Dear Candidates
Please come prepared with a 5-minute presentation on some aspect of spirituality or the sacred which is meaningful to you.
Please do watch the
A Radical Guide to Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkLM8o4RXc
so that we can discuss.
Looking forward to meeting with you in November.
Best,
Ruth
Essential Reading
Jung, C.G. (1937) The Terry Lectures: “Psychology and Religion” in CW11.
Please dip in to these three lectures (pp.5-105) as much as you like.
Main, R. (2003) “Analytical psychology, religion and the academy” in Controversies in Analytical Psychology (Ed. Withers). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 190-199).
Stein, M. (2024) “The Dream of Wholeness” and “On Modern Initiation into the Spiritual” in Psychology and Spirituality. Volume 8 of the Collected Writings of Murray Stein. Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron Publications. pp.1-34.
Tacey, D. (2013) The Darkening Spirit: Jung, Spirituality, Religion. London and New York: Routledge. (Please read pp. 1-39 and pp. 91-106 and last para pp. 146-half way down pp. 151).
Vieten, C. (2020) “Has Your Therapist Asked About Your Religion or Spirituality? If not, they should” in Psychology Today (Posted Jan 19, 2020). See: Has Your Therapist Asked About Your Religion or Spirituality? | Psychology Today
Walach, H.(2019) Galileo Commission Report: Beyond a Materialist Worldview. London: Scientific and Medical Network. Please read pp. 77-81.
Williams, R. (2023) “Chapter 3: Gaia/ecology, indigenous perspectives and animals” in Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective: Clinical and Personal Reflections. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 24-36.
Recommended Viewing
Please watch Disobedience (Dir: Lelio 2017). Available on Prime and elsewhere. See: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disobedience-Rachel-Weisz/dp/B07N6BR4WR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12KPSQ46OBE11&dchild=1&keywords=disobedience&qid=1630318907&s=instant-video&sprefix=Disobedience%2Caps%2C176&sr=1-1
This is a 1984 BBC documentary:
“Jung – Sea of Faith” (17 mins) which give a sense of how Jung lived out his spiritual existence and his relationship to religion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-W_SxcLd0
This is interesting:
https://theconversation.com/the-riz-test-how-muslims-are-misrepresented-in-film-and-tv-110213
“Demarcação Já! – english subtitles” on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/216041248?ref=em-share
LadyParts on Channel 4 is a radical comedy about a group of young muslim women:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/we-are-lady-parts
The following are two clips about consciousness:
This is a 12.52 min clip of George Harrison on consciousness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9Qz3HdM3I
David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain (8.42 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UHLMVr4vg
Recommended future reading
Baring, A. (2013) The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul. Dorset: Archive Publishing.
Bernstein, J. (2005) Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. London and New York: Routledge.
Anything by John Dourley, say:
Dourley, J. (2014) Jung and His Mystics: In the end it all comes to nothing. London and New York: Routledge.
James, W. (1982) The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. London and New York: Penguin Classics.
Everything by David Tacey, say:
Tacey, D. (2009) The Edge of the Sacred. Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag.
Tarnas, R. (2006) Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. London and New York: Viking.