GHOSTED: JUNG AND THE PARANORMAL Nashville Jung Circle 2022-10-28 | Ghosted: Jung and the Paranormal Oct. 23, 2022Presented by Nashville Jung Circle members Karen Harper, Ph.D. and Alan ScalponeUFOs, ghosts, faeries…such liminal, uncanny phenomena have been a part of humanity as far back as the record goes. C.G. Jung had a life-long psychological interest in the paranormal and documented many fascinating experiences of his own. Jung came to understand the rich field of strange occurrences as indelible parts of reality. They are “psychic facts” pointing the way to a deeper understanding of the Self. The paranormal can be eerie and unsettling; quite frequently it is thought-provoking, numinous and transcendental. Karen Harper Ph.D., LCSW, and Alan Scalpone host an online conversation about these strange borderlands of reality and the captivating stories that live there. For information about upcoming events, please visit www.nashvillejungcircle.org.
Circle the Labyrinth with Nashville Jung Circle Nashville Jung Circle 2023-11-21 | Nashville Jung Circle discussion about the labyrinth’s history and relationship to Jungian psychology, how to use a labyrinth walk as a meditation, and a discussion of the fantasy films “Labyrinth,” and “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice by Lauren Artress is wonderful companion book for this process. Recording from Sept. 10, 2023
Storytime with Robert Nashville Jung Circle 2023-11-14 | Nashville Jung Circle presents Nonnie Cullipher, M.Ed., an educator and former Executive Director of Journey into Wholeness, a southeastern-based organization that offered national and international conferences, vision quests, and workshops on Jungian psychology. For her book "Storytime with Robert: Robert Johnson Tells His Favorite Stories and Myths", Nonnie selected recordings of myths and fairy tales told by Robert Johnson at Journey into Wholeness events, asking noted Jungian analysts who were friends of Johnson's to introduce each story. This discussion will include personal stories about Robert Johnson and audios of him telling two of the stories.
Jung and the Tarot Nashville Jung Circle 2023-02-25 | Recorded January, 23, 3022, Nashville Jung Circle and Alan Scalpone presented Jung and the Tarot, an exploration into the history of Tarot and Jung's view on the topic. It wasn’t long ago that fortune telling with cards was an underground art, shrouded in mystery, practiced by the marginalized, notorious, or eccentric. Today, tarot has gone mainstream and there is a proliferation of decks and a wide-spread resurgence of interest in divination. Alan approaches the Tarot with respect to unconscious process, like dreaming, “a royal road into the unconscious,” tarot may be a way to pragmatically engage with the mysteries of the psyche to form a more durable relationship to the Self. Originally hailing from Chicago, Alan Scalpone is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who has played in dozens of bands and toured extensively in America and Europe. His eclectic musical career includes performance art, large scale theater works, film soundtracks, and studio work. Parallel to his music, Alan has maintained a life-long interest in the psychological, paranormal, and esoteric. Since arriving in Nashville in 2012, he has pursued this passion through the discovery of tarot and has subsequently given hundreds of readings at metaphysical shops, private gatherings, and school fairs. Alan has been lucky to have some very capable tarot mentors including T. Susan Chang and Nancy Antenucci. For more information about Alan, visit www.alanscalpone.com. To view upcoming events, please visit www.nashvillejungcircle.org.
Lionel Corbett & Nashville Jung Circle present Jungs Notion of the Self: An Emerging New God Image Nashville Jung Circle 2023-02-23 | Recorded Friday, February 17, 2023, this Zoom lecture with Dr. Lionel Corbett contrasts Jung’s notion of the Self as the God within with traditional theistic approaches to the divine and describe the range of ways in which the Self may appear within the psyche. Dr. Corbett discusses how Jung’s approach allows the development of a personal spirituality rather than one based on doctrine and dogma. Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett, the author of six books and numerous articles, is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology. His primary focus is on the religious function of the psyche.To learn more about Nashville Jung Circle and upcoming events, please go to www.nashvillejungcircle.org,
Intro to Group Dreamwork with Laura Huff Hileman, M.A., M.S Nashville Jung Circle 2023-02-20 | On January 12, 2023, Nashville Jung Circle and Laura Hillman presented an introduction to the art and soul of group dreamwork. This 90-minute session offered lively and insightful ways to work with metaphor, symbol, and dreams. Note: Projective group dreamwork is quite different from personal dream analysis. We focus on the dream, not the dreamer, and we approach the dream as we would a soul poem or a fairy tale from the Self. You will find each dream to offer deep significance for you, and you will learn ways to continue creative dreamwork on your own. However, this is not a therapeutic circle, and we honor good personal boundaries in our work - Laura H. HilemanThe group will be facilitated by Laura Huff Hileman, M.A., M.S., a former NJC Board member and a longtime dreamworker certified at the Haden Institute, where she now mentors. She offers other groups and dreamwork opportunities through her practice, Fire by Night Dreamwork. For one on one mentoring, or to join a dream group, contact Laura at www.firebynight.net. For upcoming Nashville Jung Circle events, please go to www.nashvillejungcircle.org. Original chrysalis photo by William Warby adapted for use flickr.com/photos/wwarby
Reimagining Masculinity From Complex and Cultural Trauma to Transcendence and Individuation Nashville Jung Circle 2022-11-14 | Nashville Jung Circle and Jungian psychotherapist Tony Caldwell, LCSW, delve into the complex topic of masculinity through a Jungian lens. Tony addressed the constellation of factors that inhibit human flourishing, starting with the socialization of boys and making our way through the lifespan. In this presentation we explored masculinity as a philosophical and psychological concept, as energetic expression, and as the product of familial considerations in the nurturing system, socialization experiences in the sustaining system, and social sanctioning on the regional and societal levels. We also addressed aspects of masculinity as they relate to, are informed by, and often perpetuate, transgenerational trauma, violence, oppression, repression, splitting, and the accumulation of collective shadow. To learn more about Nashville Jung Circle and upcoming events, please go to www.nashvillejungcircle.org.
Nashville Jung Circle Presents: Jung and Creativity with Dr James Newell Nashville Jung Circle 2022-10-16 | On Sept. 25, 2022, Dr. James Newell and Nashville Jung Circle presented "Jung and Creativity."For C.G. Jung, creativity is a natural process of the psyche. Creative activity can be healing for the individual and even transformational for both the individual and culture. In this presentation Dr. James Newell will discuss the distinction between creativity as a healing practice, creativity as craft, as art, and as high art. Any discussion of Jung and creativity must be understood in the context of Jung’s understanding of psychological maturation, or the process of individuation. As such, Dr. Newell’s presentation will include a discussion of individuation and its relation to the creative process. This presentation will also serve as an introduction to an eight week college-level course on Jung, Creativity, and the Arts offered this fall through the Depth Psychology Academy. James Newell, PhD, is an educator, professional musician, and the director of the Depth Psychology Alliance. James earned his master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling and Theology from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, with a focus on Jungian psychology. He earned his doctorate in History of Religions from the Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion. James has taught courses in world religions for Western Kentucky University, Central Michigan University, Excelsior College, and other schools. For the past several years he has been developing a certification program in depth psychology offered through the Depth Psychology Alliance.
Deep Blues Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey Nashville Jung Circle 2022-07-28 | This presentation by author and Jungian analyst Mark Winborn, Ph.D., NCPsyA, explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories – especially the interaction between Erich Neumann’s concept of unitary reality and the blues experience. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the music. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues.
What are You Dreaming? Nashville Jung Circle 2022-07-26 | April 24, 2022 presentation by Laura Hileman, MA, MS. In this time of increasing crisis and instability, what are you dreaming? We know that our nightly dreams wake us up to our personal individuation process. Jeremy Taylor writes that our dreams generate creativity and wholeness on collective levels, too: they mirror society as a whole, as well as our relationship to it. Furthermore, he claims that our dreams, and our conscious dreamwork, “foster and reflect the evolution of human consciousness.” This possibility offers a wild hope in a time of looming despair. Join Laura Huff Hileman, a Jungian-oriented dreamworker, for a conversation about the power of dreams in personal and collective individuation, then join a breakout group for optional sharing of your own dreams. We’ll conclude with a creative exercise to deepen your own dreamwork practice.
Earth Has a Soul Part 1 Nashville Jung Circle 2022-07-26 | Presented by Karen Harper, Ph.D., February 20, 2022, Nashville Jung Circle hosted part one of a two-part book discussion of The Earth has a Soul: C. G. Jung on Nature, Technology, and Modern Life. This compilation of Jung’s writings on Nature was selected and edited by Meredith Sabini from Jung’s published works, speeches, seminars, interviews, and letters. The book shows a more intimate, poetic side of Jung than his academic writings reveal and is a personal testament to his living out his theories through an embrace of the natural world. The overall theme is Jung’s concern for modern man’s loss of connection to Nature. Stating that civilization took a “wrong turn” as it evolved from a religious to a scientific viewpoint, Jung argues that advancements in technology have left humans with estrangement from the natural world, which he equates to losing a part of one’s soul.
The Earth Has A Soul Part 2 Nashville Jung Circle 2022-07-26 | Presented by Adele Tyler, M.S.S., March 20, 2022, Nashville Jung Circle hosted part two of our two-part discussion of The Earth has a Soul: C. G. Jung on Nature, Technology, and Modern Life.The overall theme is Jung’s concern for modern man’s loss of connection to Nature. Stating that civilization took a “wrong turn” as it evolved from a religious to a scientific viewpoint, Jung argues that advancements in technology have left humans with an estrangement from the natural world, which he equates to losing a part of one’s soul.
Nashville Jung Circle presents Jeanne Schul, Ph.D. and Accessing the Somatic Unconscious. Nashville Jung Circle 2021-12-14 | Nashville Jung Circle presents Jeanne Schul, Ph.D. and "Accessing the Somatic Unconscious." This concept of the somatic unconscious, developed from Jung himself and current somatic movement therapists, is that the body holds many repressed memories, injuries, insults, and traumas, which are not easily accessed through talk therapy. Accessing the somatic unconscious can be an important step in one's individuation process.For 23 years Dr. Jeanne Schul taught dance at Berry College and sereved as a choreographer for and Artistic Director of the Berry College Dance Troupe. She is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA and a trainer for Eastwest Somatics Institute. She received her doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where currently she is an adjunct professor. Jeanne has more than 30 years of experience making connections between soma, soul, and psyche in her teaching, choreography, and therapeutic work with dreams, dance, and yoga. In her private practice, she leads dream groups, Reiki and somatic movement therapy sessions, along with therapeutic yoga classes. Jeanne has also published numerous articles and national presentations on dance, dreams, and yogic chakras.
The Importance of the Body in Individuation, by Kathleen Wiley for Nashville Jung Circle Nashville Jung Circle 2021-10-22 | Jungian analyst, author, and speaker Kathleen Wiley will lead a discussion on embodiment from a Jungian perspective, with the title and details of the presentation to be determined. Speaking on embodiment from a variety of perspectives, some of her past presentations have included "Embodiment in the Virtual World," "Human Being: The Interweaving of Spirit and Matter," and"Embodiment: Honoring the Divine Feminine." Kathleen Wiley is a Jungian analyst, author, and speaker living in North Carolina, where she maintains a private practice with individuals. She is known for her accessible spirit and language in exploring complex Jungian concepts. She has a passion for illuminating stories of the Holy Bible with understandings of how our body, mind, and soul take shape in us. Her work focuses on empowering people to live from a conscious connection to the larger Self, also known as God Within. She is currently working on a new book, New Life: Emerging from the Darkness, Alchemical Transformation through the Scriptures. For more information on upcoming events, visit www.nashvillejungcircle.org.
Art and Mystery: an Overview of Jungs Red Book Nashville Jung Circle 2021-09-10 | Nashville Jung Circle Zoom presentation by Adele Tyler, M.S.S.What is this large, mysterious book, written and illustrated over many years in the early 1900’s by psychologist Carl Jung as a personal record of his “voluntary confrontation with the unconscious?” Is it a work of genius or the record of a descent into madness? Why was it locked in a bank vault and not published until 2009? And why did Jung, one of the founders of modern psychology, call his years working on this red leather-bound volume “the most important years in my life,” and the source of all of his later work until his death in 1961? We will explore these questions, disucss the newly published Black Books as the source material for the Red Book, and view the beautiful color illustrations and calligraphy that make the book a work of art.Presented by Adele Tyler, a founding member and past president of the Nashville Jung Circle and student of Jung’s work for thirty years. With a master’s degree in sociology and life coach certification through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, she has worked as a personal growth life coach and Myers-Briggs consultant. In addition, Adele has led workshops and taught USN evening classes on various aspects of Jungian psychology.Activities of the Nashville Jung Circle include lectures, workshops, book discussions, and film viewings. All events are based in Jungian psychology and led by qualified local or nationally known speakers. This group is open to all persons, both newcomers to Jungian psychology as well as those with some prior knowledge. All activities are offered for educational purposes only and do not constitute personal therapy for any participant.To learn more about Nashville Jung Circle and upcoming events, visit www.nashvillejungcircle.org.
Jerry Wright presents Jungian Psychology: A Modern Mystical Path Nashville Jung Circle 2021-05-27 | Jungian analyst Dr. Jerry Wright lead our discussion based on his newest book, A Mystical Path Less Traveled. Drawing on his personal journals, the Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung, and on various mystical traditions, Dr. Wright discussed a psychological mysticism that preceded, and now replaces, the historical theological mysticism that has been dependent on theistic images of god. Such images are no longer meaningful for many people – or necessary. He explores an alternative spiritual path that has the character of a grounded, embodied mysticism that honors the universal experiences of the numinous. Such a perspective could contribute to the healing of the deep divisions that tear at our cultural and political fabric, and which threaten our species and global nest.
