Session Two – Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Throwing Off Over-Acculturation: Reclaiming Gifts and Eccentricities from the Shadow
Mother Night presents a new series of teachings from Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the esteemed senior Jungian psychoanalyst and bestselling author of Women Who Run With the Wolves. This six-session online learning event invites us to tap the generative power of all goodness of the core self, all creativity and understanding that lies out of sight, in darkness called the unconscious.
Can’t make a live session? Audio from live sessions will be available for download a few days after the session concludes.
In the second session of the series, Throwing off Over-Acculturation: Reclaiming Gifts and Eccentricities from the Shadow, Dr. Estés discusses how as members of a particular culture, we become habituated to seek that which is similar (“like-kind”). Yet in the process, we suffer the grotesqueries and consequences of relinquishing our individuality and the unique gifts that are our offering to the world. Through her one-of-a-kind telling of the classic Sufi tale “The Conference of the Birds,” a set of small stories wrapped within a larger story, Dr. Estés helps us “learn to be bi-culturate, to learn to live in two worlds, especially mining the gold of the shadow—the storehouse for acute insight, extraordinary strength, and inextinguishable love.”
Following the Q & A session with the audience, we bring Session Two to a close with Dr. Estés’ blessing story “They Tried to Stop Her at the Border.”
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
All users: high-speed internet connection; working speakers or headset.
PC: Windows 2000, XP, or Vista; Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 2.0 or newer. 1GHz CPU with 512MB RAM (2GB for Vista).
Mac: OS 10.4 or newer, G4 or Intel processor, 512 MB RAM; Safari 3.0 or Firefox 2.0 or newer.
