Lecture: Tess Castleman (1/19)

As I wrote to some of you last year, I finally went to an Oregon Friends of Jung lecture back in November 2005 when Rick Tarnas was speaking, and the next thing I knew I was in Bali a year later for 10 days for a workshop with him and Darby Costello. So when I saw Rick was invited back by them to speak this Spring, I decided to become a member and go to some of their other lectures. This decision was also likely influenced by the fact that their first three lectures this year all included some discussion of film (www.ofj.org).

I love the Jungians; they are so soulful and heal-thy. I'll let you check out the link if you want to find out more and have the time. This evening's lecture was titled: "Creativity: The Holy Other as Transcendent Healer in Analysis, Community and Culture," and included comments on the life and art of Kurosawa, but the speaker Tess Castleman spoke a good deal of her own particular choice of creative outlet, namely writing. She also discussed this in the larger context of the importance of having creative activity in our lives, and the broad range of things this could cover, the essential element being expression and manifestation, bringing forth something where nothing had been before. She said a lot of other inspiring things and I manifested a few pages of notes to show for it. It made me more committed to keeping up this blog--going ahead and putting forth what Darby said, as a Gemini moon like her, was the ongoing dialogue I have with the twin inside me. Although the last film I reviewed here was three weeks ago, the night before I went to her lecture, in the meantime I have been busy seeing some and gathering my thoughts, and I'm finally getting around to posting them. So consider this my manifesto, or mamafesta, as Joyce would have it in the Wake.