FACING THE ARCHETYPE OF THE APOCALYPSE
November 16 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
$35.00 – $45.00
PRESENTATION BY REV. DAVID HETT
November 16, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
In Person and By Zoom
Conference Room, 1550 Old Henderson Road, Columbus, OH. 43220
$35 members/$45 non-members
Following Dr. Sweeney’s lecture on “Illuminating the Darkness,” what better way to round out 2024 than with a lecture by Rev. David Hett on the apocalyptic archetype. As explained by Rev. Hett, this election season has often been put in apocalyptic terms. But no matter how the election turns out, it is clear that, as expressed by Car Jung at the height of the Cold War and the nuclear threat “we are living in an apocalyptic age” and, as stated by Edward Edinger at the dawn of our new millennium, “the Apocalypse archetype is now highly activated in the collective psyche and is living itself out in human history.”
Many cultures in various eras of human history have their own myths of world destruction, suggesting the archetypal power of apocalyptic awareness. And yet, in all these aeons of suspected destruction, the universe, the earth, and humanity still exist pointing to a deeper, and inner, psychological-spiritual meaning of the world’s end. Which becomes even more apparent when we realize that the word apocalypse comes from a Greek root meaning a ‘revelation,’ ‘a ‘revealing,’ an ‘unveiling’ of some hidden wisdom.
Using insights from Edinger’s The Archetype of the Apocalypse: A Jungian Study of the Book of Revelation, and others, Rev. Hett will lead us into an exploration of this archetypal phenomena and how consciously facing, and even embracing, its inner richness has the transformative potential of enriching our souls and the world.
David is a teacher of the psychological-spiritual work called the Diamond Approach and a retired United Methodist minister. He is also a student of Jungian and archetypal psychology, and has spoken previously on Jungian topics, synthesizing Jungian concepts with progressive Christianity and other spiritual modalities. He will be facilitating the upcoming JACO book study on Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. He currently resides in Chicago where he can be close to family and grandchildren.