Illuminating Letters:
Numinous Encounters with the Kabbalah
Michigan ~ Friends of Jung
Invites you to attend
Presented by
Elizabeth Fergus - Jean Ph.D.
November 14, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Royal Oak Senior Community Center
3500 Marias Avenue
Royal Oak, Michigan
Lecture Fee:
Members $15
Non-members $20
Full-time Students $10
Payable by check or cash at the door
Contact Information:
Michigan ~ Friends of Jung
P. O. Box 33115
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-3115
Phone: 810.220.9348
Web address: www.jungmich.org
Email: mail@jungmich.org
There is something about a numinous experience that defies explanation.
Perhaps this is because inherent within the numinous experience is an
encounter with Other, and each such meeting lacks a common point of
reference. How then, can one give voice to an experience that is so
private and interior? Yet as its witness, one knows without a shadow of a
doubt that they’ve just encountered the unseeable . How can one
illuminate the God that dances within them, and how can this experience
be shared? During this lecture we will explore these questions and I will
share my story of one such encounter.
I began painting the Hebrew alphabet in 1999, a journey that evolved into
a five-year odyssey of ecstatic wonder and numinous encounters. During
the lecture I will share some of the manifestations of this extraordinary
journey: my twenty-two paintings of the Hebrew alphabet, their
accompanying Prayer Poems, which were a vital part of the transformative
experience of painting the Letters into being, and the process of
journeying in the betwixt and between of the Imaginal realm. Our
discussion will include ways in which Images (visual images, word
images, sound images, and dance/movement images) can be portals to
experiencing the numinous via the ritual nature of the creative process,
intuitive dialogues, and the experiencing of Images as subtle bodies.
To purchase a copy of Elizabeth's book, Illuminating Letters: Paintings and Essays on the Kabbalah, please contact: info@artandpsyche.com or visit www.ArtandPsyche.com
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
-Rumi
Elizabeth Fergus-Jean is an artist and cultural mythologist. She received her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute and her MFA from the University of Washington. She is a Board Member of the C.G.Jung Association of Central Ohio, and has lectured to several Jung associations on image, the imaginal, and the creative spirit. She has taught at a variety of venues for 30 years, and currently teaches in the English/Philosophy and Media Studies departments at the Columbus College of Art and Design. In addition, she is a founding faculty member and adjunct professor in Pacifica's new MA in Humanities with emphasis in Mythology and Depth Psychology program.
