Brendon has named his talk, ‘Something to do with Home’.

“I hope to cover how I think about getting older, how to have a relevant religious life - my Buddhist practice and, some thoughts about Jung’s home arrangements. If time permits the late (for me) discovery of Alan Watts.”

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?