Irony and Innocence

By Don Raiche, Apple Farm Community, Christmas 2009

The Christian story begins with an innocent child in a wooden manger and culminates in that same child, as an adult, disgracefully murdered on a wooden cross, the innocent victim of trumped up charges. Carl Jung suggests that the Western psyche is profoundly Christian. The archetype of the innocent child provides endless possibility for transformation. The innocent one is the source of life and full of possibilities for metanoia. Through the ages this haunts and threatens the representatives of collective power.

New Exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art: The Red Book of C.G. Jung, Creation of a New Cosmology

The Red Book of C.G. Jung, Creation of a New Cosmology
October 7, 2009 - January 25, 2010

Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 · 212.620.5000

This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung’s (1875-1961) famous Red Book. During the period in which he worked on this book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation. It is possibly the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. In celebration of the exhibition and the publication of The Red Book facsimile, events related to the Jung and the book will take place at the museum throughout the city.

Carl Jung’s Secret Book on NPR'S, "On Point"

Carl Jung was a giant in the dawn of the age of psychoanalysis. A student of Freud who broke with Freud. Champion of the individual spiritual quest as doorway to the universal. In midlife, he looked for his own soul and found nothing. Dug deeper, for years, late at night, recording wild visions: gods and demons, winged snakes and crocodiles. Found his soul’s footing, but feared he’d be called insane. Jung said his “red book,” in which he recorded his visions, was the base of everything else he did. But it was locked away for years in a Swiss vault. Now it’s out. We have it. Listen to the program, On Point: Carl Jung’s red book with Tom Ashbrook.

Jung's Unpublished Red Book Now Available

The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the unconscious,” the heart of it was The Red Book , a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation—that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.

Sense of the Sacred Now on DVD

A Sense of the Sacred is a portrait of one of our foremost writers on the subject of story as it relates to our inner life, our masculine and feminine natures, and the natures of the human journey towards wholeness. Hosted by Thomas Moore, this DVD features illuminating and inspiring interviews with Luke (filmed a few years before her death at the age of 90 in 1995) as well as friends, colleagues and admirers such as Dr. Robert Johnson, Peter Brook, and Sir Laurens van der Post. To order this DVD mail check or money order for $30 to: Apple Farm Community Inc., 12291 Hoffman Road, Three Rivers, Michigan 49093 U.S.A.

Calfornia Meditations

THE CALIFORNIA MEDITATIONS-THE ASSUMPTION

By Helen M. Luke

Only in Christianity (and in Zen, real Zen, not Western misconception of it) is matter given its whole validity, and the Christian definition of this is the doctrine of the Assumption.

It is often held against Christianity that the woman is given a status lower than that of the Trinity. Mary, it is said, should be a Goddess fully equal to the other Three, and the primitives knew better with their moon goddesses, etc.

This criticism is based on a misconception. The doctrine of the Assumption makes it clear that humanity redeemed exists eternally in union with God. But woman does not create — she receives and brings forth — as in time, so in eternity.

The Garden of the Psyche-A Collection of Quotes on Nature and the Individual

We want happiness and do not want suffering. Animals and insects also want happiness and do not want suffering, but they have no special ability to consider how to achieve deeper happiness or overcome suffering. As human beings, endowed with this power of thought, we have this potential, and we must use it.- How to Pratice: The Way to a Meaningful Life, His Holiness the Dalai Lama