I have been unable to find a local study group in the South Bay area of Los Angeles for Carl Jung's Red Book that I received as a Christmas gift last year. Imagine my delight to find that Theosophy's Krotona retreat center in Ojai will offer a Red Book weekend seminar next year. Dr. Stephan Hoeller, Bishop at the Ecclesia Gnostica Diocesan Center, Los Angeles, will be the speaker. A Google search brought multiple links on Dr. Hoeller's work. This article from the Los Angeles Times on Dr. Hoeller was also interesting.
Stephan A Hoeller
CG Jung’s Red Book and Alchemy
April 29 – May 1
Weekend Seminar
Friday 7:30 – 9, Saturday 10 – noon, 2 – 4, Sunday 10 – noon
As has recently come to light, after writing his Red Book, CG Jung was inspired to turn the majority of his insights from that book into the symbolic system of transformation known as alchemy. It was in this manner that the Red Book revelations, which he deemed too esoteric, were made available to the public. Dr Hoeller will give an exposition of Jung’s alchemical theories, showing their relationship to the content of Jung’s then still secret mystical book. Chinese and Western, as well as Arabic alchemy will be reviewed in the light of Jung’s now published Liber Novus(Red Book). Weekend $35, Single session $10
Stephan A Hoeller, PhD, is a retired Professor of Comparative Religion who has been called the foremost representative of Gnosticism as a living religion today. Dr Hoeller has presented internationally for the Theosophical Society. He has published widely and authored several books, including The Gnostic Jung, Jung and the Lost Gospels, and Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society. He has presented 13 lectures in his series on the Red Book, available on line at www.gnosis.org.
