Our 1997-98 program year begins with a panel discussion of Dr. C.G. Jung's approach to religion, and how this relates to institutional religion, the inner sacred, and community. Is God the subject or the object in our search for meaning in life? Panelist Terrill Gibson has provoked much thought by noting that "Jung awakened our awareness that any psychology is inherently a religious psychology--literally, a study of the psyche/soul. Jung fashioned a psycho-theology that recovered the lost alchemical, Gnostic core of the Western mystical system. His recovery could contribute to a profound process which gradually will heal, over the next several centuries, the artificial fissures and dualisms between science and religion, the objective Divine and the subjective Divine, the individual and the collective, the empirical and the sacramental."
Each panelist will briefly introduce his or her view on the topic. Following this introduction, there will be dialogue between audience and panel, as well as among panel members. Questions can also be submitted in advance to the moderator, at the Jung Society mailing address.
Moderator Peter H. Elting, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and educator in Seattle and San Francisco, and a member of IAAP.
Panelists include:
Sister Joyce Cox, B.V.M., M.A., Assistant to the Archbishop of Seattle, educator and counselor.
Terrill Gibson, Ph.D., a Jungian analyst in Tacoma, a Methodist minister, and a member of IAAP.
Genjo Marinello, M.A., psychotherapist, Zen priest, Vice Abbot at Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Temple. Genjo Marinello will present a Buddhist perspective of Jung's theory of the collective unconscious.
John van Eenwyk, Ph.D., a Jungian analyst in Olympia, an Episcopalian priest, and also an IAAP member.
Donald Williamson, Ph.D., family therapist in Bellevue, Methodist minister and educator.