Stephan Hoeller is a Hungarian-born scholar and writer, the director of the Los Angeles Gnostic Society, author of Freedom: Alchemy of a Voluntary Society and The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead.

The Gnostic Jung Revisited
Stephan Hoeller
August 22 - August 26, 2001

Program fee $65

"Gnosis" means inner knowledge. The knowledge sought is not strictly intellectual, but mystical. It unleashes the spark of divinity within, too often obscured by ignorance and convention. This worldview will be explored with well-known scholar and writer, Stephan Hoeller, director of the Los Angeles Gnostic Society, and author of many books including The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead. Tony Lysy, Dean of Studies at the Olcott Center, will join Stephan in exploring this topic.

	Anton Lysy, Ph.D. is Dean of Studies at the Olcott Institute in Wheaton, IL where he teaches contemporary depth psychology, philosophy, and classic theosophy. He represented the Theosophical Society on the committee that designed the program for the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.

This program will provide a historical context from 1875, when C.G. Jung was born and the Theosophical Society founded, to understand the contemporary expressions of Gnosticism and Theosophy. Sessions will both review and go beyond previous works by Dr Hoeller such as Jung and the Lost Gospels and will focus on both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library.
The works of Helena Blavatsky and Friedrich Nietzsche will provide a basis for the understanding and development of Jung's approach to depth psychology and individuation. The works of contemporary Jungian writers such as Aldo Carotenuto, Linda Leonard, and Murray Stein will be used as representatives of contemporary Jungian thought.
Dr. Hoeller's book, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, is recommended reading for the session and will be available at Far Horizons.