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On-line Dream Workshop - Sunday, April 12th

3/28/2015

The Dream's Self Character
Sunday, April 12th
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
This introductory workshop is free, though you do need to register here.
I will be using Google video call for the workshop. You will need a Gmail address for me to invite you to the video call.

Focusing on dream interpretation, aspects of interiority will be introduced and participants dreams will be pre- chosen to serve as our text. (If you want to offer a dream, submit it to [email protected] before April 6th). Anyone interested in dream work is welcome to attend. You will learn some of what distinguishes interiority's view of dream interpretation from other interpretative methods, and what it means to allow the dream full Self-character.

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When the search creates the loss

3/19/2015

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Closure, wholeness, healing, recovery, meaningfulness, authenticity, transformation, life purpose...
All common language in the endless menu of options within the "healing" and "self-development" movements. The incessant quest within modernity to feel optimized, complete, better, happier, healthier, spiritually connected, successful, purposeful, etc., and the subsequent development of experts eager to guide the quest is undeniably part of mainstream culture. And it appears that the gulf between the quest and the thing sought becomes greater as the menu of options for a path toward these goals present themselves.
Might it be that what creates the gulf is the psycho-logical form of the quest itself? Might it be that what we, as a culture and as individuals, are hoping to find is irrevocably lost to us as modern human, and that what is needed is a new psycho-logical perspective, not another simulated version of a historically bygone form of being-in-the-world?

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Colleen scheduled to Lecture at the University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library on Friday, July 3rd.

3/16/2015

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Colleen will be presenting Dancing with the Dialectic: Interiority's Psychological Stance
(a lecture followed by Q & A)
Friday, July 3rd at 8:00pm
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
Free and open to the public - though you must visit Flower City Forum to RSVP.

Colleen’s lecture will serve to introduce the dialectical approach to psychological interpretation. Psychology as the discipline of interiority (PDI) is rooted in the notion of depth psychology, or a psychology with soul. This attitude or stance which recognizes the unity of unity and difference, absolves the internal/external, subject/object relationship. This uroboric and recursive mode of reflection is the psychology project of Jungian analyst, Wolfgang Giegerich. Colleen is on the executive committee of The International Society of Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority (www.ispdi.org) and has her own site, www.interioritystudies.com. Both sites offer links to essays and articles for further reading about the topic.

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Taking the Next Step

3/14/2015

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There are many reasons someone may be called to engage in one on one study of the psychological stance presented by interiority. It be an overall interest in psychological thinking, or an attempt to discover the logic that drives your own world view. It may be your responses to disappointments in life, or the search for a way to better understand an overall sense of anxiety, or inability to form meaningful relationships. It may be the search for a lost connection to what is soulful, or meaningful in daily life. Whatever the reason, I look forward to working with you. Visit the Schedule and Appointment page to begin.

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Permanent Water

3/10/2015

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Concepts such as soul, truth, justice, and love, aren't pre-packaged, static givens. They are, in each moment and instance of their aliveness, performative. They are made anew at each encounter through the conscious act of thinking them, thus enlivening, and expanding their definitions as concepts.

The alchemists graced us with concepts from which the psychological methodology of interiority can drink languidly; concepts such as the noetic fluidity implicit within “permanent water”, and the internal contradiction of “the stone that is not a stone, and only a stone.” These invisible realities can only be accessed through the act of thinking. They are held within consciousness. No one can take your hand and lead you to them, for they do not exist as reified, positive objects. Like life itself, they are invisible, and come into sharper focus only by their absence. They cannot be jangled in our pockets like blue marbles and house keys. They can’t be tucked in our sock drawer like old photographs.

These thoughts that think themselves into being as concepts must dance! They remain alive only by their constant movement toward re-definition. These unseen realities, such as truth, justice, love, soul - dance united by, and absolved from their own internal difference.

Permanent water. Stable fluidity. Certain uncertainty. Motherless child. Virgin birth. Human god. These are all ways to access what the psychology as the discipline of interiority terms the psychological difference - the unity of unity and difference. “So it is only in the return itself that what we return to emerges at all” (Zizek 2014). It is only by our performance of reflection that what we reflect upon comes into bein

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The Psychological Thinker

3/7/2015

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The person entering the consulting room arrives with their own way of perceiving their soul/world relationship. Interiority studies helps individuals recognize that relationship with more clarity. Anxiety, loneliness, a sense of loss and meaninglessness - these are conditions of modernity and each individual has unwittingly found a means to deal with this condition - some are life enhancing, some not so. When the individual finds themselves at a life transition and the structures that once held are found wanting, the soul/world relationship has to be revisited - new ways of perceiving need to be thought. If this sounds like it's for you, visit the Schedule and Appointment page.

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On-line Dream Workshop - Sunday, April 12th

When the search creates the loss

Colleen scheduled to Lecture at the University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library on Friday, July 3rd.

Taking the Next Step

Permanent Water

The Psychological Thinker

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