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• Becoming an Elder: A Jungian Approach
• Wesak Celebration and Meditation Retreat
• Full Moon Meditations

A workshop with Honor Griffith, Ph.D.

Built into the human species is an innate capacity to grow into the wise elder.  However, because we live in a culture obsessed with youth, the experience and wisdom that mature individuals have to offer is often devalued or even derided.  Hence it is very difficult to find the support that we need for this developmental stage.  Yet Jung claims that whoever carries over into the afternoon the laws of the morning must pay for it with damage, not only to his or her own soul, but to the soul of the world.  Fortunately, Jung’s work during the last 30 years of his life provides a template for this journey.

This workshop is about exploring that template: the “laws of the afternoon”.  We will work with techniques that reinforce the “neural pathways” which further our individuation and expand our capacity for eldership.

Topics Include:

• Jung’s theory of individuation as a template for eldership; i.e. becoming whole and connected to our ‘Higher Self’.
• Transcendent Self as the ordering principle of the psyche
• Strengthening the connection between our conscious personality and our transcendent centre (ego – Self axis)

We will use active imagination exercises, drawing, and journal work to:

• Explore the culturally conditioned expectations which constitute our personal picture of the elder
• Identify and begin to metabolize those habituated patterns or complexes which impede full emergence of the authentic self
• Activate the transcendent function and become more consciously related to our own unique inner elder
• Experience more fully the richness of this stage of our journey

Honor Griffith, a Jungian based psychotherapist practising on the west coast of British Columbia,  gives workshops and presentations in Canada, the US, and Britain.  She has published numerous papers and chapters in various Jungian based academic journals. 

Date: April 18 7:30 – 9:30,  April 19 10 – 5pm   
Cost: $250
Location:
Universal Life Centre
719 Coxwell Ave
Toronto, ON
For more infomation:
Please call Freda at (416) 469-9919
or e-mail Freda.kemp@smgroup.ca

April 18 - 22, 2008
Nature's Retreat - Erin, Ontario
Hosted by the Centre for Esoteric Studies

You are invited to attend an important meditative retreat, part of a group effort around the world.  This retreat will take place at the time of the Wesak festival, which falls on the full moon of Taurus.  

The Wesak retreat represents five days of intensive effort in service to the world.  This is a group effort towards a vast group healing.  We will be connecting with other groups and workers around the world, sharing most potent Divine energies available at this time, and acting as channels of spiritual force to humanity.

Following the Wesak Celebration, we will also be hosting a special dedication to the Earth on Earth Day (April 22) with the creation of an Earth mandala, and a ritual honouring the Earth.  There will also be time to walk the labyrinth at Nature's Retreat and the beautiful hiking trails on the property.

If you believe that on this day there can truly come a release of spiritual energy of sufficient potency to change the world provided we do our part, then join us.  The Tibetan tells us "if you have staunch belief in the work of the spirit of God and in the divinity of humanity, then forget yourselves and consecrate you every effort, from the time you receive this communication, to the task of cooperation in the organized effort to change the current of world affairs by an increase in the spirit of love and goodwill in the world."

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot soon!

Date: April 18-22, 2008
Cost: The meditation retreat is a service activity and is provided at no cost to members of the Centre for Esoteric Studies, membership is $24 per year.  Cost for Nature's Retreat is shared by the participants and is about $225 for the four nights depending on the number of participants.  Food is light vegetarian pot luck and is provided by the participants.
Location:
Nature's Retreat
Erin, Ontario
For more infomation:
Please call (416) 469-9919
or e-mail Freda.kemp@smgroup.ca

Full Moon Meditations

2008 Full Moon Dates and Times

TBD