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February 2009 I’ll repeat the popular week-end Super-Ego Workshop. It will begin Friday night continue
Saturday and for half-day Sunday. The exact dates will be announced later. Check below in the workshop section for
more details about the content.. Also in late winter, early spring I will offer a
workshop-- not yet sure how long it will be ;Creative Tools for a Changing World. Content
can be found in the Workshop section below. The workshop for fall/winter, Psyche’s
Tasks began October 12th and will meet three more
Saturdays over the next four months. This workshop is full. The
novel, Time & Transformation, A
Novel of Mayan Mysticism was officially published May 1, 2008. The
book is available now. Information for purchasing and publication is in the
Purchasing section of the site.
Beginning in the February 2008
issue of the magazine “Ancient
American,” I’ll be writing a long
series of articles with photographs titled:
“Travels in the Yucatan, on the
Trail of Classic Mayan Secrets.” Look
for it on the newsstands every other month! Book
Launch Party and Readings
Party: Saturday, May 10th
at 7PM, Book Passages in Corte Madera.
Phone 415 927-0960. Please come and
invite your friends for wine,
snacks and sharing this exciting event with me. Saturday May 17th, 1PM, Orinda Book Store,
Orinda. Reading Anyone
interested in more information please contact me at: colette@coletteobrien.com News Release
In this time of crisis when the fate
of our world is in the balance, Colette Obrien offers a vision of hope. Set within the myths and concepts of the
Classic Maya, 700 AD, a pair of
female/male twins must discover how to save their culture from
extinction. (The Maya predicted that
life on earth would end in 2012, foreshadowing the darkness of our time if
not the actual end.) Ms. Obrien sweeps you away on a ride so
multi-layered it takes your breath away. Packed with insight into the human
heart that one can use as a guide to life, at the same time the novel is a
timeless tale of adventure and love with heroines and heroes, shamans and
evil magicians, and of course, a quest. Separated and apparently lost in the
jungle, the twins travel through a fascinating world of sorcery, magical
practices, and human sacrifice; of mystics and elaborate cyclical
understandings of time, astronomy and mathematical genius into the hearts and
minds of the Mayan Goddess, Ixchel and the God, Itzamna. What they learn is
tragic, and might be irresolvable; only time will tell. The feminine and
masculine have been separated at the level of divinity for eons and only
mankind can bring them back together again. This thesis forms the core of the
book, and the enquiry that results from it suggests answers to the dilemma we
face in our world today. The book is
thoroughly researched historically as the author has spent 15 years traveling
to archaeological sites and studying all information that has come out of the
region. About Colette Obrien: Ms. Obrien is currently writing a
series of articles about Classic Mayan concepts for the national magazine Ancient American. She has published
over 30 articles about other cultures in US newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and San
Francisco Chronicle. Holding a Master’s degree in
Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Jungian thought, she has had a
meditation and yoga practice for over 30 years. For the last 25 years she’s had a private
practice as a counselor and teacher for individuals and couples. She creates
and leads workshops that focus on developing an understanding of who we are
and how to find and follow our unique path in life. She also teaches classis
on meditation, the feminine, relationship, dream analysis, and creativity. Time & Transformation is
available for $25.95 at : www.wheatmark.com/bookstore. #### Time & Transformation, a Novel of
Mayan Mysticism by Colette Obrien. Trade paperback 6
by 9, 364 pages. ISBN#9781587369988. Review “Finally,
a book that brings the world of the Classic Maya of Mexico to life in a way
that makes its people distinctly human and memorable. No
one has so captured the intelligence and beauty of this ancient American
culture; rich in sensory detail and the activities of life at the palace
centers and villages where these remarkable people lived for hundreds of
years before their disappearance. You
can practically see the jaguar crouched in the jungle undergrowth where the
trees drip with orchids, where monkeys and armadillo were honored as spirit
gods and astronomers charted the night sky while mathematicians drew up
calendars that predicted our present time with pinpoint accuracy. This is a
work of both science and magic that reflects the very attributes the author
demonstrates as we’re taken into this ancient world where mankind lives close
to the gods and the gods themselves depend on mankind for their own
survival. A
timeless tale of love and betrayal, a quest for a new vision in a time when
our own world is in danger. The hero twins offer a vision for all of mankind
for all time. Believe it or not. Within
the pages are constant surprises of wisdom and insight as applicable today as
they would have been 1500 years ago. A wise and uplifting look at the nature
of mankind. A demonstration of both
the dark and light side of humanity that uplifts the spirit and frees the
heart to hope for a better world today.” Workshops Creative Tools for a Changing World In the Western World in the 20th and
21st Century aside from minor glitches, life has appeared to be
lived within certain known parameters;
get an education, get a job, build a life, family or not, your choice,
marry and or divorce, your choice, have children, your choice. advance in
your chosen field of interest, save for a house, retire and die. These are the portrayed values of life here and now and the expectation, and
or goals, most people believed would be true. Whether we were successful in
accomplishing what we wished within the choices offered was not the point,
but that these things were the pattern most would follow in some fashion.
Even those individuals who have chosen to live outside these main
expectations have followed a path they believed would continue with no major
changes in the pattern itself. Voila! What happens when the structure that
supports the pattern collapses? Few of us have questioned what was holding up
this pattern. The first earthquake to
the fundamental structure shook the world September 11th. Since
then news of global warming has reached almost everyone. The 2nd earthquake happened
October 2008 when the financial systems collapsed. Each of these things has
rocked our world—what that looks like for many of us is that we realize,--
maybe for the 1st time-- that there is an underlying structure
that has to be in place for the pattern we’ve believed life would follow to
occur. We stand on the brink of fundamental change. What
the future will look like can no longer be reliably predicted. How do we live
a life into an unknown future where what we assumed would happen may
not? What resources in ourselves do we
need to face such an unknown? These questions
form the dialogue I propose we engage in together. Super-Ego February/March 2009 The painful reality for most people is that where
the super-ego was meant to aid our lives it has become a hindrance Most simple
neurotic problems derive from here. Neurosis is described simply as
unnecessary suffering, and this little demon is the source of that kind of
suffering. The super ego is an archetype, as is the
ego. The ego archetype is the center
of consciousness and the identity of the person, whereas the super-ego stands
separate from that identity. Very like the moon to the earth. It’s true purpose is to maintain the
integrity of the ego. It is the
conscience, the judge, the critic, the guidance, etc. It is programmed personally by the parental
voices. Today it internally mirrors
the relation between your child self and your parents. If your parents were good guides, the
relationship between your ego and super ego will be a healthy reflection of
that dynamic.. Your relation with your
superego is from the self-image of a child.
But if your child was criticized and judged harshly by your parents;
if they didn’t trust you to make your own decision; if they overrode your own
internal guidance; if they made you wrong, you learned to put aside your own
essential experience in order to keep connection with your parents, and
you’re still doing it today in regard to your own super ego. The superego as
judge is the force in you that constantly evaluates and assesses your worth
as a human being and thus limits your capacity to be fully alive in the
present moment because it’s attack rejects your present state. In this week-end seminar we’ll explore the
structure of this archetype; how it is
meant to function, how it has been programmed in your individual lives, and
how to alter the program. Psyche’s Tasks Fall/winter
2008 Psyche’s Tasks will use the Greek myth, Amor & Psyche to explore the
archetypal process of feminine development. Psyche: Modern
Psychological meaning, the human soul which governs the total organism and
its interactions with the environment. Feminist
psychological meaning, a specifically female soul and her journey to
wholeness. Mythic
meaning, a maiden who, after under going many hardships due to the jealousy
of the goddess, is reunited with her lover, Amor and made immortal. Complete
in the Greek myth of Amor and Psyche the archetypal process for feminine
development is symbolically outlined through the heroine’s journey. As a mortal woman, Psyche faces the
challenges unique to a feminine life; each step of her journey brings her
closer to realizing her goal—union and love fulfilled. Though she is a flesh and blood woman she
is essentially a soul on a journey, and the union she seeks is her own
wholeness; the return to her true nature after having been separated at
birth. Almost
every woman experiences the longing for union; to be loved and find her own
true love. The fairytales and modern romances are full of this desire. Unfortunately the essence of that longing
is misunderstood as an outward one when it is in fact an inward process. Not to diminish the importance of an
intimate love relation in our physical lives but it will never satisfy. The recent divorce rate is evidence, not
that people aren’t finding good partners but that they misunderstand what
that partner can give them and what they can not. We
will explore the myth and expand on the meaning of the symbols, and the
outline will form the basis for a personal exploration: where you are in your
particular unfoldment, and developing a practical understanding of each of
the challenges. We will look at each
step on Psyche’s path and what it means to you as modern women. Psyche
has four major tasks with sub-tasks in the fourth and final one. This
workshop series will be in four parts with each day devoted to one task. I will send out the myth to be read before
we begin. The first day is Sunday October 12th with the next 3
days on Saturdays approximately 6 weeks apart. We’ll meet from 10AM to 5PM each day. This
is a series so I’m asking for commitment to all four meetings at the
outset. I’ll do everything I can to
accommodate your schedules as we move forward. The cost is $140 per day for those of you
who are currently working privately with me and $170 for those who are not. Archetypes of the Feminine Preparing for the
next workshop series, 2007-2008, I’ll try to clarify the general ideas I
propose we work with. Think of the unconscious as containing a
vast array of patterns -- we call them archetypes -- and that those patterns
are the palette; color, form,
shape, feeling, movement, quality, that we have to choose from to lead our
lives; to make our individual movie. We are the artists who choose from that
palette but until we're mature, the choices have been made primarily by the
demands of the environment. This being the primary difference between the
child and the true adult. Once we become aware
of the patterns and realize that our sense of identity has been formed by
whichever one or ones we’ve used, something far more important occurs – the
person who’s looking at all this, the Self who cannot be defined by such
rigid structures - is revealed. Having
stripped ourselves of the archetypes, what’s left is the truth, and it’s this
truth that’s the goal of the series. What we’ll explore
is: a. the archetypes
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