Seeing Beauty Around Us May 5, 2009

First Tuesday Lunch Forum: Free to the General Public

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Seeing Beauty Around Us

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

From Socrates, "Give me beauty in the inward soul," to Blake, "To see a world in a grain of sand / And heaven in a wild flower," beauty has been seen as a doorway to the spiritual. In contemplating beauty, we awaken creativity both within us and around us.
Susan Tiberghien will discuss the relationship between beauty and creativity, touching on the following short texts:

--Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung (quote: The earthly manifestations of God's world began with the realm of plants as a kind of direct communication from it)
--Waiting for God, Simone Weil (quote: The beauty of the world is the mouth of the labyrinth.)
--Beauty, the Invisible Embrace, John O. Donahue
--The Long Journey Home, Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone,editor Christine Downing
--One Year to a Writing Life, Susan Tiberghien


Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis,
Circling to the Center, A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences, both in the United States and in Europe.

This is a free lecture.

Official Website: www.cgjungny.org