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My path to Jung: How I found 10,000 feet under

It turned out that I have many dreams confirming on training, application training, and Jung. From the beginning, however, my road was paved not by Jung's dreams or visions initiation (At least I do not remember), but by a sequence of events in my life. These events have been for me my college years. Never started to land in the religious tradition of my parents, Judaism, I was left on my own to discover the answers to questions eternal life. Most of my early interests were in Eastern philosophy and practices, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and – or at least the western versions of their teaching by Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Stephen, and others.

At interests – spirituality and psychology – is parallel in my life, rarely touching each other (with one exception I remember is a class at Long Beach State University called "yoga and psychology). internships year-round clinics. I dutifully sought a position with the financial support and location desirable (I'm interested in living a simple lifestyle-Back to earth somewhere in the Pacific Northwest). For a sequence of events strange, just before the deadline for applications for a school counselor suggested I apply to Camarillo State Hospital in California. I watched it in my guide placement and it does not seem very inviting. It offered the minimum allocation NIMH, just $ 3.600 for the year! I had already applied to twelve other places! "Well, I thought," I suppose I could ask Camarillo country. They chose the hospital Psychiatric Camarillo as their first choice because of the Jungian analyst on the staff! I think it was probably the internship in the country with a Jungian hospital analyst there, Russ Lockhart was asked to make a presentation to staff of psychology. He showed the film face to face and commented Jung things briefly discussed in the interview with the BBC. I do not remember what Russ said, only that I was moved and attracted. Psychologists and the other students showed little interest or not, but the two trainees on the east coast and I was hungry for more. We collectively asked Russ us meet informally once a week, plus a snack, and he accepted. It was not really a seminar, but more the opportunity to ask questions and discuss Russ different thoughts and ideas of Jung. I do not understand everything he said but what I did understand a lot of sense, much more than what I was taught elsewhere in the hospital. I knew somehow he was right. This resonance with something in me. The seeds begin to germinate.

I started reading books and articles by Jung, and began working with an analyst in Los Angeles. At the hospital, Russ asked our small group to use the therapy sandtray and supervised my work with adolescent patient. I remember being struck by the way Russ was respectful of the human psyche. He encouraged me to take seriously the words of my psychotic patients (she said her twin babies had been killed by agents of the hospital). He taught me to pay attention to the images and trends in the unconscious, and listen to what the soul has been said. Elsewhere in the hospital, I saw patients medicated, behavioral treatment, and learned to relax I had other tasks to complete first.

I felt that I needed to start my career psychology and start earning a living. So I decided to do a mental health center in sorry Rock Springs, Wyoming (why there is another strange twist of fate, I'm not here). Soon, however, I began to feel quite sterile myself. I was empty and depressed. My life was missing something, but I do not know what it was. I was lost and confused professional, too. I tried my best with my clients, but I learned so many different therapeutic modalities (my doctoral program was eclectic), I found my way out of the wasteland of Wyoming and my own infertility as well. Attending a conference in Denver on humanistic psychology, I happened to attend a lecture by Jungian analyst, Jeff Raff. objective. Upon reflection, I am impressed by the way things auspiciously developed – how lucky I was to go to Denver for a well paid job, which I allowed both time and money for analysis and it was a need for analysands for the control phase of training, they emerged. It was a remarkable assertion and a process sometimes magical, but not one without setbacks and difficulties as well. process – the mythical nature of the training I attended. I began to question what I was doing in training. I was not one of my exams and had to wait One year I could not stand on my own authority, now? I stewed and thought of all these things. Then I made the dream following:

I am employed as an assistant to an alchemist. Here is an assistant women as well. The Alchemist reminds me of the analyst Jungian
Arny Mindell (who was an analyst of my analyst, I think someone like my grandfather spiritual). What I question is that we do and we have decided to withdraw. For that, I am considered a heretic.
Then comes the alchemist and speaks with me. He said we have done only part of the album. It is still an important step to fill. He told me that I am the only one who can. It is the cooking and processing of the substance in an alchemical
large outdoor oven or a container that resembles a huge hole dug in the earth. But there problem. Surroundings
Community considers that it is dangerous and illegal, fearing contamination, it could cause. The Alchemist hoops to please the "father" or the creation of another degree of my wall. It was a deep (literally, in the ground!) Transformation Process mythical. It was not even for me, really, but for the love of the materia of alchemy – that I'm the self is still latent. However, I alone could accomplish the task. Undoubtedly, the training process to become a Jungian analyst emerged – is that I pulled cores of soil. They had great leafy tops above ground, but roots in lean. Remarkably, one of the last dreams I had Jungian training before moving was that the review process had taken deep inside me, in fact, the image in the dream, is that I was literally 10,000 feet underground! I finally found the depth and grounding for which I been looking.

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