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“Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?... And now the boy is turning to me: “Tell me,” he asks. “What have you done with my future?”...
And I tell him that I have tried… to keep memory alive,
that I have tried to fight those who would forget.
Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices." 
 
From Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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From the Crusades, the First and Second World Wars, and the ongoing violence worldwide, we have to admit that war is an archetypal reality within the Psyche. However, with modern weaponry that can decimate the world with the push of a button, we can no longer afford to see war as the only solution to conflict.
 
From the sages and dreamers of antiquity, to the 1931-1932 correspondence between Einstein and Freud titled Why War? humanity has sought to understand the nature of war and how to stop its ongoing proliferation, its justification of unimaginable crimes against humanity, and the loss of millions of lives worldwide. 
 
To these earlier contributions we can now add the voice of Jung and Jungian Psychology, along with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s personal experiences of the Holocaust and his lifetime pursuit of humanitarian concerns to address the issue of war and crimes against humanity.
 
Central to these investigations is Jung’s article titled After the Catastrophe where, upon reflecting on the horrors of the Holocaust, he writes: “I must confess that no article has ever given me so much trouble, from a moral as well as a human point of view. I had not realized how much I…was affected.”  He then adds; “Was not Plato aware that the sight of ugliness produces something ugly in the soul… the more charged with hate the more fiercely burns the fire of evil that has been lit in our souls.”

Erich Neumann’s work, Depth Psychology and the New Ethic, teaches us that war is often driven by the projection of our own evil onto others. He then adds that the paranoia resulting from such experiences speaks to the soul’s awareness that these projections will inevitably return to live once again within our own soul reminding us that we can never escape the haunting reality of our own shadow and evil. Dr Yoram Kaufmann, a Jungian Analyst from Israel, echoes this point when stating that “the greatest act of evil is the projection of our own evil onto others”.
 
These profound insights speak to the very nature of war and all that follows in its wake. The world stage can no longer be the screen upon which governmental leaders project their exiled contents onto, and now more than ever, we need to find some way to halt the rampant escalation of projections. 
 
As Jung taught us to learn about the contents of the collective Psyche and the inner workings of humanity's darkest unconscious dynamics, Jungian Analysts are in a position to make a unique contribution to understanding something of the inherent and archetypal nature of war, and a way to work with personal and collective evil.
 
So too it is the analysts’ understanding of humanity’s attempts to negate the reality of evil as expressed in our mechanisms of denial and projection, coupled with the immense power of unconscious guilt, that results in the migration of these forgotten contents, and their re-appearance in the occurrence of violence and war.
 
Our prayers are that no parent, no lover, no friend, should have to see anyone go off to war, and someday hear that their loved one will never return home.
 
The Assisi Foundation is offering this complimentary presentation with the intention of bringing insight into the workings of Psyche and archetypal dynamics and patterns so as to provide a modicum of hope, and a framework with which to understand and navigate current world events. It is also our hope that the insights offered during this presentation can ultimately have an impact to lessen the occurrence of ongoing acts of crimes against humanity.  

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The Assisi Foundation was established in 2006 and is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization. Our mission is to develop, promote, and support training and educational programs and initiatives across the world which will facilitate and aid both personal and collective transformation.
 
The initiatives and programs supported or developed by The Assisi Foundation make the application of universal patterns manifest. During these uncertain, turbulent and fragmenting times, The Assisi Foundation’s ultimate vision is to ensure that the initiatives we support can have a truly global reach.
 
We are committed to supporting worldwide educational and training programs or initiatives that recognize the meaning and significance of universal or archetypal patterns, and develop the skills and tools necessary for resolving differences and conflicts on the personal and global levels.
 
In a time where the individual and collective psyche seems to be yearning for a radical shift in perspective and approach, it is our hope that our initiatives and programs can offer a different perspective underpinned by dialogue, transformation and healing. 
 
We remain committed that our initiatives ultimately stand in service of facilitating a ripple-effect that can aid the transformation of individuals, organizations, institutions, governments, nations, and the global collective.

More About Michael Conforti

Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute.  He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England.  A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.
He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.
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He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002).  His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal.  His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and includes a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work. ​

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