Sep 15-17, 2006
Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth interested millions of people in ancient mythology and its relevance to our lives today. According to Quadrant, the journal of the C.G. Jung Institute, Stanley Krippner’s work takes people “a giant step further” than Campbell’s series.
Campbell himself referred people to Dr. Krippner’s workshops, saying they achieved “an intriguing synthesis of a mythological perspective with contemporary psychological methods.”
The 21st century requires all of us to navigate our way through a world of bewildering personal and social change. Your personal mythology — comprised of beliefs and motivations that operate largely outside your conscious awareness — is the internal guidance system that shapes your journey. Personal myths guide an individual in the same way cultural myths guide society and both are constantly evolving. The more effective your guiding mythology, the better equipped you are to meet the challenges your life presents.
Drawing on methods from a spectrum of systems, including Jungian psychology, Gestalt therapy, psychosynthesis, ancient spiritual disciplines, dream work, and modern clinical practice, Dr. Krippner will lead you through a sequence of experiences designed to transform dysfunctional myths, while reaching into inner depths for visions that nourish and inspire. This workshop will show you how to change your guiding mythology so it may become an ever more life-affirming map. Please bring a journal and record your dreams prior to the workshop.
Stanley Krippner is an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of consciousness, dreams, shamanism, and spiritual healing. At Maimonides Medical Center, he did research on extra-sensory effects in dreams. In 1972, he began teaching full-time at Saybrook Graduate School, designing the curriculum in Consciousness Studies. In 1973, he was elected President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and in 1983 became President of the Parapsychological Association. He has written or co-written over 700 articles and 15 books, including Personal Mythology, The Mythic Path, and Becoming Psychic, which details his encounters with indigenous, spiritual healers on five continents. We are honored to welcome the return of this distinguished research scientist and outstanding teacher.