The Assisi Institute
The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns
When
Thursday, April 28th, 2016 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
This webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants within 24 hours of the original presentation.
Where
This is an online event.
The Time of the Forgotten
A Complimentary Webinar and Introduction to the Archetypal Pattern Analyst Certification with Dr. Michael Conforti
Virtually every culture and spiritual tradition speaks to the all too human tendency to forget and the profound need to remember. For the Catholics, there is Anamnesis, a prayer and experience of remembrance of our transpersonal heritage, and in the Jewish tradition, there is the Day of Remembrance, and Eastern religions speak of the Akashic records. In psychology, Freud taught us that even events and experiences subjected to repression, denial and suppression are never that far away from consciousness and come back to us as the "return of the Repressed". In biology, we come to see how repetition is a telling of nature's memory. From the mystery of creation of a human life, to the beauty of each and every flower and plant, we see how each develops in relationship to what has come before. Jung's and St Augustine's entire domain of archetypal reality speaks of a pre-existing universe of meaning and experiences of which we remain virtually unaware.
This theme is artfully addressed in Elie Wiesel's novel, The Forgotten, where a father living with the ravages of advancing Alzheimer's asks his son to become the holder of his memories. Brilliantly written, this work offers a hauntingly profound representation of the importance of remembering and the tragedy of our memories being lost in some gossamer mist of confusion, and unknowing.
In this presentation, Dr. Conforti will discuss the reality and consequences of living in a time of the Forgotten, and ways to know and remember the contours of this personal and timeless archetypal domain. After this presentation, Dr. Conforti will provide an overview of the Archetypal Pattern Analyst Certification and take questions.