Friday 7th May 2021
"Intelligence Beyond the
Brain"
Mary van de Graaff
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
From the
early 1970s onwards, I attended
various personal development,
meditation and spiritual
awareness groups. All groups
concentrated becoming our true
selves and finding inner peace
within one’s psyche. However, it
was not until the end of my 10
day, live-in Sidha Yoga
Intensive I attended at an
Ashram in Melbourne in 1985,
that I actually gained insight
into other dimensions of
existence.
Figuring that
meditation was about relaxing, I
arrived at the Ashram ready to
relax and do nothing. Big, big
mistake! Sleeping in bunk beds
was a challenge. But the very
worst part for me was what I
call ‘living on the floor’. By
that I mean: there were no
chairs or tables, no radio or
TV. One gathered for meals,
chants, meditation and talks
sitting on the floor (preferably
in the Lotus position). Plus,
apart from daily chores and
queuing up for drinks and meals,
there was absolutely nothing ‘to
do’.
With the group, I
chanted for hours every day till
I was blue in the face and the
lengthy daily meditations also
bored and frustrated me. Utter
boredom! Instead of the
‘insight, joy, bliss and love
within,’ I had come to find, I
found myself getting angrier and
angrier by the minute! I had
never, ever experienced such
anger!! When it dissipated it
was suddenly replaced with
insights and understanding.
I had arrived two days early
to prepare myself and not miss
anything. Despite people
queueing up for me to read their
palms, I was literally bored out
of my mind and was sensing at a
deeper level. Suddenly, I
understood and knew things I had
never seen or heard before. The
void of boredom can be very,
very powerful!
What I
felt and understood was that in
the vacuum of nothingness is all
the knowledge in the universe
and the beginning of everything!
The words ‘In the beginning
there was a void’, from the book
of Genesis, came to mind. The
void beyond the rational brain
is the actual space where we
create/recreate our own reality
within ourselves which we have
the power to change.
Clairvoyance is about sensing as
opposed to thinking and knowing.
I now believe that what we
term ‘Depression’ is really a
void which can lead us to the
beginning of a new life.
Contact:
mary.vdgraaff@gmail.com
Mary van de Graaff
has conducted Self-Awareness and
Personal Development workshops
in Canberra, the South Coast and
overseas for over 30 years. She
has regularly presented
interactive talks for the
Belconnen Women’s Group for 14
years and for 35 years conducted
talks and public demonstrations
for the Canberra Spiritualist
Association Inc.
Location:
MacKillop Conference Centre, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT.
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by
credit
card or
PayPal via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner
with the
Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Friday 4th June 2021
"Herakles at the Gates of
the Underworld:
Carl
Jung’s assertion that
approaching the numinous
was a necessity for
everyone.
Necessity, belief, and
the experience of
being-acted-upon.”
David
Russell
*** Online (by Zoom)
only ***
The main
interest of my work is not
concerned with the treatment of
neurosis but rather with the
approach to the numinous. But
the fact is that the approach to
the numinous is the real therapy
and inasmuch as you attain to
the numinous experience you are
released from the curse of
pathology.
Carl Jung
(Letters 1,
p.377, to Martin, 20 August
1945)
Jung time and time
again insisted that he was not a
theologian. From the beginning
to the end of his professional
life Jung called himself a
psychologist. And for him,
different to mainstream
psychology as we know it today,
being a psychologist meant that
his focus was on the
psychological experience, the
experience of the
soul-in-action. Not our
cognitions or our sensations or
our behaviours but
soul-in-action.
So, his
concern, primarily, was the
desire for the numinous, the
desire for transcendence and
less so, on the numinous as the
object of the desire. My
interpretation of Jung’s
attitude was that he wanted to
view this more as a
process-of-striving rather than
a point-of-arrival.
The
deeper psychological attitude is
working-with-the-desire: what it
looks like, how it manifests,
and who (what mythic figure) is
being represented.
I will
tell the archetypal story of
Orpheus and Eurydice: a story of
desire and of the imaginal
world. I will also give my
account of a journey into the
underworld by Herakles as an
illustration of how we might
approach the numinous in our
daily lives.
David Russell is a past
president of the Sydney Jung
Society. He completed his
undergraduate and postgraduate
studies and research in
psychology at the University of
Sydney. Here he was introduced
to the writings of Sigmund Freud
(unusual for a Department of
Psychology) and developed an
ongoing enthusiasm for the
history and philosophy of
psychology.
After a few
years in private practice he
moved into an academic career,
which culminated in the
establishment of the Master of
Analytical Psychology degree at
the University of Western
Sydney. David has currently
returned to private practice in
Sydney CBD.
Start-time: 8pm.
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your Zoom link!
Cost:
This is an on-line
presentation only, so there is
no door fee.
Jung
Society members free, Guests $10.
Pay by
bank transfer or by credit card
via TryBooking.
Friday 2nd July 2021
"The Age of Aquarius"
Robbie Tulip
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald
St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)
Robert Tulip
manages the chaplaincy at the
Australian National University.
He has BA Honours and MA Honours
degrees in philosophy from
Macquarie University, with the
masters thesis on The Place of
Ethics in Heidegger's Ontology.
He worked for the Australian
Agency for International
Development and the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade for
nearly thirty years, and is now
working on his intellectual
interests including philosophy,
theology and climate change,
writing at
www.rtulip.net.
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit
card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner with the
Speaker et al is at 6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet
from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Friday 6th August 2021
"Mandalas and Music"
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam
PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
Dr
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam
is passionate
about empowering people to
achieve their potential. She has
a private practice specializing
in communication disorders and
issues of trauma, dementia,
Parkinson’s Disease, and general
and EAP counselling. She
developed her unique
psychotherapeutic approach using
imagery and visualisation,
mindfulness meditation, visual
arts, music making and singing
from her own research. She
underpins her work with
psychological theories and
current research.
Kirstin
completed a psychology major in
her BA along with
ethnomusicology and musicology
majors at the University of New
England. She then studied a
Master of Counselling at Western
Sydney University followed by
research in a Masters degree
which focused on reducing
depression in severe dementia
with a choir therapy and
reminiscence program. Her PhD is
focused on reducing depression
in mid-later life with a
community choir therapy program.
You can contact Kirstin
directly:
P: (0409) 533
466
E:
kirstinrg@bigpond.com
W:
www.kirstinrg.com
Cost:
Jung
Society members free, Guests
$15, Seniors/Concession $10.
Pay by cash at the door or bank
transfer or by credit card via
TryBooking.
Preliminary
dinner with the Speaker et al is
at 6:15pm at Lyneham.
RSVP
Trish on (0432) 599 826 for
location and details.
We
meet from 7:30 pm for tea and
coffee and snacks, music,
discussion and library.
The
Guest Speaker's presentation is
at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and
discussion, finishing at 10pm.
Friday 3rd September
2021
"The Prince and the
Vizier's Son"
Dr Richard
Barz
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
Dr Richard Barz is
a retired member of the School
of Culture, History and Language
in the College of Asia and the
Pacific at the Australian
National University. Since
accompanying a 1974 expedition
to record traditional sites of
the Wongkanguru people, he has
been fascinated by Aboriginal
culture and has spent the last
decade photographing the rock
art associated with it.
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit
card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner with the
Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet
from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Friday 8th October 2021
(topic TBA)
Timothy
Hatfield
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
For this
presentation I ...
Timothy Hatfield
has lived,
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit
card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner
with the
Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet from
7:30 p
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
For this
presentation I ...
Timothy Hatfield
has lived,
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit
card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner
with the
Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
Friday 5th November 2021
"Jung and the Dead"
Stephani Stephens
at MacKillop House, 50
Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and
by Zoom)
For this
presentation I ...
Stephani Stephens
has lived,
Cost:
Jung Society members free,
Guests $15, Seniors/Concession
$10.
Pay by cash at the door
or bank transfer or by credit
card via TryBooking.
Preliminary dinner
with the
Speaker et al is at
6:15pm at
Lyneham.
RSVP Trish on
(0432) 599 826 for location and
details.
We meet
from
7:30 pm for tea and coffee and
snacks, music, discussion and
library.
The Guest Speaker's
presentation is at 8 pm for an
hour or so,
then we resume
for questions and discussion,
finishing at 10pm.
