Episode 15 -

Jung's Red Book: The Astrology & Story for Our Times

Free Sunday Salons - Each Week Online

June 28th, 10-11am PDT

6pm GMT

With Astrologer Carol Ferris & Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock

Click here to join us through Zoom

Password: 791801 // Meeting ID: 860 600 239

For more detailed instructions for Salons via Zoom — click here

Chapter for this week: “Second Day”

We welcome your small donations to keep this programming happening and free for all who want to join. Thank you!

It is more important now than ever for us to stay connected to Soul, symbolism, and the unconscious right now, lest we all go mad with the ever changing chaos above ground.

Each Sunday, please join Astrologer Carol Ferris and the Director of The Salome Institute, Satya Doyle Byock, as we explore Jung’s Red Book story by story, weaving the personal and collective psychology of these times throughout.

No matter your background in Jung’s work or in astrology, we welcome your presence. Order your own copy to follow along with the reading: The Red Book reader’s edition, or the larger facsimile edition.

Carl Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. The astrology of that time is, in several respects, much like the astrology of ours.

In the midst of this global pandemic, with the contraction back into our homes and out of the extroverted world, Jung’s encounter with his own soul provides a map for us towards the re-connection with our own.

In many respects, Jung anticipated this time and left us instructions.

In case you want to catch-up from last week!

Life in the Shadow: Being Black in a Jungian World

A Two Salon Series with Kwame Scruggs

Saturdays, June 27th & July 4th

10-11:30am PDT

1-2:30pm EDT

Salons will take place online via Zoom — registration link emailed in advance to participants.

Recordings also provided.

NOTE: if you are registering after 9:30am PDT, you will receive a recording of the first salon. We cannot guarantee immediate access.

When mythologist Kwame Scruggs and I began emailing last month, the possibilities for transformative dialogue around myth, Jungian psychology, and the modern moment began to pile-up. We’re still trying to get a handle on all that’s unfolding. We’re excited for you to join us in the conversation.

Kwame holds a Ph.D. in Mythology and is the founder of Alchemy Inc., an organization using mythological stories to transform the lives of adolescents and the backdrop for the feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” In addition to numerous teaching positions, Kwame has been a featured speaker at the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology of New York City, and is a board member of The Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Kwame’s work will move you to your core. But he’s just getting started. At this stage in his career, Kwame’s got a lot to say, and I’m excited to listen and to facilitate some of that listening.

The Jungian world is not racially diverse. It is also not generationally diverse. Kwame’s profound mentorship and community-building for African American youth, for which Alchemy was awarded the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by First Lady, Michelle Obama, in 2012, breaks all those barriers, and proves the profound value of Jung’s psychology outside of the midlife/European frame.

In our two-part conversation, some of our guiding inquiry will explore what blind-spots and misdirection, sometimes deeply disorienting, exist within Jung’s psychology as a result of its Eurocentric frame.

We’ll explore what of that work is being perpetuated without the awareness of professors, therapists, and students even today, and what effect all of this has on African American students, and others, who seek to study and teach this material.

In this two-part conversation between myself, Satya Doyle Byock, and Kwame Scruggs, the focus will be on two primary concepts within Jungian Psychology and how Kwame has personally wrestled with them in his life and work: “The Shadow” & “The Persona.”

Drawing from Kwame’s own writing, we’ll explore fairy tales, mythology, and classical Jungian psychology. But first, we’ll dive into Kwame’s biography to learn how he first encountered Jung’s work, and what happened when he first read Joseph Campbell’s encouragement to “follow your bliss.”

The Salon Topics:

1. June 27th - The Shadow: Owning the Shadow Vs. Detoxing From the Projected Shadow

2. July 4th - The Persona: Wholeness vs. “Double Consciousness”

Both salons are at 10-11:30am PST / 1-2:30pm EST

Please join us. This will be authentic. It may get personal. We hope it will be healing. And true to the power of this work, we hope that it will be transformative for all involved.

Register:

Discounts: If you could use a scholarship or discount in order to participate, please send an email with a short note. We won’t ask questions and would love for you to be able to join.

Online Attendance: Zoom link for salons will be emailed to all registrants approx. 24hours in advance of event. Household members are welcome to join on a single registration.

Late Registration: Registration does not automatically provide a link for entry. If you are registering less than 30min prior to event, live attendance is not guaranteed. You will receive a recording.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and emailed to all registrants.

About Kwame Scruggs

G. Kwame Scruggs Ph.D. has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of urban male youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, after being formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage), Kwame became a facilitator of this process.

Kwame is the founder and director of Alchemy, a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio established in 2003. Alchemy uses mythological stories to engage urban adolescent youth. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities—the nation’s highest honor for after-school and out-of-school programs. Alchemy was also the backdrop for feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” Kwame is a board member for The Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Episode 14 -

Jung's Red Book: The Astrology & Story for Our Times

Free Sunday Salons - Each Week Online

June 21st, 10-11am PST

6pm GMT

With Astrologer Carol Ferris & Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock

Click here to join us through Zoom — Password: 791801

Meeting ID: 860 600 239

For more detailed instructions for Salons via Zoom — click here

Chapter for this week: “First Day”

We welcome your small donations to keep this programming happening and free for all who want to join. Thank you!

It is more important now than ever for us to stay connected to Soul, symbolism, and the unconscious right now, lest we all go mad with the ever changing chaos above ground.

Each Sunday, please join Astrologer Carol Ferris and the Director of The Salome Institute, Satya Doyle Byock, as we explore Jung’s Red Book story by story, weaving the personal and collective psychology of these times throughout.

No matter your background in Jung’s work or in astrology, we welcome your presence. Order your own copy to follow along with the reading: The Red Book reader’s edition, or the larger facsimile edition.

Carl Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. The astrology of that time is, in several respects, much like the astrology of ours.

In the midst of this global pandemic, with the contraction back into our homes and out of the extroverted world, Jung’s encounter with his own soul provides a map for us towards the re-connection with our own.

In many respects, Jung anticipated this time and left us instructions.

In case you want to catch-up from last week!

Please Note: There’s a new password requirement. Please see below to make sure your link is current.

Episode 13 -

Jung's Red Book: The Astrology & Story for Our Times

Free Sunday Salons - Each Week Online

June 14th, 10-11am PST

6pm GMT

With Astrologer Carol Ferris & Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock

Click here to join us through Zoom — Password: 791801

Meeting ID: 860 600 239

For more detailed instructions for Salons via Zoom — click here

Chapters for this week: “Death” & “The Remains of Earlier Temples”

We welcome your small donations to keep this programming happening and free for all who want to join. Thank you!

It is more important now than ever for us to stay connected to Soul, symbolism, and the unconscious right now, lest we all go mad with the ever changing chaos above ground.

Each Sunday, please join Astrologer Carol Ferris and the Director of The Salome Institute, Satya Doyle Byock, as we explore Jung’s Red Book story by story, weaving the personal and collective psychology of these times throughout.

No matter your background in Jung’s work or in astrology, we welcome your presence. Order your own copy to follow along with the reading: The Red Book reader’s edition, or the larger facsimile edition.

Carl Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. The astrology of that time is, in several respects, much like the astrology of ours.

In the midst of this global pandemic, with the contraction back into our homes and out of the extroverted world, Jung’s encounter with his own soul provides a map for us towards the re-connection with our own.

In many respects, Jung anticipated this time and left us instructions.

In case you want to catch-up from last week!

Please Note: There’s a new password requirement. Please see below to make sure your link is current.

Episode 12 -

Jung's Red Book: The Astrology & Story for Our Times

Free Sunday Salons - Each Week Online

June 7th, 10-11am PST

6pm GMT

With Astrologer Carol Ferris & Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock

Click here to join us through Zoom — Password: 791801

Meeting ID: 860 600 239

For more detailed instructions for Salons via Zoom — click here

Chapters for this week: “The Anchorite” & “Dies II”

We welcome your small donations to keep this programming happening and free for all who want to join. Thank you!

It is more important now than ever for us to stay connected to Soul, symbolism, and the unconscious right now, lest we all go mad with the ever changing chaos above ground.

Each Sunday, please join Astrologer Carol Ferris and the Director of The Salome Institute, Satya Doyle Byock, as we explore Jung’s Red Book story by story, weaving the personal and collective psychology of these times throughout.

No matter your background in Jung’s work or in astrology, we welcome your presence. Order your own copy to follow along with the reading: The Red Book reader’s edition, or the larger facsimile edition.

Carl Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. The astrology of that time is, in several respects, much like the astrology of ours.

In the midst of this global pandemic, with the contraction back into our homes and out of the extroverted world, Jung’s encounter with his own soul provides a map for us towards the re-connection with our own.

In many respects, Jung anticipated this time and left us instructions.

In case you want to catch-up from last week!

The Way of the Hermit

Part Three of a Three Salon Series

Exploring the Path of Leading a Contemplative Life with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D

Thursday, June 4th at 6-7:30pm PST

(If you register after the first two salons on May 21st & 28th, we’ll email you recordings.)

find time in your location here

Zoom Links will be emailed to you the day prior to event & recordings will be available for registrants

Discover guidance to living a life of beauty and balance in harmony with your heart.

In this three salon series, scholar Kayleen Asbo will guide participants through how to create a rhythm of life that sustains the spirit through encounters with the "hermetic life” in wisdom traditions across the centuries, from the Greek philosopher Pythagoras to Mary Magdalene.

Each week will have a special emphasis:

Week One: The Archetype of the Hermit from Pythagoras to Parsifal and Jedi Knights

Week Two: From Egypt to France and Ireland: Mary Magdalene and The Hermetic Roots of Christian Contemplation

Week Three: The Wisdom of the Anchorites: Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich

About Kayleen Asbo

Kayleen Asbo is a faculty member of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and Dominican University. Kayleen wrote her dissertation on Passion and Paradox: The Myths of Mary Magdalene in Music, Art and Culture. In addition, she holds three master's degrees: one in music (piano performance), mythology, and psychology. Kayleen has been a guest presenter and lecturer on the intersection of history, mythology, psychology and the arts at Oxford University in England, the Assisi Institute of Depth Psychology Conference in Italy, the Houston Jung Institute, Chartres Cathedral in France, Grace Cathedral and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. A faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years, she is a pre-concert lecturer with the San Francisco Opera and the music historian in residence for the  Santa Rosa Symphony. The Creative Director and Resident Mythologist for Mythica, Kayleen leads workshops and retreats throughout the country and offers  pilgrimages to sacred sites in Europe every year.  

Register:

Purchase all three Salons at 15% discount, or each individually.

If you need an additional discount in order to join us, please send us a short email.

If you register less than 15min prior to start time, you will not be able to attend the live lecture.

Zoom Links will be emailed to registrants the day of the salon.

Recordings of all salons will be shared after event with registrants.