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C. G. Jung’s autobiography (Memories, Dreams, Reflections) opens with, “My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.” He goes on, saying the personality desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions, to experience itself as a whole. This describes individuation, becoming ‘whole’, or coming to ‘selfhood’. Life, then, is a journey of moving toward the consciousness of wholeness we always have within us.
The key, rather than confusing this process with the coming of the ego into consciousness, is identifying with the infinite self, which “does not shut one out from the world but gathers the world to oneself.” What if we had an archetypal pattern to live by that assisted this process and provided guideposts for us to follow?
In this workshop, via Zoom, we explore an archetypal pattern of conscious evolution that helps us identify experiences “when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one”, that connects us to all life, and enables us to realize we are “a splinter of the infinite deity”, which brings with it a call to co-create a new narrative of conscious evolution.
Robert Atkinson, PhD, author, educator, and developmental psychologist, has published nine books, including the 2017 Nautilus Book Award winner The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness; Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012); The Gift of Stories (1995); and, Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019). He is an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal mythmaking and soul-making, a member of Evolutionary Leaders, professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, and founder of One Planet Peace Forum. www.robertatkinson.net.
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