Workshops and Seminars

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents

Fierce Gods and Hungry Ghosts:
The Worlds We Live In and Their Transformation

a daylong seminar led by
Gary Brown, M.S.W.

Saturday, February 4, 2006
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

We live in worlds created by our own consciousness according to the Buddhist tradition. The analytical psychology of C.G. Jung would say we live in the worlds of our own projections. In the Buddhist teachings developed over centuries in Tibet, these worlds are the six realms of the famous Wheel of Life, much like the well-known Fortune’s Wheel of medieval times in the West. We spend our days and lives spinning on this wheel as the three Passions of the hub come to life, mixing and matching, combining to bring us the worlds in which we live.

The Passions, as they are sometimes called, of craving, repulsion, and ignorance form personality patterns archetypally imaged as “worlds.” We will explore the imagery of the Five Buddha Families, corresponding to these worlds in the Tibetan tradition and how psychologically the passions that create these worlds may be transformed to wisdom. Although we will look at this symbol system as a whole, we will focus primarily on the world of the Hungry Ghosts, built upon neurotic craving, and the world of the Fierce Gods, an expression of aggressive envy.

In this daylong seminar, we will enter these two worlds through the transformative Lotus Mandala of the Five Buddha Families. Using the methods of visual and embodied imagery and association developed in analytical psychology, we will explore how we might achieve new relations to these energies.

Gary Brown, M.S.W., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. A graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, he is a supervising analyst in the Institute. He is past president of the Mid-Hudson Jung Society and has presented for the society as well for the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the C.G. Jung Foundation. He is a long-time student of Buddhism.

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Saturday, February 4, 2006 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
To be held at the C.G. Jung Foundation
28 East 39th Street, New York City

Tickets should be purchased in advance by mail, by phone or fax with credit card, or in person Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

For further information, please call 212-697-6430 or FAX 212-953-3989.
You can also email your questions to info@cgjungny.org

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Please print this page, complete the requested information, and mail to: C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016

Brown Workshop: Saturday, February 4, 2006

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Refunds (less $15 for administrative services) will be made up to seven days prior to the program, but not thereafter.

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