Assisi Institute Annual Winter Dream Conference
The Voice of The Self and the Voice of the Complex
Orpheus and Eurydice:
The Unfinished Melody
Held as a Virtual event conducted on the Zoom Platform
with Dr. Michael Conforti
January 29, 30 and 31, 2021
Orpheus and Eurydice:
The Unfinished Melody
Held as a Virtual event conducted on the Zoom Platform
with Dr. Michael Conforti
January 29, 30 and 31, 2021
Humanity continues to look towards dreams as a source of wisdom, and it is here that we find the voices of sages and dreamers, the numinous, and an understanding of life far greater than we could ever imagine.
Here we sense the beckoning of The Self calling to us in the distance. Our hope is that if we listen carefully we will find the clarity to pursue our destiny, to know if we have found the love of our life, and to protect and cherish all that we love so deeply. As a child excitedly opening gifts on Christmas day, we too unwrap the dream hoping to find our precious gift- this gift of wisdom. It is this hunger living so deeply in our heart that makes us listen with rapt attention to the dreams message.
When blessed by the gift of grace, we do find a way towards redemption, and freedom from those choices and desires which keep us imprisoned in a compromised life. The hope for that which allows for a deeply meaningful life is what brings us to our knees in gratitude. However, we do well to remember that while the dream may carry the seeds of redemption, it also reminds us that the sirens still call to us anew each day, in a different voice, different form, and always with a fated promise.
Orpheus's life was imbued with the gift of listening. Weeping for joy and longing, all who listened were intoxicated by his lyre. Then he suffered the imaginable- the loss of Eurydice, his innamorata, his greatest love, his anima and -- his soul. Knowing he could not live without that which he most cherished he sought far and wide for Eurydice, only to find her in Hades. Desperate to have her back in his life, it was now his turn to listen, now to Hades' fateful refrain "do not look back". Overcome with the terror of forever losing his beloved, he went against Hades sacred decree and did look back; and when he did, Eurydice disappeared as a Gossamer mist, now forever gone. Was Hades' divine message promising reunion or playing to humanities desperate hunger for such a "grand deception"?
Could Orpheus' tortured life, and death, speak to the consequences of not knowing whom to listen to, -the Voice of the Self, or the cry of the archetypal sirens.
Inflamed by the fires of sated desires or scorched by the flames of disappointment, we are nevertheless enriched if we can learn to discern the nature of the voice calling to us in the dream.
This seminar takes an in depth look at the ongoing interplay of archetype and complex and redemption and stagnation. Originally taught by Jung, von Franz and the early Jungians, this approach to dreams is a lesson in discernment and reverence for the Selfs presence in dreams.
While Dr. Conforti will be teaching each of these sessions throughout the weekend, Dr. Gonzalo Himiob, a Senior Jungian Analyst from Venezuela, will give a special presentation entitled The Poetry of Dreams.
We hope you will be joining us for our Annual Winter Dream Seminar.
Here we sense the beckoning of The Self calling to us in the distance. Our hope is that if we listen carefully we will find the clarity to pursue our destiny, to know if we have found the love of our life, and to protect and cherish all that we love so deeply. As a child excitedly opening gifts on Christmas day, we too unwrap the dream hoping to find our precious gift- this gift of wisdom. It is this hunger living so deeply in our heart that makes us listen with rapt attention to the dreams message.
When blessed by the gift of grace, we do find a way towards redemption, and freedom from those choices and desires which keep us imprisoned in a compromised life. The hope for that which allows for a deeply meaningful life is what brings us to our knees in gratitude. However, we do well to remember that while the dream may carry the seeds of redemption, it also reminds us that the sirens still call to us anew each day, in a different voice, different form, and always with a fated promise.
Orpheus's life was imbued with the gift of listening. Weeping for joy and longing, all who listened were intoxicated by his lyre. Then he suffered the imaginable- the loss of Eurydice, his innamorata, his greatest love, his anima and -- his soul. Knowing he could not live without that which he most cherished he sought far and wide for Eurydice, only to find her in Hades. Desperate to have her back in his life, it was now his turn to listen, now to Hades' fateful refrain "do not look back". Overcome with the terror of forever losing his beloved, he went against Hades sacred decree and did look back; and when he did, Eurydice disappeared as a Gossamer mist, now forever gone. Was Hades' divine message promising reunion or playing to humanities desperate hunger for such a "grand deception"?
Could Orpheus' tortured life, and death, speak to the consequences of not knowing whom to listen to, -the Voice of the Self, or the cry of the archetypal sirens.
Inflamed by the fires of sated desires or scorched by the flames of disappointment, we are nevertheless enriched if we can learn to discern the nature of the voice calling to us in the dream.
This seminar takes an in depth look at the ongoing interplay of archetype and complex and redemption and stagnation. Originally taught by Jung, von Franz and the early Jungians, this approach to dreams is a lesson in discernment and reverence for the Selfs presence in dreams.
While Dr. Conforti will be teaching each of these sessions throughout the weekend, Dr. Gonzalo Himiob, a Senior Jungian Analyst from Venezuela, will give a special presentation entitled The Poetry of Dreams.
We hope you will be joining us for our Annual Winter Dream Seminar.
Winter Dream Conference
Schedule
On-line Zoom webinars
Friday, January 29, 8-9:30pm EST
Saturday, January 30, 12(noon)-3:30pm EST
Sunday, January 31, 12(noon)-3:30pm EST
$150 for all three days
Recordings of the faculty lectures are included in the tuition
Schedule
On-line Zoom webinars
Friday, January 29, 8-9:30pm EST
Saturday, January 30, 12(noon)-3:30pm EST
Sunday, January 31, 12(noon)-3:30pm EST
$150 for all three days
Recordings of the faculty lectures are included in the tuition
Meet the Presenters
Dr. Michael Conforti, USA is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of The Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute, New York, Jung Institute, Boston, and his work is translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Dr. Gonzalo Himiob, Peru/Venezuela is a psychiatrist in private practice in Caracas, Venezuela, a faculty member at the School of Medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and The Jungian studies Center of Caracas and The Venezuelan Institute of Analytical Psychology.
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