An Evening With Nancy Furlotti:

The Not-To-Be-Forgotten World of the Maya

Friday, November 20, 2026, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern Time

This program WILL BE RECORDED.

The focus of this lecture is to offer an overview of the significant Maya civilization as it existed about 3,000 years ago and to explore its achievements and continuing influence in our world.

Maya civilization still has so much to offer us today in terms of knowledge and warnings. Where did these people come from? How did they create such an impressive culture here in the Americas, isolated from the rest of the world?

The K’iche’ Maya creation myth, the Popol Vuh, gives us the template to answer these questions. We will explore its meaning, function, and significance from a Jungian perspective. We will examine the themes, symbols, and metaphors contained within it to extract the psychological meaning that was pertinent to the development of their culture and that laid out the accepted values for the individuals to live by.

Memories of past cultures give us a wider horizon to see where our world is heading.

Please join us in looking back at the relevant and exciting world of the Maya.

PRICES

Non-Members:  $41/ticket

Individual Members:  $34/ticket

Senior 65+ Members:  $29/ticket

Student Members:  $13/ticket

Nancy Furlotti, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst living in Aspen, CO.  She is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she trained, and a founding member and past president of the Philemon Foundation, which published Jung’s Red Book, among other volumes.  She established the Carl Jung Professorial Endowment in Analytical Psychology at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the Erel Shalit Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellowship in Behavioral Neuroscience at Oxford University.  Both endowments focus on understanding happiness and resolving trauma.  Dr. Furlotti has written numerous articles and co-edited several books, including The Dream and Its Amplification with the late Erel Shalit. She lectures internationally on Jungian topics, such as dreams, mythology, trauma, the feminine, and the environment.  A long-standing interest of hers is Mesoamerican mythology, specifically the Quiché Maya creation myth, the Popol Vuh.  Her book on this subject is forthcoming.  Her company, Recollections, LLC, edits and publishes the writings of first-generation Jungians, most recently Erich Neumann’s two-volume manuscript, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness.

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM

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