In Remembrance

Janet O. Dallett
1933-2010


Coming Event

October 22, 23, & 24, 2010
Friday, Saturday, Sunday

J. Gary Sparks
www.jgsparks.net

Friday Night Lecture October 22, 2010:

The Heart of a Scientist:
An Atomic Physicist’s
Ordeal of Matter and Meaning

The discovery of quantum physics in 1927 marks a revolution in Western understanding. Wolfgang Pauli, one of the new physics’ founders, began a life-long friendship with Jung in 1932. Throughout their lives the two men discussed the parallels between modern physics and Jung’s depth psychology of the unconscious.

The lecture surveys the resonant journeys of these pioneers, explores similarities in their creative discoveries, and considers the connection between matter and spirit they felt key to Western survival. In particular, “The Heart of a Scientist” investigates--as the backdrop to his dialogue with Jung--Pauli’s despair over the devastation his science had prepared for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With slides and discussion.

Saturday Workshop October 23, 2010:

Synchronicity
in Thought
and Deed

Jung deepened and extended Analytical Psychology’s basic concepts in light of his emerging synchronicity hypothesis. We will explore the evolution of Jung’s discovery into its final form, focusing on the reality of spirit in matter. Atomic physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s important contribution to Jung’s expanding perspective will also be considered as we seek a fuller appreciation of synchronicity in everyday life. We will also examine a range of synchronistic experiences from the analytic practice, encouraging participants to try their hand at developing--for their own personal journeys--a practical, working recognition of the living relation between spirit and matter. With slides, discussion, group activity.

Two Sunday Sermons
October 24, 2010:

The Shadow Side of God

All events to be held at
at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Port Townsend, WA

J. Gary Sparks is a graduate of Bucknell University, Pacific School of Religion and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich. He is editor of Edward Edinger’s Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets and co-editor of Edinger’s Science of Soul. He is the author of At the Heart of the Matter: Jung’s Spiritual Testament and Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz. He maintains an analytical practice in Indianapolis and lectures widely throughout the US and Canada.

Recommended Reading from
J. Gary Sparks
at
 Inner City Books

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AT THE HEART OF MATTER: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament
J. Gary Sparks

ISBN 9781894574204. Index 192 pp. 2007. $30.00

This is an extraordinary book. It is important both for its clarification of the phenomenon of synchronicity and for its implications for the survival of Western civilization.

The author, schooled in religious studies and science, takes readers gently through a basic understanding of physics, from classical Newtonian to modern quantum, and weds that to C.G. Jung’s long-standing enquiry into the enigmatic relationship between matter and spirit, selfhood and destiny.

Here we meet the conjunction in time of three great minds: Swiss psychiatrist Jung; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli; and the celebrated analyst-scholar Marie-Louise von Franz in their efforts to understand the mysterious interpenetration of time and the timeless.

The journey is exciting and illuminating, and certain to mark a watershed in an understanding of the individuation process and the evolving practice of analytical psychology as a holistic approach to healing psychological ills.

J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a former Peace Corps Korea Volunteer during the early 1970s and co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (2000). He is widely known in North America for his lectures and seminars on the significance and application of Jungian psychology. (See www.jgsparks.net.)
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VALLEY OF DIAMONDS: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz
J. Gary Sparks (Indianapolis)

ISBN 9781894574280. Index 192 pp. 2010. $30.00

During a serious illness in his sixties, C. G. Jung dreamed that he was in a valley of diamonds and could fill his pockets with them. He understood the diamonds to refer to all he had yet to say about the human psyche. But he realized that he could only show a fraction of what he had in his pockets. He lived on to write his major works, but one "diamond" left virtually untouched was the relationship between inner and outer, the mysterious interface between mind and matter. He believed the key to this conundrum lay in investigating the concept of numbers as archetypes of the unconscious, but he lacked the energy for it.

This was the great task Jung bequeathed to his long-standing colleague, Marie-Louise von Franz, who heartily took it on in her prodigious tome, Number and Time (1974), which thoughtfully explores the space-time continuum, the psychological significance of the first four integers, 1-4, and parallel developments in the world of physics. Her enquiry is a difficult book, but seminal in laying the groundwork for a new worldview based on numbers as they manifest in dreams, everyday life, science and synchronistic events.

J. Gary Sparks' masterful explication of Number and Time clarifies von Franz’s work and makes more accessible to all readers one of the proudly-faceted jewels Jung left as his legacy to genuine healing.

Valley of Diamonds is a fitting sequel to this author’s previous book, At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (Inner City Books, 2007).
J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (Inner City Books, 2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (Inner City Books, 2000).



Edward Edinger Interview

Edward Edinger’s final interview, conducted by Lawrence Jaffe on May 15, 1998, and published in

The Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice

is available free for viewing (and printing) from the
C.G. Jung Institute of New York.
It’s ten pages.

Edinger, who died July 17, 1998, describes how, by 1998, Jung had became less understood than he was at his death in 1961, how post-Jungians are better described as pre-Jungians, why Jung invokes intense projections, why he considers “Anatomy of the Psyche” his “most substantial sustained and fully organized contribution,” and he offers thoughts about Theodor Abt and James Hillman, the future of Jungian psychology, personalistic approaches to Jung, why Jung’s vision of the psyche is incompatible with that of personalistic theories, Eastern religion as often embraced in the west, the Book of Job, “life’s intention,” death, aging and the afterlife, the “Not Yet Transformed God,” the “offended God-image,” wrestling with the “onslaught of instinct,” seeing the reality of the psyche, the effect on him of his parents’ religion, his lack of interest in computers, how entertainment is “an infantilizing of the sacred drama and the function that it used to serve,” how sports are disconnected from their origin as sacred games, and why modern music fails to touch the depths.

“There will probably be little enclaves, little oases of small groups that try to hold onto the authentic Jung and they may not be fully professional groups either. But that’s just a guess.”
Edward Edinger, May 15, 1998

http://www.junginstitute.org/pdf_files/JungV1Fa99p51-60.pdf



Archive Issues of The Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, from its inception in 1999 through 2007, are available for viewing, for free, online at:
http://www.junginstitute.org/index.php/PageId/127/ParentPageId/9

The 2008 issues are available, for free, at:
http://www.junginstitute.org/index.php/PageId/79/ParentPageId/9

A free online subscription is available at:
http://www.junginstitute.org/listmessenger/public/listmessenger.php

“The Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice is one of the most widely read and respected journals of the international Jungian community.”


New in 2009 from Inner City Books
http://www.innercitybooks.net/

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125.AN AMERICAN JUNGIAN: In Honor of Edward F. Edinger
(Ed. George R. Elder and Dianne D. Cordic). Illustrated.
ISBN 9781894574266. 288 pages. Sewn. Index. 2009 $35
This extraordinary compilation brings together essays and reviews by Dr. Edinger together with appreciations by others of his work and interviews with him. None of it has previously been published in book form.
Edward F. Edinger was such a significant presence in the worldwide Jungian community that this volume can only begin to assess his greatness as an interpreter of Jung’s work and his dedication to the significance of Analytical psychology—but it well illustrates his worth.
Contents include:

  • Bibliography of Edinger books and electronic media
  • An American Jungian: Transcript of the acclaimed video, "A Conversation with Edinger," by Lawrence W. Jaffe
  • A Guide to the Writings of Edward F. Edinger, by Robin Robertson
  • Edinger Essays and Reviews:
    • An Outline of Analytical Psychology
    • Paracelsus and the Age of Aquarius       
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Naturalist of the Soul
    • Individuation: A Myth for Modern Man
    • The Question of a Jungian Community
    • Archetypal Patterns in Schizophrenia
      Tributes to M. Esther Harding, Eleanor Bertine,  Jung  and Marie-Louise von Franz
    • The Psyche and Global Unrest   

Upcoming Jerome Bernstein Lectures
April 17, 2010
The CG Jung Institute of San Francisco
Earth Day
Listening to the Psyche/ Listenting to the Earth
Johnson Dennison and Jerome Bernstein

August 2010
IAAP Congress Montreal Presentation: The Borderland Patient: Reintroducing Nature as the Missing Dimension in Clinical Treatment-What I learned from Navajo Medicine Men
Panel Discussion: Healing in a Multicultural World


Same Group, Different Name
In December 2008, The Edinger Society voted to change its name to The Jung Society of Port Townsend.
We still have enormous admiration for Edward F. Edinger and his classical approach to Jung’s work, but Jung and his work are the central focus and we decided that our name should be changed accordingly.
The Edinger Society name, however, remains as the name of the long-standing Edinger Society Reading Group which is currently engaged in a slow, deliberate, and reflective reading of Jung’s “Aion.”


NORTHWEST JUNGIAN EVENTS

Kindly see our “Coming NW Events” page for what is happening around the Northwest for 2009.