THE CG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO

Volunteers Welcome!
As the Friends of the Institute continues to grow, and our offerings
to increase, managing our events has become one of the major challenges we
face. We are an all volunteer organization, so the efforts of our volunteers have
made it possible to keep better track of our membership and attendance at
events, assist with setup and cleanup of our events, create beautiful reception
presentations, manage our name tags and more.
There are always things for which we can use your help. Perhaps you
have expertise with page layout and graphic arts - we’d love help with Rhizome.
Are you a writer? Would you like to contribute a short article to Rhizome?
Submissions are always welcome. And, of course, helpers at our events,
which is a wonderful way to get to know each other better, are always needed.
To volunteer, please contact either Deborah or Phyllis - debogrady@mac.com
or ptstowell@gmail.com.
With our warmest thanks for your support,
Deborah O’Grady and Phyllis Stowell, Friends Co-Chairs
Reading Group News, continued:
Collective Unconscious) and they will begin discussing
Peter Kingsley, A Story Waiting To Pierce You. Please e-mail
Janice for further information and directions at: jkteece@
msn.com.
The Peninsula Reading Group meets evenings at
the home of Joyce Snyder in Palo Alto. The next meeting
will be held on November 16 to continue discussion of
Beyond the Hero by Allen Chinen, M.D. For further information
about this group and for the next meeting date
and reading selection, please e-mail Joyce at:
joycsnyder@comcast.net.
A new East Bay reading group is beginning to take
shape to meet in January, 2011. Anyone interested,
please contact Phyllis at: ptstowell@gmail.com.
Library News:
Passwords are available for online journals (including the
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Jung Journal: Culture and
Psyche, Psychological Perspectives, and International Journal
of Jungian Studies) through the library web page; if you do
not have the password, you can email the library at library@sfjung.org
and they will send you the information.
These passwords are for the use of the Friends
only; we ask that they not be shared with others outside
the group. The passwords will be changed at the end of
December for the new year and sent out to those who are
current Friends for whom we have email addresses.
The library is also working on moving its records of books
and materials to a web searchable catalog. We hope this
will be available for patrons to search by the Spring of
2011.
Our Mission
The Friends of the Institute continues our sixth
year as a part of the C.G. Jung Institute of Northern
California. Our purpose is clear: to bring the insights of
Jungian psychology to the world and to bring the world
into a relationship with those of us who are engaged
with the Institute. Others offer therapy and programs
relevant to analysis. Our mission is to integrate
creativity, the arts, awareness of the unconscious and
transformation at a time of worldwide crisis, which
Jung prophetically foresaw over a hundred years ago.
“It is just here that questions arise whose urgency
and vital intensity are even greater than the question of
therapeutic application. Here there are many prejudices that
still have to be overcome. Just as it is thought, for instance,
that Mexican myths cannot possibly have anything to do with
similar ideas found in Europe, so it is held to be a fantastic
assumption that an uneducated modern man should dream
of classical myth-motifs which are known only to a specialist.
People still think that relationships like this are far-fetched
and therefore improbable. But they forget that the structure
and function of the bodily organs are everywhere more or less
the same, including those of the brain. And as the psyche is to
a large extent dependent on this organ, presumably it will – at
least in principle – everywhere produce the same forms. In
order to see this, however, one has to abandon the widespread
prejudice that the psyche is identical with consciousness.”
~C. G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis -forward xviii
Have you visited the Institute website? On the home
page, you will find information on upcoming events
of Friends of the Institute, Red Book Dialogues, and
Extended Education programs. You can register for
most events online and renew your Friends membership
there, as well. Please visit the website at www.
sfjung.org.