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Jung, the Quakers and Hitler: Irene Pickard (1891–1982) – reflections on researching her archive and other musings

Friday, 4 August 2023

Is Quaker 'worship' meditation?

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  The Quaker practice called “silent waiting” – the inner core of Quaker spirituality – the ground zero where the boundary between me-here-n...
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Thursday, 20 July 2023

The via positiva & the via negativa

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Jung stressed the importance of discovering and exploring our potential for spiritual alignment in order for people to mature throughout lif...
Tuesday, 4 July 2023

An enigma: are these the Pickard's children?

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  In the lounge in Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva hang two paintings by the same artist. They seem to date from the 1930s and may we...
Monday, 26 June 2023

The Stages of Belief

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Researching and writing a book is itself a transformative process. The writer cannot help being changed, especially where the material is so...

The power and role of symbols in Jung's view of the psychological function of religion

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Symbols are evocative, that is the point of them. They are not passive. They are not signs. Signs simply stand for something or point at som...

Reflections on Jung

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Jung's followed Freud in dividing the “psyche”, or mind, into a smaller conscious part and a much larger sub-conscious, or unconscious, ...

Bertram & Irene Pickard: a template for peace-work

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When Bertram and Irene Pickard set off for Geneva in 1926 there was no template as to how peace-work should be done. There was ambition, and...
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