As some of you may know I'm involved with the local C.G. Jung Society...

If you are interested in Alchemy or just intrigued by its relevance, a good
friend Jon
Marshall PhD, will be offering a presentation for C.G. Jung Society of Sydney
this Saturday
evening. The talk and slide presentation deals with how technology affects us at
deep
psychological levels and is not simply separated from our psychic reality.

More information -

http://www.jungdownunder.com/Sydney/sydney_gs5.htm

http://www.jungdownunder.com/Sydney/Newsletters/2008/JungDownunder2008Lo-
Res.pdf

Date
SATURDAY, 14 JUNE

Time
6:30pm for 7:00pm

Venue
Blavatsky Lodge
Level 2, 484 Kent St
Sydney NSW

Cost
Member: $10
Non-member: $25
Non-member conc: $20

vinum sabbati, Tim


Forwarding this month's announcement from C.G. Jung Society of Sydney

Dear Members and Friends

Our speaker this coming Saturday is Jon Marshall whose topic will be Through
Alchemy to
Technology: On Western Dreaming and Myth Making.He will be addressing the deep
psychological life of potent technological images such as electricity, nuclear
power and
computers and asking us to consider our hopes, fears dreams and fantasies about
them, in
an extension of the way that Jung thought about alchemy. Those of you who have
attended Jon's talks before will know you are in for a deeply- researched,
provocative,
relevant and entertaining evening if you come along. Please click here
http://www.jungdownunder.com/Sydney/sydney.htm for further details. I do hope to
see
you there.

Last month Amanda Dowd returned to us to give the second part to her talk on the
traumatic effects of migration in the Australian psyche. In her continuation,
entitled
Backgrounds of Beauty, Amanda further considered how the traumatic background of
our
migrant culture has affected our relationship to indigenous peoples and their
culture. She
also reflected on the way in which the analyst walks through the mind of the
spirit of
country, linking the landscapes of personal history to the land in which we
live. This was a
fascinating and extremely relevant talk that asked us to think about the effects
of our own
`unknowing' or blindness as we look out at indigenous culture and ecosystems,
failing to
apprehend the beauty and values of what lies before us. Amanda also poignantly
described
the process of emplacement for those who inhabit the depressed realms of `no
place', or
what is `outback', through the analyst's holding in mind the dreams and
unexplored
stories of background and place. Many thanks to Amanda for a rich talk that was
much
appreciated. We will be placing Amanda's related reading list on our website
shortly.

Tim Hartridge is once more hard at work producing the next edition of Jung
Downunder,
which you will receive at the end of this month. Please mark July 12 in your
diaries as the
first event of our next calendar. This will be a panel entitled Climate Change
meets Depth
Psychology with Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and myself leading an audience
discussion.
We hope you can participate in this.

Warm regards
Sally Gillespie

PS Contrary to what appears on the website, bookings for the monthly talk are
not
essential