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embodied spirituality

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Our own healing proceeds from that overlap
of what we call good and evil, light and dark.
It is not that the light element alone does
the healing; the place where light and dark
begin to touch is where miracles arise.
This middle place is a mandorla.

Robert A. Johnson

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Spirituality & Mental Health

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Gods and Diseases ~ Jung, Psyche, Symptoms

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a public program with

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David Tacey

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Bendigo ~ November 18th & 19th, 2011

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Program Information

Gods and Diseases ~ Jung, Psyche, Symptoms

Friday evening Lecture ~ Saturday afternoon Seminar

Venue: St Andrew's Hall ~ Myers Street (between Mundy and Williamson Streets)

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The program will focus on themes in David's most recent book, Gods and Diseases: Making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing (HarperCollins, Sydney, 2011), a study of psychological and symbolic patterns in bodily symptoms and social epidemics.

Dr David Tacey is an internationally recognised author and lecturer in the fields of Jungian psychology and spirituality. He teaches at La Trobe University in Melbourne and is the author of thirteen books on Jungian psychology, spirituality and mental health, most of which are published internationally. His other books include Re-Enchantment: The New Australian Spirituality (2000), The Spirituality Revolution (2003) and Edge of the Sacred (second edition 2009). Seven of his books are on Jung and analytical psychology, including The Jung Reader (2011), The Idea of the Numinous (2006) and How to Read Jung (2006).

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7.30 pm, Friday, November 18th ~ Lecture followed by discussion

Registration: $15 ($10 Concession)

PLEASE NOTE ~ Lecture is included at NO ADDITIONAL COST with a Saturday seminar registration

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Jung, Spirituality and Bodily Symptoms

"The gods have become diseases" ~ Carl Gustav Jung

Jung was perhaps a hundred years ahead of his time in terms of finding links between spirituality, health and medicine. In his day, his insights seemed ‘unscientific’ or against the mainstream, but medicine today is finally beginning to realise that the human person is a complex field which includes mind, body, spirit and soul. Ironically, many of the new works in the area of holistic health do not refer directly to Jung or draw on his insights, but medicine itself is moving generally into a more ‘Jungian’ mode, as doctors and practitioners seek deeper responses to our illnesses and diseases. As ‘meaning’ is recognised as a factor in healing, Jung’s contribution to the psychology of meaning-making needs to be acknowledged. If the 20th century was dominated by Freudian thought, the 21st century could be the one in which Jung’s ideas come to the fore and are widely disseminated.

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Saturday afternoon, November 19th ~ Seminar from 2.00pm to 5.00pm

Registration: $40 ($30 Concession)

PLEASE NOTE ~ Seminar registration includes the Friday evening lecture at NO ADDITIONAL COST

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The Spirituality of Life Transitions

Seminar Talk 1 ~ 2.00 to 2.45 followed by interactive group discussion to 3.15

Recent research indicates that spirituality is innate in human beings, and found in people regardless of whether they are expressly religious or not. Spirituality seems prior to religion as a human experience and occurs when we are curious about the meaning of life and when environmental and cultural forces impel people to discover the sources from which we live. In particular, those who suffer often become involved in spirituality as a means of enduring suffering and transforming it. Those who experience difficult life transitions, such as from childhood to adulthood, a midlife transition, or a near death experience leading to a return to life, often find themselves dealing with spiritual questions as a means of negotiating the personal crisis. By connecting to deeper values and meanings one can shed a previous persona and take on a new identity which is appropriate to one’s age, maturity and station in life. This talk will also explore the role played by spirituality in rites of passage and initiation ceremonies.

3.15 to 3.30 ~ mid-seminar coffee break

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The Healing Field of the Numinous

Seminar Talk 2 ~ 3.30 to 4.15 followed by interactive group discussion to 5.00

In a letter of 1945 to P. W. Martin, Jung said the numinous is the real source of healing. He said healing came not so much from the therapist’s words or techniques, but from the core of mystery to which the analysis pointed. In thinking about how contact with the numinous might heal, I utilise the wave/particle theory from physics. It could be that the human being has a ‘wave’ and a ‘particle’ aspect, and the ego is the particle, while the collective unconscious might be imagined as a wave. To live properly and well, we need to live in both modes, but modern society keeps us locked inside the ‘particular’ life of the ego, and that is why we are sick and suffering. Contact with the numinous will be discussed in modern and traditional contexts, and the talk will seek to differentiate between curing and healing.

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Bookings & Payments

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Book Sales

A small number of Gods and Diseases and some of David's other books will be for sale on a cash only basis.

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If you can inform others who will be interested in the program this will be greatly appreciated.

A promotional flyer (pdf) can be printed from this link. (a NEW FLYER has been added)

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David Tacey interviews on YouTube

Gods & Belief

Spirituality

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Mandorla Seminars

Mandorla Seminars presents public educational programs on spirituality,
especially in connection with psychology, therapy and personal development.

Various future programs are currently in preparation.

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mandorla articles

Robert A. Johnson
The Relationship of the Inner and the Outer

Brian Jensen
Mandorla - Ancient Symbol Of Wholeness

Rob Moore
The Mandorla - Symbol Of Liminal Space

Jean Raffa
The Mandorla Symbol

Robert Shaffer
Mandorla Imagery in Psychotherapy (pdf)

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Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, the hardship, the joy, love and happiness are all interwoven into one single indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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