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Moving Toward Wholeness

Date October 14-17, 2010
Location Laurel Ridge Conference and Retreat Center, in North Carolina

Featured Presentations and Presenters
(* indicates Jungian Analyst)

The Books of Night and Day
Learning from Bishop Synesius of Cyrene How to Practice Dreamwork as Real Church
Robert Moss

We have direct access to sacred knowledge, in our dreams. Our dreams are a personal oracle that reveals the future and helps us prepare for it. We must not let anyone tell us what our dreams mean or stand between us and the direct experience of the sacred that is available in dreaming. We want to pay attention to signs from the world around us in the knowledge that everything in the universe is interconnected and constantly interweaving. We need to journal both our dreams and our waking experiences in our Books of Night and Day.

These insights come from a fifth-century bishop of the church, Synesius of Cyrene, whose treatise On Dream is one of the wisest books ever written on how to work with dreams and synchronicity. We can learn from him how to practice dreamwork as real church, and move beyond the sad situation Jung evoked when he said that “one of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination
Robert Moss

In this fun, high-energy program we'll learn techniques for empowering and healing our lives, every day, through dreams, coincidence and imagination.

Dreaming, we have access to rich sources of healing and creativity. In our dreams, we are coached on how to handle challenges and opportunities that lie in the future; we become time travelers and communicate with spiritual teachers and allies.

Coincidence may be a signal from a deeper world, and a chance encounter may be an amazing opportunity. By monitoring the play of coincidence, we awaken to a hidden logic of events, and gain access to extraordinary counsel. Synchronicity opens paths we never noticed before, and draws new people and events towards us according to our passions and our willingness to go with the flow.

Through the practice of imagination, we can help to heal our bodies and move towards the manifestation of our heart’s desires. As Tagore said, with a poet’s insight, “the stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.”

Robert MossRobert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His seven books on dreaming and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination and The Secret History of Dreaming. His novels include his cycle of the Iroquois: Fire Along the Sky, The Firekeeper and The Interpreter. His website is www.mossdreams.com.

 

 

Edge of the Forest
Muriel E. McMahon*

In this lecture, Jungian analyst and First Nations Elder, Muriel McMahon discusses how the roots of Ancient wisdom, born from all traditions, remind us of our place in the cycle of Life. To awaken we must journey to the Edge of the Forest, and acknowledge the grief which clouds our vision, tightens our throats, and sits heavy on our hearts. We must re-member how to sit together, and through ceremony, open our eyes, throats, and hearts to the wisdom of the Ancient Ones who are ever with us and ever praying for us.
 

Muriel E. McMahonMuriel E. McMahon* www.murielmcmahon.com is an analyst, teacher, and Elder in the Algonkin, Kipawa First Nations tradition. Raised as an Irish Catholic in small town Ontario, CANADA, counselled out of the Sisters of Providence, schooled in English Literature and psychology, retired from a successful career as a high school guidance counsellor/vice principal, trained as a Jungian analyst in Zurich Switzerland, she is currently in private practice in Guelph, ON. CANADA. Her connections to her indigenous roots (Celtic and Native), her professional pursuits, her creative writing, her daily walks along the Speed River with her dog Shadow, her full family life with her husband parenting three adult sons, and her Jungian analytical practice affirm her belief that the “tribal unconscious” and the “primitive psyche” can lead all of us back home to the Sacred Fire of the Great Peace. She is passionate about dreams and community building and is a ardent supporter of the work of Soul of the Mother www.soulofthemother.org.

 

Carl Jung and Christianity
The Rev. John L. Martin, D. Min.

In this lecture, John will lead us in an exploration of the role of symbol in Carl Jung’s understanding of religious faith. In so doing, he will provide a lens through which we will be enabled to view a post-modern alternative to the traditional approaches one finds in the Christian churches of today.

Rev. John MartinDr. Martin is a retired Presbyterian (USA) minister. He is a former board chair and one among the favorite presenters and teachers at "Journey into Wholeness." Along with his wife, Carolyn, he teaches the very popular Journey Conferences Pre-conference event: "Language of the Soul" seminar, which they have been teaching and refining for more than twenty years.

 

 


Workshops and Special Events

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Workshops

 

The Spiritual Warrior Within
Muriel E. McMahon*

In this workshop, Jungian Analyst and Indigenous Elder, Muriel McMahon will offer Traditional teachings and Ceremony to awaken the Spiritual Warrior. The focus will be on the “Council Fire” within the spiritual warrior. Through Traditional stories, dreams, and ceremony we will rediscover the rhythm of our interconnectedness, which is a basic pattern revealed within all faiths. Embodied Spirit can awaken and can be brought to bear on all of life's challenges. Muriel will invite us to find our Sacred Place and develop a renewed relationship with Nature. By listening, praying, and asking important questions, the sacred interconnectedness of all living things can be made manifest.

 

Jung and Play
Mary Alice Long, Ph.D*

Jung said, "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative
mind plays with the objects it loves."

Jung knew how to play. Even as an elder, Jung could still sit for hours at the lakeside where he built his retreat and play with a stick on the sandy shore, creating small rivulets for the water to travel.

Play is relaxing. It energizes us. For most of us play is fun, even joyful. Play and your burdens feel lighter and doorways open to new possibilities. Play goes even deeper.

Jung wrote: "... without playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." As Jungian Analyst Joan Chodorow notes: "All the creative arts therapies can trace their roots to Jung’s early contribution." (in the areas of active imagination, play, and creativity).

In this workshop we will explore how Jung's playful relationship with the inner world opened up the vast world of the collective unconscious. As we observe play as a factor both in the natural world and in the ways that we as individuals create through our own playful forms and expression, we will discover how we each are called to our own playful exploration.

Mary Alice Long, Ph.D.Mary Alice Long, Ph.D. is a Jungian-oriented therapist, play consultant, and writer. Mary Alice earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently researching Jung’s life work in the development of analytical psychology with a focus on how play allows access to portals of transformation. Mary Alice is the director of Play=Peace devoted to inquiry through an ethic of play.
 

 

 

Mandala: A Tool for Inner Work
Dorothy Campbell B.Sc.N. , M.P.N. ,*

Jung believed that the mandala is a symbol of the Self for the Western person. Making a mandala often brings us to a sense of wholeness, or reveals a side of ourselves of which we are not conscious. In this workshop each person will create a mandala with simple drawing materials. One does not need drawing skills for this endeavor; a kind of attentive meditative scribbling within the mandala circle can beautifully reveal aspects of oneself. A sense of calmness and fulfillment is often the result. It is a tool that we can return to again and again for balance, wholeness and self-discovery. We will spend time as a group looking and learning from the individual mandalas, on a voluntary basis.

Dorothy Campbell is a Jungian analyst, graduated from the International School of Analytical Psychology-Zurich. She received her B.Sc. in Nursing from McGill University, Montreal, and her Masters in Psychosocial Nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle. Before completing her Masters, she worked in an acute care medicine. As an advanced practice psychiatric nurse she worked extensively in adolescent psychiatry. She also has held positions in large city hospitals, as the director of a counseling program, and as a psychiatric nursing liaison, working with individual patients, and with staff in individual and group situations. She also attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a full time student in painting and drawing for three years; she has continued over the years, to pursue her interest in painting.

 

 

 

 

Special Events

Sacred Fire Ceremony
Muriel E. McMahon*

A North American Hopi prophesy teaches:

Great Spirit gathered the peoples of this earth together… He said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will share these Original Teachings so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about."

As we all know, the legacy of colonialism on Turtle Island (North America) is a painful one. Sensitivities to sharing original teachings and sacred knowledge must be understood within this context. Once understood, the healing and the sharing can truly begin. In this Sacred Fire Ceremony, First Nations Elder and Jungian analyst, Muriel McMahon will invite us to use ritual to open to the wisdom of the Ancestors. She will offer Original Teachings that the Ancient Ones sitting around the Council Fire of the Creator and are ever praying for us and with us. Using the ceremonial protocol of a Sacred Fire, Muriel will arrange us as a tribe and invite us to reclaim our place in the Medicine Wheel.

There is a ceremonial protocol that will be offered upon registration.

 

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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest
and most intimate sanctum of the soul,
which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul
long before there was conscious ego and will be soul
far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.    C. G. Jung

 

 
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