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It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
“The Harvest Moon,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s time again for our annual Members’ Eve and this year the focus is on harvesting, sharing, and sitting together at the common table. Throughout the evening we will also be hosting a silent auction. Come enjoy good food and drinks and place your bids on a piece of art, a week at a lake house, a relaxing massage, or something else equally delightful. All proceeds to benefit your Maine Jung Center.

We welcome members and their guests to join us under the harvest moon for lively conversation, food, and beverages. We look forward to seeing you!

Members will receive an invitation to this event. If you’re not already a member and want to attend, please join today!

OPTION 1
Three Tuesdays: October 3, 10, 17; 7 – 9 PM
Members $60, Non-Members $70

Life offers moments of what Rudolf Otto called the “numinous” – extraordinary encounters with the Holy Other. Invoking awe and dread, fascination and calling, these moments can prompt us to find new meaning and affect how we live life forward. Twelve-step programs’ reliance upon a Higher Power is but one indication of the significance of the numinous in healing.

We will examine three kinds of numinous experiences that are inner in nature: big dreams (of great importance individually or collectively), visions (as if we are dreaming while awake), and active imagination (C. G. Jung’s method of engaging the unconscious in order to learn from it). Striking examples will be given during the lecture, and others gone over in detail during the seminar. We will examine experiences from the lives of historical figures, such as Jung, Hildegard von Bingen, and Black Elk, as well as from our own lives and from the lives of our contemporaries.

Chris Beach, JD, Jungian analyst, has a private practice in Portland, Maine. He works with individuals, facilitates dream groups, and teaches courses on dream interpretation, psychological type, Jungian psychology, active imagination and ethics. Formerly, Chris served first as a teacher and headmaster in Kenya and later as a Maine assistant attorney general covering health care legal matters.

One Sunday/Saturday per Month: October 8, November 12, December 9, 2017
*Spring dates will be announced at a later point*

Required Text: Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World, ed., Martin Keogh. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic.

In this discussion group, we explore together selected essays from this exceptionally good anthology which features short essays by a number of leading writers, activists, religious figures and indigenous leaders engaged in the ecology movement. The writers offer perspectives and strategies for finding hope and creating change in ourselves, our communities, and the world. We draw on Jungian contributions to understanding the Nature and Psyche relationship, using these to bring together psychology and environmental science, ecological reflections, and activist strategies. As the volume’s editor Martin Keogh states, “We can thrive on the body of this earth only when we stop seeing the earth and its inhabitants as separate from ourselves and our survival. Every living being is part of the remedy.”

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. 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 exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness, and working to integrate Jung’s Analytical Psychology with Deep Ecology. She’s working on a volume titled, Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

OPTION 1
Three Tuesdays: October 3, 10, 17; 7 – 9 PM
Members $60, Non-Members $70

Life offers moments of what Rudolf Otto called the “numinous” – extraordinary encounters with the Holy Other. Invoking awe and dread, fascination and calling, these moments can prompt us to find new meaning and affect how we live life forward. Twelve-step programs’ reliance upon a Higher Power is but one indication of the significance of the numinous in healing.

We will examine three kinds of numinous experiences that are inner in nature: big dreams (of great importance individually or collectively), visions (as if we are dreaming while awake), and active imagination (C. G. Jung’s method of engaging the unconscious in order to learn from it). Striking examples will be given during the lecture, and others gone over in detail during the seminar. We will examine experiences from the lives of historical figures, such as Jung, Hildegard von Bingen, and Black Elk, as well as from our own lives and from the lives of our contemporaries.

Chris Beach, JD, Jungian analyst, has a private practice in Portland, Maine. He works with individuals, facilitates dream groups, and teaches courses on dream interpretation, psychological type, Jungian psychology, active imagination and ethics. Formerly, Chris served first as a teacher and headmaster in Kenya and later as a Maine assistant attorney general covering health care legal matters.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

OPTION 1
Three Tuesdays: October 3, 10, 17; 7 – 9 PM
Members $60, Non-Members $70

Life offers moments of what Rudolf Otto called the “numinous” – extraordinary encounters with the Holy Other. Invoking awe and dread, fascination and calling, these moments can prompt us to find new meaning and affect how we live life forward. Twelve-step programs’ reliance upon a Higher Power is but one indication of the significance of the numinous in healing.

We will examine three kinds of numinous experiences that are inner in nature: big dreams (of great importance individually or collectively), visions (as if we are dreaming while awake), and active imagination (C. G. Jung’s method of engaging the unconscious in order to learn from it). Striking examples will be given during the lecture, and others gone over in detail during the seminar. We will examine experiences from the lives of historical figures, such as Jung, Hildegard von Bingen, and Black Elk, as well as from our own lives and from the lives of our contemporaries.

Chris Beach, JD, Jungian analyst, has a private practice in Portland, Maine. He works with individuals, facilitates dream groups, and teaches courses on dream interpretation, psychological type, Jungian psychology, active imagination and ethics. Formerly, Chris served first as a teacher and headmaster in Kenya and later as a Maine assistant attorney general covering health care legal matters.

OPTION 2
Wednesday, October 18; 9 AM – 4 PM
Members $60, Non-Members $70

Life offers moments of what Rudolf Otto called the “numinous” – extraordinary encounters with the Holy Other. Invoking awe and dread, fascination and calling, these moments can prompt us to find new meaning and affect how we live life forward. Twelve-step programs’ reliance upon a Higher Power is but one indication of the significance of the numinous in healing.

We will examine three kinds of numinous experiences that are inner in nature: big dreams (of great importance individually or collectively), visions (as if we are dreaming while awake), and active imagination (C. G. Jung’s method of engaging the unconscious in order to learn from it). Striking examples will be given during the lecture, and others gone over in detail during the seminar. We will examine experiences from the lives of historical figures, such as Jung, Hildegard von Bingen, and Black Elk, as well as from our own lives and from the lives of our contemporaries.

Chris Beach, JD, Jungian analyst, has a private practice in Portland, Maine. He works with individuals, facilitates dream groups, and teaches courses on dream interpretation, psychological type, Jungian psychology, active imagination and ethics. Formerly, Chris served first as a teacher and headmaster in Kenya and later as a Maine assistant attorney general covering health care legal matters.

Lecture
Friday, October 20; 7 – 9 PM
FREE to Members and Non-Members

Links between order and disorder take many forms in the psyche, but the Order-Disorder Paradox (ODP) stands out; it is ubiquitous both in everyday life and psychotherapy.

For instance, have you ever thought long and hard about a problem until you reached a solution that satisfied you, only to be depressed the next day, with no confidence in your decision, as though the time you’d spent thinking was
wasted? Or have you ever achieved something important only to feel much worse than before your triumph?

Nathan Schwartz-Salant will discuss the origin of the Order-Disorder Paradox, and will demonstrate this through scientific and mythological points of view that help reveal the mystery and transformative value of disorder in our lives.

Lydia Salant will present her own approach to the ODP, and will share a clinical example from her practice. She will demonstrate its containing power, and highlight the role of a newly evolving form of human awareness that is intimately related to actively engaging the ODP in one’s psychic life.

Friday’s presentation will focus on Jung’s “visions” following a heart attack in 1944.

In Saturday’s workshop, in which audience participation will be welcomed, the ODP will be elaborated with clinical, mythological, and alchemical material.

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D.
Nathan is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland (1970), also holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences. In this lecture, based upon the subject matter of his latest book, The Order-Disorder Paradox, Nathan blends rational-scientific approaches, mythological consciousness and the aperspectival awareness—a fourth dimensional consciousness introduced by philosopher Jean Gebser in 1949. He has been a psychoanalyst for the last 50 years, practicing for over forty years in New York City and in New Jersey. He is married to Lydia Salant who shares this presentation with him, contributes clinical material, and, especially, the aperspectival point of view.

Lydia Salant, M.A.
Lydia holds a M.A. from Harvard University. She has taught Russian language and literature at Harvard, Columbia University and the City University of New York for ten years. During this time she was also coming to terms with her psychic abilities, which centered around being able to “read” other people’s emotional bodies. She had seven years of intensive Jungian analysis with several analysts and studied psychology at the New School and New York University. Always interested in bodywork, and as a supplement to the psychic readings, which were burgeoning into a practice, Lydia enrolled at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where she studied acupuncture and Chinese herbs, earning an M.A. and graduating in 2000 as a licensed acupuncturist. Today, she works primarily as a psychic therapist and is writing on the therapeutic method she has developed.

Together, Lydia and Nathan have three grown children and three grandchildren. They have worked together giving lectures, doing supervision workshops in Princeton University, Toronto, Canada, and Russia. They currently reside in Blue Hill, Maine.

Workshop
Saturday, October 21; 9 AM – 1 PM
Members $40, Non-Members $50

Links between order and disorder take many forms in the psyche, but the Order-Disorder Paradox (ODP) stands out; it is ubiquitous both in everyday life and psychotherapy.

For instance, have you ever thought long and hard about a problem until you reached a solution that satisfied you, only to be depressed the next day, with no confidence in your decision, as though the time you’d spent thinking was
wasted? Or have you ever achieved something important only to feel much worse than before your triumph?

Nathan Schwartz-Salant will discuss the origin of the Order-Disorder Paradox, and will demonstrate this through scientific and mythological points of view that help reveal the mystery and transformative value of disorder in our lives.

Lydia Salant will present her own approach to the ODP, and will share a clinical example from her practice. She will demonstrate its containing power, and highlight the role of a newly evolving form of human awareness that is intimately related to actively engaging the ODP in one’s psychic life.

Friday’s presentation will focus on Jung’s “visions” following a heart attack in 1944.

In Saturday’s workshop, in which audience participation will be welcomed, the ODP will be elaborated with clinical, mythological, and alchemical material.

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D.
Nathan is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland (1970), also holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences. In this lecture, based upon the subject matter of his latest book, The Order-Disorder Paradox, Nathan blends rational-scientific approaches, mythological consciousness and the aperspectival awareness—a fourth dimensional consciousness introduced by philosopher Jean Gebser in 1949. He has been a psychoanalyst for the last 50 years, practicing for over forty years in New York City and in New Jersey. He is married to Lydia Salant who shares this presentation with him, contributes clinical material, and, especially, the aperspectival point of view.

Lydia Salant, M.A.
Lydia holds a M.A. from Harvard University. She has taught Russian language and literature at Harvard, Columbia University and the City University of New York for ten years. During this time she was also coming to terms with her psychic abilities, which centered around being able to “read” other people’s emotional bodies. She had seven years of intensive Jungian analysis with several analysts and studied psychology at the New School and New York University. Always interested in bodywork, and as a supplement to the psychic readings, which were burgeoning into a practice, Lydia enrolled at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where she studied acupuncture and Chinese herbs, earning an M.A. and graduating in 2000 as a licensed acupuncturist. Today, she works primarily as a psychic therapist and is writing on the therapeutic method she has developed.

Together, Lydia and Nathan have three grown children and three grandchildren. They have worked together giving lectures, doing supervision workshops in Princeton University, Toronto, Canada, and Russia. They currently reside in Blue Hill, Maine.

Sunday, October 22; 1 – 3 PM
Members $20, Non-Members $30

What is addiction?

Is it a brain disease, a disease of desire, a moral failing, a crime, a vice, a coping skill, self-medication, a behavior disorder, bad genes, bad choices, bad company? Mary has been working solely in addiction for 10 years now and still doesn’t know the answer.

In this talk we’ll look at addiction from many different perspectives. We’ll look at it through the lens of poetry and literature and try to understand what it means in our culture.

Mary Dowd is a physician specializing in addiction in the homeless population in Portland Maine. She works in detox and at various addiction clinics and sometimes does a stint at the county jail. She is married and has four grown children. Her poems have appeared in obscure and sometimes defunct literary journals. She has led poetry workshops for the Transformational Language Arts Network at Goddard College and The Examined Life Conference in Iowa. For many years she led a workshop reading and writing poetry with men in long term treatment for addiction at Milestone Foundation. Her collection of poems, “The Heroin Diaries,” is scheduled to come out later this year. She is a lapsed medievalist and a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society.

Four Tuesdays, October 24, 31, & November 7, 14; 7 – 9 PM
Members $80, Non-Members $90
Maximum Participants: 15

In the same way that the body needs food … the psyche needs to know the meaning of its existence—not just any meaning, but the meaning of those images and ideas which reflect its nature and which originate in the unconscious. – C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 13, par. 476

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this introduction to Jung’s Analytical Psychology, we explore the Psychology’s basic concepts and theories. Among these are: consciousness and the ego; the unconscious – archetypes and complexes; individuation and the Self; life course development; symbols; dreams, fairy tales, and mythologies; the religious function of the psyche. We examine Jung’s contributions to psychotherapy and his understanding of the spiritual problems of modern humankind. We ponder the relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for today’s social and ecological problems.

Jung was a brilliant and prolific writer. From among his many publications, we’ll use as our primary readings: Carl G. Jung, “Approaching the Unconscious,” part 1 in Man and His Symbols; Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffe (a memoir); Anthony Stevens, On Jung, pp. 201-220. Strongly recommended: The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. Princeton Univ. Press (foreword by Shamdasani) [one text, 2010].

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston. A college professor in sociology and gender studies for more than three decades, she’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, Brunswick, the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in academic fields 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: Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Sunday, October 29; 6 – 8 PM
Members $15, Non-Members $20

I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
I went to the window to see the sight;
All the Dead that ever I knew
Going one by one and two by two.

– “A Dream” by William Allingham

On Halloween, the Irish believed that there was only a thin veil separating this world from the Otherworld. We will take this opportunity to share Irish ghost stories by candlelight.

Carl Jung asks the question of tales such as myths, fairy tales, ghost stories: What is the real reason why the same old stores are experienced and repeated over and over again? We will explore this question as we look at ghost stories in Irish Myth, Legend and Folklore edited by W.B. Yeats. It will be an evening of mystery, fun, and exploration, as we go through the stories one by one.

Mary Kelley is a Psychotherapist in Brunswick and past Co-Chair of the Maine Jung Center. She has extensive experience as a trainer in community mental health. She is also an Irish American.

Four Tuesdays, October 24, 31, & November 7, 14; 7 – 9 PM
Members $80, Non-Members $90
Maximum Participants: 15

In the same way that the body needs food … the psyche needs to know the meaning of its existence—not just any meaning, but the meaning of those images and ideas which reflect its nature and which originate in the unconscious. – C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 13, par. 476

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this introduction to Jung’s Analytical Psychology, we explore the Psychology’s basic concepts and theories. Among these are: consciousness and the ego; the unconscious – archetypes and complexes; individuation and the Self; life course development; symbols; dreams, fairy tales, and mythologies; the religious function of the psyche. We examine Jung’s contributions to psychotherapy and his understanding of the spiritual problems of modern humankind. We ponder the relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for today’s social and ecological problems.

Jung was a brilliant and prolific writer. From among his many publications, we’ll use as our primary readings: Carl G. Jung, “Approaching the Unconscious,” part 1 in Man and His Symbols; Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffe (a memoir); Anthony Stevens, On Jung, pp. 201-220. Strongly recommended: The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. Princeton Univ. Press (foreword by Shamdasani) [one text, 2010].

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston. A college professor in sociology and gender studies for more than three decades, she’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, Brunswick, the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in academic fields 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: Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Saturday, November 4; 9 AM – 1 PM
Members $40, Non-Members $50
Maximum Participants: 12

Whatever our age, each of us is on a pilgrimage filled with personal and collective crossroads and thresholds… calls to new life and questions about what needs to be put down. A “threshold” may be change that has happened… or something you are amidst… or something that is emerging, but not yet clear. Some are chosen; others come about because of a change in circumstance.

Whatever the origin, thresholds bring change and invitation, wonder and sometimes worry. But always they ask for engagement in service to the lifelong call of individuation. Deep listening, patient exploration, trust and curiosity are but some of our tools to answer the call.

This workshop will blend lively lectures with art process, journaling, poetry, and discussion to give each participant various ways to listen deeply to their own thresholds and the calls of the psyche embedded in them.

Nancy Collins teaches Behavioral Health and Human Services classes at Southern Maine Community College. She has a M.S. in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Education.

Nina Frost is a vocational counselor and spiritual director in private practice for over 20 years in New York City and Virginia working with individuals in mid-life and later life transitions. Certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, she has also studied extensively at the Jung Center in NYC and at Jung on the Hudson. She has an M.A. in Spiritual Direction, as well as a B.A. in English from Yale University. She is a co-author of the book, Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery.

Debbie Ryon is both an engineer and an artist. She is an experienced group facilitator using art process to foster inner work. She has been leading creativity and spirituality themed workshops, book groups and retreats for over ten years on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Four Tuesdays, October 24, 31, & November 7, 14; 7 – 9 PM
Members $80, Non-Members $90
Maximum Participants: 15

In the same way that the body needs food … the psyche needs to know the meaning of its existence—not just any meaning, but the meaning of those images and ideas which reflect its nature and which originate in the unconscious. – C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 13, par. 476

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this introduction to Jung’s Analytical Psychology, we explore the Psychology’s basic concepts and theories. Among these are: consciousness and the ego; the unconscious – archetypes and complexes; individuation and the Self; life course development; symbols; dreams, fairy tales, and mythologies; the religious function of the psyche. We examine Jung’s contributions to psychotherapy and his understanding of the spiritual problems of modern humankind. We ponder the relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for today’s social and ecological problems.

Jung was a brilliant and prolific writer. From among his many publications, we’ll use as our primary readings: Carl G. Jung, “Approaching the Unconscious,” part 1 in Man and His Symbols; Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffe (a memoir); Anthony Stevens, On Jung, pp. 201-220. Strongly recommended: The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. Princeton Univ. Press (foreword by Shamdasani) [one text, 2010].

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston. A college professor in sociology and gender studies for more than three decades, she’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, Brunswick, the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in academic fields 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: Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Saturday, November 11; 1 – 4 PM
Members $30, Non-Members $40
Materials Fee: $5

Are you wondering about the next step you should take in life?

Do you have questions that have been burning for some time without satisfactory resolution?

By playing around with tissue paper collage, we will each let our instincts guide us toward shapes and colors, which we’ll lay onto a poster board surface and brush over with a gloss medium. After we’ve made several pieces, we’ll read and interpret what the images are telling us. The process will include readings, short discussions, and an opportunity to share what has been discovered.
The tissue paper collage method was originally developed by the late Jungian analyst, Edith Wallace.

Susan Deborah King, MDiv, is a poet, teacher, retreat leader and consultant. She has published six books of poetry and two anthologies, the latest two being Dropping into the Flower and Out of the Depths, Poetry of Poverty – Courage and Resilience. King received training at the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco and Temenos Institute, in Westport, CT. She sees clients who are stuck or at a crossroads, using a process she developed called “Divination”, which incorporates poetry and art. King and her husband moved to Maine two years ago from Minneapolis.

One Sunday/Saturday per Month: October 8, November 12, December 9, 2017
*Spring dates will be announced at a later point*

Required Text: Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World, ed., Martin Keogh. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic.

In this discussion group, we explore together selected essays from this exceptionally good anthology which features short essays by a number of leading writers, activists, religious figures and indigenous leaders engaged in the ecology movement. The writers offer perspectives and strategies for finding hope and creating change in ourselves, our communities, and the world. We draw on Jungian contributions to understanding the Nature and Psyche relationship, using these to bring together psychology and environmental science, ecological reflections, and activist strategies. As the volume’s editor Martin Keogh states, “We can thrive on the body of this earth only when we stop seeing the earth and its inhabitants as separate from ourselves and our survival. Every living being is part of the remedy.”

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. 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 exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness, and working to integrate Jung’s Analytical Psychology with Deep Ecology. She’s working on a volume titled, Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Four Tuesdays, October 24, 31, & November 7, 14; 7 – 9 PM
Members $80, Non-Members $90
Maximum Participants: 15

In the same way that the body needs food … the psyche needs to know the meaning of its existence—not just any meaning, but the meaning of those images and ideas which reflect its nature and which originate in the unconscious. – C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 13, par. 476

Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this introduction to Jung’s Analytical Psychology, we explore the Psychology’s basic concepts and theories. Among these are: consciousness and the ego; the unconscious – archetypes and complexes; individuation and the Self; life course development; symbols; dreams, fairy tales, and mythologies; the religious function of the psyche. We examine Jung’s contributions to psychotherapy and his understanding of the spiritual problems of modern humankind. We ponder the relevance of Jung’s Analytical Psychology for today’s social and ecological problems.

Jung was a brilliant and prolific writer. From among his many publications, we’ll use as our primary readings: Carl G. Jung, “Approaching the Unconscious,” part 1 in Man and His Symbols; Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffe (a memoir); Anthony Stevens, On Jung, pp. 201-220. Strongly recommended: The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams. Princeton Univ. Press (foreword by Shamdasani) [one text, 2010].

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston. A college professor in sociology and gender studies for more than three decades, she’s taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, Brunswick, the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, and other Jungian associations. She’s published widely in academic fields 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: Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Sunday, November 19; 1 – 4 PM
Members $15, Non-Members $20

Psychology gives you new ways to look at old situations. Psychological work has to do not only with “seeing” but also with what Jungian psychologist James Hillman referred to as, “seeing through.” This is a process of deepening, of going from the visible to the less visible. It assumes that what is hidden is perhaps of more value than what is obvious.

This workshop will focus on how much more exciting and colorful life can be with the development of the ability to “see through.” It will be illuminated by a number of stories that Hal had the privilege to experience over the course of his career. Being a psychologist requires a particular focus, but a similar focus can be developed by anyone who is psychologically minded. Particular emphasis will be given to what Hal refers to as “Companions for Life.”

Hal Henderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and was Director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program at Bowling Green State University. He was licensed as a psychologist in both Ohio and Maine and worked in private practice in both states. Hal entered the field of psychology during a dynamic time. His work was influenced by Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, and many of the Humanistic Psychologists. Hal is a journal keeper and over the years has recorded his thoughts about psychological situations in the clinic, classroom, and in life. It is through his work and the journals that he came to see that he has acquired many Companions for Life!

Sunday, December 3; 1 – 4 PM
Members $30, Non-Members $40

In this workshop we will allow nature, poetry, and a quiet, supportive space to shape our thoughts as we write our own path to peace. Short readings, colorful art works, and writing prompts will help participants create a poem, journal entry, or another collage of words. We’ll put our feelings on the page and transform them, in a supportive atmosphere, as we employ the power of language to cast our individual futures in a new light and listen to others who will be doing the same.

Ann Van Buren is a writer and teacher whose poems and writing about poetry have been featured in The Westchester Review, The Rumpus, THE Magazine, and other journals. She holds degrees from Columbia University, New York University, and the Palmer School of Library Sciences. She leads poetry workshops in the U.S. and abroad and she is a member of the Poetry Caravan, an organization in Westchester County, NY that brings poetry to people confined to medical facilities.

One Sunday/Saturday per Month: October 8, November 12, December 9, 2017
*Spring dates will be announced at a later point*

Required Text: Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World, ed., Martin Keogh. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic.

In this discussion group, we explore together selected essays from this exceptionally good anthology which features short essays by a number of leading writers, activists, religious figures and indigenous leaders engaged in the ecology movement. The writers offer perspectives and strategies for finding hope and creating change in ourselves, our communities, and the world. We draw on Jungian contributions to understanding the Nature and Psyche relationship, using these to bring together psychology and environmental science, ecological reflections, and activist strategies. As the volume’s editor Martin Keogh states, “We can thrive on the body of this earth only when we stop seeing the earth and its inhabitants as separate from ourselves and our survival. Every living being is part of the remedy.”

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Maine-based Jungian analyst. 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 exploring the significance of Jungian thought and practice in climate change and the wild and wilderness, and working to integrate Jung’s Analytical Psychology with Deep Ecology. She’s working on a volume titled, Jung, Nature, Psyche – and the Wild.

Sunday, December 10; 2 – 4 PM
Members $20, Non-Members $30

For many artists, the “what-to-paint-dilemma” is, at best, haunting and at worst, it threatens to derail our creative pursuits altogether. Fortunately, we can find answers and inspiration in one of the unlikeliest places—in what Carl Jung calls a “confrontation with the unconscious.”

In letting go of conventional methods of thinking about what to create, Betsy Cook’s experience has instead led her to surrender to a process that can best be understood as an excavation of sorts—a diving into the depths that characterize the unconscious.

With this presentation, we will discuss Betsy’s creative approach, using examples from her work to share her personal “confrontation with the unconscious.”

Materials and inspiration will then be offered up to audience members, encouraging them to have a taste of creating likewise.

Betsy Cook, an INFJ Libra sun, Pisces Moon & Virgo rising, is an artist of many passions. In addition to cooking, as her name implies, her loves include: color, texture, encaustic mixed media collage, calligraphy, fibers, knitting, crocheting plastic bags, chocolate making, designing inspired interiors, baking, sewing, embroidery, oil painting, mosaic-making, flower essences, Kabala, yoga, Jungian analysis, MBTI, shih tzus, tandem cycling and her 8th grade sweetheart whom she married 40 years ago. She is a mother of two, grandmother of one, and a full-time artist who makes her work and home in Hallowell, Maine and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Sunday, December 17; 2 – 4 PM
Members $20, Non-Members $30
Maximum Participants: 6

Astrology, like the collective unconscious with which psychology is concerned, consists of symbolic configurations: The “planets” are the gods, symbols of the powers of the unconscious. – C. G. Jung, Letters, Vol. II.

Join this small group discussion of astrological charts and their application in the individuation process. We are all complex beings and our natal charts confirm this! Our charts provide great insight that can help define the different and often conflicting aspects of our personalities.

While there are many dimensions to the natal chart, this introduction will focus on the Rising, Sun, Moon, and Mars signs.

Registrants paying two weeks in advance of the class will receive a copy of their natal chart, to bring to the class as a reference during the discussion. Registrants will need to provide their email, place of birth, DOB, and—if known—the exact time of birth as listed on their birth record.

Peggy Schick is a longtime student of astrology who finds natal charts to be a fascinating and useful tool for understanding psychological behavior. She enjoys sharing this insight with others who are on a quest for a deeper understanding of themselves and those with whom they are in relationship. She is Co-Chair of the Board of the Maine Jung Center.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.

Third Sunday of the Month:
October 15, November 19, December 17, 2017, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 20

Required Text:  Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World Order, by Richard Tarnas. Penguin Publishing Group, 2007.

In Cosmos and Psyche, Dr. Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, he explores the planetary correlations of events like the French Revolution, the world wars & 9/11.

In this book discussion group, we will explore the causal connection between the outer world and the human psyche, the synchronicity of planetary alignments and patterns of human history.

As an added bonus, Dr. Tarnas will join us via Skype toward the end of our readings for a lively discussion on his book!

Jeff Pinnette is a long-time member of the Center who served on the Board for six years including two as Board chair and four as Program Committee chair.