Please note this workshop WILL NOT BE RECORDED.

In this workshop, we will look more deeply into what the relationship between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his lover Lou Andreas-Salome can show us. While we can be consumed by our love for another, the Soul that has kindled the flame asks to be recognized.

We will also look at the opposites, at how we can unknowingly turn our backs on love, away from Soul’s gaze. We all suffer many disappointments in love and life; we may journey down unsavory streets and spend far too much time in broken-down dives where the lost gather to imbibe on shattered dreams. But the hope of finding love and soul remains humanity’s greatest dream. It demands the courage to experience an often painful, yet profound vulnerability. 

The search for one’s Soul is a solitary journey; nevertheless, undertaking this journey with reflection from someone who cares deeply about us is a subline gift.

In his book, She: A History of Adventure, H Rider Haggard writes:

For deep love unsatisfied is the hell of noble hearts … but love that is mirrored back more perfect from the soul of our desired doth fashion wings to lift us above ourselves and makes us what we might be. 

Our work is to see embedded within passion the Soul calling us to live to our fullest potential. From Haggard, Rilke, Rabbi Heschel, Toni Wolff, and others, we see the Janus-faced nature of love as it calls us to transcend the habitual and enter the numinosum to embrace something far greater than ourselves.

Prices

Non-Member:  $85.00/ticket

Individual Member:  $50.00/ticket

Senior 65+/Student Member:  $45.00/ticket

Dr. Michael Conforti s a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, and Venezuela. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, San Francisco Jung Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal, and his books has been translated into Italian, Russian and a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work.

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM:

Registration closes at 12:00pm EST the day before the program begins. 

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