Journey to the Center of the Psyche: “Beware All Who Enter Here”

Follow one woman’s descent into the archetypal realm of the collective unconscious, guided by an unseen Presence felt as both “within” and “beyond.” For three years, Croft was pulled into the sacred temenos at the center of the psyche—and captured the poetic voice she heard there. Her presentation will focus on a personal recital of a direct experience of the autonomous psyche as told through image and poetry.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

PART 1: Experiences of God in the Individuation Process

This lecture (in two parts) explores the presence of God in the Individuation process, and Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “Religion,” wrote Jung, “in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate. She will use examples from the Old and New Testaments as reflections of inner processes of transformation. “Is it not time,” wrote Jung in The Undiscovered Self, “that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once.”

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Experiences of God in the Individuation Process: A True Story

This lecture (in two parts) explores the presence of God in the Individuation process, and Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “Religion,” wrote Jung, “in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate. She will use examples from the Old and New Testaments as reflections of inner processes of transformation. “Is it not time,” wrote Jung in The Undiscovered Self, “that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once.”

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Experiences of God in the Individuation Process: A True Story (PART 2)

This presentation is a continuation of a lecture given in December (PART 1) on the presence of God in the Individuation process. It explores Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “Religion,” wrote Jung, “in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate. She will use examples from the Old and New Testaments as reflections of inner processes of transformation. “Is it not time,” wrote Jung in The Undiscovered Self, “that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once.”

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Experiences of God in the Individuation Process: A True Story

This lecture (in two parts) will explore Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “Religion,” wrote Jung, “in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Experiences of God in the Individuation Process

This lecture (in two parts) will explore Jung’s belief that the psyche is, by nature, religious. “Religion,” wrote Jung, “in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and of individual fate.” Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with a numinous Presence that felt both otherworldly and intimate.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Journey to the Center of the Psyche

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19: Based on an intimate encounter with a “wholly other force within,” Diane will describe a call to initiation from the archetypal Self at mid-life. For three years, Croft was pulled into the sacred temenos at the center of the psyche and captured the poetic voice she heard there. It took several decades to decipher its meaning. Her presentation will demonstrate—through image and poetry— the dynamic relationship between the ego-driven personality and the greater objective psyche. 

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Experiences of God in the Individuation Process

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19: Jung had a great deal to say about God, which for him was not a belief but a fully realized, living Presence: “I don’t need to believe. I know.” This lecture will explore Jung’s idea that the psyche is, by nature, religious. Diane Croft will share the religious symbolism that emerged, unexpectedly, during her own three-year encounter with “a wholly Other” force within, and how she is attempting to reconcile its numinous energies in a postmodern world.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Cooked in the Vessel: A Personal Experience of Alchemy in the 21st Century

In this presentation, Diane Croft will show how she got “cooked” in the alchemical vessel in the same way the alchemists described the transformative process centuries ago. She will bring life and currency to a psychological process that is not about changing a person into someone else; it’s about bringing something out in a person that has been there all along.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Cooked in the Vessel: A Personal Experience of Alchemy in the 21st Century

In this presentation, Diane Croft will show how she got “cooked” in the alchemical vessel in the same way the alchemists described the transformative process centuries ago. She will bring life and currency to a psychological process that is not about changing a person into someone else; it’s about bringing something out in a person that has been there all along.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

What They Saw in the Vessel: Making Sense of the “Nonsense” of Alchemy

In this presentation, Diane Croft will show how she got “cooked” in the alchemical vessel in the same way the alchemists described the transformative process centuries ago. She will bring life and currency to a psychological process that is not about changing a person into someone else; it’s about bringing something out in a person that has been there all along.

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

How to Live the Divine in a Postmodern World

What is being activated in the collective unconscious of the postmodern era, and what does it tell us? In this presentation, Diane Croft will share archetypal imprints from her own numinous encounter with the archetypal psyche, and how these living images point toward a new era of consciousness aptly described by Jung: “The time has come when each must do his [her] own work of redemption.”

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

Journey to the Center of the Psyche

For three years, Croft was pulled into the sacred temenos at the center of the psyche and captured the poetic voice she heard there. It took several decades to decipher its meaning. Her presentation will vividly demonstrate the dynamic relationship between the ego-driven personality and the greater objective psyche. 

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.

"Having never met Diane Croft before her presentation at CAJP, I could not have anticipated the joyful gift she gave us. The spontaneous messages that came to her over three years were surprising enough, but even more compelling was the love and creative energy she devoted to the discovery of their meaning - using Jung's understanding of the Self as her guide. The warmth of Diane's personality and her spontaneous humor added to the fullness of the program. If I could use only one word to describe her presentation, it would be "profound."

– James Scherer, Jungian analyst and program chairperson of CAJP

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"Diane Croft’s presentation fully engaged the audience for almost two hours. People really responded to her down-to-earth but very informed style. She was able to relate her experience to many facets of Jungian theory because she had experienced it from the inside out. Her honest responses to questions and comments from the audience created an atmosphere of sincerity and safety. It was a memorable evening for us, and I highly recommend her program." 

– Erica Lorentz, Jungian analyst (IAAP) and president of the Jung Association of Western MA

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“Diane Croft’s two-hour presentation is one of the finest ever given at our Tools of Individuation series. Her cogent and extraordinarily meaningful account of a personal confrontation with the unconscious was illuminating. It provoked considerable discussion and reflection at the Maine Jung Center in the weeks and months that followed. Highly recommended.”
 
-- Linda Sadoff, psychotherapist, Board of Directors, Maine Jung Center

If you would like Diane to speak at your center, please contact her directly.