Monika Wikman - Refining My Inner Compass
Humor, Hermes and the Human Shadow
Alchemical work starts with the prima materia. We need to grow an inner compass to guide us when we step into the unconscious. The god of alchemical work is Hermes, the god of humor and insight who helps us to consciousness through laughter at our foibles, changing how we think and live in relation to others and the greater psyche. We will look at the mythic patterns of Hermes, hubris, and humor that reveal various ways we humans can get along with the god of insight, whose light shines along our paths of individuation. Mythic material revealing Hermes will be resourced from various traditions including Coyote stories from the Southwest Native tribes. Monika Wikman, Ph.D. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, Dr. Wikman practices Jungian analysis in New Mexico. She is a graduate the California School of Professional Psychology where she studied the dreams of cancer patients. She trained as an analyst at the Jung-Von Franz Centre for Depth Psychology in Zurich. Visit her website for more information about this unique speaker.