A Jungian Survival Kit for Modern Times:

Materials and Instructions Provided by the Ancient Greeks, Their Myths and Their Customs

A Lecture by Jan Bauer of Montréal

Saturday, Nov. 15

1:00-3:00 p.m. (EST)

Members: $15; Non-Members: $20

Students & Senior Members: $10

This will be a ZOOM event.

Registration Link: https://jungiankit.eventbrite.ca 

  For info please call (514) 971-8664.

   A recording will be available for those who have registered and paid but cannot attend.

The Question: How can those ancient Greek goddesses and gods and those ancient Greek people with their ancient modes of mixing profane and sacred get us through some very modern troubled times, or even, more modestly, just through a day or a week at a time?

    As we shall see, within the Big Greek Stories there are many little treasures that turn out to be helpful Little Tips, surprisingly relevant, surprisingly practical, sometimes even amusing.

     In the presentation we will look at 3 such tips:

1. Why straight lines can be a dangerous way of trying to get some place.

2. How heroism, if excessive, can be a wounding activity as well as a saving one.

3. How to live the shock of lost innocence and yet recover to refind innocence and to accept that this is not a one-time thing; it is our life journey.

      All these tips come from stories featuring: Chiron, Demeter, Persephone, Hercules, Greek temples, as well as many other deities and unknown wise Greek men and women.

     Modern day examples will be presented for each tip.

     The Jungian Survival kit can be used by anyone at any time. It is not meant to cure a country or fix a Big Collective Problem. It just wants us to remember that not just the devil, but the gods, can be found in the details.

Born in the States, Jan Bauer lived and worked in France, Italy, Tunisia and Switzerland for 20 years. After receiving her diploma as a Jungian analyst in Zürich, she moved to Québec at the invitation of her friend and colleague Guy Corneau.

      Jan strongly believes in a Democracy of the Psyche. This is a world where complementary and opposing parts of us within are given a chance by the ego to express themselves, light and shadow, brash and timid, inner energies that long to be accepted in a coexistence that makes for an interesting and full life.