Spoto Sustenance 2010

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking forward to seeing you in this weekend. As those of us who have participated before in the seminar know, Jungian psychology is hard work! We need snacks to keep us going! Not only that, but sharing food and wine adds to the conviviality experienced over the weekend. We are a bit more constrained than in the past due to the fact that we don’t have our own kitchen fridge at our new venue.

Please review the shopping list and also let me know:

• Whether you have a food allergy or dietary restraint not already listed
• Whether you have non-perishable suggestions to add
• Whether you think it will work to bring cheese and grapes and leave them out a few days. (I might also be able to put a couple of things in the fridge.)

Reply either by clicking the comments link at the end of the blog entry, or by replying to my email. The past few years, I’ve purchased a case of wine with 9 bottles of red and three of white. Here’s last year’s shopping list, minus perishables and the non-perishables meant to accompany them:

• Apples – 6 pounds Macoun (had some left over); note: Laura loves Macoun and can’t get them in PA (and they are your Snack Coordinator’s favorite); If anyone wants to bring a few local apples from their area, we could do an apple tasting.
• Grapes – 1 bunch red seedless
• Dried apricots – 1 container
• Almonds – salted and unsalted
• Cheese – 3 cheeses, including cheddar, 1 goat cheese
• Crackers for cheese (include whole grain, sesame-flavored Asian Rice Crackers
• Nuts: walnuts (Ray); 1 big container (qt.-sized) mixed nuts and/or trail mix
• 1 bag hard pretzels
• 2 big bags chips (corn and blue corn)
• 1 pints salsa
• Cookies – two tubs of mini cookies
• Caffeine-free diet Coke (Angelo’s request) and with caffeine (Cindy)
  3 2-liter bottles of seltzer
• Cranberry-Pomegranate juice

See you soon!

Paula

October 2010 Agenda

Friday October 15
8:00 – 8:30 PM: Short meeting to get oriented for the weekend. Welcome, announcements and messages.

Saturday October 16
8:00 to 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM: Meeting begins
10:30-10:45AM: Break
10:45 AM -12:00 PM: Meeting resumes
12:00 to 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 to 3:30 PM: Meeting resumes
3:30 to 3:45 PM: Break
3:45 to 6:00 PM: Meeting resumes
6:00 PM: Dinner

Sunday October 17
8:00 to 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 to 10:30 AM: Meeting begins
10:30 to 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 to 11:30 AM: Meeting resumes
11:30 AM to 12:00: Lunch
12:00 to 2:45 PM: Trip to Edith Wharton estate ($14.00)
3:05 to 4:30 PM: Meeting resumes
4:30 to 4:45 PM: Break
4:45 to 6:30 PM: Meeting resumes
6:30 PM: Dinner

Monday October 18
8:00 to 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 to 10:30 AM: Meeting begins
10:30 to 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM to 12:00 PM: Meeting resumes and concludes.

2010 Spoto Seminar Information

Hi Everyone,
Mollie asked me to post the 2010 seminar dates. Here is the information:

Friday (evening) October 15 to Monday, October 18
Apple Tree Inn & Restaurant
10 Richmond Mountain Road, Lenox

http://www.appletree-inn.com/Pages/2008%20Home%202.htm

Be there or be square!

I'll be emailing about snack preferences shortly.

Cheers,
Paula

Could It Be Synchronicity?

Hi all,
I'm taking this as a synchronistic event: one of my all-time favorite books I read as a child is The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. (The others are the Laura Ingalls Wilder series and Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time - a heroine's journey.) I even reread it from time to time. As I've learned about individuation and the hero's journey over the years, I always link back to PT. It is a child's hero's journey: A boy with a bad case of ennui goes on a magical journey where he has to reconcile two brothers who are kings of Digitopolis and Dictionopolis, respectively by rescuing the princesses Rhyme and Reason with the help of his animal guide, Toc. The language is wonderful -- best to read aloud (like Shakespeare). There is even a numinous experience (check out the symphonic sunrise in the forest!).

Anyway, getting to the point, this morning on NPR Liane Hansen interviewed the author and the illustrator (none other than Jules Pfeiffer) about their new book (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129608795). I'm taking this as a sign that I should recommend you try to add Phantom Tollbooth to your readings. If you have children in your life, I urge you to read it aloud with them. Not Nietzsche, I know, but I know other adults who also treasure this book the way I do.

Warmly,
Paula

Spoto 2010 Reading List

Hi Everyone,
Here is the reading list information from Angelo. Looking forward to seeing you all in a few months!
Best, Paula

Ok, gang, below is a provisional reading list to play with for our October get together. As always, do what you can with it. Read at least a little, or read a lot...as your soul moves you (and as time permits). My guess is this is all mostly familiar material. So, it may be mostly rereading you are actually doing. I may throw in something else as it comes to me. We'll see. But, this should work for most people. I am getting the feeling too that this year's meeting is a summary of sorts of all that has gone before it. Perhaps, we will be moving to a different approach in future meetings, less didactic, more keyed to an intense, Jungian examination of pieces of literature or art, music, plays, etc. by the group. Perhaps, we'd want to tackle the Red Book next time, and utilize break-out groups more intensely. We could even follow a format like the Rubin Museum, where one person interviews another person on a pre-selected image from the Red Book unknown to the interviewee. An incredible amount of material has been covered over the years. So much to draw on. We have done weekends on Shadow, Anima-Animus, Dreams, Active Imagination, Greek Mythology, Alchemy, Synchronicity & Quantum Physics, Type and Archetype, and...what am I leaving out??? Someone solve the mystery! Reading list, below.
Hesse, H - Demian
Jacobi, J - The Way of Individuation
Jaffe, A - The Myth of Meaning
Jung, C.G. - Psychological Types or The Psychology of Individuation
Meier, C.A. - Personality: The Individuation Process in the Light of C.G. Jung's Typology
Spoto, A. - Jung's Typology in Perspective, Chapter 6
Stein, M. - Individuation
Von Frantz, M.-L. - Man and His Symbols, Part 3