Donald L. “Skip” Conover will lead a weekly reading group on the Collected Works of Dr. Carl G. Jung. This reading group will begin with some of the basic concepts of Jungian Psychology, including individuation, personality types, archetypes, the collective unconscious, psychic energy in the opposites, synchronicity, and Dr. Jung’s views on various “mystical” divination techniques, such as The Tarot, séances, and the I-Ching. After we have completed some of the basic texts for laymen, including _Man and His Symbols_, and _Memories, Dreams, Reflections_, we will move into a couple of general books about Dr. Jung’s work, including _Women Who Run with the Wolves_ by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, _Goddesses in Everywoman_ and _Gods in Everyman_ by Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, _Psychic Energy_ by Dr. Esther Harding, and _The Origins and History of Consciousness_ by Dr. Erich Neumann.
Dream Centre at Phuzamoya Howick – Dr. Ian Player’s farm hosts monthly Jungian events. Check their website for more information or email Sheila Berry for more information.
Gauteng Jung Development Group – This group has regular talks and presentations. For more information email Ann Hofmeyr
Gauteng Jung Interest Group – You can join this group on Linked In
Jungian Developing Groups
– This is an international list with emails and contact details for Developing Groups.
International Association for Analytical Psychology Societies – International list of IAAP Societies with links to their websites.
Jungian Societies – This is an international list of Jungian Societies with links to their websites
The International Association for Jungian Studies – This website links International Jungian Associations and Centers.
JUNGIAN DISCUSSION GROUPS
Archetypal Psychology Meetup Groups – Search for Archetypal Psychology discussion groups in your community.
Ashville Jung Center : A Global Community – An international community exploring the riches of Jungian thought
Carl Jung Meetups – Search for Jungian discussion groups in your community.
Jungian Dreamwork Meetups – Search for groups working with dreams in your community.
C.G. Jung Club London – Offers lectures, conferences, seminars and reading groups.
Jungian Reading Group – Melbourne
FACEBOOK GROUPS
Centre of Applied Jungian Studies
Carl Jung Depth Psychology
C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado
C.G. Jung Society of Vancouver
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Jungian Therapists Online
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Depth Psychology Online Book Club
About the Book Club
Join members of Depth Psychology Alliance and likeminded others for an exciting program in the Jungian Psychology and Depth Psychology Community!–the online depth psychology book club. (Click here to Join)
Each individual Book Club is “tended” by the author who takes charge of the group on the 1st day of the designated month by sharing a personal introduction to the book–why they wrote it, what was the process of writing like, what themes to expect, what questions to keep in mind while reading, etc., and then promoting discussion and answering written questions and comments from the group.
Book clubs occur intermittently. Please check in at www.DepthPsychologyAlliance.com and/or enroll in our mailing list to keep abreast of new offerings.
ARCHIVED: September 2013
BOOK: Isis Code: Revelations from Brain Research and Systems Science on the Search for Human Perfection and Happiness
AUTHOR: Ariane Page
The book uses an Ancient Egyptian legend and the Five Books of Moses as well as hundreds of recent results from brain research to bring this code into broad light. Author ArianePage shows how, through our quest for love and happiness, our inner Isis attempts to reconnect, harmonize and blow life into our different levels of human expression so we can truly be.
By combining systems science and the study of the brain, Isis Code provides also insight into the direction evolution is now taking to allow humanity to reach its potential. Learn more and find out how to participate here.
Now Archived, including 4 weekly teleconference Q&A session with David Schoen…
ARCHIVED: January 2013
Depth Psychology Online Book Club Selection:
“The War of the Gods in Addiction: C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil”
by David E. Schoen (Spring Publications)
MORE DETAILS about the January selection
The Depth Psychology Alliance Book Club operates as an open forum. Everything is done via writing within the group so you can participate at whatever schedule and level works for you.
Each new book starts the first day of the designated month with with an introductory post from the author, and you can ask questions or make comments at will.
Each week, the author will assign selected readings and pose study questions. They will be on call to monitor progress, field questions online, point out certain themes, comment on select passages, draw out correlations with current events, and more throughout the month.
You will have the opportunity to hear from each new author a few weeks before the launch of his or her book in a radio conversation, giving you ample time to order the book and read along.
Some authors will be offering a 60 minute teleseminar or webinar during the latter half of their month. In order to help cover some of the costs to bring you this free program, there will be a $10 charge for the teleseminars–but we hope you will find this well worth the investment to move more deeply into the material and get to know each author better as they share their work with us. Dates for the teleseminars will be announced at the beginning of each month for participating authors.
Click here (or see below) for an overview of upcoming and past archived written book club group discussions of Depth Psychology Authors! Note: Many of these have corresponding audio inteviews for Depth Insights radio which you can download for free
2013
SEPTEMBER 2013
Author: Ariane Page
Book: ISIS CODE: : Revelations from Brain Research and Systems Science on the Search for Human Perfection and Happiness
JANUARY 2013
Author: David Schoen
Book: The War of the Gods in Addiction
2012
JANUARY
Author: Sandy Nathan
Book: Numenon: A Tale of Mysticism & Money
FEBRUARY
Author: Erel Shalit
Book: The Cycle of Life: Themes and Tales of the Journey MARCH
Author: Michael Conforti
Book: Field Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche APRIL
Author: Ken Kimmel
Book: Reading Eros and the Shattering Gaze: Transcending Narcissism MAY
Author: Thom Cavalli
Book: Embodying Osiris, the Secrets of Alchemical Transformation JUNE
Author: Craig Chalquist
Book: Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled JULY
Authors: Patricia Damery & Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Book: Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way AUGUST
Author: Mark Winborn
Book: Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey SEPTEMBER
Author: Elizabeth Clark-Stern
Book: Soul Stories: Safari to Mara and Aria of the Horned Toad OCTOBER
Author: Paul Watsky
Book: Telling The Difference NOVEMBER
Author: Barry Spector
Book: Madness at the Gates: The Myth of American Innocence DECEMBER
Author: Tom Stevens
Book: Lilith:The Last Temptation Of Adam
Jungian Book Discussion
Jungian Book Discussion
As are many today, we in the Jung Book Club are “Zooming” along! I am pleased to announce that we have also resumed in-person meetings which we conduct as hybrid Zoom meetings. The in-person takes place at The First Unitarian Church of Dallas, 4015 Normandy Drive, Dallas, Texas. The Church has made some wonderful technology available to us to make this possible. Our normal meetings times are first and third Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m., and run to about 12:45 p.m. The discussions are lively and we have a range of views within our attendees, with a keen butr sometimes critical interest in Analytical Psychology. We would love to have you join us. Please send your email address to [email protected] so that I can put you on our mailing list with information about our next meetings including a link to the next Zoom session.
We are currently reading Carl Jung’s’ book, Introduction to Jungian Psychology, Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925. This was actually a series of 16 seminars delivered in English. Topics include Freud, Jung’s confrontation with his unconscious and basic precepts, which he would spend another 30 years refining.
The volume we are reading has an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani and reflects some correction to the original Bollingen text from 1989..
Please join us. Thank you for your interest and support.
– Charles Anderson
[email protected]
Charles Anderson
The Jung Society of North Texas sponsors a book discussion group that currently meets via Zoom. Meetings take place the first and third Tuesdays of each month, 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. All are welcome, and there is no charge. Charles Anderson facilitates. You may contact him at [email protected].
As we discuss the chapters, I continue to invite everyone to pick out passages or concepts which you think are most important or worthy of discussion.
Books Previously Discussed:Author(s):Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Vintage Book Edition, 1989)C. G. Jung and Aniela JaffeEgo and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the PsycheEdward F. EdingerAion (Collected Works Vol. 9, Part 2)C. G. JungMan and His SymbolsC. G. JungFinding Meaning in the Second Half of LifeJames HollisDancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of ConsciousnessMarion Woodman & Elinor DicksonThe Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the SelfJean Shinoda BolenLiving Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose…Robert A. Johnson and Jerry RuhlThe Dream and the UnderworldJames HillmanA Religion of One’s OwnThomas MooreBoundaries of the Soul; the practice of Jung’s psychologyJune SingerWhy Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker SelvesJames Hollis Embracing the SelfDean SchlechtDemianHerman HesseArchetypal Symbols in Fairy TalesMary-Louise von FranzThe Invisible PartnersJohn SanfordThe Broken MirrorJames Hollis
Interview with Skip Conover
Skip Conover, among other things, runs the YouTube channel “Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group”. This channel is for laymen interested in the ideas of Carl Jung. He has been studying Jung for decades and reads passages from Jungian texts and has hundreds of videos on the subject.
Skip Conover
I found Jungian ideas of great benefit in my development and understanding of the human condition. Skips Channel along with numerous emails between us gave me an outlet to discuss these ideas and get some grasp on what is happening, or had happened to me over the last few years. I was experiencing deep internal changes and having numinous experiences – essentially the experience of the individuation process.
From Wikipedia – According to Jungian psychology individuation is a process of psychological integration. “In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated [from other human beings]; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.”
Individuation is a process of transformation whereby the personal and collective unconscious are brought into consciousness (e.g., by means of dreams, active imagination and free association) to be assimilated into the whole personality. It is a completely natural process necessary for the integration of the psyche.[9] Individuation has a holistic healing effect on the person, both mentally and physically.
This may sound like a quite comforting process but going into the unconscious, and actually dying before you die, is extremely frightening (an understatement!) and feels like been torn apart from the inside out. My abstract paintings were my alchemy. I was, and still do, project the unconscious onto the canvas like the early alchemists projected their unconscious into their experiments.
Skip and I go through some of my paintings, from the early ones when I was just starting out, to the images produced after my experience of the transcendent Self – the Imago Dei (God Image).
Click here to view the interview. (Discussion of paintings starts around 29mins)
