Alchemy as Autobiography:
A Personal Relationship with the
Atalanta Fugiens

Presented by
Janet Muff, MSN, RN

 

audio file available to Club members upon email request

Sunday,  4 PM - 6 PM,  December 7th,  2014

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Each alchemical manuscript represents a particular individual's intimate conversation with Nature in all its many forms - Mother Nature, human nature, his or her own nature, and the nature of situations and circumstances.  And yet for me - and no doubt for many of you as well - the ideas of alchemy and alchemical manuscripts have always seemed obscure, confusing, and often irrelevant to my everyday life.

 

In this presentation, I will share with you what changed all that: my personal conversation with one such manuscript over the past 20 years - the Atalanta Fugiens.  During that time, the events of my life have helped me to understand the principles of alchemy and the alchemical process as they are arrayed in this manuscript, and the Atalanta Fugiens has helped me to understand and find meaning in my life and analytic work.

 

Janet Muff, MSN, RN, is a senior analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.  She has several areas of interest in the field of psychology, not the least of which is alchemy and specifically the Atalanta Fugiens, which she has been studying for more than twenty years.