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UPR Dean to Give Intensive at LMU

July 24, 2012 By

Local to Los Angeles? Be sure to make your way over Loyola Marymount University where our Dean of Academics, Dr. Debashish Banerji, will be giving a 1-day intensive on the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo.

Sri Aurobindo’s own yoga sadhana was based on a seven-pronged system of transformative practice (sapta chatusthaya) which he used to organize his experiments with consciousness in his diaries. By considering these seven quartets of transformation, one can arrive at a systematic program for the practice of the Integral Yoga. This one-day intensive will provide a synoptic view of these seven limbs with the four “perfections” or siddhis which each of these aims to establish, and consider the practices involved in each of these limbs. The presentation will be based on Sri Aurobindo’s Record of Yoga, The Synthesis of Yoga and the presenter’s recently published book Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo.

Saturday, July 28, 2012 
10:00am until 6:00pm
Loyola Marymount University
University Hall 1858

The intensive is being offered for credit under the
graduate Yoga Studies program at LMU.

Those wishing to take it for credit please register here: http://registration.xenegrade.com/lmuextension/courseDisplay.cfm?schID=1513
You will receive .5 credits and will need to pay a course fee of $95.

For those not wishing to take the intensive on credit, the course fee is $50. Please register the non-credit admission here: https://registration.xenegrade.com/lmuextension/courseDisplay.cfm?schID=1732&CFID=1102425

Please rsvp by emailing
debbanerji@yahoo.com
Seats are limited.

Snacks and lunch are included.

Location: Loyola Marymount University, University Hall 1858, Los Angeles, California

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Symposium on Transhumanism

April 16, 2012 By

End of the Human: Extinction or Transcendence? Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Superhumanism in the 21st Century  

A number of important thinkers have postulated the end of the human in our times. Apart from visions of an apocalypse resulting in an extinction of the human species, such ideas have included notions of genetic and/or technological mutations leading to new species and the development of psi powers leading to the advent of the superhuman. More fundamentally, some thinkers have seen our age as one in which the modern image of the human being is itself in transition, at a bifurcation point where a plurality of possibilities jostle for hegemonic determination.

Have we already become posthuman, an informationally determined cybernetic system, as N. Katherine Hayles suggests? Are we moving towards a singularity where man and machine fuse into Inteligence as sugested by Ray Kurzweil? Are we being invited to the unprecedented banquet of the Nietzschean overman? Is it the noosphere of Teilhard de Chardin that awaits us? Are we living laboratories for the Aurobindian superman? Is it the hour of the Second Coming? Or is it that of the messianic Other who is ever deferred, Derrida’s l’avenir which is always the unpredictable horizon which calls us?

This symposium will feature Makarand Paranjape (from India) in conversation with Jon Dorbolo, Rich Carlson and Debashish Banerji.

 

DATE:   Sunday, May 13th       TIME:   2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
COST:   $20       RSVP:  rsvp@uprs.edu

 


 

Makarand R. Paranjape, Ph.D. is a Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for English at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. He is a well-known critic, poet, novelist, short-story writer, literary columnist, and reviewer. He has edited or authored about thirty-five books and published more than 100 academic papers both in India and abroad, in addition to poems, short stories, and more than 250 periodical essays, reviews, and other publications. He is presently visiting the U.S. as Principal Investigator in an international project called “Indian Perspectives on Science and Spirituality.”

 

Jon Louis Dorbolo is Associate Director of the Technology Across the Curriculum program (TAC) and , a long-time philosophy instructor at Oregon State University.  He received his doctorate in philosophy at University of Oregon in 1987, originated a web-based philosophy course – InterQuest – in 1994, was named 1996 MultiMedia Educator of the year by the Oregon Multi-Media Alliance, received the 1998 Oregon State University Extended Education Faculty Achievement Award, is past President of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy, past Editor of the American Philosophical Association Philosophy and Computers Newsletter, and organizer of several conferences including Computing and Philosophy and Oregon Immersive Education.  Jon is currently co-developing immersive environments - Beaver Island in Second Life – and augmented reality habitats.

 

Debashish Banerji, Ph.D. is the Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. He is an adjunct faculty member in Art History at the Pasadena City College, teaching courses on the history of Asian Art. He is a Research Fellow in the Department of Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. From 1991 to 2006, Banerji served as President of the East West Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Banerji has curated a number of exhibitions in Indian and Japanese art and is the author of two books, “The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore” (Sage, 2010) and “Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo” (DKPW and Nalanda International, 2012).

 

Richard Carlson is a writer/musician and the president of Pacific Weather Inc, a firm which monitors meteorological information at airports throughout the United States. His interests include all matters related to the relationship between technology and culture in our times and to Jazz, Poetry, Integral Yoga, Critical Theory, and Global Climate Change. He holds a Master of Arts degree from Antioch University, is one of the founders of the blog posthumandestinies and is among the contributors to the prestigious e-journal www.ctheory.net

 

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Jung’s Approach to Spirituality and Religion, and The Red Book

June 25, 2011 By

RECENT EVENTS

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Saturday, June 25, 2011 – Sunday, June 26, 2011
At the University of Philosophical Research campus
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca., 90027
 
The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
and The University of Philosophical Research present:
 

Jung’s Approach to Spirituality and Religion, and The Red Book

C. G. Jung

Presented by Lionel Corbett, M.D.

Saturday, June 25: 10:00am-12:30pm, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Jung’s approach to spirituality and religion:

Depth psychology as a spiritual practice

This workshop will review Jung’s ideas about religion and spirituality, recognizing that for many people, the practice of depth psychology is often seen as a contemporary form of spiritual direction. From a Jungian perspective, these approaches can be seen as synonymous, as the psyche reveals the sacred in the form of numinous experience which manifests as the Self. Because the Self acts as a kind of blueprint for the individuation of the personality, there is no firm distinction between our spirituality and our psychology, or between psychological and spiritual problems. Drawing from contemporary material we will explore the age-old relationship between psychology and spirituality.

Sunday, June 26: 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:30pm-4:00pm
Jung in dialogue with the soul: is analytical psychology a new religion?

This workshop will focus on the implications of the dialogues between Jung and his soul that are recorded in The Red Book. In one of these dialogues, the soul tells Jung that he has received a revelation that he should not hide. His calling is the new religion and its proclamation. I believe that because of this dialogue with the soul, 12 years later Jung was able to write that: “We stand on the threshold of a new spiritual epoch; and that from the depths of man’s own psychic life new spiritual forms will be born.” (C.G. Jung speaking, p. 68. Ed. McGuire & Hull, 1977.)

Is Jung’s approach to the psyche really the revelation of a new form of spirituality, what Edinger calls the “new dispensation”, or is this idea merely a symptom of inflation? If Analytical Psychology is indeed an emerging form of spirituality, what does that look like in practice, how does it compare with traditional religious forms, and what are the implications for the practice of psychotherapy and for our culture?

Course Objectives:

  • Describe the differences between traditional theistic approaches to spirituality and a depth psychological approach
  • Describe Jung’s approach to spiritually important material
  • Describe Otto’s concept of the numinous and Jung’s use of this term
  • Describe the differences between the concept of the Self and traditional theistic God-images
  • Describe what is meant by Jung’s concept of the transpersonal unconscious
  • Describe the relationship between Jung’s later religious writing and his experiences while writing the Red Book
  • Describe what is meant by Edinger’s concept of a new dispensation
  • Illustrate the differences between revelation in the classical sense and from the point of view of depth psychology
  • Describe what is meant by active imagination
  • Describe the meaning of “soul” in depth psychology

Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His primary interests are in the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology, and in the development of psychotherapy as a spiritual practice. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology. He is the author of Psyche and the Sacred, The Religious Function of the Psyche, and The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice.

Pre-registered: $200.00 | At Door: $200.00

For members of the Jung Institute, Continuing Education: 11 hours CE, CN, APA available, see the C.G. Jung Institute Continuing Education page by clicking here.

Location: UPR Campus, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Note:

For registration, please contact Maja D’aoust at UPR:

1-323-663-2167 x 117 or library@uprs.edu

Enrolment limited

Please bring your lunch on Saturday and Sunday.

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