Mythology and Individuation

This course explores the search for meaning through the study of world mythology, guided by the wisdom of Jungian depth psychology.

The course combines lecture, discussion, journal-keeping and reading.

Recommended Texts:

• An unlined journal, preferably with a beautiful cover

• Willis, R. (2006). World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press

• Armstrong, K. (2005). A Short History of Myth. Canongate

• Davis, K. C. (2005). Don’t know much about mythology: Everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history. Harper Collins

• Supplemental readings will also be provided

HOW TO PARTicIpate:

• Attendance at weekly Zoom meetings

• Purchase assigned texts and read them

• Keep a journal in which you record dreams, draw, or write poetry and explore symbols that are important to you. This journal is private in that you don’t have to show it to me or in class, unless you choose to

• While listening to others in the group, show care and respect for each other’s experience. Maintain confidentiality of personal information shared in class

Course Objectives:

• To discover your own personal mythology

• To research the mythology of your ancestors

• To find meaning in the mythology and symbols of other cultures

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Myth, Dream & Symbol

LIVE PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

PART ONE:
Western mythology in the
ancient Near East and Greece

Wednesdays
March 19, 26 and April 2, 9, 16 

Live worldwide via Zoom
4-6pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
+ Video recording
will be made available

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The course will be offered in two parts. Part 1 (March and April) will cover the roots of Western mythology in the ancient Near East and Greece. Part 2 (Coming May and June 2025) will explore Asian mythology and offer participants the opportunity undertake an ancestral mythology quest and to give presentations. You may register for Part 1 or both parts 1 & 2.

Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist who has also practiced astrology professionally since 1981. His work unites dream studies, clinical research, humanistic astrology, attachment theory, Jungian depth psychology, Psychosynthesis, and dynamic group process work.
He is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing, and Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression, Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling and Astrology as a Therapeutic Art: Healing Human Relationships.  His other books include Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Astrology’s Higher Octaves and In the Company of Sages. Greg is a lecturer in psychology at Sonoma State University. Previously he taught for 20 years in the Counseling Psychology, East-West Psychology, and Community Mental Health Programs at California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University).

www.dawnmountain.com & www.gregbogart.net