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  Matthew Silverstein September 17, 2011 at 7:48pm

  Hi Ed:  

  Thanks for the warm welcome. I am just finding my way onto and around this site. I am excited and a little pleasantly surprised to see such an abundance of organized discussion and activist efforts coming from a depth psychological community base (yay!) You are welcome to direct the person you mentioned to me, as I am glad to share what I can about a gay-centered and lgbt affirmative depth psychology. 

  Best, 

  Matt
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  Leslie Birleson September 14, 2011 at 6:07pm

  I know it's a strange thing the Zürich Institute being so liberal, because trust me the Swiss people are not, but I think it's in keeping with Jung and his open mind and attitude. It does kind of make sense, Americans first question is "well what do I do with it" and "who's going to control it." The Germans are stricter than their American counterparts. I guess that does make sense. Les
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  Leslie Birleson September 13, 2011 at 1:06pm

  Ed, forgive me I'm not very familiar with blogs or precisely how to interface with them, thank you for the welcome. I uploaded a photo as requested. As to your question about other Jung institutes I do have a little insight into Zürich Institute.Has Luck would have it my wife and I were giving a villa on Lake Zürich very close to the Jung Institute. My Jungian analyst friends in Germany and the United States have what one would call a big complaint about Zürich Institute. They feel it's too open, free minded and a bit unrestricted. They have an unbelievable schedule of lectures and workshops people coming in from around the world, lecturing on an extraordinary array of topics daily. Many people feel their screening process and the actual process of becoming an analyst is extraordinarily liberal and that their screening process is not adequate. By pure chance I worked with an analyst who had been the control analyst of an acquaintance from Germany, I can only say it's hard not to agree with the other Jungian institutes. Many of the German and American institutes do not recognize the Zürich analyst has valid, by that I mean they're not allowed to practice as a analyst in many countries. Crazy little fun fact. But all of my experiences there were extraordinary.  Les
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  Leslie Birleson September 13, 2011 at 12:33pm

  I'm Just attempting to navigate the system and upload a few photos. Les
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  Sandy Nathan September 13, 2011 at 12:21pm

  My books are all on Amazon. All of them are Kindles (dirt cheap at 99 cents) and some are other eBook formats, too, as well as being print books. Here's the page from my website that tells what and where: http://sandynathan.com/buy.htm You'd proably like all of them. Not to be excessively self-promoting, but I would expect anyone I met on a depth psychology forum to like them. Numenon and The Angel have dark overtones. The people in Numenon are pretty much human wrecks, except for the shaman. The Angel is set in a future police state on the eve of a nuclear holocaust. Both are rather cheery and optimistic, considering.

   

  Your description of your writing sounds intriguing. You've certainly gone far locally. I bet you'd like blog writing. That's basically essays focused on whatever is hot in your consciousness at the moment. (I have a personal blog for, well, personal stuff. http://sandranathan.net ) A blog is a good way to "get out there" and promote your own work.

   

  I've got to run. I got a 3rd edit of a book back from my editor Sunday. Have got to stop stalling and handle the rewrites. Let's keep in touch! Love to encourage fellow writers!

   

  

  Sandy Nathan | Writing Inspirational and Visionary Fiction and Nonfiction | Order Books Here
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  Barbara Joy Laffey September 13, 2011 at 12:17pm

  Hi Ed, Thank you for the welcome. Jennifer Selig at Pacifica sent out an email with information about this website and the new e-zine, so there may be quite a few new member sign-ups. I'm in my first year of Pacifica's Depth/Jungian & Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program, and also working full-time, so I don't devote much time to online conversations outside the online classroom. But I do look forward to the connections and information available here.

  Barbara Joy
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  Seth Miller September 13, 2011 at 11:56am

  Ed, thanks for the welcome.  I don't know how active I'll be, as currently all my time is taken up on my PhD dissertation work, TA'ing, and trying to scrape together some greenbacks doing web and print design.  It's always lovely to find people interested in soul and spirit work!
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  Sandy Nathan September 13, 2011 at 11:14am

  I must have spelled the site's name wrong. This should work: http://www.yourshelflife.com/  I tried it a couple of times on my browser, Firefox. If it doesn't work for some reason, type your shelf life . com into the URL box with no spaces. I just put up an article about using videos and "character" interviews to promote one's work. They're worth taking a look at and fun. I provide good resources for those wishing to replicate them for their projects. Search on the search box for the Jungian type and writers article. Or wait, here's the address: http://www.yourshelflife.com/?p=301  This links to a longer article on the same subject.

   

  What kind of writing are you doing? Fiction, memoir, nonfiction, academic? All different. Where is your piece going to make its debut?

   

  I'm very pleased to have found the Depth Psychology Alliance for many reasons. One is that I've mostly likely found an audience that can understand my stuff. I write genre fiction of all sorts, but it's not the usual stuff. For instance, my Numenon, from the Kantian thing-in-itself, is about the richest man in the world taking a pilgrimage to a great Native shaman. The people who read and reviewed it initially knew about spirituality and shamanism and got what I was doing. As it becomes more widely circulated, folks that shouldn't be reading it because they won't get it are picking it up. My other fiction is essentially a map of my psyche drawn large. It's not chic lit or romance. Those huge audiences don't get it. Though I do win a lot of book awards, which is nice.

   

  Let me know where your work is appearing.

  Sandy

  http://www.yourshelflife.com/
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  Madelyn Freeman September 13, 2011 at 9:43am

  Thanks Ed.  I delivered my lecture in '95 to a Jungian Group meeting in London who facilitated the link between arts and 'the work' Jung so diligently brought forward into consciousness.  I linked various disciplines throughout my lecture which I am happy to forward on to you.  I linked mythology with evolutionary theory (including Sir Alastair Hardy's Aquatic Ape Theory - now downgraded I believe to "hypothesis", included references to early Greek and Egyptian teachings to our present day exploration including the pioneering work of Dr John Lilly.  It was a brave soul, in those early days, to explore and uplift our imagination and theoretical explorations but, thankfully, we are now gaining a much deeper, wider experiential knowledge of the deep oceanic natural inhabitants who have much to teach us.  All good wishes.  Thanks for inviting me on-board.  Brilliant.  Madelyn
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  Wendy Adair September 13, 2011 at 9:04am

  Thank you for the warm welcome, Ed! :) I'm just amazed at all the great stuff on this site! Feels like home.