C. G. Jung Society of Sarasota
Being Our Authentic SELF During Changing Times

"Q" is no longer in publication. Below are some feature articles from our archive.

As I gather the pieces of this collective newsletter, I am impressed anew with the scope of programs for the year to come. You will find inside a roster of fascinating lectures, workshops, small groups, and salons. You will also see an extensive "Help Wanted" section! Over the past year, a great deal of time and energy was given by a relatively small group of generous souls. Some of them are relinquishing their roles. If you don't have a job in the Society, or if you would like a different one, we hope you will consider adopting one of those listed in Help Wanted. There's great satisfaction in doing a job that matches one's own temperament. [more]

We begin 2005 faced with a puzzle: what's wrong with the other half of Americans? Regardless of whether your candidate won or lost in November, you know that approximately half of America disagreed with you. Our country feels angrily, stubbornly split. On the other hand our agenda as Jungians is a journey toward individual and collective wholeness. So the question is relevant to Q readers: Q is for Quest.  [more]

Carl Jung believed we humans have the ability to transform ourselves -- to deepen and broaden our strengths and fill in, tunnel under, or bridge over our gaps... Jung unequivocally believed we have within ourselves the power to commit alchemy; we are able to turn our experiences from one form into another.   [more]

In October, I attended the North American Conference of Jungian Analysts held in Montreal, Quebec. The theme of this year's conference was THE OTHER; Explorations of Alterity in Analytical Psychology. The focus was on the relationship between Self and Other that lies not only in our outer relationships, but also at the foundation of the intra-psychic world within each of us, i.e., our individual relationship to the Unconscious.   [more]

This article will describe how my changing subjective self-concept was illustrated in changing dream symbols at specific times over my lifetime.  [more]

The War in Iraq and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden left (and still leaves) many of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan living in terror, critically injured, or dead. Our country's hunger for retribution was fed by the collapse of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. [more]

On a rainy November weekend in Santa Barbara, California, the sky as dismal as the possibility of our country's going to war, hundreds of people gathered to hear James Hillman, Jungian analyst and founder of archetypal psychology, discuss "Our Terrible Love of War". [more]

Eleven years ago in early December, about eight people met for a holiday party at the Sarasota home of Nancy Anderson to plan a study group....At one such meeting, Dr. Hoppin showed Nancy and me her extensive library, and informed us that she would like her wonderful collection eventually to become the nucleus of a vital Jung Society in Sarasota. [more]

 In the distant origin of Western medicine, Hippocrates and the healing priesthood of the Asklepiades diagnosed illness by interpreting "the healing dream". [more]

Recently I came across a small book of love poems by Rumi and other Sufi poets. It is called RUMI- the Path of Love by Manuela Dunn Mascetti.* This is not the first time I have come across Rumi, but this small book is a bit different. [more]

There is an African folk story of Hilolombi, the Creator, who held a lamp in his hand that brought light into the world. But after his firstborn, Kwan, committed incest with his mother, Hilolombi dropped the lamp and it shattered into a thousand pieces. [more]