COMMUNITY FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING PRESENTS
PERSONAL NARRATIVE:
TRANSFORMING HAUNTING GHOSTS
INTO HEALING GUESTS
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
Thursday, January 2, 2025
7-9 pm EST
Zoom Event
Rather than conceptualize the power of ghosts that haunt us, I offer a personal narrative of ghost energies that have shaped my life for decades. In the creation of this story, I discovered the single most central archetype that has given this ghostly presence its unlimited energy.
James Hollis's illuminating text, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives (2013/2015), has been a major inspiration for these reflections. They led me to consider an alternative to dispelling our ghosts: inviting them in as guests. The shift from haunting ghosts to healing guests can offer a new story to live by, one that constructs our identity more fully and generously on our individuation pilgrimage.
JUNG PLATFORM PRESENTS
HOMER’S ODYSSEY
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
January 15-September 10, 2025
with Bonus Class on November 11, 2024
9 Class Course
Odysseus is indeed epic literature’s “man of many turns.” He is a warrior, a creative, an aesthete, a fiction-maker, a revealer, a concealer and at times a rascal. He is both favored and cursed by the gods. But above all, he is a deeply wounded soul from years of constant battle in Troy. His one desire is to return home to Ithaca to his beloved Penelope and his son Telemachos, Homer’s epic is then, the story of a wounded homecoming that heals.
In another sense, the Odyssey is a brilliant mythopoetic exploration of the power of stories and how our identities are entangled in the narratives we tell ourselves and others. A willingness to learn from the wisdom of others is prominent throughout the epic.
Homer’s epic explores as well as the conjunction of the masculine and feminine energies that together create in the soul a “sweet agreement” between these fundamental elements in human life. It extends outward to embrace the entire community of Ithaca in the act of oath-taking to achieve a balanced accord and healing throughout the polis.
Prior knowledge of The Odyssey is not required, only a willingness to explore. Join us in learning the deep significance of the soul’s journey from fragmentation to wholeness against the backdrop of Homer’s enduring epic.
Required Reading
Dennis Patrick Slattery, From War to Wonder: Recovering Your Personal Myth Through Homer’s Odyssey (Mandorla Books, 2019).
Suggested Reading
Albert Cook’s translation of the Odyssey is cited throughout my book. The Odyssey. A Verse Translation. W.W. Norton, 1993.
The course will consist of 9 monthly meetings, beginning January 15, 2025. We will meet for 2 hours, followed by a break-out group of 30 minutes in which participants will entertain one or two questions that either Dr. Slattery will provide or grow organically from the presentation and your questions.
Enjoy free access to a bonus class with Dr. Slattery on November 11th 2024 prior to the start of the program in January 2025!
Homer’s Odyssey
Dennis Patrick Slattery