A Jungian Response
to the Clash of Civilizations
by Dr. John Dourley
Lecture

Friday, November 9, 2007 7:30 p.m..
The Unitarian Universalist Church,
3975 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota
$10 Members   $15 Non-Members   Students Free
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     S. P. Huntington, in his work on the Clash of Civilizations, has argued that the bond of today's diverse civilizations is religion. He goes on to affirm that to-day's wars between civilizations are basically religious wars. In his earlier works he searches for a more encompassing Civilization which would move toward commonalities held by the major civilizations.
    Jung also was aware of the dangers implicit in archetypal bonding in either religious or political guise. He may further Huntington's quest for Civilization by identifying the common origin of the diverse civilizations in the collective or archetypal unconscious, a universal human possession. The identification of the common origin of diverse cultures, religions and political commitments could make a substantial contribution to a more amicable interface between them than is currently too often the case.

Jung and the Societal Implications of Religion and Mysticism
Workshop

Saturday, November 10, 2007 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Meadows Community Association
2004 Longmeadow, Sarasota
$30 Members   $40 Non-Members   $15 Students

    Jung's psychology identifies the basis of religion in the experience of the numinous, that is, in the impact of the archetypal on consciousness. In religious matters he privileged the mystics as having undergone such experience with a surpassing intensity. He refers explicitly to certain mediaeval individual and traditions which took the mystics into a nothingness which they understood to be a moment of identity with the divine.
     In continuity with the social implications of Friday night's lecture this workshop will work to identify the societal value of such experience as promoting a more universal compassion born out of a moment of identity with what Jung terms, "the eternal Ground of all empirical being."   CW 14, par. 760.

Dr. John Dourley is a Jungian analyst and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Religion, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. Dr. Dourley is also a priest. His interest in Jung centers on Jung's thoughts on religion. He is an internationally acclaimed writer who in addition to his books has written widely in journals and anthologies. He will publish an article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Analytical Psychology on the relationship between Carl Jung and Victor White.

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