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Sunday Gathering
February 12, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us this Sunday!
Central Park Place (Mackinaw Ballroom, 421 Columbus Ave., GH)
9:00 a.m. Pre-Talk, In Person (Woodbine Room)
10:00 a.m. Gathering, In Person + Livestream on Facebook (facebook.com/c3westmi)
10:00 a.m.: C3 Kids, In Person with Miss Mary (Woodbine Room)
11:00 a.m.: Talk Back, In Person
Bulletin:
Saints, Mystics, and Misfits:
The Undiscovered Self—Carl Jung
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Speaker: Kent Dobson helps people orient their life to be in deeper relationship with Mystery, the shape of their own soul, and to a meaningful sense of their unique voice in the world. He has been lead teacher at C3 since 2017.
Musician: Loren Johnson of Grand Rapids released Sleepsick in 2016, which rose to iTunes Top 10 best new singer-songwriter releases. A second disc, Into the Morning, was released just as the pandemic lockdown happened. She released a single, Patterns, in 2021, and has a brand new single Winter that was released in January 2023.
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Music: Loren Johnson
Gathering Host: Sandy Kate Stephens
Music: Loren Johnson
Meditation: Beth Buelow
Moment of Silence
Readings/Teaching: Kent Dobson
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind’s evolution, born anew in the brain structure of every individual. His conscious mind is an ephemeral phenomenon that accomplishes all provisional adaptations and orientations, for which reason one can best compare its function to orientation in space. The unconscious, on the other hand, is the source of instinctual forces of the psyche and of the forms or categories that regulate them, namely the archetypes. All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas, created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full… By accepting the darkness, the patient has not, to be sure, changed it into light, but she has kindled a light that illuminates the darkness within. By day no light is needed, and if you don’t know it is night you won’t light one, nor will any light be lit for you unless you have suffered the horror of darkness.
—Carl Gustav Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Music: Loren Johnson
Gathering Host: Sandy Kate Stephens
Music: Loren Johnson