Events

Shamanism & Jung, with Franklin LaVoie

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:35:46 +0000

Shamanism & Jung, with Franklin LaVoie

Friday, December 8, 7pm

Marfield Room, Trinity Episcopal Church

Fall Festival in Nature's Range

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:36:55 +0000

Nature is speaking to us, let's practice listening. This is a day of mindfulness and creative sharing. Bring musical instruments, art notebooks / supplies, colorful costuming. The day will feature mindful walking around the lake, storytelling, as well as Irish trad tunes and songs from Setanta followed a fireside music session. This is a festive opportunity to get into nature and enjoy this beautiful fall season with friends, good food, music and more!

Free and open to the public. Due to limited space at the cabin, your RSVP is required prior to the event. You can confirm your attendance on our Facebook event page here or by emailing JCB at: info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

Alchemy for the Soul Study Group

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:32:16 +0000

Alchemy for the Soul Study Group

with Franklin LaVoie

2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom

A suggested donation of $7 or more

per session may be made using PayPal.

Franklin LaVoie offers practical, pleasurable insights and inspiration for cultivating Soul to enhance your life and contribute to humanity. In real ways, immortality can be achieved.

Permanent Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/98303767399?pwd=bzcwb3FLZEVxUGJIQU5ON2w1ckN2Zz09

Every other Wednesday, people gather online to discuss Alchemy, an advanced Spiritual Science for Soul-Making.

"Creativity is Healing"-- that’s the maxim of our alchemical hypothesis. The “Great Work”, as it is called, involves an experiment on the self which gets projected onto a Lab Experiment.

Following in C.G. Jung’s alchemical tradition, our lab experiments involve Art projects, Writing projects, Dream Explorations, and other soulful expressions.

Sharing our Creative Expressions is an evolutionary instinct; it forms positive social bonds that foster spiritual development. Plus, by cultivating our creativity, using our human faculties, our Hands-Heart-and Head we’re practicing soul-making. Soul and spirit become intimately entwined to produce the conjunctio, the Sacred Marriage, a primary goal of the Alchemical Opus.

We invite you to attend, listen, comment, share your work, and learn the metaphysical concepts and the symbolic language of the eternal archetypal world, which helps us to manifest the “Philosopher’s Stone”, the Holy Grail of the Alchemical Opus.

For each workshop, a donation of $7.00 is suggested, more if you can, to help pay for Jung Center Buffalo’s ongoing space rental at 371 Delaware Avenue and to show gratitude for our presenters' time and expertise.

"I look forward to the Alchemy classes every two weeks. They are my main source of spiritual nourishment." -- K.Tussing

"Under the guidance of Franklin LaVoie, the current series of Alchemical talks has inspired the sharing of ideas and has been a bright spot during this period of pandemic isolation. Especially enjoyable has been the encouragement of creativity in words and artwork, an awakening to new possibilities " -- J. Perrin

"Carl Jung was awestruck by the similarities between ancient alchemy and his own theories of the interplay of unconscious and conscious. In this ongoing, casual forum, we share our insights with each other and see how our own journeys relate to the alchemical search to turn base metal (unconscious material) into gold!" -- A. Sikes

Mantha

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:21:36 +0000

Mark Warford, PhD, presents on his new book
MANTHA: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn

Friday October 20th 7pm
Trinity Episcopal Church 371 Delaware Ave

Mantha (Sanskrit) connotes a blending or churn, the perfect remedy for mainstream, binary thinking. Following the book presentation, there will be a musical demonstration-commentary featuring a mantha of Indian and Irish musical traditions featuring prominent local artists. Those in attendance will be able to purchase the hardbound edition directly from Vernon Press at 30% off.

Free and open to the public. Donations to the Analytical Psychology of WNY are encouraged. To register, click here.

The event will also be broadcast live on the Jung Center Facebook. More details are forthcoming.

The Art of Quantum Living: a six-week course in Quantum Healing

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:38:27 +0000

The Art of Quantum Living: a six-week course in Quantum Healing
with Annabelle Ludwick, a certified Quantum Living Coach

5:15 - 6:45 p.m. Thursdays from Nov. 9 to Dec. 14
on Zoom
https://www.theartofquantumliving.com/

To register, please email Annabelle Ludwick at yogabelletea@gmail.com

The Art of Quantum Living and its transformational 21-day Quantum Living Process weave together the latest research emerging from neurobiology, developmental psychology, memory research, quantum theory, the science of the heart, the power of myth and story and shadow information with the wisdom of the world’s mystical traditions to offer a powerful path to personal evolution. This two-pronged path is known as Entering the Quantum Lab, both a laboratory and a labyrinth through the mix of science and spirituality.
When you complete 21 consecutive days of worksheets during the last three weeks of the course you will receive a Certificate of Completion. To register for this course, please email Annabelle at yogabelletea@gmail.com.

Course fee is: $126 for non-JCB members, or $119 for members, Workbook is $18.

Poetry as Art

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:58:16 +0000

Poetry as Art with Jim Estep
7 – 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 2
Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY

While painters display their genius on canvas in landscape, and sculptures by way of monuments in media more solid; musicians use their genius with sounds to touch us with music; authors in the printed word, poets use words as writers and painters do, to create a vision.

Members $10, Non-members $15, Students free.

Pay at the door.

Part two: The Red Book in three parts, Mabel Dodge

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:39:14 +0000

Part two: "Mabel Dodge" of The Red Book in three parts

with Ted Bickford

via Zoom, at 7 p.m. March 29, April 5, April 12

Students free

Each part is $10/ Paypal

Carl Jung was a member of the "Lost Generation," disillusioned with the society that resulted in World War I. He was more lost than any single one of them. The Red Book was conceived out of his profound disillusionment and alienation. He would always describe it first and foremost as art, not psychology. That would come later.

In 1917, Buffalo’s Mabel Ganson Dodge created a community for Lost Generation artists and intellectuals in Taos, New Mexico. Her stated goal was to “change the world.” As many of his avant-garde contemporaries had done before him, in 1925 Carl Jung heeded her call and went to Taos. What he discovered there transformed The Red Book which he had been working on for 11 years. It would no longer be the memoir of a “lost soul.” It became a prescription for that better world Mabel Dodge was hoping to inspire.

Without Mabel Dodge and Taos, New Mexico, we would not have this valuable work of art, such as it is, created by Jung. In this presentation, you will hear the complete story surrounding The Red Book. I hope you will join us. There is still much work to be done on Mabel‘s mission to change the world. Carl Jung's big book has a part to play.

"Music as a Healing Modality" with Steven Halpern

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:38:08 +0000

"Music as a Healing Modality" with Steven Halpern via Zoom

3 p.m. Saturday, January 27

Learn more on Youtube

Please register on PayPal for a Zoom link

ALL PEOPLE IN THE HEALING ARTS, YOGIS, PROFESSIONALS, EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, LIGHT WORKERS, HEALERS OF ALL MODALITIES, SPIRITUAL CARE PROFESSIONALS, CHAPLAINS, SEEKERS AND OTHERS . . .

Please join us for a rare opportunity to meet with Steven Halpern to learn about music’s extraordinary role in healing and creating peace.

“Early in his career, Halpern was inspired by the ancient healers’ use of voice and music to heal physical and emotional ailments. He discovered ways to create psychoactive soundscapes that are a beneficial addition to every consciousness explorer’s playlist.” ~James Fadiman, PhD, microdose researcher,
The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys

Steven Halpern is a Grammy® Award nominated, multi-platinum selling recording artist, composer, producer, researcher, author and pioneering sound healer.

The Los Angeles Times acknowledges him as “A founding father of New Age music” who launched a “Quiet Revolution” in modern instrumental music that focused more on creating harmony, coherence and balance rather than as mere entertainment. His unique orchestration of tone, time, space and frequency help explain why people hear the music with fresh ears for years and years.

“Music as a healing modality was re-introduced to Western Culture by Steven Halpern in the 1970’s. He was a student at UB at the time, and it was a passage by Carl Gustave Jung that inspired Steven’s lifelong pursuit of using music to heal the body-mind. Steven uses the latest innovations in technology to explore and develop the theory of music as a healing art, and vibration and resonance as a powerful tool to influence psychological and physical well-being, as well as profound states of meditation and astral travel.” - Franklin LaVoie, president of the Jung Center of Buffalo

Steven has worked with sound healing, the subtle body, and biofeedback for fifty years. He was inspired while an undergrad student at UB in the 1960’s, where he saw a picture of ‘cymatics’ in a book on mandalas by C.G. Jung. Cymatics is a visual phenomenon produced by sound vibrations. These mysterious images provide a compelling clue as to how archetypes may operate in the cosmos.

With an unequaled, proven track record of 48 years (1975-2023), Steven’s music continues to be the music of choice for individuals from all walks of life, as well as healers, spiritual teachers, massage therapists and corporate wellness programs.

His most recent Mindful Music series features key brainwave entrainment frequencies to deepen one’s relaxation, healing, meditation, creativity and sleep. (DEEP ALPHA, DEEP THETA, RELAX into SLEEP)

“Steven Halpern’s music has uplifted a generation of seekers.

He has created a soundtrack for our evolutionary journey.”

- Marianne Williamson

Through his landmark books, dozens of articles in all the major New Age magazines and in hundreds of TV, radio and print interviews, Halpern introduced the tenets of sound healing to the fields of holistic/complementary medicine, massage therapy and yoga as well as to millions of individuals worldwide. His music is heard frequently on all major streaming platforms and enjoyed by new generations of fans as well as his long-term listeners.

Before discovering his calling as a sound healer and recording artist, Steven followed his bliss as a jazz rock trumpet player, inspired by the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix. His musical and spiritual journey was accelerated by his mentors at the University of Buffalo (1965-1969), including master poets Robert Creeley, Jack Clarke and Albert Glover. His recordings continue to be guided by a mindful, improvisational approach which builds on jazz and poetic sensibilities, in which the music flows through him.

Steven Halpern launched his indie record label in 1975, in response to the many requests from attendees at his concerts and workshops at the world famous Esalen Institute, Unity Churches, and many other New Thought organizations in the early 1970s.

As the entrepreneurial president of the first independent New Age record label, he created a national alternative distribution network to bring his music, and then other artists, like Paul Horn and Iasos, to the world. His albums were the first of their kind to be sold in metaphysical bookstores, health food stores, and then Tower Records and other mainstream music stores.

“Some time after Pythagoras but long before George Winston, Windham Hill and Brian Eno, Steven Halpern essentially invented New Age music…

One of the 12 most influential artists of the past 20 years who changed the way we play, listen to and distribute music…Steven Halpern is the first and definitive New Age keyboardist.”

— Keyboard magazine, 1995 artist profile

Steven’s music is an ideal complement for meditation, yoga, massage and other therapeutic bodywork, psychological counseling, and accelerated learning. His music gets listeners “in the zone” and is used by leading business professionals, success coaches like Mark Victor Hansen and Brian Tracy, and entrepreneurs, students and teachers worldwide.

Steven has produced over 100 recordings in the Inner Peace Music® and SoundWave 2000™ subliminal audio series. He has influenced two generations of recording artists and music therapists, and has performed and recorded with a who’s who of well-known musicians including: Paul Horn, Paul McCandless, Babatunde Olatunji, Al DiMeola, Larry Coryell, Rick Derringer and Georgia Kelly.

Register on PayPal to receive a zoom link

If you have any questions, contact us at:

info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

CANCELLED due to winter weather advisory: From the Little Shop to the Apocalypse: Total Solar Eclipses and Eschatological Mythology

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:13:47 +0000

Admission: Members: $5, non-members: $10, and students are free with ID. Please pay on PayPal or at the door.

7 p.m. Friday, March 22

in the Marfield Room,

Trinity Episcopal Church

371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo

Join us for an exciting evening exploring ways ancient and modern cultures around the world experience and interpret a solar eclipse. When the world is plunged into total darkness, even for only a few minutes, can be a dramatic and life-altering spiritual experience.

Fred Harold Jensen will explore how the brief midday darkness of the umbra has imbued meaning into the human experience throughout time. He will lead a conversation on how Far East, Norse, Native American, Monotheistic, and modern cultures have considered the ethereal celestial phenomenon of the Total Solar Eclipses.

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Fred Harold Jensen is a published children's book author and playwright. He has an MDiv from TCU and a Master's in English from UB. He has taught mythology as an adjunct at D'Youville College and presented on the subject at many academic conferences.

Carl Jung’s Spiritual Exploration of the Cosmos: The Solar Eclipse April 8, A Cosmic Drama

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:24:41 +0000

Carl Jung’s Spiritual Exploration of the Cosmos

The Solar Eclipse April 8, A Cosmic Drama

Presenter: Ted Bickford

A special program at 7 p.m., Friday, April 5

on Zoom, $10 (students free)

Register on our website: www.jungbuffalo.org

PAYPAL

In the middle of a bright, spring afternoon light begins to fade. The birds grow silent. We are plunged into darkness. We have lost the sun. It is darkest night. Gradually the light returns. Miraculously, the sun is back, shining. The birds are singing. It is over. We have participated in a Cosmic Drama.

Healing Circle with Alan Jamieson

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:48:00 +0000

Saturday, June 15

3 - 5 p.m.

in Unity Church’s Peace Park

1243 Delaware Ave.

Buffalo, NY

This event is free. Only a love offering is appreciated

The healing circle will open with drumming as participants sage, cleanse and

prepare their spaces. Alan is a faith keeper of the Wolf Clan of the Cayuga

People (one of the six nations). He has extensive Native American shamanic

experience leading healing circles. He will call in healing energy from the

Four Directions. Participants are invited to write down their requests for

healing, energy or prayers.

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About Alan

Alan Jamieson is the Director of Neto and formerly the

Director of Traditional Healing for the National Aboriginal

Health Organization. He has a master's degree in Arts and

American Studies from the University of Buffalo, has

designed and taught Native American literature courses,

and has led healing circles for many years.

Soulful Expressions' First Fridays at the Jung Center

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:53:52 +0000

Soulful Expressions

First Friday’s at the Jung Center

Mark your calendars to join us for an exciting and creative art show and demonstration by members of the Jung Center of Buffalo

at 7 p.m., Friday, May 3 in the Jung Center Library, 371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202.

Free event. Refreshments served

"Art seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.” - C.G. Jung

First Fridays at the Jung Center

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:55:23 +0000

Join us for another fun and colorful art show / demonstration at the Jung Center library in Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

Featured artist to be determined.

THIRD THURSDAYS "Let's Talk" Spirituality and the Higher Self

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:19:49 +0000

The Jung Center’s new series, Third Thursday’s “Let’s Talk,” invites informal conversations on topics concerning our common life and shared experience at this time in history.

SPIRITUALITY AND THE HIGHER SELF

Presented by Lory Pollina

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20

Trinity Church, 371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo

Have you ever wondered . . .

What is the higher self?

What is spirituality in relation to it?

Why are we here, and where did we come from?

Lory Pollina will explore these eternal existential questions we all ponder. He will offer a casual description of the “Field of Potential,” discuss how we as fractals of the field of potential can live miraculous lives. Lory offers an exciting and refreshing worldview in which we have the ability to choose to live purposeful lives. Join us for a rare and wonderful evening.

There is no admission fee for this program, but donations are gratefully accepted. RSVP to info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

Presenter bio:

Lory Pollina studied under Dolores Cannon, and was certified as a Level Two QHHT practioner in 2015. He is the metaphysical artist of The Omega Point Project: Art Installation in which he presented drawings in graphite which are a creative understanding of the current worldwide transformation of consciousness. (Lorypollina.com) Lory is a graduate of the Crystal Healing Academy with Katrina Raphael in Taos. He earned his BA in Metaphysical Philosophy at UC Berkeley in California.

“Unfinished Conversations: a Psychodrama Exploration”

Wed, 22 May 2024 14:14:48 +0000

Unfinished Conversations: a Psychodrama Exploration

6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Thurs., June 6

Mission Room @Trinity Church

371 Delaware Ave., Buffalo

“Psychodrama is looking at your own panorama through the window curtains you opened.”

- Oya Kürüm Halaçoğlu

The Jung Center is delighted to present “Unfinished Conversations: a Psychodrama Exploration,” an important and exciting interactive workshop, led by Ashfique Rizwan,a Doctoral Student in Counseling Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo.

The program aims to introduce participants to psychodrama and its application in addressing personal challenges and conflicts. Through experiential group activities, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in dramatic encounters with the support of their own strengths. It may be helpful for those grappling with the death of a loved one or loss of a relationship.

As this is a new event, we ask you to please RSVP to info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com to ensure we have enough materials on hand and plenty of space. There is no admission fee for the event, but donations are always gratefully accepted.

This pilot presentation is free and accessible to the public, emphasizing interpersonal

interaction and movement-based activities like walking and talking. Participants are

reminded to maintain confidentiality regarding the topics discussed during the event.

RSVP to info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

Friday Forum: MANTHA

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:13:10 +0000

MANTHA

Friday, July 5, 7 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church

371 Delaware Ave.

Buffalo, NY

Myths, songs, ragas, and reels to inspire your creativity.

Bring your yoga mat, writing journal, sketchbook, dancing shoes,

or an open psyche for an hour of music and meditation.

Tim Benson (Uilleann pipes, flute)

Arghyadip Gupta (sitar, vocals)

Ashfique Rizwan (guitar, vocals)

Mark Warford (bouzouki)

Free and open to the public. Donations encouraged.

Details forthcoming on jungbuffalo.org

Summer Fun Raiser

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:27:31 +0000

SUMMER FUN RAISER

The Jung Center Buffalo is excited to offer our friends and members an opportunity to share a bit of Carl Jung’s wit this summer. The fun lightweight T-shirt will be a delight wherever you go - the beach, the park, the fair. We’re offering it at a modest price which will help us a little bit, too. We have some exciting programs lining up for fall, but hope all of you have a great summer in your Summer Fun Raiser t-shirt.

To order: Please pay on PayPal :

Email: Please email shirt size information and contact

information to: info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

Autumnfest

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:32:58 +0000

"Autumnfest" Fun & Food. Music, meditative walking, mini-pumpkin painting, fairy tale skits, tarot, astrology readings, and more... Costumes welcome!
@ Commissioner's Cabin in Chestnut Ridge Park. Sunday, October 13, 11:30am-3:30pm.
Please RSVP to info.jungcenterbuffalo@gmail.com

Events

Shamanism & Jung, with Franklin LaVoie

Shamanism & Jung, with Franklin LaVoie

Friday, December 8, 7pm

Marfield Room, Trinity Episcopal Church

Fall Festival in Nature's Range

Alchemy for the Soul Study Group

Alchemy for the Soul Study Group

with Franklin LaVoie

2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom

Mantha

Mark Warford, PhD, presents on his new book MANTHA: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn

Friday October 20th 7pm Trinity Episcopal Church 371 Delaware Ave

The Art of Quantum Living: a six-week course in Quantum Healing

Poetry as Art

Part two: The Red Book in three parts, Mabel Dodge

"Music as a Healing Modality" with Steven Halpern

CANCELLED due to winter weather advisory: From the Little Shop to the Apocalypse: Total Solar Eclipses and Eschatological Mythology

Carl Jung’s Spiritual Exploration of the Cosmos: The Solar Eclipse April 8, A Cosmic Drama

Healing Circle with Alan Jamieson

Soulful Expressions' First Fridays at the Jung Center

First Fridays at the Jung Center

THIRD THURSDAYS "Let's Talk" Spirituality and the Higher Self

“Unfinished Conversations: a Psychodrama Exploration”

Friday Forum: MANTHA

Summer Fun Raiser

Autumnfest

Mark Warford, PhD, presents on his new book
MANTHA: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn

Friday October 20th 7pm
Trinity Episcopal Church 371 Delaware Ave