The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life Thursday, June 12, 2025 7-9pm PDT In-person and live Zoom meeting, see below for info. We continue toward completing our reading from the anthology edited by Meredith Sabini: Suppose an age when the machine gets on top of us. Then it would become a dragon… All idol-worshippers know that the image has been made by man, yet it is chosen as an abode of the god because it is his symbol, and inasmuch as it is inhabited by a god, it is sacred… it is taboo… It looks as if it were a mechanical thing, but it can overgrow us in an invisible way… Despite the fact that they were created by man, they are dwelling-places of divine powers that may destroy us. —CG Jung, “The Transformation of Dragons into Machines” (~1930) p148. - This meeting is available live online. To join us online, please contact us for a Zoom link: http://jungmonterey.org/contact. For in-person attendance, come to 381 High Street in Monterey. #jungian #jungianpsychology #junggroup #carljung #junggroups #carljungpsychology #montereypsychology #depthpsychology #jungians (fb)

Crystalline Mechanics of the Soul—with Jessica Adams Thursday, June 5, 2025 7-9pm PDT In-person and live Zoom meeting, see below for info. With the advent of evolutionary theory, biological science set its eyes on a strange conquest: the soul that had been the possession of Christian thought. The man who led the charge, Darwin’s favorite acolyte, was the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel, whose writings and fantastical illustrations exhort that our spiritual contents take on the flesh. In his last book, Crystal Souls, Haeckel proposed that the soul is physiological and, moreover, its dominion is not limited to organic matter. By the evolving lives of crystals, he worked to reveal the mechanism of the soul. Tonight, we will explore Haeckel’s theory and see what crystallographic science has to say about the anima mundi. Jessica Adams is an artist and aspiring historian of science from Alabama. Her work uses psychoanalytic and allegorical methods to uncover the effects of religious disavowal in the making of objective knowledge. She currently resides in Oregon, where she works as a special education tutor. - This meeting is available live online. To join us online, please contact us for a Zoom link: http://jungmonterey.org/contact. For in-person attendance, come to 381 High Street in Monterey. #jungian #jungianpsychology #junggroup #carljung #junggroups #carljungpsychology #montereypsychology #depthpsychology #jungians (fb)