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THE CG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO
NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE
NUMBER 11: WIN- NUMBER 26: AUTUMN 2013
WELCOME TO THE 2013-14 SEASON
IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION
In order to grant priority admission to members of Friends of the Institute, we will be sending you exclusive advance
notice of upcoming events over email. It is our hope that every member who would like to attend our events can do
so. But please be aware that events sell out regularly and it is a good idea to take advantage of the members early
registration opportunity! Also, all registration will be conducted online this year. Please visit the links in the
Rhizome calendar, or register through the event emails we will send in advance of each program.
Sunday, 15 September 2013, 8:30 AM
Private tour of “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years” at the De Young Museum,
led by Analyst and Docent Shira Barnett.
Registration deadline: 11 September - at http://diebenkorntour.eventbrite.com - member admission $25,
- all others $35
Sunday, 22 September 2013, 2 - 5 PM at the Institute
The Dream and Its Amplification Editors Nancy Furlotti and Erel Shalit, with contributors Tom Singer
and Naomi Lowinsky. Celebrating the publication of this important new book.
Registration deadline: 18 September- at http://dreamsamplified.eventbrite.com - members free,
-Students & Interns $10, Non-members $20
Sunday, 27 October 2013, 2 - 5 PM at the Institute
Jung and Tarot, presented by Mary K. Greer
A workshop on the archetypal symbolism in the Tarot as “treasures of the psyche.”
Registration deadline: 23 October - eventbrite address tba - members free,
-Students & Interns $10, Non-members $20
Sunday, 2 February 2014, 2 - 5 PM at the Institute
The Cultural Complex, presented by Analyst Tom Singer
A presentation on the meaning of the cultural complex and its meaning for us in these times.
Registration deadline: 29 January - eventbrite address tba - members free,
-Students & Interns $10, Non-members $20
Sunday, 23 March 2014, 2 - 5 PM at the Institute
Roundabouts: Aboriginal Art, Mandalas & Landscape, presented by Pacia Sallomi
A talk on human interactions with the land and Dreamtime in Aboriginal art.
Registration deadline: 19 March - eventbrite address tba - members free,
-Students & Interns $10, Non-members $20
Sunday, 4 May 2014, time tba at the Institute
Original Debt, presented by Analyst Jane Reynolds, PhD and Author Kate Levinson, PhD
A presentation on debt’s capacity to reveal and conceal personal, social and sacred obligation.
Registration deadline: 30 April - eventbrite address and details tba.

Introducing Helene Dorian
We are delighted to welcome Helene Dorian to
the staff of the SF Institute. She will serve as
coordinator for Friends of the Institute.
A message from Helene:
Hello,
It is my pleasure to introduce myself, Helene
Dorian, as the Training Administrator at the C. G. Jung
Institute of San Francisco.
My work experience has been in the non-profit
and educational communities in San Francisco. For the
past 6 1/2 years, I was employed at the Department of
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at UCSF.
I represented the department as both HR Analyst for
faculty and staff as well as taking on the role of Interim
Student Affairs Officer for the 3 year UCSF/SFSU
Graduate Program in Physical Therapy. I am very
passionate about working for a community-based
organization that promotes education.
Many years ago I moved to San Francisco from
New York City. I received my BA and a secondary
education teaching credential in French from SFSU. I am
married, live in San Francisco and have one daughter who
just comleted her Freshman year at Rutgers - the State
University of New Jersey. I enjoy live theater, finding
great restaurants, taking long walks and reading!
I look forward to working with you to support the
Friends of the Institute. If you have any questions about
your membership status or just questions in general,
please feel free to contact me at hdorian@sfjung.org or by
phoning 415-771-8055 ext. 210
Sincerely,
Helene Dorian
Rhizome of the Gelsemium Sempervirens
These images are protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America.
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Special Thanks
Volunteers are the life blood of the Friends
of the Institute. From the beautiful badges made by
Johanna Baruch and the greeting at the door by Jim
Klippert and Pam Sloane to the lovely table set for
our receptions by Zoe Klippert, we are grateful for
the efforts made on behalf of the Friends.
We are especially grateful, as well, to Analyst
Shira Barnett who has opened up opportunities for
private tours at the De Young and Legion of Honor
Museums, offering us a rare opportunity to engage
with important works of art in a relaxed and
uncrowded setting.
Our committee works to bring wonderful
guests and programs each season. Some of the other
tasks we do for our members include coordinating
and managing the reading groups, creating Rhizome
and e-flyers, coordinating publicity with Institute
staff, managing our budget and more.
Volunteers are always needed. Please
consider becoming more involved with the Friends.
It’s a great way to engage with the Institute and to
get to know our members better. It’s fun and doesn’t
require a lot of time.
If you have special skills, especially graphic
design or page layout programs like Adobe
InDesign, please let us know.
Many thanks,
Deborah O’Grady

ARAS NEWS
The San Francisco Jung Institute ARAS
Committee is excited to announce a wonderful new
feature of ARAS Online. ARAS Online (http://aras.
org/) is the internet site for the Archives for
Research in Archetypal Symbolism and subscribers
to ARAS Online ($100/year) already have access to a
collection of over 17,000 symbolic images from every
culture and every historical era, accompanied by
archetypal commentary. In addition, ARAS Online
features a quarterly newsletter, ARAS Connections,
that focuses on contemporary studies in symbolic
imagery.
Now, ARAS Online has entered into a new,
reciprocal relationship with ARTstor that will offer
our subscribers free access to ARTstor, the world's
premier internet site of images from major
museums and art collections. In turn, ARTstor will
soon be featuring ARAS Online as one of its 150
collections that are available only to non-profit
universities, museums, and libraries.
The selection of ARAS Online as an ARTstor
collection is a great honor for ARAS and is
significant recognition that the ARAS approach to
symbolic imagery is unique and exceptional.
Subscription to ARAS Online now includes
access to ARTstor and further enhances the user's
ability to explore the world's best collections of
imagery set in historic, cultural and symbolic
context.
To subscribe, go to https://aras.org/join.aspx
Thomas Singer for the SF ARAS Committee
LIBRARY NEWS
We continue to work on digitizing our audio
and video with hopes that we can soon make these
resources available through links from the library’s
online catalog. Friends who wish to use the library
or borrow materials should let us know and get
their passwords for the new web catalog and for the
journal subscription databases that we provide. We
look forward to giving Library orientations to new
and old Friends.
Anyone who would like to volunteer for
projects in the library should contact me. Also, we
continue to accept used books for our sale to
support the library; any books that do not sell here
are donated to Better World Books for support of
literacy projects.
Marianne Morgan, Institute Librarian -
mmorgan@sfjung.org
FRIENDS READING GROUPS
In the last few years our reading groups have grown
and have become meaningful extensions of our
Friends community. As usual the readings are chosen
by the members of each group and vary from group
to group. Our Peninsula group is seeking a new
host so if anyone is interested in being a volunteer
to host in his/her home, please contact Phyllis
Stowell (ptstowell@comcast.net). Any Friends
of the Institute member who is interested in joining
or visiting one of the reading groups, please contact
Phyllis as well.
We now provide five reading groups in the Bay Area:
East Bay in Berkeley; East Bay in Walnut Creek;
Marin in Sausalito; San Francisco and the Peninsula
(presently inactive). Each group is hosted by a
volunteer in their home. The groups are facilitated
by Co-chair Phyllis Stowell who is looking for an
assistant who would like to be more engaged with
book people.
Recent book selections include Black Sun: Alchemy
and the Art of Darkness by Stanton Marlan; Animal
Presences by James Hillman; Jung and the
Alchemical Imagination by Jeffrey Raff; DREAMS
by C. G. Jung, translated by R.F. C. Hull from the
Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volumes 4, 8, 12,
16.; Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in
the Modern World by Wade Davis; The Speech of the
Grail: A Journey Toward Speaking That Heals by
Linda Sussman.
REMEMBER: INFORMATION ON MOST INSTITUTE
PROGRAMS IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE:
WWW.SFJUNG.ORG

FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE COMMITTEE 2013-2014
Deborah O’Grady, Co-Chair
Phyllis Stowell, Co-Chair
Shira Barnett
Johanna Baruch
Gail Grynbaum
Thomas Kirsch
Bill Riess
Thomas Singer
Pamela Sloane
Suzy Spradlin
Betty Wheelwright
Institute Website: www.sfjung.org
San Francisco Jung Institute
2040 Gough Street
San Francisco, California 94109
(415) 771-8055
“All conscious psychic processes may well be causally explicable;
but the creative act, being rooted in the immensity of the
unconscious, will forever elude our attempt at understanding. It
describes itself only in its manifestations; it can be guessed at, but
never wholly grasped. Psychology and aesthetics will always have
to turn to one another for help, and the one will not invalidate the
other.” ~C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Volume 15, The Spirit in
Man, Art and Literature 135
THE BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Membership in Friends of the Institute remains at $100 for 2013-2014. Your benefits include
free admission to all Friends-sponsored events as well as invitations to certain Institute events such
as book signings and donor events. Members also receive library privileges, discounts to most
Extended Education events and Institute publications, and use of the ARAS online website at the
Institute’s computer terminal. In addition, members also receive the newsletter Rhizome and
invitations to join the book groups. But most of all, your membership offers another way to be a part
of the Jungian community in our region.
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on
its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The
part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then
it withers away--an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the
unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot
escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a
sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal
flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome
remains.”
from the Prologue to Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G.
Jung, 1961
Rhizome image from “Scandinavian Ferns” by Benjamin Ollgaard and Kirsten Tind, Rhodos,
1993