Pamela Power, Ph.D. Jung wrote that visionary art provides a compensatory function to the time in which it is produced.  If we can recognize what art expresses, we can be more deeply aware of the culture in which we live. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the evolution of Western music and describe the spirit that has propelled it since the early church.  We then turn to the ‘music’ of Rap culture that today plays a powerful, and…

STEVEN HERRMANN, Ph.D., MFT and LORI GOLDRICH, Ph.D. Jung described active imagination as a technique for discovering the mythopoetic images hidden in the emotions. Jung modeled this method in his Red Book. A related technique is what Walt Whitman called Vocalism. Poets who have used this method have helped to articulate what our national myth is in the United States. One of our central myths is “Spiritual Democracy.” Spiritual Democracy is a way to sacred action, whether through political activism,…