"The Black Books and the Bollingen Tower: Before and After Jung's Red Book"

A discussion with Jung’s great-grandson, Daniel Baumann

Sunday, November 22nd

10-11:30am PST

Event will be hosted online.

A recording will also be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live salon.

Before The Red Book, the illuminated manuscript of C.G. Jung’s “confrontation with the unconscious,” there were the Black Books, the notebooks of Jung’s years-long dialogue with inner figures and thus, the foundation of what was to become Analytical Psychology. These black notebooks captured Jung’s experimentation with inner dialogue and the development of Active Imagination, a core technique of Jung’s psychology. Recorded primarily between 1913 and 1917, these recently published works provide even more insight into Jung’s psychology and personal history than we have had with the extraordinary Red Book.

After The Red Book, as Jung was finishing the compilation of this massive calligraphic text, bound in red leather and illuminated with countless detailed paintings, he began to manifest the visions from his encounter with the unconscious in physical, three-dimensional form. Jung purchased land on a lakeshore near Zurich in the early 1920s and began to build a structure that has come to be known as Bollingen Tower. According to Red Book editor, Sonu Shamdasani: “The tower may be regarded as a three-dimensional continuation of Liber Novus” (reader, p. 78). Bollingen Tower the third iteration of Jung’s magnum opus and inner journey.

In this salon, Jung’s great-grandson, former President of CG Jung Institute Zürich, and master architect, Daniel Baumann, will be in discussion with Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, about the full journey from Jung’s Black Books, to The Red Book, to Bollingen Tower, a place he loves dearly. There is no better guide to take us on this journey.

You can hear a wonderful interview with Daniel Baumann in NPR’s story on The Red Book in 2009.

About Daniel Baumann

In addition to being a senior architect, Head of Construction Area A, and a Member of the Executive Board at the Building Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Daniel Baumann was previously the owner and director of his own architectural firm in Zürich, Switzerland for thirty years. As C.G. Jung’s great-grandson, Daniel has thoughtfully navigated his relationship to the Jungian world and his own lineage since his teen years. He has served in multiple roles within the CG Jung Institute Zürich, including as President for five years, and as a member of the Curatorium from 2000 to 2012. Since 2012 he has served as a member of the Institute’s patronage. From 2015 to 2019 Daniel has served on the Board of Directors for the CG Jung Foundation Zurich, an internationally supporting foundation for Analytical Psychology to which he remains connected today as a Friend of the Board. In 2010, Daniel was a co-organizer of the Zurich Red Book exhibition at the Rietberg Museum Zurich. In 2011 he was a co-organizer of the 50th anniversary of Jung’s death in Zurich, with an accompanying academic program. Daniel has also led a number of guided tours for official groups to Bollingen Tower, including students from the Jung Institute Zurich and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Throughout his life, Daniel has spent a great deal of time at Bollingen Tower, a place he has loved both as an architect and as a descendent of C.G. Jung.

Register:

Online Attendance: A Zoom link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

Scholarships: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

Your purchase of the Black Books through this link supports The Salome Institute and local bookstores nationwide.

Healing the Soul of our Culture:

Active Imagination & Dreamwork for Social Change

A Two-Part Seminar with Dr. Sharon D. Johnson

Saturdays, November 14th & 21st

10-12pm PT

1-3pm EDT

Online event via Zoom - registration limited

November & December Seminars with Dr. Johnson are Sold Out.

Please join the wait lists below.

 In Jung’s CW 15, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, he elaborates that our most powerful creative ideas and knowledge emerge from the Unconscious. This deep well of wisdom is available to everyone, most directly through depth psychological exercises such as dream work and active imagination. With regular practice, the alchemical transformation that can result has the capacity to get us “unstuck” from deeply entrenched imbalances in the individual and cultural psyche.

In the first session of “Healing the Soul of our Culture,” participant volunteers will be guided through an active imagination exercise in the West African “Way of Council”* format. With the resulting active imagination content in mind, a collective dream intention will be set, and participants will return for the second session with any dream material they have. We will work this dream material to uncover any wisdom or guidance about concrete actions we can take to effect change that can heal the soul of our culture.

The intended outcome of “Healing the Soul of Our Culture” is to empower and prompt participants into a state of witnessed and supported reflection, transformation, and generation of their own ideas on how to build and create a healed and just society.

*Active imagination involves posing pertinent questions that guide and direct participants. The Way of Council is a way of communication that allows everyone time to share as other participants witness by listening without interruption, intellectual debate, or conditioned response.

About the Instructor:

Sharon D. Johnson Ph.D is a screenwriter, dream educator, and scholar of television, film, and African American arts; literature; and culture. She has been a published critical and feature story writer for over 30 years, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, West since 1993. She served as Chair of the Writers Guild Committee of Black Writers from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Johnson has published and presented her precedent original research on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, and on the ancient depth psychological practice of dream work, via numerous venues in the field. Her essay, “Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust” is included in the recently published anthology, Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Dr. Johnson has taught screenwriting; Black popular culture; and African American literature at California State University Northridge, and her original senior seminar on race; gender; and screen adaptations at Emerson College Los Angeles.

Register:

November & December seminars have sold-out

Online Attendance: Registrants will receive an email one week in advance requesting registration confirmation. This confirms that you are receiving our emails and will be present at the seminars. Please check your spam folder if you feel you haven’t received anything.

Household Members: Please do not have anyone other than yourself attending the online salons either at the screen or behind the screen. We are working to create sacred space in these gatherings and that requires a degree of confidence in who is present.

Recordings: These seminars will not be recorded due to the personal material shared by participants.

Discounts: If you could use a scholarship or discount in order to participate, please send an email with a short note. We cannot guarantee access as these are smaller gatherings but are committed to making the seminars accessible.

How to Use the I Ching for Individual & Collective Guidance

Instruction for Beginner’s

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA

Sunday, November 15th

10-12pm PST /

Salon will be hosted online.

Access link is shared with registrants 24hrs before event & a recording is shared within 24hrs following.

Have you been curious about The I Ching? Have you wanted to learn how (and when) to “throw” the I Ching on your own?

The I Ching is an ancient book of wisdom and the world’s oldest oracular tradition to which many people still look for guidance.

In this two hour salon, Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, will offer an introduction to the use of the I Ching for daily life and social practice. This book of 64 Hexagrams can be used to support self-knowledge, the development of consciousness, and “right practice” in a struggling society.

Use it in your own life for inquiry around big and small life decisions, insight into personal relationships, and guidance on responding to collective suffering.

After the initial “how to” presentation in the live salon, approximately one hour, there will be ample time for questions and discussion.

Registration includes the video recording mailed within 24 hours of the live salon. The recording will be evergreen, available for continued consultation into the future.

Satya encourages all registrants to purchase one or two translations of the I Ching soon, if you don’t already own your own copy. Her favorites for beginners are the R.L. Wing “Workbook” or Stephen Karcher’s “Total I Ching.”

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA

Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and founder of Quarterlife, a Jungian psychotherapy practice and resource center focused on people in the first half of adulthood. Satya was previously on staff at the Philemon Foundation, which exists to publish Jung's unpublished archives, including The Red Book. Her writing has been published in The Utne Reader, Oregon Humanities Magazine, goop, Psychological Perspectives, and elsewhere. Her book on Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House in 2021.

Register:

Online Attendance: A Zoom link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event.

Recordings: A recording of this salon will be password protected and emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked.

To make the most of this salon, you’ll want to have:

One (or more) translations of The I Ching — If you don’t have a translation on hand, you can use online resources! A journal & pen/pencil, and three pennies.

Healing the Soul of our Culture:

Active Imagination & Dreamwork for Social Change

A Two-Part Seminar with Dr. Sharon D. Johnson

Saturdays, November 14th & 21st

10-12pm PT

Online event via Zoom - registration limited

Seminars are Sold Out & Waitlist is Filled

Please join the wait lists below.

 In Jung’s CW 15, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, he elaborates that our most powerful creative ideas and knowledge emerge from the Unconscious. This deep well of wisdom is available to everyone, most directly through depth psychological exercises such as dream work and active imagination. With regular practice, the alchemical transformation that can result has the capacity to get us “unstuck” from deeply entrenched imbalances in the individual and cultural psyche.

In the first session of “Healing the Soul of our Culture,” participant volunteers will be guided through an active imagination exercise in the West African “Way of Council”* format. With the resulting active imagination content in mind, a collective dream intention will be set, and participants will return for the second session with any dream material they have. We will work this dream material to uncover any wisdom or guidance about concrete actions we can take to effect change that can heal the soul of our culture.

The intended outcome of “Healing the Soul of Our Culture” is to empower and prompt participants into a state of witnessed and supported reflection, transformation, and generation of their own ideas on how to build and create a healed and just society.

*Active imagination involves posing pertinent questions that guide and direct participants. The Way of Council is a way of communication that allows everyone time to share as other participants witness by listening without interruption, intellectual debate, or conditioned response.

About the Instructor:

Sharon D. Johnson Ph.D is a screenwriter, dream educator, and scholar of television, film, and African American arts; literature; and culture. She has been a published critical and feature story writer for over 30 years, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, West since 1993. She served as Chair of the Writers Guild Committee of Black Writers from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Johnson has published and presented her precedent original research on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, and on the ancient depth psychological practice of dream work, via numerous venues in the field. Her essay, “Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust” is included in the recently published anthology, Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Dr. Johnson has taught screenwriting; Black popular culture; and African American literature at California State University Northridge, and her original senior seminar on race; gender; and screen adaptations at Emerson College Los Angeles.

Register:

UPDATE — November & December Dreamwork Seminars are SOLD OUT — please join waitlist below.

Online Attendance: Registrants will receive an email one week in advance requesting registration confirmation. This confirms that you are receiving our emails and will be present at the seminars. Please check your spam folder if you feel you haven’t received anything.

Household Members: Please do not have anyone other than yourself attending the online salons either at the screen or behind the screen. We are working to create sacred space in these gatherings and that requires a degree of confidence in who is present.

Recordings: These seminars will not be recorded due to the personal material shared by participants.

Discounts: If you could use a scholarship or discount in order to participate, please send an email with a short note. We cannot guarantee access as these are smaller gatherings but are committed to making the seminars accessible.