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"Symbols of Individuation in Religion and Mythology: The Case of Egypt" Friday November 5, 2010 With Murray Stein and Andreas Schweizer, LIVE from Zurich! Around 1500 B.C. ancient Egypt created an illustrated vision of the hereafter that ranks among the greatest works of humankind. Its initial impact endured for more than a millennium and served as the model for an entire literary genre known as "Books of the Afterlife" or "Books of the Netherworld". In his upcoming lecture, Dr. Andreas Schweizer explores the striking images in the oldest of these books, the Amduat, which literally means "that which is in the netherworld". The Amduat describes the journey of the Sungod and all the blessed dead traveling with him through the twelve nocturnal hours of the netherworld.  It examines both their threatening impact and regenerating powers. No new order of creation can come to life without first encountering the disintegrating forces that are bent on destroying it. At the deepest point of this murky realm of the dead, while at the very edge of primordial darkness, the mystery of the renewal of all life takes place. These images from ancient Egypt hold profound psychological wisdom. Marie-Louise von Franz once called the Sungod's journey through the netherworld as an initial dream of humankind.  Indeed, the Book of Amduat is full of psychological truth, which is still valid in our days. This netherworld into which we descend, forms the basis of our own psychic world. It contains highly creative energy, and only death, to which all must surrender, makes us truly alive through its regenerative power. This transformative seminar may be viewed live or recorded from any home computer or group gathering of interested Jungians. *Click here to Register*       http://ashevillejungcenter.org/upcoming-events/symbols-individuation-religion-mythology-case-of-egypt/registration/ *Click here for more information about this Seminar* **Click here for more information on how our seminars work** ___________________________________________ Date: Friday, September 10, 2010 Cost: $47 per person ($23 for students or clergy) Time Zones: Eastern US:    11 am to 2 pm Central US:    10 am to 1 pm Mountain US:    9 am to noon Pacific US:    8 am to 11 am Alaska :    7 am to 10 am Hawaii:    6 am  to  9 am Western European Time Zone (UK):     16:00-19:00 Central European Time Zone (Zurich):     17:00-20:00 *Click here to Register* ___________________________________________ Dr. Murray Stein is a supervising training analyst and president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). He is the author of The Principle of Individuation and many other books and articles in the field of Jungian Psychoanalysis. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He has lectured internationally and presently makes his home in Switzerland. Dr. Andreas Schweizer is a practicing Jungian analyst. He studied theology in Zürich and Ghana as well as Egyptology with Prof. Erik Hornung in Basel. He has been a training analyst since 1986, first at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht and currently with ISAP-Zurich. He has been president of the Eranos conferences for the last 10 years and is also currently president of the Psychology Club, founded 1916 by C.G. Jung. He has published numerous books, including The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld, Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. *Click here to Register* _______________________ C. G. Jung wrote many books and papers on symbols in religion and mythology, finding in these sources evidence for his theory of the archetypal level of the psyche, namely the collective unconscious. Using a comparative methodology, he established general human patterns of individuation that are available to all people. He further held the view that modern men and women suffer from the absence of explicit myth and symbol in their lives. This creates an empty space where the core of meaning and the values derived from this core should be located. It was to address this problem of absence of meaning that he sought to recover the symbolic understanding of myth for modernity. Ancient myth can teach us not only about the symbolic world in which the ancients lived but also something about ourselves, since moderns too hold within their psychic structures patterns with similar shape and process. In his recently published book, The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat, Jungian psychoanalyst Andreas Schweizer investigates an ancient Egyptian mythical account of an archetypal process of death and rebirth, a transformation process that still applies to people in our own modern times. In November's seminar, Murray Stein will present a general theory of the archetypal structures underlying the process of individuation, and Andreas Schweizer will present an account of the Egyptian myth of the Sungod's journey through the underworld, from descent into death to rebirth through transformation. Dr. Schweizer will include in his presentation many colorful images of the Egyptian story of the Sungod's journey through the Netherworld. These ideas and images will also be brought into relation with the analytic process as this is experienced in Jungian analysis today, also a process of transformation. *Click here to Register* ___________________________________________ Outline of seminar: 1.    "Introduction: Jung on Myth and Symbol as pertaining to the Individuation Process," with discussion, by Murray Stein. 2. "The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld," with discussion, by Andreas Schweizer. Break 3. "The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld, con't," with discussion, by Andreas Schweizer *Click here to Register* ___________________________________________ Reading List: Jung, C.G. 1911-12/1970. Symbols of Transformation, in Collected Works, Vol. 5. Princeton University Press. Jung, C.G.. 2009. The Red Book. Ed. Sonu Shamdasani. New York: Norton. Schweizer, A. 2010. The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Stein, M. 2006. The Principle of Individuation. Wilmette, IL.: Chiron. Steve Buser, MD Asheville Jung Center