Episode 24: Monika Wikman

Monika Wikman received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Research & Training Center for Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich, Switzerland. She taught in the graduate department at California State University Los Angeles, and conducted a multi-year research study on dreams of the dying at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center.

Dr. Wikman is the author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy & the Rebirth of Consciousness and the chapter “Sophia’s Dreaming Body: The Night Sky as Alchemical Mirror” in the book, The Dream & Its Amplification, edited by Jungian analysts Erel Shalit and Nancy Swift Furlotti.

She is currently a member of the New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts and is a frequent lecturer at various Jung centers in the United States. She also conducts several yearly workshops and seminars. Her interests include astrology, alchemy, the subtle body, dreams and preparation for death, horses and equestrian arts.

This interview was recorded on February 23, 2017. It’s 01:17:36 long and 74 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. This podcast is also available on iTunesStitcher, and Google Play.

SHOW NOTES

California School of Professional Psychology Doctorate in clinical psychology degree programs

Research & Training Center for Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz Zürich, Switzerland

Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts North America

Dr. Wikman’s Ph.D. research project will be published as a book entitled The Soul is a Midnight Blossom: Dreams of the Dying

Stanislov Grof Non-ordinary States of Consciousness

“The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.” ~C.G. Jung, CW 12, par. 93

Collected Works, Vol. 12: Psychology & Alchemy by C.G. Jung

New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts Santa Fe, New Mexico

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

Taos Pueblo Taos, New Mexico

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico

The C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, Texas

Refining Your Inner Bullshit Detector Her lecture

Collected Works, Vol. 6: Psychological Types by C.G. Jung

Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy & the Rebirth of Consciousness by Monika Wikman, Ph.D.

The reference to the shadow as “a mild evil” is from an epigram by John Gower that Jung quotes in paragraph 353 of the Collected Works, Vol. 16: The Psychology of the Transference

The Matrix & Meaning of Character: An Archetypal & Developmental Approach by Jungian analysts Nancy Dougherty & Jacqueline West, Ph.D.

The Trump Phenomena Speaking of Jung, Episode 17 with Jungian analyst Thomas Patrick Lavin, Ph.D.

“There is a psychic infection that is operating.” ~Monika Wikman

Marie-Louise von Franz Her official website

Lucy Sikes in Kansas City has written a thesis for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts on the star

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Gateway to the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico

Tesuque Village Market Tesuque, New Mexico

Koshares: The Sacred Clowns at Taos Pueblo

Sam’s Shop Taos, New Mexico

SpiritHoods® Made in Los Angeles

Chiron & the Healing Journey by Melanie Reinhart

Stone by Stone: Reflections on the Psychology of C.G. Jung Edited by Andreas Schweizer & Regine Schweizer-Vüllers {includes the Goose Girl fairy tale} {Kindle edition}

Kabir: Ecstatic Poems Poem 25

The Essential Rumi Inner Wakefulness

The Dream & Its Amplification Edited by Jungian analysts Erel Shalit & Nancy Swift Furlotti

Night Sky as Alchemical Mirror: Sophia’s Dreaming by Monika Wikman {free .pdf}

Aditi Ladell New Mexico artist Arlene Ladell Hayes

Collected Works, Vol. 9i: Archetypes & the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung

Arrival The film – “I will need to put a caveat to the statement about Arrival. SO MUCH of what Jung is looking into in the psyche is in that film. So much that it would inspire me into hyperbole by saying everything...  (-:  {The IBSD at work here...}” ~Monika Wikman {You can read Dr. Wikman’s expanded comments on the film in the Blog section}

Spring 66: Divinations “On the Life and Work of Gret Baumann-Jung,” Spring Journal, Spring 1999, pp.146 -161

Psychological Perspectives No. 34 “Memoriam to Gret Baumann-Jung,” Los Angeles Jung Institute Journal, Fall 1996, pp. 9-12 {free sample}

“Each person should really write what they’re getting to know about from the inside out.” ~Gret Baumann-Jung

International Academy of Astrology Online classes that Laura took

Kathleen Burt Astrologer

Archetypes of the Zodiac by Kathleen Burt

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign, Part I: Aries-Virgo by Kathleen Burt

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign, Part II: Libra-Pisces by Kathleen Burt

Monika Wikman Her website

This episode is dedicated to Jungian analyst Frith Luton.