Late in his career, Jung explored the notion of the human body as a transformer station through which the objective psyche flowed, like radio signals toward an antenna. In a letter to Marie Louise Von Franz, he pondered: “Our brain might be the transformation, where the relatively infinite tensions or intensities of the psyche are tuned down to perceptible frequencies and extensions.” Surrounded by the timeless totality of an objective psyche, Jung imagined our physiology as gate-keepers within a space-time continuum – the metaphoric tuning dial on the radio clearing static until it finds a station. Enter the psychotic mind – a state in which the antennae picks up too many signals to find its way into a grounded or time-bound frequency. The brain overloads and the body floats out of reality.

I invite you to join me for a 2-hour exploration into the realm of these hyper-stimulated connections to the objective psyche, not only in psychotic states, but across a scale of energic intensities. I will share my own experiences along with autobiographical descriptions from others. Through guided discussion, participants will be encouraged to analyze their own perspectives on current depth psychological theories of psychosis, as well as on Jung’s original work. How does first-hand experience illuminate current theory? Does it amplify Jung’s own writing and perspective or contradict it?

This program is appropriate for clinicians and non-clinicians, alike, as descriptions of these altered states touch every aspect of what makes Jung’s work so rich and intriguing.