Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path (Online)

Do you feel spiritually disillusioned?  Have you experienced betrayal by a spiritual leader who abused power?  Come learn how the wisdom of depth psychology can be brought to the exploration of your own spiritual wounds.  Our innate yearning for the divine can guide us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences, but things can go awry when we project the divine onto a teacher who is all too human – whose unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies indicate an individual who has an unexamined shadow.  When a teacher in any denomination abuses power – through sexual, financial, or emotional coercion – we feel the shock of betrayal.  Join us as we uncover the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow-work that can help us recover from disillusionment and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls. Based on the instructor’s book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path, this presentation will look at the spiritual and clinical applications of the concepts of personal projection and archetypal transference, and will explore why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our inner treasury.