RAHM Sunday October 18 - Integrating With Your Shadow, Connecting With Your Guide

The shadow is the name given in Jungian psychology to a kind of psychic complex of unacceptable feelings and impulses that functions as an inner opponent, blocking growth and full expression of our true self. In this workshop we learn to use the alchemical divination methods-processes of structured intuitive inquiry-to recognize and integrate this elusive inner adversary. In doing so, we tap into unexpected reservoirs of self-knowledge and creativity, clearing space to connect with a true spirit guide (in human, animal or hybrid form), who can show us the pathways to liberation and become an ongoing ally.

We will work shamanically with guided inner journeys, in which rhythmic rattling and drumming supports the process of concentration and tracking. We will learn to work with practices of light-fire yoga, to purify and clarify perceptions and dissolve energy blockages. Methods of integrative drawing, and practice guiding others in dyads and triads give these methods immediate applicability in work, relationships, creativity and spiritual growth.

This is an abbreviated version of a three-day workshop to be held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Oct. 30 - Nov. 1. For more information, go to http://greenearthfound.org/int_shadow.html

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. who has a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University, has been involved in the study of transformations of consciousness ever since. As a graduate student, he worked with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) on the Harvard Psilocybin Projects. He co-wrote The Psychedelic Experience, and was editor of The Psychedelic Review. During the 1970s, Ralph spent 10 years in the intensive study and practice of Agni Yoga, a meditative system of working with light-fire life-energies. He wrote Maps of Consciousness, one of the earliest attempts at a comparative cartography of consciousness; and Know Your Type, a comparative survey of personality typologies, ancient and modern.

Metzner was was the Academic Dean for ten years, during the 1980s, at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he taught courses there on "Altered States of consciousness" and "Developing Ecological Consciousness." He is now Professor Emeritus. He maintains a part-time psychotherapy practice, and conducts numerous workshops on consciousness transformation, both nationally and internationally. His books include "The Well of Remembrance," "The Unfolding Self," "Green Psychology," and two edited collections on the science and the phenomenology of Ayahuasca and Teonan�catl.

Ralph's websites are:
http://greenearthfound.org
http://metzneralchemicaldivination.org/
He can be contacted at:
ralph@greenearthfound.org