Coming Meetings:

Six-Week Dream Group series

Facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar

Only one more Tuesday: 30th July 2019
(For those completing the 6-weel series).  
                       

"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends."

"For all ego-consciousness is isolated; because it separates and discriminates, it knows only particulars, and it sees only those that can be related to the ego. Its essence is limitation, even though it reaches to the farthest nebulae among the stars.

"All consciousness separates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. There he is still the whole, and the whole is in him, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all egohood. It is from these all-uniting depths that the dream arises, be it never so childish, grotesque, and immoral." 
(C G Jung "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man" (1933). In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. pg. 304)

The group will be facilitated by Dorothea Wojnar. Members of the group are encouraged to share their dreams and we will be using active imagination in working with the dreams. Please let Dorothea know if you are planning to attend.

Dorothea is a Jungian Analyst, Counsellor and Psychotherapist in private practice. Dorothea has extensive experience as a group leader and therapist across a range of people and issues and has worked in both a public health facility as well as in private practice.

For further information, please contact Dorothea Wojnar on 6292 2014 or (0413) 245 835.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. ~
Carl Jung, The Red Book
Dream Carl Jung, The Red Book

Cost: $10  Pay by cash at the door, or by bank transfer, or by credit card via TryBooking

We meet before 7:30 for introductions and catch-up over a cuppa and snacks, prior to working on the dreams.
Sharing your dreams is not required - You can enjoy sharing and working with everyone else's!

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Friday, 2nd August 2019 

Robert Tulip

"Modern man in Search of a Soul"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham  8-10 pm) 

Modern Man in Search of A Soul is a collection of eleven essays by Carl Jung, published in 1933.  The provocative theme is the clash between modern scientific rationality and the understandings of human identity that emerge from religious and spiritual traditions.  Jung explores the need for soul in psychology, through topics including his break with Freud, his approach to dream analysis, psychological types, archaic man, and the spiritual problems of modern man.
This talk will explore implications of Jung’s analysis of the soul for philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. 


Robert Tulip has Bachelors and Masters Honours Degrees in philosophy from Macquarie University.  After thirty years working for the federal government, he is now returning to focus on these intellectual interests, especially the philosophical problems of psychology and religion. 

Cost: Jung Society Members (free), Guest $15, Concession $10.
         Pay by cash at the door, or by bank transfer, or by credit card via TryBooking

We meet from 7:30pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library. 
Robert's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so, then we break for supper,
then resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.

Friday, 6th September 2019 

Terry Curtin

"Jung and Meister Eckhart"

(at the MacKillop Conference Centre, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham  8-10 pm) 

“Only in Meister Eckhart did I find the breath of life” said Carl Jung. (“Memories Dreams and Reflections” p87).

Local Jung Society member Terry Curtin, BA(Psychology) BTheology, MA(Theology), Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling, will reflect on how a 13th-century Dominican theologian/mystic had such a profound impact on Carl Jung. Terry’s philosophical and theological journey began in 1950. From a tribal Irish catholic culture he felt called to be a priest. Seminary training was structured around the “infallible” dogma of the Catholic Church.

His perception of what it means to be human and how humanity is related to the great and mysterious “Other” has gradually but radically changed.  After 10 “monastic” years he left the seminary. Marriage, children, and careers in the public service, private enterprise and voluntary services over nearly 60 years followed. His encounter in about 1980 with Carl Jung’s “Memories Dreams and Reflections” was transformative. 

By 1965 he had a BA degree from Adelaide University majoring in Political Science and Psychology but Jung was rarely if ever mentioned.  Pavlov’s dogs got more attention. In Jung he felt the “breath of life”, theologically, psychologically and spiritually. He continued part time studies in theology, transpersonal psychology and biblical Hebrew and undertook training in the Tarot and Kabbalah. He has had a long term relationship with the Jung society. He first joined the Jung Society in Canberra in about 1985 and later the Melbourne Jung Society.  Returning to Canberra in 2018 he rejoined the Canberra Jung Society. In a recent conversation with a fellow Jung society member the question arose, “who the ... was Meister Eckhart?”

Cost: Jung Society Members (free), Guest $15, Concession $10.
         Pay by cash at the door, or by bank transfer, or by credit card via TryBooking

We meet from 7:30pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library. 
Terry's presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so, then we break for supper,
then resume for questions and discussion, finishing at 10pm.