute segments together, then spend the second hour in informal discussion concerning what arose for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Campbell and Moyers.

Cybele Brandow is a student of late ancient Christian mysticism, biblical and general hermeneutics, and tarot. They are the current Coordinator of the Maine Jung Center as well as a writer of children’s nonsense literature that engages metaphorically with dreams, schizotypy, naming, gender cosmologies, dynamic identity, myth and fairy tale, and more. Cybele lives in South Portland atop a hill and is a devout admirer of their Seussian bungalow’s resident tortie, Persephone (‘Persy’ for short).

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Facilitated by Cybele Brandow
Second Saturday every Month (Except October 10):
Starting September 12, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81898146363?pwd=WEtNQWVzVzF2aU5OMHFVMEdpRmRCdz09

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

A little more than thirty-two years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduringly popular programs ever on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics as diverse as world religion, the virgin birth, and pop culture. Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

In this discussion group, each day we will watch one of the six, 60-minute segments together, then spend the second hour in informal discussion concerning what arose for each of us out of the images, thoughts, and dialogues shared by Campbell and Moyers.

Cybele Brandow is a student of late ancient Christian mysticism, biblical and general hermeneutics, and tarot. They are the current Coordinator of the Maine Jung Center as well as a writer of children’s nonsense literature that engages metaphorically with dreams, schizotypy, naming, gender cosmologies, dynamic identity, myth and fairy tale, and more. Cybele lives in South Portland atop a hill and is a devout admirer of their Seussian bungalow’s resident tortie, Persephone (‘Persy’ for short).

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.

Facilitated by Jeffrey Pinnette
Third Sunday every Month:
Starting September 20, 2020
10 am to 12 pm
Held online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486208410?pwd=aldSV25kaWJkVm1OYU5SQ2Qxc2kzZz09

FREE for members; No pre-registration is necessary

Required Text: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2005) by Ian McCallum

This discussion group will explore the concept of Ecological Intelligence through Ian McCallum’s book entitled Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.

A bestseller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence addresses the interconnectedness of all living things, drawing significantly on the author’s Jungian background. McCallum has stated the intent of the book is “toward a greater awareness of the privilege of what it means to be human…it is a wild and ethical imperative – an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land; that the history of every living creature is within us; that we are above all a mindful, poetic species and that we are the “keepers of our zoo”. If we cannot accept this then we will continue to be the creatures of our own undoing.” The book reflects on the evolution of life; the development of emotions, language, and consciousness; fields of influence; and a concept of ecological intelligence that is closely linked to a spiritual and poetic approach to our place in the natural order.

Ian McCallum is a Jungian analyst, medical doctor, wilderness guide, and poet – as well as a director of the Wilderness Foundation. He is the author of two anthologies of wilderness poems: Wild Gifts (1999), Untamed (2012) and a novel Thorns to Kilimanjaro (2000).

In this discussion group, we’ll read the book together during each session with no reading assignments.

Jeffrey Pinnette is the facilitator for this discussion group. He is a long-term Jung Center member and current serves on the Center’s Board as the Program Committee chair. He lives in Topsham.