In this workshop, I suggest that a new image of God, or a new way to relate to the transpersonal dimension of reality, is emerging. The emergence of a new God-image is one of the central ideas in Jung's The Red Book, where Jung writes that a new consciousness of the divine is being born in the human soul, albeit against some resistance. By considering the ways in which the objective psyche and the Self appear, we now see a greater variety of God-images than was hitherto thought to be possible. Jung's work therefore allows a new myth of God to emerge. This process allows the development of a personal connection to the sacred and an individual God-image that may not be related to traditional doctrinal accounts of the divine. Jung's approach radically broadens the range of possible God-images that might appear, making the God-image of the traditions seem too confined. In the afternoon Jung's Red Book will be the topic of conversation and will be explored as a religious text. Jung's creation of the Red Book resulted from many years of inner spiritual exploration from what he termed as his "encounter with the unconscious." The subsequent meticulous recordings of these experiences of dreams and active imagination resulted in his magnum opus, The Red Book.

Lionel Corbett, M.D. trained as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago 1978-1986; helped found a training program for Jungian analysts in Santa Fe, while carrying on a private practice and teaching psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Corbett has studied various spiritual disciplines including Christian and Jewish mysticism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and Yoga and has had a personal meditation practice for over 20 years. He now teaches depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, California, where he founded the Psyche and the Sacred program, a highly successful series in its 6th year that integrates spirituality with depth psychology.