Whitehead and Jung: Integrating Resources for a Fragments World
Live Session Info
Dates: November 2, 2021 – December 7, 2021
Meeting Times: Tuesdays, 4:30 PM Pacific / 7:30 PM Eastern
Zoom Info: Click on the session links below to access.
Course Summary
In this six-session course, Dr. Sheri D. Kling will guide students through the deep resonances between the philosophy of organism of Alfred North Whitehead and analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung to show what these two great thinkers have in common and why we need them now more than ever.
Course Description
American culture is fragmented. We are disconnected from each other, from ourselves, and even from the very earth that gives us life. We see it in our politics, in our race relations, in the state of our environment, and in our epidemic levels of loneliness and alienation. Dr. Sheri D. Kling believes that we will solve none of the problems that face us until we transform our relationship with embodied life and rediscover within it what is sacred through transformative lived experiences of wholeness.
To get there, we will explore the integrating works of Alfred North Whitehead and Carl Gustav Jung through the work that Dr. Kling explored in her book A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation. When we weave the ideas of these two thinkers together, we see that reality at both the level of the cosmos and the level of the psyche is intrinsically whole-making and characterized by value, relationality, and transformation. In this course we will explore the ways in which Whitehead and Jung show us a reality in which we matter, we belong, and we can experience positive change.
