For thousands of years the mind of man has worried about the sick soul, perhaps even earlier than it did about the sick body. The propitiation of gods, the perils of the soul and its salvation, these are not yesterday's problems. Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the truest sense of the word, and on the grandest scale. They express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelation of the soul's nature. From this universal foundation no human soul is cut off; only the individual consciousness that has lost its connection with the psychic totality remains caught in the illusion that the soul is a small circumscribed area, a fit subject for "scientific" theorizing. The loss of this great relationship is the prime evil of neurosis.
--Dr. C.G Jung, "The State of Psychotherapy Today," Collected Works, Vol. 10, para. 367
The Jung Society book club will change its meeting days to Thursdays, beginning in January. The time, 7:30 p.m., and the location, the Jung Society Library, Room 345 of the Good Shepherd Center, remain unchanged. Scheduled books for reading and discussion are:
For more information, contact Karen Campbell at (253) 859-1800.
The North Pacific Institute (the educational affiliate of Jungian Analysts&endash;North Pacific) plans to offer an analyst education program beginning in September 1998. Applications will be accepted until February 15, 1998.
Those who wish specific information may obtain a brochure and/or application materials by sending a check or money order (payable to NPIAP) in the amount of $10 for a brochure, or $20 for application materials, to:
Ms. Lou Lorton, Executive SecretaryThe following speakers and events are scheduled: