The I Ching as Conversational Partner, with JACO Member Jeanne Marlowe
2022-07-09 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
Because this will be an in-person event and we need to reserve space, it would be immensely helpful if you would RSP below, please. Thank you!
For important decisions, sorting priorities, puzzling dreams, learn an easy, wise way to consult the I Ching and move toward Tao – the union, dissolution, and reintegration of opposites. A few minutes of writing your deep thoughts and feelings about an emotional issue helps you ask the right questions. Hear examples from Jung, John Beebe’s Integrity in Depth, and Nathan Schwartz-Salant’s The Order-Disorder Paradox. Bring your questions and experience, especially an I Ching response that became important in your life.

Jeanne journaled over 400 I Ching queries over the past 29 years and felt enriched by every response. She will bring her Workbook compiling results for each of the 64 hexagrams – yes, she’s received all 64. She thrives on small group dialogue and currently leads a monthly writing group, open to all, at the Columbus Public Library.

Moving Toward the Transcendent - Artist Jim Slouffman - Virtual Exhibit
2022-08-01 01:00 - 2022-10-31 12:00 | OH
Virtually amazing!
Jim Slouffman has been an artist and educator for more than 50 years. He received his BFA from Wright State University in 1972 and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1976. He is a member of The Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung where he has presented on a variety of subjects. His artwork is in collections across the United States and Europe. Click here to go to this striking exhibit: https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

ARCHETYPES AND TAROT Workshop 1 of 2, With Judy Anne Morse and Belinda Gore
2022-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This will be a two-part workshop. Scroll below to register for Part 1, please.

Tarot is a wisdom teaching expressed through 78 cards known as the Major and Minor Arcana, or Mysteries. While Jung did not write about Tarot, the “Fool”s Journey” through the Tarot leads us through the path of individuation. It is a teaching that can be used as a sacred oracle, a focus for meditation, and spiritual path for living.
In Part One of this two-part workshop, you will learn:

The history of Tarot;
The structure of the Tarot deck, with suits, court cards and trump cards;
The differences among the three major types of decks – Marseille, Rider-Waite, and Thoth;
The archetypal significance of the numbers and elements in the Minor Arcana (similar to a regular deck of playing cards);
How the Major Arcana track an archetypal path of initiation or individuation;
Four simple well-known “spreads” for using Tarot for guidance based on Jung’s concept of synchronicity: a single card spread, a three card spread, the Celtic Cross, and the Emperor’s Square.

We will conclude with an exercise in which you can determine your personal soul card and personality card from the Major Arcana. These are your guiding archetypes.
Part Two includes these topics:

Differentiating Tarot from oracle cards;
Integrating the guidance from a reading through journalling, collage, poetry and storytelling;
Learning about the influence of the “family” cards, also known as the court cards;
Layering the meaning of each card using correspondences with sound, color, astrology and Kabbalah;
How to choose a deck for yourself and how to personalize your deck;
A review of recommended resources: books, websites, and major companies that publish Tarot decks.

BIOS:
Judy Anne Morse is a Poet and a recent graduate of the Pacific Mystery School’s Kabbalah and Tarot of the Spirit Lightning Path Trilogy, Levels I, II, and III. She studied poetry and creative non-fiction at the College of Santa Fe and taught poetry and journaling at The Diarist Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has published two volumes of poetry, Find the Essence: Poems from the Tarot, and The Offering. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies. Currently Judy Anne lives in Columbus, OH.
Belinda Gore
Belinda Gore has been a member of JACO since its inception and currently serves on the Board of Directors. As a psychologist she has explored the development of personality and its transformation on the path of initiation using the Enneagram, dreams, and indigenous studies. She has been a student of Diamond Approach for the past 16 years.

Book Study Group - Session 1 of 2 - In Preparation for the fall (October) Bollingen Lecture and Workshop, Featuring the Works of Presenter Stan Marlan
2022-09-08 19:00 - 21:00 | OH
Dr. Marlan has published numerous articles on Jungian psychology and is the editor of four books, including Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman. He was a Fay lecturer at Texas A&M and the author of The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness. For more information on Dr. Marlan, please visit this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Marlan
This will be a two-part discussion series, offered by Zoom. To receive a Zoom link for Part 1, please RSVP below.

Second Saturday With Artist Jim Slouffman: Jungian Psychology Through an Artist's Lens
2022-09-10 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
Jim will discuss Jungian psychology through the lens of his experience as an artist. Several years ago Jung Currents featured musings on the Cosmic Egg/the World egg, at which time Jim was inspired to write the following lyrical words that are a great introduction to his soaring spirit:
“Oh cosmic egg progenitor of all, your eternal roundness speaks of the round thing, the oneness of the universe. Endless light wraps your curves. Whiteness – Darkness When your shadow eclipses worlds we shudder, gather in community and sing incantations of redemptive love. OM
When you are opened the great flame rises to the endless heavens freeing the tongues of prophetic fire to speak!”
Though this is a free Zoom program, we ask that you RSVP below please. Getting an idea of the number of participants will help Jim plan his format. Thank you!

ARCHETYPES AND TAROT Workshop 2 of 2, With Judy Anne Morse and Belinda Gore
2022-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This is the second part of a two-part workshop. Scroll below to register for Part 2, please.
Tarot is a wisdom teaching expressed through 78 cards known as the Major and Minor Arcana, or Mysteries. While Jung did not write about Tarot, the “Fool”s Journey” through the Tarot leads us through the path of individuation. It is a teaching that can be used as a sacred oracle, a focus for meditation, and spiritual path for living.
Part Two includes these topics:

Differentiating Tarot from oracle cards;
Integrating the guidance from a reading through journalling, collage, poetry and storytelling;
Learning about the influence of the “family” cards, also known as the court cards;
Layering the meaning of each card using correspondences with sound, color, astrology and Kabbalah;
How to choose a deck for yourself and how to personalize your deck;
A review of recommended resources: books, websites, and major companies that publish Tarot decks.

Judy Anne Morse is a Poet and a recent graduate of the Pacific Mystery School’s Kabbalah and Tarot of the Spirit Lightning Path Trilogy, Levels I, II, and III. She studied poetry and creative non-fiction at the College of Santa Fe and taught poetry and journaling at The Diarist Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has published two volumes of poetry, Find the Essence: Poems from the Tarot, and The Offering. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies. Currently Judy Anne lives in Columbus, OH.
Belinda Gore
Belinda Gore has been a member of JACO since its inception and currently serves on the Board of Directors. As a psychologist she has explored the development of personality and its transformation on the path of initiation using the Enneagram, dreams, and indigenous studies. She has been a student of Diamond Approach for the past 16 years.

Book Study Group - Session 2 of 2 - In Preparation for the Fall (October) Bollingen Lecture and Workshop, Featuring the Works of Presenter Stan Marlan
2022-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | OH
Dr. Marlan has published numerous articles on Jungian psychology and is the editor of four books, including Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman. He was a Fay lecturer at Texas A&M and the author of The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness. For more information on Dr. Marlan, please visit this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Marlan
This will be a two-part discussion series, offered by Zoom. To receive a Zoom link for Part 2, please RSVP below.

The 2022 Bollingen Lecture with Dr. Stan Marlan: Jung, Alchemy, Transformation, and Individuation
2022-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 | First Community North Campus, 3777 Dublin Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
The following information covers the October 14 Friday evening lecture AND the October 15 Saturday workshop. Scroll below to register, please. You will find tickets listed for the Fri Lecture; for the Sat Workshop; for both Fri & Sat (discounted), as well as for CEU’s, all noted for member and non-member applicability. The location will be First Community Church, North Campus, 3777 Dublin Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221. Thank you.
Carl Jung’s interest in alchemy came to him in 1928 after he had read The Secret of the Golden Flower, a book on Chinese meditation and alchemy from the late Tang dynasty (618–907). By the time he read the book Jung had been investigating the processes of the collective unconscious for 15 years. The book’s trope suggests the opening of consciousness to light—the journey through darkness, transformation, and transcendence. For the first time, Jung felt that he was on the right track in finding the “long-sought connecting link between Gnosis and the processes of the collective unconscious that can be observed in modern man.” (CW 20, Alchemical Studies, p.4). Our presenter, Stan Marlan, recognizes that a ‘linking of light and darkness sets the stage for a fundamental and recurring theme in both alchemy and Jungian psychology” —the unity of opposites. And that “[w]hen these tensions are held together, they catalyze a symbol-making process that produces complex archetypal images that exceed rational categories” and lead toward wholeness. (Marlan, C.J. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination, p.2).
On Friday evening, Marlan will introduce the audience to Jung’s alchemical world—why it was so important to Jung, alchemy’s basic concepts and symbolism, and how it functions as a metaphor for individuation. At the workshop on Saturday, he will continue to build upon these concepts and explore the mysterious goal of the alchemical process—the Philosopher’s Stone. He will incorporate the teachings of individuals such as Edward Edinger, Marie Louise von Franz, and James Hillman as a means of developing our understanding of Jung’s alchemical teachings; how images function in a very particular way; and, how alchemical concepts such as fire and heat can relate to the care of our own psychic wounds. Marlan will illustrate alchemical teachings using case material and dreams. He will also engage participants in discussion of their questions and comments.

The 2022 Bollingen Workshop with Dr. Stan Marlan: Jung, Alchemy, Transformation, and Individuation
2022-10-15 09:30 - 12:30 | First Community North Campus, 3777 Dublin Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States

The Unconscious Revealed - A Virtual Art Exhibit Featuring Artist and Art Therapist Maggi Colwell
2022-10-31 18:30 - 2022-12-31 20:00 | OH
A video interview of Maggi can be accessed here: https://vimeo.com/765827164/64dccac88c
Maggi discussed their work at a recent reception for the artist. It is truly glorious. The recording is available here https://vimeo.com/766910995/11f9b01058
Click here to go directly to Maggi’s luminous exhibit https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

Artist Reception with Artist and Art Therapist Maggi Colwell: The Unconscious Revealed
2022-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
Maggi will present a slide show and discuss her work on Wednesday November 2 from 7 to 9 pm at First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus 43212. It will be very helpful to us if you RSVP below so that we can plan space and refreshments. Thank you.
Maggi’s luminous virtual exhibit can be visited at the JACO web site (jungcentralohio.org) November 1 through January 31.

Maggi Colwell, MS, ATR-BC, recognized their deep interest in both creativity and dreams at a young age with an interest in symbolism, mythology, and surrealism. Maggi received their bachelor’s in visual art from Salisbury University in 2003. After undergraduate, Maggi trained with the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, for 12 years, receiving their 3rd degree as high priestex in 2011. Their studies have included ceremonial magic, hermetic Qabala, tarot, mythology, and astrology. They offer teaching in arts-based rituals and metaphysics at www.artscoven.com Maggi received their master’s in art therapy from Florida State University and is a board-certified art therapist. They have a master’s level Dream Pattern Certificate from the Assisi Institute. Maggi moved to Columbus Ohio in 2020 and works with individual adults in their Jungian-oriented, private practice, Chiron Art Therapy. columbusarttherapy.com

The Body Keeps the Score: Reflections and Applications from a Jungian Perspective
2022-11-11 10:00 - 2022-12-16 12:00 | OH
Jungian Seminar with Jungian Analyst, Dr. James Fidelibus
CEU’s will be available. Contact Dr. Fidelibus at fidelibus@sbcglobal.net for additional information, including dates and times the seminar will meet, its location, registration fees and the like.

Are We Listening? Dream Messages We Receive to Guide Us Through Personal and World Disquiet, Presented by Jungian Analyst Janice Bachman
2022-11-12 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This is both an in-person and Zoom program. We hope to see you in-person but we will be delighted to see you virtually as well! To receive a Zoom link, please RSVP below, by 9 am on the 12th though, so that we can get it to you in time. If you plan to attend in-person, please do RSVP below as well. That will be very helpful to us as we plan space and refreshments. There are two RSVP options – one for Zoom and one for in-person. Thank you! This is a free program. However, a donation of $10 – $15 would be deeply appreciated. https://www.jungcentralohio.org/donate/
But please do not let this suggested donation keep you from coming. You will be welcomed with all our heart.
Spiritual Director and Jungian Analyst, Janice Bachman, O.P. will lead an exploration of dream work as a source for insight and deeper self-understanding. She will share practices of listening and learning from the language of dreams that provide wisdom and enrichment for our waking life. We will look at the archetypal nature of symbols and their meaning to learn the art of translating dream messages into a language we can understand and meaningfully bring into our lives. Dreams are unique gifts given to each of us. Dreams connect us to a source of wisdom beyond the ego and can heal and guide us on our journey to become more whole persons. In this program we will discuss classical elements of Jungian dream work and situate this content within the larger arena of world events, the collective unconscious, individual psychological development and spiritual growth.
Janice is on the summer faculty at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, where she teaches in the Graduate Program in Christian Spirituality. She holds a masters’ degree in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University, a diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (Toronto), and an MBA from Xavier University, Cincinnati.

Video Recording of Are We Listening? Dream Messages We Receive to Guide Us Through Personal and World Disquiet, Presented by Jungian Analyst Janice Bachman
2022-11-18 08:00 - 2023-01-07 17:00 | OH
Janice presented this insightful and inspiring program November 12, 2022. The recording is available for a small donation. The link will be sent upon receipt. Thank you for your interest. May your dreams be an infinite source of guidance and wisdom for you.

Anima - Animus: A Jungian Reset? Presented by JACO Members Mary Marx and John Schuster
2022-11-19 09:00 - 11:30 | OH
https://jungct.org/lectures#714bc79a-bf2b-4f3f-981e-b32748583411

Six-Session Zoom Workshop: The Tarot As A Means For Personal Growth And Individuation
2023-01-17 19:00 - 2023-03-28 21:00 | OH
Nota Bene: Participation is limited to 8 people. If you find, as you scroll down to tickets, that the limit has been reached please do let us know of your interest by emailing jungaco@jungcentralohio.org
We will keep a wait list and also contact you regarding future offerings.
Join us for an exciting, foundational Tarot course. We will explore the importance of number (1-10 Minor Arcana) and the elemental energies of the suits (Fire/Wands, Water/Cups. Air/Swords.Earth/Pentacles). This foundational understanding and your own intuitive knowing will guide you through any tarot reading with any tarot deck. We will be using the standard Rider-Waite Smith deck in this course. We will explore various spreads beginning with an annual reading to determine your monthly cards for 2023. You will also learn one-card, two-card and three-cards spreads for quick, accurate readings for everyday life. We will then expand into more detailed five-card readings as your
familiarity with your deck increases. We will also be keeping a Tarot journal to record your readings and compile useful information in building your Tarot practice. All levels of Tarot experience are
welcome.

The workshop will consist of 6 sessions, two hours each, from 7 to 9 pm
This workshop is being offered by zoom, Tuesdays on Jan 17, Jan 31, Feb 14, Feb 28, Mar 14, Mar 28
The registration fee is $100 for a six-week session.
Registrants must bring the Rider-Waite Smith deck to each session, purchasing it if you don’t already have it. It is available on Amazon.

Virtual Art Exhibit - Faust in Precious Stone
2023-01-31 08:00 - 2023-05-01 16:30 | OH
In Goethe’s Faust Jung found a key to understanding how individual consciousness is integrated with the personal as well as the collective unconscious. The images in the cameo collection “Faust in Precious Stone” capture the story of a dialogue between God and the Devil, a pact made with the Devil, a hedonistic journey, encounters with the shadow, a tragic fall, encounters with the numinous and transformation.
The images in this virtual art exhibit were provided by the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Chicago. They are beautifully presented in a striking book by Bruce McKay titled “Faust in Precious Stone: Cameo Carvings by Hans Dieter Roth and Andreas Roth”.
To go to the virtual art exhibit, which features both the cameos and comments from a Jungian perspective, and where additional information is provided, click here. https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/
To purchase the book, scroll below.

The Profound Influence of Faust on Jung, Presented by Terry Malinowski and Sandy Pfening
2023-02-11 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This program will be delivered both in-person (1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio) as well as by zoom. To register, please scroll below. A zoom link will be sent to all registrants.
In Goethe’s Faust Jung found a key to understanding how individual consciousness is integrated with the personal as well as the collective unconscious. Jung used this story as source material for the psychology of the individuation process. Goethe’s drama begins with the deeply human confrontation of good and evil, in the form of the psychological shadow. Part Two describes the alchemical transformation of leaden instinctual drives to the gold of transcendence. Here is that remarkable place in human consciousness where power is not defined by personal drives nor collective archetypes. Instead the self unifies and embodies “the eternal feminine”, which Jung describes as “sapientia dei”.
(adapted from J. Gordon Nelson – CG Jung Institute of LA)
Terry is originally from the Western NY area. After graduating from engineering at Purdue, he joined the Peace Corps. He served as a volunteer on the island of Pohnpei in the South Pacific for six years in the early 70s. Living in a traditional island culture for several years significantly shaped his world view. He became fluent in the language and culture and served as a cross-cultural teacher in two Peace Corps training programs on Pohnpei. After Peace Corps, he lived in Honolulu for 17 years where he completed 3 graduate degrees including one in cultural anthropology. In 1993, he moved to Columbus, Ohio where he continued working in health care until 2013. Terry has been active with JACO for over 25 years and has presented over 10 lectures on a wide variety of topics to the Jung Haus over the years. He also has worked with different Jungian analysts for over the past 30+ years. For the past few years, he has been studying Friedrich Nietzsche writings and his significant impact on the work of Carl Jung.
Sandy is a long-time member of JACO and highly regarded Jungian scholar who has presented many rich programs as well as co-presented with Terry. She has served JACO in multiple leadership roles.
On February 1 the JACO web site will feature a virtual art exhibit of Faust cameos, accompanied by references to Jungian psychology.

Necessary Fictions: Therapy as the Critique of “Stories” - A Talk Based on His Recently Published Book "The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves" - Presented by Dr. James Hollis
2023-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 | OH
This will be a zoom program. To register, please scroll below to “Tickets”. CEUs (1.5) are available for licensed psychologists. Cost is $15 for non-members and $2 for members. Scroll below to purchase. We are so so sorry but because of a change in our systems processing and the delay that resulted, we have not been able to secure approval yet for CSWMFT CEUs, though it is working its way through the CSWMFT system, which is separate from the OPA system. We hope we receive it before March 3 but we cannot guarantee it.
We are creatures who need to understand, at any cost. And so we “story” our experiences, and those stories, provisional, localized, and often created at an early stage of our history, become defining narratives. The disarray of our histories nevertheless can be a powerful clue to the “meta-stories” to which we have been in service for many years. Therapy can be understood as the identification of and critical analysis of our operative or “meta-stories.” Until these “narrative interpretations” can be smoked out, we remain their captive. In a series of questions, we will be invited to examine the stories we have been serving, and then engage stories that honor what wants to unfold from within us.

Learn why we create “stories” to explain our lives, and then get trapped by our stories.
Differentiate the “story” of the complex from a “meta-story” that governs a client’s life.
Support the growth of a “story” larger than those generated by the client’s necessary defensive narratives.

Conspiracy Theories! What is it about those powerful energies? How can we understand this phenomenon or even talk about it? - Presented by Vladislav Solc
2023-04-29 09:30 - 13:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This program will be presented in person at First Community
1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212 . It will also be available by Zoom. Scroll below to register. We hope you can join us. Three CEUs will be available. There is a nominal CEU charge for members and a $15 CEU charge for non-members, in addition to the registration fee. See “Tickets” below.
Conspiracy theories have been gradually occupying larger domains of cultural and political life. This presentation will take a symbolic perspective and offer a non-dismissive understanding of the reasons for strong adherence to conspiracy theories. Inadequate and noncredible representations of numinous energies in consciousness unwittingly contribute to the creation of structures with notable mythological parallels. Jung referred to this phenomenon as an “axiom of psychology,” which can explain both the archetypal nature of conspiracism and its resistance to rational correction. Thinking is free from the unconscious influence of the Self only to the extent that it is able to recognize and to relate to numinous contents, on one hand, and to withdraw projections from the object, on the other. Exploring conspiracy theories as symbols rather than rational constructs offers more fruitful solutions to our current social problems.
Šolc reminds us of the importance of healthy religious institutions and communities that have the spiritual tools to help us discover deeper religious meanings through worship, prayer, and ritual practices that contain powerful numinous energies for our understanding. Yet we should be careful of religious grandiosity which might protect us from our own suffering, doubts and from the deeper Self emerging from valuing paradox, imagination, conflict and emerging novelty in religious experience and understanding. – David J. Dalrymple, Ph.D., affiliate minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charleston, a pastoral psychotherapist and Jungian psychoanalyst
Participants will learn:
The psychological phenomena and dynamics underlying dark religion and conspiracism.
The definition of the ego and the Self as used in Jungian theory.
How the Self, namely non-credible representations of numinous energies, influences the way ego holds onto the dark religion & conspiracy theories.
What constitutes that adherence to be considered excessive, unhealthy.
What are mythological and clinical parallels of the phenomena.
How to identify the difference between spirituality and Dark religion.
Where conspiracism and creed overlap.
The basic idea of numinosum in Jungian psychology.
The phenomena of identification, inflation, possession, and split-off.
Vlado Šolc is a psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst practicing in Glendale, WI. Vlado received training from C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and Charles University in Prague. Vlado is an active member of IAAP and Aurora Medical Group. Vlado focuses on psycho-spiritual crisis (loss of life’s meaning and direction), mind-body connection (psychosomatic issues), immigration & cultural issues, and women empowerment (emancipation). His specialties also include treatment of addictions, individual and marital psychotherapy with adult, and youth populations. Vlado lives in constant awe about the miracle of existence. Vlado has presented in North America, Asia and Europe. He is an author of numerous articles and depth psychology-oriented books: Psyche, Matrix, Reality; The Father Archetype, In the Name of God – Fanaticism from Perspective of Depth Psychology, Dark Religion, Individuation and Democracy in the Time of Conspiracy Theories.

JUNGIAN BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES BEGINNING APRIL 30 LED BY ETHAN FINLEY
2023-04-30 15:00 - 16:00 | OH
Led by Ethan Finley, a Jungian oriented therapist, JACO Board member and JACO office manager, this series of zoom meetings will focus on the book, Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe by Bernardo Kastrup. The series will start on Sunday April 30th from 3pm to 4pm and continue bi-weekly on Sundays from 3pm to 4pm until we’ve finished the book. This event series will be offered for free though donations are welcomed. A brief description of the book and author is below.
More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the 20th century’s greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung’s extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung’s writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation.
The present book scrutinizes Jung’s work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: For Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God’s own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force, and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on ‘Scientific American,’ the ‘Institute of Art and Ideas,’ the ‘Blog of the American Philosophical Association’ and ‘Big Think,’ among others.
Click HERE to take a closer look at the book. scroll below to receive a link to join the discussion. We are most grateful for donations (suggested $20 but please know you are welcome to attend even if you can’t or aren’t ready to donate at this time).

JACO Member Virtual Art Exhibit
2023-05-01 04:30 - 2023-07-31 17:00 | OH
Click here to go directly to the art gallery https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

From a Jungian perspective the psyche works to bring unconscious material to consciousness through symbols and images to facilitate personal growth and development. This is a journey of self-discovery that emphasizes the importance of finding meaning and purpose in life. Jung himself used active imagination to explore his unconscious through art.
In his Red Book, he states, “I took great care to try to understand every single image, every item of my psychic inventory, and to classify them scientifically—so far as this was possible—and, above all, to realize them in actual life.”
The JACO community has received many gifts of creative expression from its members through the years and we are profoundly grateful to continue our long history of exhibiting member artwork. This current exhibit features JACO members Belinda Gore, Ann Sullivan, Christina Comer and Lucy Linik.

Two Spiritual Art Experiences, with Jungian Artist James Slouffman
2023-05-13 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This will be an in-person event. Please scroll below to RSVP. It is essential that we learn of the attendance number, for special space arrangements must be made for this immersive experience.
Jim’s artwork was featured in the fall 2022 JACO Virtual Art Exhibit. His creations are breathtaking, and he kindly offered a Second Saturday last November to explain the Jungian concepts that guide his artistry. One piece features a tabernacle, the story of which is enchanting. With that tabernacle as his spotlight, Jim is offering us the gift of a two-part program. In his words:
First, we will start with a discussion of how synchronicity moved the tabernacle into my possession so that I could transform it into a contemplative Art Object. Next, we will relax and meditate during the fifteen-minute visual and musical presentation that the tabernacle experience provides. We will wait five minutes in silence to reflect upon the experience and then share our experiences in an open discussion group.
The second half of our session will take us back to a primal setting to experience a Shamanic Drum Circle. I will explain the basics of this experience and provide the ritual dedication to the four directions and the above and below. I will drum at around 120 beats per minute which will synch our energies with the natural resonance of the earth. 🌎 I will drum for 20 minutes. We will sit in silence again for five minutes to process our experience then have another open discussion group.

Dream Groups
2023-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 | OH
YOU’VE RESPONDED, AND WE HEARD YOU. DREAM GROUPS ARE COMING.
Whether you are a trained facilitator (or have had some experience) or are brand new to the idea of dream groups (or have been in one before) and are interested in being in one now, this Program is for you. It is designed to facilitate the establishment of Dream Groups in our community. All 3 sessions will be on Zoom.
On May 20, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we want to meet with you and have a Brainstorming Session..
We will provide you with the basics of what we are proposing. We will then open the floor to you. We need your input! What prompted you to sign up? What has been your experience? Positives/Negatives– As a facilitator; as a participant? Size of group? People known to you/People new to you? Level of autonomy? What are you looking for? What would meet your needs? What role do you want to play? There is no cost for this meeting.
On July 22, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we will have an Orientation Session. This Session will provide education on best practices for facilitating and participating in a Dream Group. It will also incorporate what we learned from the Brainstorming Session including how we can help facilitate the establishment of Dream Groups within our community. There is a $30 fee for this session. CEUs will also be available. You must have attended (or subsequently listened to the recording of) this Session in order to attend the July 29th Session.
On July 29, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we will have a Dream Session.
One or more dreams will be presented to the group for a hands-on experience i.e., we will work through the dream(s) as if we were, in fact, a Dream Group. Debriefing will follow. There is a $30 fee for this session. CEUs will also be available.
Scroll below to sign up for the brainstorming session.

A June Art Exhibit Retrospective Featuring Artist Jim Slouffman
2023-06-06 08:00 - 2023-06-30 17:00 | OH
Enter the Tabernacle
To view the slideshow click here: June Retrospective Slideshow Featuring Artist Jim Slouffman

We just have to exclaim over Jim Slouffman’s Second Saturday May 13 spiritual art experience. He traveled from Cincinnati with his opera singer wife Caroline, to follow up his Fall 2022 JACO virtual art exhibit with the spotlight on his tabernacle. What a sacred term! Tabernacle! So many reverent meanings across cultures. Consecrated! Jim received a tabernacle as a gift. It had been part of a church sacrament but was deconsecrated when the church closed and found its way to this devoted artist. He reconsecrated it as an image of the divine within.
Jim shared the story of how he received the tabernacle and how he re-fashioned it to be a symbol of meditative power. A relic without. Within, the chalice. He added hidden lights. The door to the tabernacle – on the inside he imprinted the butterfly nebula (image captured by the Hubble spacecraft).
“The great mystery of the Butterfly Nebula on the inside of the tabernacle door? A new vision of eternity inward and outward? THE BIRTH OF A NEW GOD IMAGE? Possibilities!” The Butterfly Nebula is a cosmic wonder with a wingspan of three light-years and a scorching hot central star. What a perfect symbol of rebirth. We can go deeply into this image and find hope. Jim explained how meaningful this work has been to him and invited participants to travel to the outer realms of the cosmos to find connection, beginnings, endings, and the promise of teleological essence.
Jim Slouffman has spent his entire creative life in pursuit of inner awareness. His paintings and drawings serve as investigations of symbols, nature and ideas that move the spirit. The sources of his inspiration are personal realizations (Gnosis) nurtured by his in-depth studies of psychology, mythology, metaphor, philosophy, music, and spirituality.
Recent ideas that have influenced his imagination are many and include the eternal feminine, sacred geometry, alchemical and archetypal symbolism. His works often reflect the symmetrical and centering power felt in mandalas and mystical contemplative art. His use of gold & silver leaf and gold painted elements speak to his spiritually creative style.
Jim has been an artist and educator for more than 50 years. He received his BFA from Wright State University in 1972 and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1976. He is a member of The Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung where he has presented on a variety of subjects. His artwork is in collections across the United States and Europe.

Active Engagination, with JACO Member Mike Schaefer
2023-06-10 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
This will be an in-person event at First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, 43212. To help us plan the space and refreshments, kindly RSVP below. This rare program takes us back to the heady days of yore when we gathered in person to explore in dialogue with each other captivating mysteries of the conscious and the unconscious. We are so happy Mike is offering this opportunity to us. We hope very much to see you there.
Can we facilitate Individuation in a group setting? If the experience of Individuation is about a full engagement between Psyche and Cosmos or between Self and the World, what do we call it when experienced in a group setting? Come and explore this experience that will attempt a flowing of consciousness through the group that is created from within and fosters a shifting from intellectual understanding to living process. Any moment itself provides the material for something like Active Imagination (which is a process typically used for introspection or as a means for working with dream images). As a group we can create a process with one another to explore Jungian topics that emerge from a seed image and processed through group experience. The intent here would be to get into the flow of the process with no agenda trusting the impulses and desires of the group to determine the course of exploration. It would be like an active engagement in one another’s imagination as a means to facilitate individual and group Individuation. We could call it Active Engagination.
Mike is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. He received a master’s degree from the University of Dayton and has practiced with individuals (including adults, adolescents and children), couples and families in a private agency and with clients in nursing facilities. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees for JACO.

Virtual Art Gallery Show - Remedios Varo
2023-08-02 08:00 - 2023-10-31 17:00 | OH
Remedios Varo, born in Spain, found her palette come alive in Mexico, where magical realism was a creative host to her surrealistic compositions. She wove into her paintings a wide range of religious, mystic and hermetic traditions, as well as animistic faiths. She was learned in the sciences yet incorporated with equal interest the ideas of Carl Jung, Meister Eckhart, and the Sufis. She saw in each of these an avenue to self-knowledge and the transformation of consciousness.
To learn more and to view Varo’s work, please visit the Art Gallery at this location: https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/

Family Hauntings, Presented by Jeff Holman
2023-08-05 10:00 - 12:00 | First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
In person at First Community, 1320 Cambridge Blvd. and by zoom
To help us plan for space and refreshments kindly RSVP below. This will also enable us to send a zoom link. This is a free program but donations are deeply appreciated. Just click here, with our gratitude.
This program blends Hollis’ (Jung’s) Hauntings theory with Family Systems Theory and Eudaimonic fulfillment, i.e. living one’s values and integrity for enduring contentment. Jeff starts with describing complexes, moves on to family dynamics and ancestral projects, then focuses on meaningful living.
Jeff is originally from western NC. He became familiar with Jungian theory when he was a chaplain and in formation to train chaplains with ACPE. He began reading and teaching Jungian theory at that time, met with a Jungian analyst for years, and was certified by ACPE in part due to his competency with Jungian theory for spiritual care. In the past decade, he’s worked as a Certified Educator with ACPE and now works at OhioHealth training others how to teach chaplains while leading the system’s CPE programs. He is on two leadership commissions with ACPE, one on certification and the other on professional wellbeing. He has been a member of JACO since moving to Columbus in 2016 and lives in Hilliard with his wife Sheila Moorman and son Noah.

Dream Group Workshop
2023-08-19 10:00 - 12:00 | OH
This is a free program but RSVP below to receive the link.
One of the things people have asked JACO is recommending local dream groups in which they can participate. The community has been involved in several dream groups in the past and many are interested in reconnecting.
After our initial meeting, we have found that there are people interested in forming groups, in person and online. Our next workshop on dream groups will be led by Janice Bachman and Maggi Colwell. The meeting will include the following:

Gathering information to get interested people connected to those willing to host and facilitate
Demonstrating on how a lay person group would work through a dream.
Background context for how to approach dream content.

All are welcome. No experience needed.
Maggi Colwell, MS, ATR-BC is a Jungian oriented art therapist in private practice in Columbus Ohio. Their final graduate community project at Florida State University focused on dreams in an art therapy group setting. They received a masters level dream pattern analysis certificate from the Assisi Institute. Maggi is currently continuing their studies at the CG Jung Institute Zurich as a training candidate.
Janice Bachman, a Jungian psychoanalyst in practice in the Greater Columbus area, has offered several dream workshops for JACO members and has worked with a variety of groups focused on interpreting their dreams as a way of accessing a deeper meaning in their lives.

Love, Power, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
2023-09-09 10:00 - 15:00 | First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH, 43214, United States
Presented by Dennis and Rebecca Pottenger, authors of “Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo”
The morning lecture (10 AM to Noon) is both in-person and online
The afternoon experiential workshop (1 PM to 3 PM) is in-person only
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH 43214 To register scroll below to tickets. CEUs are available: 2 for the morning session and 2 for the afternoon session. You will find separate tickets for the CEUs. Pricing is based on member and non-member status. There is a program registration fee discount if you register for both the morning AND the afternoon sessions. Scholarship assistance is available – email jungaco@jungcentralohio.org. PLEASE NOTE WHEN YOU SCROLL BELOW TO TICKETS: THERE IS A MEMBER REGISTRATION TICKET FOR MEMBERS OF JACO AND A SEPARATE MEMBER REGISTRATION TICKET FOR MEMBERS OF The Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung, the Jung Education Center of Cleveland, and the Jung Association of the Miami Valley
See images (the Pottenger’s Power Point slide show) of Varo’s work in the Art Gallery at this location:
https://www.jungcentralohio.org/gallery/
Patriarchy is a word that triggers strong emotion. Men can feel defensive and attacked, made to feel bad or wrong. Women feel oppressed, silenced, annihilated. As a system of power and domination, patriarchy hurts people of all genders, and all of us are needed to create a world that works for everyone.
How can we, as female, nonbinary, and male persons work together to transform a culture that harms us all by misusing the archetypal masculine and feminine principles present in each person for the purposes of power and domination?
How can we make a world based on inclusiveness, equality, and psychological wholeness—a world in which people of all genders embody the integration of both rationality and feeling?
The paintings of Remedios Varo engage the viewer in a mercurial movement of misty swirls and eerie distortions of perspective. Her figures are isolated and often confined in secluded spaces—a tower or forest—and held captive by unknown forces. Personally engaged in spiritual practices dedicated to self-knowledge, in her paintings Varo often depicts a relationship between human figures and a mysterious force from which an essence is being extracted, woven, or brewed.
Varo was 55 years old when she died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. Since then, the art and life of this traumatized and reclusive artist has been carefully investigated—each painted image marveled at and inspected in a bid to pinpoint the origin and allure of imaginal characters who are determined to seek out the numinous unseen forces that animate human life.
Today, Varo’s work is being re-discovered by a new generation. In this half-day presentation and experiential workshop, Dennis and Rebecca Pottenger explore the transformative presence of the archetypal Feminine in Varo’s artwork as the artist challenges the mythic underpinnings of patriarchy and through her paintings re-imagines a male-dominated world that can now embrace the presence and power of women and the Feminine in people of all genders.
In both the online and in-person portions of the program, Dennis and Rebecca host a space in which the presence and perspective of each participant is welcome and valued.
This program is based on Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine, the book Dennis published in Routledge’s Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series in 2021. Rebecca edited the Varo book and wrote the introduction. Here is a link to an excellent review of the book by Narelle C. Bouthillier that offers very insightful Jungian commentary:
https://jungianjournal.ca/index.php/jjss/article/view/216/131
This is an excerpt from the review:
“As they show, Varo’s paintings form a series of unique alchemical emblems created from the feminine perspective. The authors challenge depth psychologists and researchers to consider that a feminine form of alchemy does not look like the masculine form of alchemy as we have tried to understand it primarily through the works of Jung. Women participated in classical alchemy; however, in traditional alchemical images, they did so largely from the male perspective. Even Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung’s closest collaborator in his alchemical studies, noted in her biography of him, C.G. Jung: His Myth in our Time (1972), that he only “took up the rejected masculine-spiritual half of the hermaphrodite” (p. 235). Although the feminine side of things deeply influenced Jung’s character, life, and work, his study of alchemy is missing a deeper analysis of the female experience of it. The Pottengers considered Varo to be “a female alchemical adept” (p. 29) who “read and studied Jungian psychology” (p. 6) and alchemy—as the influences of alchemy can be clearly seen in her paintings. The authors have now taken up the rejected feminine-spiritual half of the hermaphrodite and have made a major contribution to the study of the female experience of alchemy and alchemical transformation in the psyche. The book also provides us with knowledge about Varo’s initiatory and metaphysical (p. 62) quest to weave (p. 7) and birth (p. 35) healing forces out of the darkness of her own deep and harrowing trauma into this world through her art, not only for herself, but also for the collective (p. 66)—a main argument of the book.”
Over the first 90 minutes of the program Dennis and Rebecca follow the Varo book and explore the symbolism in a number of the artist’s paintings, including The Encounter, where a woman comes in from the woods of the unconscious carrying a dangerous secret.
In the Varo book, Dennis looked in some detail at an important dream Varo recorded in her only published diary. This was an encounter with an executioner ordered to kill her for possessing a secret so dangerous the fabric of the world would be destroyed if everyone knew about it. Varo’s Dream of the Executioner is the focus of the second half of today’s presentation, which includes PowerPoint presentation, art-based experiential exercise, and a closing ritual. The aim is to explore the symbolism in Varo’s dream, which communicates piercing truths about the way patriarchy silences women and cuts men off from intimacy with others and with themselves.
In the second half of the program Dennis and Rebecca also explore the presence in Varo’s work of the Kore goddess, an archetypal presence who helps us discover what Safron Rossi has called “the ground of our own values, ideals, and emotional reality.”
As we weave our way through Varo’s imaginal world as she brings forth the kore in herself and her work, Dennis and Rebecca pause frequently to make space for comment and reflection. Through image, idea, and imagination, the intention is to thread into our own lives what Varo’s alchemical practice of painting might offer us as individuals and as a collective.
Dennis Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in California. Dennis studied psychotherapy at Pacifica Graduate Institute and works often with trauma, identity, and diversity issues. An award-winning literary journalist, Dennis is the author of Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine (Routledge, 2021), and Great Expectations, a season in the life of a professional football franchise (Prima, 1991). On a personal level, Dennis is a proud step-father to four multi-racial children (Alisha, Veronica, Coreana, and Jasynte) and step-grandfather to Ezra, who is 3 years old, and Ariah, who will be 2 years old early next year.
Rebecca Livingston-Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and Adjunct Faculty Member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she advises MA candidates and edits master’s theses and dissertations. Rebecca is a feminist scholar and gifted intuitive healer who has practiced and taught Reiki, a hands-on Japanese healing art, for more than 30 years. Rebecca loves to work with women in small groups and with individuals. She facilitates intimate, transformational retreats using experiential modalities ranging from movement, vocal, and creative practices to guided visualization and Tarot. Rebecca brings extensive presentation skills to the Varo material, having given papers at several conferences hosted by the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies over the past decade.
