Keiron Le Grice | “Understanding Ego-death”
Both spontaneous psychospiritual crises and deep experiential exploration of the unconscious psyche can promote and enact the experience of ego-death, that is, the death of one’s former egoic identity and the rebirth into a different, more complex mode of existence and psychological functioning. This talk considers the phenomenology, experience, and purposes of this death-rebirth experience and places it in the context of C. G. Jung’s theory of individuation and the processes of psychological, cosmological, and spiritual evolution.
Suggested readings:
Keiron Le Grice, The Lion Will Become Man: Alchemy and the Dark Spirit in Nature—A Personal Encounter (Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications, 2003).
———. The Rebirth of the Hero: Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation (ITAS Publications, 2021).
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Keiron Le Grice is a professor of depth psychology in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization and the Psychology, Religion, and Consciousness program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and the author of several books, including The Archetypal Cosmos, The Rebirth of the Hero, and The Lion Will Become Man.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Aug 05 2024
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
