Events

Saturday, Sept. 5 & Sunday, Sept. 6 - Continuing Education Seminar

PSYCHE & THE SACRED: A Depth Psychological Approach to Spirituality

Lionel Corbett, M.D.

Presented by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and The University of Philosophical Research

When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred. From within the depth of the psyche, a new image of the divine is emerging alongside traditional Judeo-Christian images. Depth psychology gives us a language to articulate this emergence, allowing our experience of the sacred to be articulated without the need for recourse to traditional theology, doctrine or dogma.

This workshop, which is based on Jung's religious writing, describes an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred. These numinous experiences are forms of continuous revelation that arise from transpersonal levels of the psyche. They may take completely novel symbolic forms, and rather than being collective they are often uniquely tailored to the psychology of the individual. Dr. Corbett will illustrate the ways in which these experiences may appear in dreams, in relationships, in visions, through the body, the natural world, and by means of our emotional difficulties.

• Define authentic spirituality using a depth psychological approach;

• Describe the history of numinosum;

• Identify examples of the numinous in dreams, visions, psychpathology, the body and the natural world.

 

Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a faculty member at the University of Philosophical Research. His primary dedication is to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology. He is the author of Psyche and the Sacred, (Routledge, 1966) and The Religious Function of the Psyche(Spring publications, 2007). He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has also authored Spirituality Beyond Religion, a set of audiotapes published by Sounds True.

DATES: Saturday, Sept. 5 and Sunday, Sept. 6

TIME: 10:00am to 5:00pm

COST: $200.00

CONTINUING EDUCATION: 11 credits

30 people maximum; 1 hour Lunch; two 15-minute breaks

LOCATION: UPR Campus, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles

For registration, download this application form or e-mail registrar@uprs.edu or call UPR at 323-663-2167