Where the Light Enters You:
Transforming Suffering into Healing
by Victor Mansfield, PhD

We regret Dr. Mansfield's lecture & workshop
have been cancelled due to severe illness.

Replacement Lecture:

The Cosmological Significance of Synchronicity
by John Linn Mackey, PhD

     Jung and so many others often say that suffering and defeat open the door to meaning and personal transformation. Yet, he gives us only limited hints about how to bring about this transformation. This lecture takes a difficult personal experience as an example and develops some Jungian ideas and techniques for extracting meaning from our most challenging experiences. The discussion also explores the role of community, love, and compassion in healing. We find that the discovery of the archetype of meaning, the Self, relieves our suffering, and that repeated experiences of the process strengthen us in difficult times.

Synchronicity and Soul-Making:
Discovering the Soul's Intent
Workshop

    Without meaning, even the most privileged life is empty. Soul-making or individuation usually seeks the meaning of life through attention to inner processes. However, some of our most profound instances of soul-making come in synchronicity experiences, which express the same meaning both inwardly and outwardly, without one causing the other.
     This experiential workshop will deepen our understanding and experience of both synchronicity and soul-making. We will work toward a more powerful connection with the intelligence at the core of our being and a deeper understanding of its expression in our synchronicity experiences. We will clarify how synchronicity can offer us insights into our soul's intent and how to cultivate receptivity to such experiences. Through case material, music, poetry, imaginal work, writing exercises, and group discussion, participants will experience both the intellectual and feeling dimensions of synchronicity and soul-making.

Victor Mansfield, PhD is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Colgate University, in Hamilton, NY, USA, where he also teaches popular courses including Jungian psychology and Tibetan Buddhism. He has lectured throughout the USA and in several European countries. He developed his keen interest in depth psychology and Eastern philosophy while earning his Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Cornell University. A student of Jungian psychology and Eastern Thought for nearly forty years, he has practiced and studied with spiritual leaders in the U.S., Europe, and India. Among his many publications are the books Synchronicity, Science, and Soul-Making (Open Court, 1995), Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred (Quest Books, 2002) and Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge (Templeton Foundation Press, 2008). He warmly invites you to www.lightlink.com/vic where you can read his recently published interdisciplinary papers, information about his books, seminar schedule, and his curriculum vita.

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