Exploring Carl Jung’s Black Books
with Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris
An Eight Week Seminar
Sundays, March 7 - May 2
10 am - 12 pm PST
Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided
Seminar will break for one week for Easter
This eight-session seminar with Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris will explore Carl Jung’s raw notebooks, the newly published original records of his “confrontation with the unconscious” from 1913 to 1932.
The Black Books tell much of the same stories as recounted faithfully in The Red Book, but they provide yet another layer of understanding. Many extraordinary lines were edited-out, characters were changed, and the feminine soul transformed during edits, becoming the snake or the masculine God. These are the stories as they originally occurred, and they provide some remarkable portals of understanding about Jung’s psychology and the collective unconscious itself.
There are also insights throughout these books into Jung’s ongoing relationship with the women in his life, those who supported his dive into psyche (namely Toni Wolff) and normalcy in the world of day (namely Emma Jung.)
Over eight sessions, Carol and Satya will dive into The Black Books in a similar fashion as they did during the 28 salon series on The Red Book in 2020. However, rather than moving chapter-by-chapter, this seminar will move book-by-book. There will be more space for participant engagement.
All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants with 24 hours of the live gathering.
You do not need to own The Black Books to enjoy this course. Carol and Satya will read sections aloud each week and offer a break-down of the stories and timeline of each book to provide everyone access to what is unfolding. They will also reference The Red Book Reader for where stories overlap.
The schedule is as follows:
March 7: Book 1 — The introduction by Sonu Shamdasani
Weeks 2-7: Books 2-7 — Jung’s notebooks
May 2: Wrap-up + discussion
Recordings: All sessions will be recorded for any participants who are unable to attend the live salons or who prefer to watch at a different time. There is no expectation that those registered attend all—or any—live gatherings.
A new password-protected area on the Salome Institute website will make recordings easily accessible, as well as any supplementary course materials.
About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and Director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the owner of Quarterlife, a depth psychological resource for people in the first half of adulthood. Satya was previously on staff at the Philemon Foundation, which publishes Jung's unpublished archives, including The Red Book and The Black Books. She has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork. Her writing has been published in The Utne Reader, goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and the Jungian journal Psychological Perspectives. Her article “Salome: the Antidote” was awarded the Cambridge Jung Circle Essay prize in 2019. She has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere, and has “mini-therapy” recordings available through the Simple Habit meditation app. Her book on Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House.
About Carol Ferris, MA
Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.
Register:
Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email as well as a password-protected area of the Salome website.
Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and available through the online portal for all seminar registrants for all of 2021.
Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.