Online Seminar-- Unus Mundus: The Archetypal Journey

Unus Mundus:
The Archetypal Journey

July 7-25, 2008
Presenter: Alan Filippi, M.Div., BCC
12.0 contact hours

" Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman . . . This image is fundamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin . . . an imprint or ‘archetype’ of all the ancestral experiences of the female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by woman . . ." CW 17:338 (CW = Collected Works) ."

Carl Jung, Collected Works 17:338

Dreams, journey, dream work all seem to be fairly innocent terms but what do they have to do with life? Plenty! We live in a day when the talk in health care is holistic medicine, that is, when the conversations and values speak of the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Dreams, journey, dream work, and archetypes speak volumes to this holistic perspective. In Jungian terms it is unus mundus or one world.

This seminar is about one world and the archetypes that inhabit that world and speak to us often. It is about the journey that we find ourselves taking as a result of interaction with these archetypes. This unus mundus is described as:

That deepest part of the unconscious where heaven and earth meet and are unified. It is the final reunion of spirit, soul, and body with the world soul.
The final stop or end of our journey.
Where the answers come from within or unus mundus.

As the 2d/3d century Christian mystic and theologian, Origen wrote: “Understand that thou art a second little world and that the sun and moon are within thee, and also the stars...” (Homilies in Leviticum, 126). He taught that Christ showed each of us the way to Unus Mundus by the patter of his (Christ’s) life and compared the Moon to the church of believers, having no light of their own, illumined by Christ, the Sun of Righteousness.

This seminar is intended to help each participant in their journey toward Unus Mundus through interaction with the archetypes, or archetypal images within. These archetypes, such as Wise Man, the Fool, Warrior/Hero, Jester, Magician; characterize some of the archetypal figures that you will experience at some point in your dreams.

The purpose for studying archetypes is that they provide the deep structure for human motivation and meaning. We encounter them in art, literature, sacred text, individuals or groups and they evoke deep feeling within. Plato described them in philosophical terms as “elemental forms” and Jung calleld them”archetypes” To become aware and to understand how these archetypes function can help you:

Better understand your own journey
Increase communication between your conscious and unconscious minds
Trigger a greater sense of meaning and fulfillment in your life
Inspire and motivate others
Cope more effectively with difficult people
Have great flexibility to respond to the challenges of life
Be more effective within your family, workplace, and community.

It is an exciting adventure to explore the inner world and have those vital connections with the Divine.

At the end of this seminar you will able to:

To discover what an archetype is and recognize it in ones dreams.
To learn the importance of journaling in working with archteypes
To know some of the basic archetypes
To learn how to utilize active imagination in working with archetypal imagery.
To see the value of working with archetypes in spirituality and the journey

Presenter: Alan Filippi, M.Div., BCC

Alan is a Staff Chaplain at Penrose Hospital/Penrose-St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs, Colorado. On staff since 1990, he is involved in Critical Care Chaplaincy in the ED and Critical Care Unit at Penrose Hospital, which is part of Centura Health and Catholic Health Initiatives.

Alan has an M.Div. from Texas Christian University and has been working with dreams and journaling since attending an Ira Progoff Journaling Workshop in 1976.

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