Carl Jung & The Gnostics
“The Round Dance of Jesus” and Rituals of Wholeness
with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.
Friday, March 26th
6-7:30 pm PDT
Event will be hosted online.
A recording of the live salon will also be sent to all registrants within 24 hours.
This is our third salon of a six-part series on Jung & the Gnostics. Each salon can be attended as a stand-alone, and videos of past salons are available for purchase.
In our third evening salon on Jung & The Gnostics, Kayleen Asbo Ph.D. will explore the depictions of Jesus as Healer, Physician, Lord of the Dance, Musician, Gardener, and Flowering Fullness as found in early Christian art, text, and rituals. All of these depictions are archetypes that emphasize the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
We will focus on The Gospel of Truth, a Valentinian text that is included in the Jung Codex, as well as The Round Dance of Jesus, a poem translated into English by G.R.S. Mead, and thus one of the texts that Jung would have been familiar with long before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library.
In The Round Dance of Jesus, Jesus invites the disciples to participate in a call-and-response that honors the non-dual nature of the world and humanity: life and death, wounding and healing. This was a song that early Gnostic communities danced during Maundy Thursday—April 1st this year. They were rituals during the first few centuries that offer us new and exciting possibilities for re-envisioning modern liturgies.
About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.
Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.
Register:
Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants a day prior. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.
Recordings: A recording will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours.
Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.