IMAGINING THE WORLD OF CARL JUNGCarl Jung says in the prologue to his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections: "I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth. I can only make direct statements, only tell stories. Whether or not the stories are true is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth."  Meaning makes many things endurable... Perhaps everything. No science will ever replace myth, and myth cannot be made out of any science. For it is not that God is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in humans. -Carl Jung Ray Gray, for the first time in live performance, brings to life Jung’s first person stories of his confrontation with the unconscious, his spiritually precocious childhood and his wisdom years. Jung Videos Imagining the World of Carl Jung Recent and future Performances Creative Living Room, Swarthmore, PA (11/12/11) Comments on Jung Performance Raymond Gray has created a meaningful temenos that awakened the body, mind, and spirit. As he led us into Jung's creative life through selected stories from Memories, Dreams, Reflections, the personal and archetypal were illuminated through history, culture, and personal details of Jung's life. We were transported into another world, experiencing the stories we know so well in a whole new dimension. In line with Jung's belief that we use the creative arts to work with our dreams, Raymond's gifts are transformative to the psyche. Ray gave a storytelling presentation that allowed
us each to experience the "feeling function" of Jung's
psyche. It's rare that we experience a presenter who can translate
Jung, staying true to the original, while making the presentation
personal and relative to our own lives. We did not know what to
expect when we scheduled Ray, but our group surely got more than
just a presentation of Jungian material...we got soul. Ray Gray's performance in "Imagining the
World of Carl Jung" was exceptional. The audience, composed
of those new to Jung and those well-versed in Jung's concepts,
was held spell-bound. Ray was able to inhabit the body and the
mind of Carl Jung throughout his years of spiritual development
and his wisdom years. Ray made Jung come alive and showed the
human side of this brilliant man...a great experience! Mr. Gray weaves a story-teller’s enchantment
with the voice of Jung talking about himself. He sheds particular
light on his character early in life and how his ideas arose out
of the solutions he found to deal with life as ‘half world genius,
half Swiss peasant‘. The students came away the richer for this
experience. |
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