Erica Lorentz - Jungian Analyst

Across these three days, we’ll be working with the relationship between psyche and body, dreamwork, and Jung’s method of embodied imagination. These themes come directly from my forthcoming book Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process, which I’m excited to share with you.

📌 Sunday, Sept 21 – Clinical Consultation (In-person, JPA Members only, 3 CEUs) Working with the Edge: Embodied Active Imagination

📌 Saturday, Sept 20 – Workshop (In-person, 6 CEUs) A Somatic Approach to Dreams

📌 Friday, Sept 19 – Public Lecture (Hybrid, 2 CEUs)
Body as Shadow: Jung on Re-membering the Body

I’m looking forward to being in Seattle with the Jungian Psychologists Association this September for a weekend of teaching, exploration, and dialogue.

🔗More info + registration: jpaseattle.org/our-events

To be a whole human means to search for meaning, to long for connection, to desire to be seen by some “other”—someone human and also something holy.

Our ancestors understood something that modern society has largely forgotten:

the body is not just a machine to be maintained, but a sacred vessel of wisdom and transformation

As elucidated in the early Greek mysteries, to engage in the healing field of the embodied soul, we must cultivate stillness in order to be penetrated by deeper levels of knowing and the mythopoetic awareness within.

Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is the knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight. The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from dark earth - Carl Jung

Trauma and the constant stress of modern life continue to fray the connection to our soul, often through minor but cumulative blows to our psyche

We are so broken down by this crushing weight of the everyday, we don’t even know that we’re not centered inside our embodied soulful life.

Instead of sensing deeply and unraveling the clues that our embodied soul whispers to us, we analyze and fix, use drugs, or cling to what we already “know.”

Interested in Shadow Work & Somatic Therapy?

Learn about Carl Jung’s individuation process TONIGHT 7-9pm EST in my Remote Zoom lecture

Read more about the lecture here: www.westmassjung.org#schedule

Purchase tickets here: www.westmassjung.org/purchase_030...

I hope to see you there!

We don’t know how to engage in a mythopoetic process with our imagination and emotion—a process that would cleanse our psyche and make us feel fully alive, fluid, and able to meet the outer world with honesty, in whatever form that world might appear.

It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the most and best happens when it is not regulated from outside and from above
- Carl Jung

Carl Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life without connection to our body – they are inextricably linked. We will demonstrate how to engage with our embodied soul and the inter-active field thus retrieving it from the shadow personally and professionally www.westmassjung.org/purchase_030...

It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the most and best happens when it is not regulated from outside and from above
- Carl Jung 1944

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls . . . and [they do] not have the slightest faith that anything useful could come out of their own souls…
- Carl Jung 1944

Join me in Santa Fe for The Creativity and Madness conference. Earn 16+ ceus.

The misconception that we are all just another cog in the wheel of a universe that can be dissected and understood intellectually is still a backbone of modern research and scientific endeavor today. Jung called Descartes’ desecration of the soul in matter that “idiotic clockwork fantasy”

“Imagination [right brain] is more important than knowledge,”
- Albert Einstein

“Knowledge [left brain] is limited while imagination encircles the entire world” (Viereck, 1929).

The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist