Sunday, November 17, 2024
10:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
To whom or to what are we talking when we engage with oracular tools like Tarot, I-Ching, Runes, or other types of self-contained and ritualized engagement? Does an answer come from somewhere outside of our own individual scope, which C.G. Jung called the objective psyche? Or does it come from a more knowing aspect of ourselves, which Jung calls Self? These are questions that cannot necessarily be answered, but they are essential to a psychologically balanced engagement with the occult.
Using an oracular tool implies a continuum of some sort between the individual framing the encounter (ego) and the space/s from which the answer comes. In addition, the use of a conduit - cards, stones, stalks - have a capacity to facilitate this type of communication.
In this 2-hour Zoom lecture and discussion, we will create a frame from which to imagine this interaction, locating important Jungian terminology along the way, including objective psyche, synchronicity, psychoid and Self. We will also look at ideas connected to personal role and responsibility in active engagement with things larger than ourselves, including the potential for an over-identification with concepts related to magic or fate.
Hallie Durchslag, PhD., LISW-S will lead this class.
Class is Sunday, November 17
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET
We will send registrants the Zoom link on the Friday prior to the class.
This class does not offer CEUS.