Dear Friends of Jung,
I would like to thank you for your continued support and participation. As we move toward spring, I believe you will be pleased with our lineup of speakers. We look forward to meeting with you as we journey together, exploring Jung’s Analytical Psychology.
As I pondered writing this letter, the Roman god Janus slowly began to emerge in my psyche, until firmly planted as a central image. January was dedicated by the Romans to Janus, god of gates and doors. Janus represents the contemplation of happenings of an old year while looking forward to the new year. He is commonly depicted with two faces. Some sources say Janus was depicted in such a way because doors and gates look in two directions. Jung’s recently released Red Book, is indeed representative of insight incorporating imagery and wisdom of psyche drawn from the past while moving forward through a door that is expansive toward the future.
In keeping with the spirit of Janus, I would like to look back to the fall of 2009 and make note of Jung’s Red Book, or Liber Novus, before moving on to spring. The opening of The Red Book Exhibit took place October 7, 2009 at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. I met my sister in New York and attended The Red Book Exhibit, Sonu Shamdasani’s lecture on The Red Book , and a lecture by Andreas Jung, C.G.Jung’s grandson. We visited the Jung Center in New York and shared information about our group with others from around the country.
The Red Book was written between 1914 and 1930. Sonu Shamdasani, editor of The Red Book, stresses, “The overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation. This is ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God in his soul and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmogony.” Shamdasani further says, “The Red Book provides an unparalleled window onto how Jung fused his fantasies with his scholarship and attempted to form a science of psychology….works written on Jung will be categorized in terms of before and after, and ranked accordingly.”
As we turn our gaze toward spring, our lectures and workshops will include topics on the power of story telling, synchronicity, archetypes, and Integral Psychology.
Please mark your calendar for March 20, 2010 and join us for an evening of fun and conviviality. This fundraiser for the C.G. Jung Society of North Texas takes place from 7:00 to 11:30 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. We will be celebrating the Spring Equinox marking the first day of Spring, when the sun has reached the equator. On this day the hours of day and night are equal around the world, a perfect balance of dark and light. At this time, we celebrate life emerging once again from the earth, and we move out of darkness into the season of growing light. Perhaps we are moving as a collective toward what Lawrence Hillman says some now refer to as the Thinking Heart. In Act III, scene I of a Midsummer-Night’s Dream, Bottom says to Titania, Queen of the fairies, “Reason and love keep little company now-a-days…more’s the pity.” Let us gather together again in spring holding the vision of a stimulated intellect and an awakened heart.”
Sincerely,
Bonnie Stein
President
C.G. Jung Society of North Texas
