NOVEMBER 2024

JUNG vs BORG

with author Glen Slater, Ph.D.

The penchant for digital ways of relating, expanding faith in AI, and the one-sided education designed to service these things are combining to generate reductive conceptions of psychological life. We are, in particular, discounting the deeply human… the essential qualities of human experience, which extend from the instinctual patterns that shape basic behavior to the timeless values that mold the cultural imagination . . . This is leading to a world drowning in information and thirsting for understanding. – Slater, Jung and Borg

Glen Slater’s new book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, describes the collision between the archetypal basis of psychological life and the algorithmic architecture of the online world. This collision is not only disrupting our inner ecology in a way that mirrors the disruption of outer ecology, it is opening the door to the posthuman goal of merging human and artificial intelligence.

This lecture will set out areas of understanding that help us enter and reflect on this radical turn in human evolution. We will consider how Jungian psychology not only provides us with ways to comprehend the deficits of the digital lifestyle, it helps us recognize the values necessary for individual and societal well-being as we make our way forward.

Jung’s comprehension of the depths of human nature constitutes an incisive counterpoint to the assumptions of post-humanism and to the dissociative bubble that presently fosters these assumptions… Jung sheds light on the self-regulating nature of the psyche and the archetypal forms behind this — forms we may choose to overlook but cannot ultimately dismiss. These forms . . . reflect the larger rhythms of the cosmos and are seemingly woven into the fabric of life itself. Jung pointedly demonstrates that even as we have embraced reason and science, the archetypal world of non-rational impulses and religious ideas have continued to unconsciously influence our thoughts and actions.

– Slater, Jung and Borg

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JUNG
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BORG

with author Glen Slater, Ph.D.

Hosted by Gary S. Bobroff and Cynthia Cavalli

Saturday • Nov. 9, 2024

11am-1pm Pacific / 2-4pm Eastern
Session will be available via video recording

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Hosted by:

Gary S. Bobroff is the founder of the JUNG Archademy and Jungian Online. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada and a master’s degree in Jungian-oriented counselling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of Knowledge In A Nutshell: Carl jung (2020) which is a Jungian psychology best seller.

Cynthia Cavalli, Ph. D., is a systems and organizational management consultant specializing in synchronicity, strategy development, future studies, and the dynamics of change and transformation. She has 30 years of experience in aerospace engineering, a Ph.D. in Human Systems, an MBA, and a BS in Physics.

Glen Slater, Ph.D.

GLEN SLATER, Ph.D. has taught for over twenty-five years at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he has recently chaired the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program. He has written articles and book chapters for Jungian publications, edited the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer and co-edited the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience. His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His book Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age was published in January, 2024.