:M:ANN RANCH SU:M::M:ER PROGRA:M: 1972

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1 :M:ANN RANCH SU:M::M:ER PROGRA:M: 1972 l! j JULY Conversations with HOUSTON SMITH ' "In as relaxed, personal, and receptive a mood as we can create, we shall scan the great traditions, not only for factual information, but to see what they contain that can speak to the condition of each of us as individuals at his present life juncture!' Born and raised in China and currently Professor of Philosophy at the M assachusetts I nstitute of Technology, HOUSTON SMITH'S life-long concern has been with what I ndia, China, and the West can teach us about who we really are and how we can realize our fullest potential_ He is author of The Religions of Man, Condemned to Meaning, and The Purposes of Higher Education. $53 per person (includes seminar and meals). $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house). Limit 30 JULY STANISLAV GROF, M.D. LSD and the Cosmic Game: Outline of Psychedelic Cosmology and Ontology of Being During the last fifteen years, Dr. Grof has conducted over 2,000 LSD sessions with various categories of psychiatric patients (neurotics, schizophrenics, alcoholics and heroin addicts), terminal cancer patients facing impending death, as well as with "normal" volunteers (scientists, theologians, artists, philosophers, and students of psychiatry and psychology). For the purpose of this workshop, he has reviewed and summarized those parts of the sessions, where the subjects experienced insights into basic ontological problems, such as: "Who are we7 Where did we come tr:om?-iaii:la-t -is the meal'lil'lg of eur Lives? What is mar's mlation- to God.! What is th nature o.f the Univer-5&?-. What is the relationship between spirit and matter? What is space and time7" Are these experiences of, psychedelic subjects random delusional products of a chemically a ltered brain, or do they represent deep and relevant insights into the mysteries of the Universe and human nature7 Dr. Grof will try to describe a surprisingly consistent metaphysical system emerging from psychedelic work and compare it with existing mystical and religious frameworks and revolutionary discoveries of 20th century science. DR. GROF has done psychedelic research in Czechoslovakia, his native country; in Russia; and in the United States. He. is currently Chief of Psychiatric Research, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at The John Hopkins University School of Medicine. $53 per person (includes seminar and meals)_ $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house)_ Limit 35 JULY DONALD SANDNER, M.D. Symbolic Healing: A Jungian A p proach to Psychological Curing Methods in Primitive and Modern Societies Dr. Sandner will present a survey of shamanistic and other primitive healing methods throughout the world, stressing the basic symbolic structures of healing. Specifically, he will deal with the Navaho culture, which he has studied during the past 5 summers, in which the entire religious complex is devoted to individual healing. He will discuss the character of the medicine men and their general procedures during the chants, and using slides, photographs and recordings, will present a basic ceremony (Blessing Way). Finally, Dr. Sandner will examine how the underlying principles of these healing methods compare with our Freudian and Jungian psychological healing methods. DR. SAN ONER has been in private practice in San Francisco for the past 12 years, specializing in Jungian analysis. Some of the results of his investigations of Navaho Culture have been published in the Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review (April, 1971) and more are scheduled for publication in Spring (1972), the Zurich Jungian series_ $53 per person (includes seminar and meals.). $ )7 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house. Limit 30

2 AUG. 4-6 MELVIN KETTNER, M.D. A Close Look At Jung and his Work Dr. Kettner will present, in an informal and understandable way, some of Jung's basic concepts: archetype, complex, symbol, persona, shadow, anima-animus, Self, psychological types, and the use of dreams in analytical work. Utilizing his experience as a scholar and as an analyst, he will relate Jung's theoretical ideas to the historical events of Jung's own life and to the life situations of each person engaged in the process of individuation. Dr. Kettner will have with him a new film, The Story of Carl Gustav Jung, narrated by Laurens van der Post. Produced by the f?.b.c. DR. KETTNER is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Berkeley and President of the Jungian Society of Analysts of Northern California. $53 per person (includes seminar and meals). $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house). Limit 35 AUG JOSEPH CAMPBELL, Jungian Psychology and Archety pes of Mythology M r. Campbell describes his seminar as "a review " first, of the basic themes and principles of Jungian psychology; next, of the basic themes of the leading Oriental and Occidental mythological traditions; third, a survey briefly of the specifically European forms; and finally, a consideration of Dr. Jung's particular contribution to our understanding and creative utilization of this heritage." JOSEPH CAMPBE L L is author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The M asks of God, Myths to Live By. He has authored and edited many other works, including The Portable Jung and Eranos series. $75 per person (includes seminar and meals; 3-day weekend). $95 per person (includes seminar, meals and lodging in ranch house; 3-day weekend). Limit 40 (We are sorry that we can accept no further reservations for Prof. Campbell's seminar; space is still available, however, for preceeding and succeeding, closely-related seminars.) AUG ALLAN FRANKEL, Personal Myth: The Story that Must Be Told This is a workshop for everyone who has ever kept a diary or felt the need to write down his or her feelings and thoughts. It is a class for poets and mythsayers, for all who enjoy writing and would like to get better at it, for those who strive to deep experiences with the wish to tell others. Five important myths will be introduced and examined as part of the self and the experience of self. Each sess.ion will be devoted to a creative myth: The Voyage, The Golden Age of our Histories, The Search for the Lost Father, The Eternal Mother Cycle, and Self as Hero. Gestalt exercises, associative methods of Symbolist poetry, ritual, imagination, movement and chanting,- tape recordings and examples from literature will serve as aids to the writing of personal experiences. This workshop will not center upon transcendence but upon ways in which earthly life can be made holy. The jewel is is the Lotus. Please bring writing supplies. A L LAN FRANKE L, D.D.S., M.A. is a prose writer, religious teacher and a graduate of the Interdisciplinary " Creative Arts program at San Francisco State College. He teaches experimental Creative Writing courses for the University of California and is the former Assistant Drama and Literature Director of radio KP FA in Berkeley. His teaching derives in part from work with Kay Boyle, James Broughton, Lois Brien, Robin Gadjusek, Dick M arsh and M artha Nastich. He currently directs the Gestalt Myth Society of Berkeley. $97 per person (includes seminar and meals; 4-day workshop). $125 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house; 4-day workshop). Limit 20 participants. $30 non-refundable deposit.

3 AUG RICHARD ROBERTS, Personal Transformation on Our Path of Individuation "Where are you now on the path of individuation? Each of us will tell our stories, what has been most meaningful to us in I ife, and what has been most difficult. We will interpret our 'big dreams', relating our experiences to the hero's mythic journey; and then using Jungian psychology, tarot, I Ching, and astrology, we will try to discover where each of us is on the path. Finally, utilizing each one's progressed horoscope for the coming years, we shall delineate the challenges and possibilities that may lie ahead of us. "\ see the natal horoscope as a mandala of the person's initiation path, a map of the level of consciousness that he or she has brought with him for life. When making reservations, please specify date, time and place of birth, for I shall prepare color horoscopes for those attending; I use astrology as an intuitive tool to focus on consciousness." RICHARD ROBERTS has just published Tarot and You and is currently working on his second book of Tarot readings, Tarot for the Evolved, which includes sections on Colin Wilson, Jack Schwarz., the psychic, and Joseph Campbell with whom he plans to co-author a book on the Tarot symbolism. Mr. Roberts is also a published poet and playwright. $53 per person (includes seminar and meals). $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house.) Limit 35 participants. $30 non-refundable deposit. (Please make reservations by July 31 to assure completion of horoscope.) AUG JAMES F. T. and ELIZABETH K. BUGENTAL, Ph. D's, In Dread and Courage: Can We Preserve Life After Birth? The existential-humanistic viewpoint to be presented here grows out of intensive work with people who have "made it" by most middle-class standards but who have sensed that they still were only half a\ ive and who :=:.----JJJ :wl. ii...!o' d.eter. omet ou tl:!at muted tr:a ed')! I ill use co Qtual pr-esentations. guided readings and discussions, and some experiential sessions to help participants inquire into their own lives and livingness and to mobilize their courage to fight their dread and claim more vitality. DR. JAMES F. T. BUGENTAL is a writer in existential and humanistic psychology and a clinical psychologist in Palo Alto, Calif. His publications include Psychological Interviewing and The Search for Authenticity; currently he is completing two new books, In Dread and Courage and The Human Possibility. His wife, DR. ELIZABETH K. BUGENTAL, who works with her husband, is a licensed marriage, family, and child counce\or. She brings with her a rich background in drama; she was Chairman of the Theater Arts Dept. of Immaculate Heart College and has directed, produced, and written many plays. Her most recent publication was "November, 1969 Intimacy and Death" which appeared in Experiences in Being, ed. Bernice Marchal\. $150 per person (includes seminar and meals, 5-day workshop). $185 per person (includes seminar, meals,' and lodging in ranch house, 5-day workshop). Limit 40 participants. $35 non-refundable deposit. AUG WINIFRED BABCOCK, Quantum Psychology: The structure of the psyche and the function of the authority-ego, based on the work of Preston Harold, author of The Shining Stranger and On the Nature of Universal Cross-Action. Topics to be discussed include: selection of a symbol for the Authority-Ego, the "One Self"; the rebirth of consciousness; the function of the "Royal Couple", the anima-animus in each of us; the "Shadow"; Life before and after death; psychic energy in ordinary and extrasensory perception. WINIFRED BABCOCK prepared the manuscripts of Preston Harold for publication, is Founder and President of Harold Institute, and author The Palestinian Mystery Play and Books I and II of The Single Reality. $53 per person (include seminar and meals). $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house). Limit 30

4 AUG. 28SEPT. 1 WAYNE McEVILLY, Com position of Practice: Workshop is Mantra, Movement, Breathing and Listening This workshop is designed to introduce the participant to a variety of techniques the practice of which should increase the areas of creat-ive flow, ease in activity, comfort in stillness, fullness in solitude.techniques emphasized are of various sorts, derived from the traditions of the Upanishads, Gita, and Yoga Sutras. Each individual will explore those areas which would seem to him best to suit his particular needs. We shall also provide a foundation for a continued practice on improvisatory I ines so that the participant can work towards his own sense of the music of yoga in his I ife. The emphasis in this workshop is on ease and naturalness; no one ever fails, as it were, to do the best for himself witnin it. i WAYNE McEVILLY authored the afterword to Anais Nin's Seduction of the Minotaur. Miss Nin writes to the Mann Ranch, "Prof. Wayne McEvilly, at the University of New Mexico, teacher of Philosophy, of Zen, of Oriental religions and thought is young, very learned and students love him... With our new interest in the Orient his contributions might be valuable at this moment." $97 per person (includes seminar and meals, 4-day workshop). $125 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house, 4-day workshop). Limit 30 participants. $30 non-refundable deposit. SEPT. 1-4 KATHERINE WHITESIDE TAYLOR, The Essence of the Feminine and Masculine: Achieving Wholeness ' Through the Hieros Games The Self or Ground of Being is neither masculine nor feminine but includes both in the wide spectrum of manifestations appearing in myth and legend and in the men and women of today. The purpose of this seminar is to help individuals discover the richness of their own nature and of the "mysterium conjunctionis" within, which makes relationships in the outer world more fruitful and life-giving. The search will be promoted by a study of the psychology of Jung, especially as set forth in Mysterium conjunctionis based on his alchemical studies; Joseph Campbell 's studies of creative mythology in The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God Alan Watts' stud an th Nature spiritual significance of relationship in Martin Buber's I and Thou. In addition to her lectures and discussions, Dr. Taylor will show slides taken during her stay in Zurich, where she studied at the C. G. Jung Institute, and on her twelve personal visits with Buber at his home in Jerusalem. DR. TAYLOR is a psycho'therapist and educator in San Francisco who has devoted many years to the teaching of humanistic psychology and to psychotherapy with groups and individuals. $75 per person (includes seminar _and meals, 3 day-weekend). $95 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house, 3-day weekend). Limit 30 SEPT WILLIAM ALEX, M.D. The Religious Function Inherent in the Human Psyche Dr. Alex will attempt to construct a hypothetical model of the psyche to illustrate its religious function. Some of the important points of the model include: dreams and the unconscious in the analytical process, the ego-self axis, the essence of masculine-feminine interaction in the psyche, and the individuation process all related to some of the newer concepts of religion from the viewpoint of Jungian psychology. WILLIAM ALEX, M.D., is a practicing Jungian analyst in San Francisco, and a Diplomate of C. G. Jung I nstitute, Zurich. He has been active in the analytical training program of San Francisco Jung Institute and has given seminars and public lectures for many years. $53 per person (includes seminar and meals). $67 per person (includes seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house). Limit 35 I F YOU HAVE NEVER CORRESPONDED WITH US, YOU ARE ON A BORROWED MAILING LIST. PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU WOULD L1 KE TO BE ON OUR MAILING LIST. J

5 General Information RESERVATIONS: To insure your reservation, it should be made as early as possible. Non-refundable deposits (see individual seminar descriptions for amounts) are required at time of reservation. If you are unable to attend a seminar for which you have made a deposit and if you notify us at least two weeks prior to that seminar, we will be glad to apply your deposit toward another seminar of your choice if space is still available. Please mail application and check for deposit, made payable to MANN RANCH SEMINARS, P.O. Box 570, Ukiah, California Please pay remaining balance at seminar. (Of course, we will return your deposit if the seminar for which you applied is already filled.) FEES FOR SEMINARS: All seminars and workshops are residential p(ograms in so far as participants take their meals and attend the programs at the ranch house. The greater of the two prices listed by each seminar description is for the seminar, meals, and sleeping -accomodations in the ranch house (2 to 3 in a room). The lesser of the two prices is for the seminar and meals: participants may camp on the ranch grounds or they may prefer to reserve space for themselves at.any of the numerous motels in Ukiah. While there are no "camping facilities" as such, we have a great deal of space available for use, the weather is pleasant, and sleeping out-of-doors is not uncomfortable. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE TIMES: Seminars will begin with supper at 8: 00 P. M. and end with lunch on the last day. In order to allow us time to prepare our facilities we would appreciate guests not arriving before 5:00 P.M. on the first day of the seminar. INTERIM ACCOMMODATIONS: For those who have attended seminars or who have reservations for up-coming seminars, we will accept a limited number of reservations to stay at the ranch from those not currently registered for a seminar. The ranch in general and the swimming pool will be open to such guests. $18/day per person for meals and lodging in ranch house. $18 deposit required at time of reservation. VISITORS BY RESERVATION ONLY: Please do not bring friends if they are not registered for a seminar. CHILDREN: At this time we do not have facilities for children. PETS: This is a working stock ranch. ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS ALLOWED UNDER ANY CONDITIONS WHATSOEVER! DRESS: We are in the country; br ng comfortable clothing. GREYHOUND BUSES: Service Ukiah from San-Francisco and Eureka. - Please let us know 3 days in advance if yau would like transportation to the ranch from the bus station (a 9 mile drive). - Application Form Mann Ranch Seminars P.O. Box 570 Ukiah, California (707) I wish to attend the following seminars: Date leader Date Leader Date leader I am enclosing$ --- as the non-refundable deposit. I would like reservations for: 0 seminar, meals, and lodging in ranch house. 0 seminar and meals only. Name Address --- Home Phone --- Business Ph one --- I can provide transportation for other guests from my area 0 I do not eat meat 0 Your reservation confirmation and directions to the ranch will be sent by return mail. - r \ J

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