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Comment by Lana Kirtser on May 29, 2010 at 5:18am

I bought Red Book from Amazon, it is beautiful and very precious. Red Book series at Hammer Museum are way too commercial for me. If you enjoy reading and contemplating in solitude you can get Red Book lecture series recording from Gnostic Society. Dr Holler is Gnostic bishop and scholar is very entertaining! Gnostic Society website -www.gnostic.org

Comment by Mike Mays on May 29, 2010 at 4:46am

I'm into the Red Book! The art and calligraphy are extraordinary. I can't think of anything comparable. I've barely started to assimilate the text. I'm reading it in the library at the Jung Institute in LA. There are a few copies available. You can check one out if you join the library and leave a deposit.

The Red Book exhibit at the Hammer Museum runs until June 6. The exhibit is tiny -- the Red Book itself in a plastic case, a few drawings and paintings by Jung (not nearly as striking as the art in the book), and some other stuff.

The Hammer has an interesting series of dialogs in support of the exhibit. I waited in line over an hour to see James Hillman and Helen Hunt, and ended-up watching a simulcast in the overflow room. It's gratifying to see so many people interested in this material!

Some of the dialogs are posted online. Like,
Leonard Nimoy and Beverly Zabriskie. Jack Kornfield is talking with Katherine Stanford as I'm writing this post. Hopefully, their dialog will be posted soon.

I've queued up a recent two-part audio interview with Monika Wikman, "Alchemical Archetypes in Jungian Analysis" (part1, part2). I'm hoping this interview will inspire me to read Pregnant Darkness, which has been sitting on my bookshelf nearly two years.

Comment by Allen Howell on May 26, 2010 at 2:07am

BTW... GTT has posted a module on their website for this October in Taos NM titled "Jung's Red Book: The World Within." Lead by Diane Haug and joined by a woman named Monika Wikman, PhD - who I believe is a Jungian Analyst also in NM. I do know she wrote a great book called "Pregnant Darkness" which I have in my ever growing to-be-read pile, but I dont know anything else about her. It should be very interesting.

Comment by Thomas Merton Brightman on May 25, 2010 at 2:01pm

The RED BOOK is as much an art book, book of Mandalas, as anything else. Just by viewing the Mandalas, there is communication value. I like viewing the original format, the first section of the book, even though I do not read his native language, to see what he saw and to see it as he presented his inner material. Does anyone understand another's inner material, I think not, but I enjoy glimpses of other people's process and almost always find value in how I am viewing my own processing and integration of personal material.

Thomas HB Class of 1989

Comment by Lana Kirtser on May 25, 2010 at 4:06am

Anyone would like to share thoughts, impressions from reading C.G.Jung's 'Red Book'?

Comment by Barbara St. Romain on May 10, 2010 at 6:00am

Just read a wonderful book by Deepak Chopra entitled Life After Death. He deals with subjects like levels of consciousness during and beyond life, integration of modern science and religion, reincarnation the Akashic records, and much, much more from a Vedantic perspective. It is very inspiring and understandable work for the lay public and those interested and trained in our beloved Holotropic breathwork.

Comment by Allen Howell on May 8, 2010 at 6:20pm

Tremors and shaking are sometimes associated with Kundalini awakenings.

Also, there is a practice called Seidr (or sometimes Seething) used by the ancient Nordic peoples that involved shaking to enter non-ordinary states. It is believed to have been originally taught to humans by Odin. Jan Fries wrote a book called "Seidways: Shaking, Swaying and the Serpent Mysteries" which goes into this practice.

Comment by Jeff Power on May 4, 2010 at 2:29am

I had a healing session with Bradford Keeney about 15 years ago and it still resonates! He is a trickster incarnate. Shaking out the Spirits was his coming out of the closet book; from a family therapsit to Shaman. If you have had any connection at all with Chrisitianity then read his Shamanic Chrisitianity for a great laugh and deep learning and some of the best meditations you will find anywhere.

Comment by Thomas Merton Brightman on May 3, 2010 at 7:48pm

Jules,

There are so many ways of entering altered states of consciousness.

When Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was in his 80's (former head of the Sufi Order of the West before his death) I did an experiential workshop with him at Omega Institute, at which he demonstrated by leading us through one conscious altering process from each culture that he had experienced in his life touring of world cultures. It was a marvelous time to be with him as his learning was so personally integrated, his insights so matter-of-fact, and his demonstrations by leading others into altered states so thorough.

In one of the meditation processes, I went so deep that when I came back the room was empty except for his personal assistance who had remained to sit with me until I came back of my own effort at my own time. I ask the assistant, "Is everyone else on a break?" "No", was the answer, "The meditation workshop is over for the day." "Wow!" I responded. "He is very good at what he does..." was the last comment from the assistant who was now leaving to rejoin Pir Vilayat.

Elder teaching can be so gentle and so deep.

Thomas Merton Brightman, HB Class of 1989

Comment by Jules Trocchi on May 3, 2010 at 9:32am

Perhaps the group is already familiar with it, but if not I would like to recommend "Shaking Medicine" by Brad Keeney, in particular the chapters discussing the shaking practices of the Kalahari Bushmen in Namibia. (Also I never realised the Shakers in the US were so named because they actually used to physically 'shake' once upon a time!)

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