Calgary Jung Society

The Calgary Jung Society is pleased to present
the 2011 Annual General Meeting plus video excerpts and discussion about The Red Book
Friday 21st January, 2011, 7:30 pm  
Parkdale United Church, 2919 8th Ave. NW, Calgary 

The Annual General Meeting features reports on activity in all areas of the society, and the election of the executive.  All are welcome to attend.  Note that only members of the society can vote.

After a short AGM, we will view and discuss a segment of The Red Book, DVD, with Murray Stein, Ph.D., a training analyst at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Red Book is a compilation of dream experiences that Carl Jung had between 1913 – 1930. During the sixteen years he worked on the book, Jung developed his theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and individuation. The Red Book was a product of a technique developed by Jung that he termed active imagination. As Jung described it, he was visited by two figures, an old man and a young woman, who identified themselves as Elijah and Salome. They were accompanied by a large black snake. In time, the Elijah figure developed into a guiding spirit that Jung called Philemon. Salome was identified by Jung as an anima figure. The figures, according to Jung, "brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life."
In keeping with the educational purposes of personal growth and development within the framework of Carl Jung, the Calgary Jung Society invites all members and interested participants to join us in a dialogue on one of the most crucial books available on Jungian theory today.  It is free, with refreshments.  The actual book will be available from our library for perusal. 

Upcoming Winter/spring events:
February 25-26, 2011, Imagination and Medicine: The Next Evolution of Depth Psychology. Ginette Paris, from Quebec, teaches Archetypal and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. 

April 1-2, Psychosocial Counseling: A contribution to Peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Inge Missmahl, Kanstanz, Germany, graduate of the CG Jung Institute, Zurich, for the past 7 years has worked with victims of trauma in Afghanistan.

May 13,  Grief: A Shadow companion for life. Christine Hanssens, analytical depth counselor also works with palliative care in Ottawa.