David Tacey says: “Throughout his life, Jung denied that he was a prophet or religious leader.

But in my view, that is exactly what he was. He wanted to be seen as an empirical scientist, but as early as 1912, Freud sensed that the renewal of religious life was his major concern, and as a result expelled him from the psychoanalytic community.

Jung suffered terribly from this banishment, but it forced him to discover his calling as a prophet of a new dispensation. Jung was not interested in reviving traditional religious institutions, but in renewing the spiritual quest from its archetypal roots.”

‘We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos, the right moment, for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods’, of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing’.

Jung, ‘The Undiscovered Self: Present and Future’ (1957), CW 10, § 585.

This eight-week course will be shaped as follows: Weeks 1 to 3, and 5 to 7 will begin with a lecture and followed by group discussion. Weeks 4 and 8 will be live discussions in which all the issues will be open for general conversation (no lectures).

With a month to go, we would encourage participants to read the book ahead of each session.

Diary Dates on Tuesdays;

2 September The nature of spirituality

9 September Jung, spirituality, religion

16 September Jung as prophet of a new dispensation

23 September - Open discussion of the issues (part 1)

30 September Individuation as a spiritual journey

7 October Spirituality, wholeness and healing

14 October Towards a future religion

21 October - Open discussion of the issues (part 2)