Workshops and Seminars

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents

Charlatans, Healers, Visionaries, False Prophets:
What is What and Does it Matter?

A Jungian Exploration of the Flakiness of Life

a daylong seminar led by
Heidi Kolb, LCSW, NCPsyA

Saturday, April 12, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Every spiritual truth is gradually reified and turns into a substance or tool in the hand of man.

— C. G. Jung, CW 13 

In this workshop, we will discover how we can relate to the psychic reality of the Charlatan, neither identifying with it nor blindly projecting it onto others. From Jung to Einstein, anyone who has made a major contribution to our culture has been accused of being a charlatan by some. The image and the dynamics of the Charlatan are a specific appearance of the archetypal Shadow that we can fall prey to when Power overtakes Eros.

We will examine how the archetype of the Charlatan shapes our relationship to political, cultural and religious leaders and also to the world of psychoanalysis, Jung and the Jungian community. The controversial figure of Carlos Castaneda, a charlatan for many, a spiritual teacher for others, will serve as a focal point in our attempt to comprehend the Healer/Charlatan paradox. Jung’s understanding of the power of the Black Magician as it is contained in the ever-present shadow of the Healer, makes this workshop relevant for any practitioner in a healing profession, any explorer of consciousness or any seeker of meaning and “truth.”

Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst, currently on the faculty of the Blanton-Peale Institute. She has worked with many teachers and healers in the past thirty years. Some of them were charlatans. She has learned something from all of them. She is in private practice in New York City.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008 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

Workshop Reservation

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