Jung Society Lecture – Meeting the Gaze of an Alive World
“I always knew that these experiences contained something precious, and therefore I knew of nothing better than to write them down … and to paint the images that emerged through reliving it all-as well as I could” Epilogue to the Red Book, 1959
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Meeting the Gaze of an Alive World How can we cultivate and tend the place of meeting between humans and the animate cosmos? Drawing from Jung’s experiences creating The Red Book, his processes of active imagination and automatic writing and his research into the oracular tradition underpinning the Western Philosophical tradition, Maya seeks to reveal the connections between these and ancient Aboriginal traditions of ‘co-becoming.’ In her workshops, ‘Writing with the Earth: Kinship, Embodiment and Belonging’, Maya facilitates deep connections with the wholeness, beauty and intelligence of life’s process, grounded in somatic and ecological principles. Based on her doctoral research into links between European and Aboriginal contemplative and participatory practices with the natural world, her work is a contemporary form of ancient esoteric traditions of direct communication with the more-than-human world. She will speak to the importance of taking up the request from Aboriginal people to listen to and fall deeply in love with Country. |
