Program – AUTUMN 2026-27

Losing Touch and Gaining Infinite Connection:

Dreamers At Home and Adrift in a Quantum/Post-Quantum World

A lecture by Josephine Evetts-Secker of Lythe, U.K.

Registration Links: In Person: https://quantumworld_inperson.eventbrite.ca

ZOOM: https://quantumworld_online.eventbrite.ca

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

Location: TBA

Saturday, November 14

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

Members: $15

Non-Members: $20

Students/Senior Members: $10

This will be a Hybrid/ZOOM event.

For info please call (514) 971-8664

In the quantum world, here or there becomes here and there … and at the same time probably elsewhere. The lecture begins to explore how this experience feels familiar to the Jungian dreamer and the analysand on the path of individuation.

As technology creates more and more communication and information pathways for humans, scientific research discovers more and more invisible patterns of connection underlying life systems in nature itself.

As we explore these webs, we can recognize close relationships with the dynamics of unconscious life. As we benefit from these gains, we must also reflect on losses in embodied human interactions.

We will illuminate these ideas through poetry, art, fairy tale and dream.

Josephine Evetts-Secker graduated from the University of London and the Jung Institute, Zürich. She was in psychoanalytic practice in Canada while teaching at the University of Calgary. In 1997 she retired from academic life and returned to England where she is in private practice. She works with the IGAP training program (London) and the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) Zürich. She has lectured for Jung societies in UK, Canada, USA and Russia. Her Zürich Jung Lectures, At Home in the Language of the Soul, were published by Spring and Routledge. She has published articles, lectures, book chapters and edited collections of fairy tales. She serves as semi-retired priest in the Anglican church.

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James Hollis and His Writings:

A Four-Week Reading Seminar

Animated by Members of the Montreal Jung Society

This is a ZOOM event.
Registration Links:

Nov. 12: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ejKaj9COQKSVvTW9S4Eipw

Nov. 19: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vqGEP3eVQMm7MOlqaiPjqQ

Nov. 26: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9toezHCISv6qfquAA37hPg

Dec. 3: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VZC1jEGnSACaW14lS7MdpA

Thursdays, November 12, 19, 26, December 3

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. (EST)

FREE

Readings will be sent upon registration.

Please read the materials before each session to enhance the conversation.

November 12

Are We Living on “Borrowed Dust”?

This evening’s readings will comprise selections from Dr. Hollis’s recent book, Living with Borrowed Dust. The first chapter is an exploration of happiness and meaning in our lives. The final chapter is a short story written by the author whose enigmatic ending may spark a rather interesting discussion.

Mary Harsany, Ph.D., is the president and planning coordinator of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal. She has worked as a psychologist in private practice in Montreal for over 35 years.

November 19

Beyond the Middle Passage

The Middle Passage, published in 1993, was James Hollis’s first book as a Jungian analyst, written when he was just middle-aged himself. In its final chapter he summarizes his thoughts on how to compassionately and responsibly understand and traverse the challenges we all face at that point in life. Thirty years later how have his initial ideas held up and what has he added in his more recent book A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity?

Susan Meindl is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a long-time member of the Steering Committee of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal.

November 26

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

In this chapter from his 2021 book Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life, James Hollis focuses on the life of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats as an exemplar of how one might individuate. As he has subtitled the chapter, it follows the path Yeats took from Puer Aeternus to Wise Old Man. Since Yeats was Hollis’s thesis subject, we might surmise that this path might be true of Hollis and also for many of us.

Murray Shugar is the editor of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal newsletter and website.

December 3

There Is No Deal: James Hollis, Job, and the Limits of Control

What happens when the assumptions by which we have organized our lives no longer hold? Beginning with the Book of Job and James Hollis’s insight that “there is no deal,” we will explore unconscious bargains, the limits of control, and the transformation that can follow when our understanding of reality is disrupted. Jung’s Answer to Job will extend the conversation into questions of consciousness, the God-image, and mystery.

Carol Knowlton-Dority is a Toronto- based Visual Artist whose practice brings together contemporary visual art, meditation and interactive experiences.

Carol’s work offers ways of exploring and developing compassion for the deep parts of oneself and fosters connection to others.

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