Summary: <a href="http://jungchicago.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/560image.png"></a>with Thomas Patrick Lavin, PhD<br> This episode is the first session of the series <a href="http://jungchicago.org/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=65&product_id=124">Christian Shamanism: Visions of Nikolas of Flue</a>.<br> A shaman is a person who has been forced by fate to take an inner, awe-filled journey which ultimately gives a new form to the person and to the culture. This journey demands sacrifice, isolation from the collective’s expectations, and a particular form of courage which is able to accept new forms of awareness and new forms of the divine.<br> Every religious tradition has stories of persons who have walked the “shamanic path.” Some religious traditions have called shamans by different names: sage, saint, and Bodhisattva are but a few of these names. There is also the little-discussed Christian shamanic tradition in which C.G. Jung stands, both as a visionary and as a healer of souls. This course uses the writings of <a href="http://amzn.to/2wBEF48">C.G. Jung</a> and <a href="http://amzn.to/2wBzZeV">Marie-Louise von Franz</a> as a basis for discussing the role of the shaman in general and the Christian shaman in particular. It was recorded in 1994.<br> <a href="http://jungchicago.org/store/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=34">Thomas Patrick Lavin, PhD</a> is a Zürich-trained Jungian analyst who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and a PhD in theology. He was formerly chief clinical psychologist for the U.S. Army in Europe and is a founding member of the CG Jung Institute of Chicago. He is in private practice in Wilmette, Illinois, and consults internationally on typology, spirituality and addictions.<br> For the complete series, <a href="http://jungchicago.org/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=65&product_id=124" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.<br><br> For more seminars by Dr. Lavin, <a href="http://jungchicago.org/store/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=34" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.<br> <br> © 1994 Thomas Patrick Lavin. This podcast is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>. You may share it, but please do not change it, sell it, or transcribe it.<br><br> Music by Michael Chapman<br><br> Edited and produced by Benjamin Law<br>
