An 8-week online course on Alchemy & the Soul, combined with private sessions. (open to both men and women)
The ancient mysteries of Alchemy have drawn many to the secrets hidden within its cryptic images and texts. To this day there remains an aura of mystery around these extraordinary teachings which originated in Egypt.
Carl Jung was one of the recent thinkers who made alchemy accessible to the man and woman of our time. He discovered in the alchemical tradition the phases of transformation that the deep psyche undergoes as it moves through the process of awakening that he called “individuation”. After his own deep initiatory encounter with the collective unconscious, beginning in 1913, he discovered that the imagery and texts of the alchemists were very similar to the material surfacing in his own dreams and active imaginations as well as in those of his patients. This gave him the foundation for his own work in making the mysteries of the psyche accessible to his contemporaries and to us.
In this course we will explore the tradition of Alchemy from a depth-psychological perspective, being led by the work of Carl Jung, as well as post-Jungian thinkers like James Hillman, Edward Edinger, and Jeffrey Raff. We will explore the different stages and operations in Alchemy in-depth combined with Active Imaginations and creative work with images in every class. During each class, we will explore several dreams and how the ancient images of Alchemy are reflected in the modern man/woman’s psyche.
This unique course is combined with private sessions so that you receive experiential learning that goes further and deeper than theory alone. Alchemy is not about understanding the tradition and methodology, but about the transformation of our living matter, psyche and spirit, and with intimate one-to-one work, each participant will have a taste of this deep work of the Soul.
The course will be given in Amsterdam and consists of 4 group classes and 4 private sessions.
Location: Online via Zoom
Price: 349,- euro. Includes: 4 group classes of 1.5 hours and 4 private sessions of 1 hour.
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