Re-Visioning Basic Records:
a seminar for those interested in the development of "Basic Records" and themselves
Saturday, June 21, at 11AM through Sunday lunch, July 6, 2008
The seminar, The Records of the Life and Teaching of Jesus (also called Basic Records),
offers an unparalleled path of psychological and spiritual transformation for individuals.
Participants often remark how profoundly their lives have been changed by this
seminar. Because of its significance for the development of consciousness we and others
are committed to preserving and developing this treasure.
Historically, the "Basic Records" is itself a product of a cultural and historical evolution of
consciousness in relation to the Christian myth. Our modern scientific-historical
consciousness continues to evolve in a psychological direction, becoming a new holistic
world consciousness that is integrating previous forms of consciousness.
The Basic Records seminar focuses on individuation, and thus contains the seeds of its
own evolution. The new consciousness has significant implications for how we understand
myth, history, and ourselves, and thus impacts the traditional "Basic Records" study.
Re-Visioning Basic Records will explore C. G. Jung's idea of the evolution of
consciousness, the role of projection in a truly historical-psychological understanding of
religious and mythological symbolism, and the resulting radically different form of
consciousness we are today.
Some of the questions that will inform this seminar are:
- What are the unconscious assumptions we bring to our modern historical and
psychological study of the Records? (What is the "myth" of the Records study
bequeathed to us by Henry Sharman and Elizabeth Howes?)
- There is a significant difference between mythological consciousness, scientific-historical
consciousness, and depth-psychological consciousness. What are the
implications of these different forms of consciousness for Basic Records?
- The mythological world view of antiquity, full of gods, goddesses, spirits and
demons, within which the Christian myth (the Gospels) emerged, and within which
Jesus himself lived, is now dead and gone. How does our modern situation, living
in the absence of myth, impact our study of the Records of the life and teachings
of Jesus?
- How does Records' study change if we take the entire Jesus tradition as myth,
and approach it with a self-aware historical and psychological consciousness, not
seeking historical facts, but psychological meaning?
- What is the meaning of the idea of the Incarnation (a god becoming an historical
person) as myth? How is the modern idea of the historical Jesus related to the
myth of the Incarnation?
Prerequisite is Basic Records - Enrollment is by permission of the instructors.
Leaders: Hal Childs, PhD, and John Petroni, PhD
Location: Four Springs, Middletown, CA
Fee: $1475 plus $200 nonrefundable registration fee
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