The Alchemical Shadow

Making Gold from Darkness

with author Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D.

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. 
It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
– Mary Oliver

The Shadow is an archetypal symbol that represents all of that which is unfinished, unfulfilled, unknown, including most importantly, that which we most fear.

Too often, teachers, therapists and coaches talk a lot about the personal shadow. You know, all those bad habits, bad memories, bad things we hide from and are most ashamed of, including experiences that traumatized us. We certainly need to tend to and heal these shaping factors in our lives, but in this seminar, we broaden the boundaries of shadow, envisioning it as the borderline region between the known and unknown world.

Here is where psychology touches on the forbidden world of the occult. And here is precisely where alchemical psychology provides us with the psychological and spiritual tools needed to transmute shadow into a more refined version of ourselves with the ultimate task of discovering the golden philosopher’s stone!

I invite you to this series as we learn how to produce gold out of the dark cloth of shadow.

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Presented by:

Thom F. Cavalli

Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D. is a Jungian psychotherapist, author and coach who provides services throughout the world. He has authored two major books, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in a New World (Putnam 2002) and Embodying Osiris, the Secrets of Alchemical Transformation (Quest 2010) as well as many articles in Psychological Perspectives and The Alchemical Journal. He is a yearly contributor of book reviews and film criticism for The Jung Journal. He gives a wide range of workshops and seminars at Jungian Institutes, mystery schools, and conferences.  

His websites are: AlchemicalWorks.com and Cavallicoaching.com

The Alchemical Shadow

LIVE SEMINAR SERIES

with Thom Cavalli, Ph.D.

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Sundays Oct. 13 - Nov. 3, 2024

10 am - 12 pm Pacific / 1-3 pm Eastern
4 weeks
All sessions will be video recorded for registered guests.

Sale pricing ends Oct. 2, 2024

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COURSE OUTLINE

First Seminar – Shadow, Gift or Curse?

• The Gnostic Shadow – how the shadow entered the world

• Jung and Shadow – why the shadow entered the world

• The Dark Things that make us Real – what the shadow brings to Life

• Shadow in the Individuation Process (age-related shadow)

• Alchemy, the Black Art

Second Seminar - Ignore the Shadow at your Peril

• The Shadow in alchemy

• Projection and Personification

• The Toxic Shadow

• Shadow, dreams and nightmares

• Shadow and Evil

• Owning your Shadow

Third Seminar - Shadow work and the Mercurial nature of Shadow

• The Necessity of Shadow and Conflict

• Shadow forms and manifestations

• Uncertainty, Doubt and neurosis (thinking shadow)

• Shame, guilt and depression (feeling shadow)

• Anger, Obsession and Perfectionism (behavior shadow)

• Trickster and Shadow Work

Fourth Seminar - Taking Shadow to another Level

• The Dark Forces of the Unknown

• Earth’s Shadow

• Global Shadow – ideology, fanaticism, authoritarianism

• Cosmic Shadow – the Psychoid

• Quantum Alchemy

• The Realization of the Self

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Thom will be hosted by

JUNG Archademy faculty member Chantal Powell, Ph. D..

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Join Chantal for THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Sundays beginning January 2025

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Find out more about Thom’s video course an:
Introduction to Alchemical Psychology here

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You can enjoy Chantal’s interview with Thom -
Living An Alchemical Life - below: