Spoto Sustenance 2009

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking forward to seeing you in a little more than a week. 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. So in my role as Snack Coordinator, it’s time to start planning the shopping list. Please let me know:

• Whether you plan to drink wine (or beer), so I have an idea of how much to buy/bring.
• Any dietary restraints you have: I know one person is lactose intolerant and another cannot eat cow’s milk cheeses, only sheep and goat.

Reply either by clicking the comments link at the end of this 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. The wine shop helped me pick out Wines Around the World, which was fun. For expenses, the food has been reimbursed from the general kitty. For the wine, we totaled the dollar value of how much was drunk and divided it by the number of people drinking; then each person reimbursed me that amount. Loretta, please confirm we have money in the kitty for food and let me know what my budget is. Here’s the shopping list I went off of last year, although it also included an impulse buy or two:

• Apples – 6 pounds Macoun (my favorite)
• Grapes – 1 bunch red seedless
• Dried apricots – 1 container
• Veggies and dip
• 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
• 1 package pita bread
• 1 pint hummus tahini
• 2 big bags chips (corn and blue corn)
• 1 pints salsa
• Cookies – two tubs of mini cookies
• Yogurt: plain coffee, lemon, and cherry
• ½ & ½ (for coffee)
• Caffeine-free diet Coke (Angelo’s request) and with caffeine (Cindy)
• 3 2-liter bottles of seltzer
• Cider
• Cranberry juice

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for this list.

2009 Seminar Schedule & Logstics

Hi Everyone,
Angelo sent us the 2009 seminar schedule:

Friday, October 9:
Brief get-together for check in and announcements: 8PM - ?

Saturday, October 10:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12 Noon
Break: 12 Noon to 2 PM
Afternoon Session: 2 PM to 5 PM

Sunday, October 11:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12 Noon
Break: 12 Noon to 2 PM
Afternoon Session: 2 PM to 5 PM

Monday, October 12:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12

Meals:
Note that the Mercy Center is supplying breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is a self-serve continental style breakfast served in the Sea Scape kitchen. Lunch is the most substantial meal of the day and is served in the Mercy Center dining hall, a short walk from Sea Scape. [Loretta: Is lunch on Monday included this year?] They will deliver dinner to Sea Scape Saturday and Sunday around 5 PM and we agreed to do our own clean up (so that we have more flexibility around when to eat). We'll be setting up a clean up rotation on Friday night.

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting some pictures from last year and adding a poll to show you what's possible on the blog. Angela and I started to meet this week to discuss the reading. We think it will be a great way to keep on track. She is also re-reading some other books she has on archetypes. How about the rest of you? Please click Comment and let us all know!

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Best,
Paula

It's Here! The Reading List for October 2009

As we Spoto Seminar veterans know, it's not too early to start on the assigned readings. Angelo recently sent us some reading assigments, and others added information about where to find them.

He writes: Well, finally I have some reading for you to move on in route to our Mercy Weakened [was that spelling of "weekend" intentional?- PS]. As one of the long term goals of the group is to feel more and more comfortable and confident reading Jung in the original, I am going to suggest the following:

Ch. 5 of Jung's Psychological Types and as much of Vol 9i of the Collected Works (The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious) as the individual can manage.

Carol shares: "I found Collected Works, Volume 9, Part I : Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, in a Modern Library collection of Jung's works entitled :The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung, edited by Violet Staub de Laszlo., copyright 1959. This book was in our local public library.

I have a clarification question on the other reading - Chapter 5 of Psychological Types. Is the title of this chapter The Type Problem in Poetry? Note: Angela confirmed with Angelo that this is indeed the title of Chapter 5.

Stuart adds: If I may, IX i is Titled Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. (IX ii is Aion). The version almost universally referred to, for example in footnotes of other books on Jungian Psychology, is published by Princeton University Press, Copyright 1959, fifth printing 1977. A paperback edition appeard in 1980. Including the Appendix there 712 paragraphs on 384 pages. It is important to be able to refer to paragraphs, in class and on other occassions.

Also if it helps the ISBN is 0-691-09761-5.

I have known people who have bought used copies of the CW off Ebay, other ordered them from Princeton, but any sizeable library should have it.

As you complete the readings, feel free to use this blog to share some intial observations and questions for the group, either by posting a comment (by clicking the link at the end of this post) in response to this post, or being added as an author to create your own post.

Cheers,
Paula

Jehovah Explains to Job

This was shared by Carol Paquette. Carol writes "This passage is an excerpt from a poem entitled, “A Masque of Reason.” I came across this portion in an anthology; I don’t know the source of the title given. The “masque” is an exchange between Job, his wife, and God, with a cameo appearance of the Devil, which takes place many eons after the time of Job’s tribulations. I recommend you read the entire piece. It’s a charming and subtle conversation about morality." Thank you,Carol!

Yes, by and by. But first a larger matter.
I’ve had you on my mind a thousand years
To thank you someday for the way you helped me
Establish once for all the principle
There’s no connection man can reason out
Between his just deserts and what he gets.
Virtue may fail and wickedness succeed.
‘Twas a great demonstration we put on.
I should have spoken sooner had I found
The word I wanted. You would have supposed
One who in the beginning was the Word
Would be in a position to command it.
I have to wait for words like anyone.
Too long I’ve owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn’t understand it at the time.
It had to seem unmeaning to have meaning.
And it came out all right. I have no doubt
You realize by now the part you played
To stultify the Deuteronomist
And change the tenor of religious thought.
My thanks are to you for releasing me
From moral bondage to the human race.
The only free will there at first was man’s,
Who could do good or evil as he chose.
I had no choice but I must follow him
With forfeits and rewards he understood –
Unless I liked to suffer loss of worship.
I had to prosper good and punish evil.
You changed all that. You set me free to reign.
You are the Emancipator of your God,
And as such I promote you to a saint.

-- Robert Frost, 1945