Angeliki Yiassemides
Angeliki Yiassemides presents ‘Hans Bender in conversation with Carl Jung: The role of participation mystique and synchronicity in our understanding of consciousness, temporality and death’
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.” Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England
In 1960, a year before Carl Jung’s death, the German parapsychologist Hans Bender met with him to ask his opinion regarding a sequence of strange events that transpired in the previous years. During this meeting, Bender would reveal to Jung the multiple synchronicities that surrounded his mother’s death, and the questions that emerged regarding the meaning of these occurrences. In turn, Jung offered his interpretation and elaborated on topics that he had rarely done in the previous years, touching on parapsychological matters, life after death, synchronicity, precognition, participation mystique between mother and son, and the nature of time. This presentation explores the multilayered weaving of these concepts, as expressed by Jung in this gem of an interview, which is, in a way, a sort of meaning-making guide for our time-bound existence: How are we to fulfill life’s task during our finite life?
Angeliki Yiassemides is a Jungian analyst (IAAP), developmental psychologist (Columbia University), and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapist (Mind Foundation, Berlin). Her current work engages, among others, with the nature of temporality and synchronicity in Jung’s thought; the integration of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy within a Jungian framework; and the living presence of ancient myths in the modern collective unconscious.
Based in Cyprus, she maintains a private practice and shares her work through lectures and conferences internationally. https://www.angelikiyiassemides.com