But, after a few weeks of self-quarantine, we began to realize that this new lifestyle wasn’t going to go away anytime soon, and we started to miss the office chatter, the gatherings with our friends, or the satisfaction that comes from a stimulating conversation. At first, staying in place seemed novel and kind of enjoyable, especially to those of us who are introverts. Due to a pandemic virus, we were thrust into a new way of living that excluded almost everyone we have ever known or loved and everything we have ever done. In our lifetimes, most of us cannot recall a time when we were more disconnected from one another. May we support one another in learning about ourselves and taking steps toward our healing and our becoming the actual, unique whole persons that we are. In a time like this, the opportunities for understanding and growth are plentiful. Thank you for being there and reading this. It’s nice to be acknowledging this amongst my Jungian friends. Something in me could feel that this process was strangely beneficial, a gut-wrenching transition into greater honesty with my self and a much-needed deflation of a tendency to regard myself as much further along than I actually am. The process of reading and feeling and facing truths broke my heart again and again, and it humbled me at a very deep level. It was very hard for me to stay in touch with the horror and pain of what has been done to so many people, and to feel the ways I have been unconsciously indoctrinated into the system and its injustice and cruelty. She makes legitimate and disturbing comparisons between our caste system and those of India and Nazi Germany. It is a brilliant spelling out of how the United States has been and is a caste system, a deeply unconscious power hierarchy that rigidly and tenaciously keeps Whites at the top and Blacks at the bottom. It was very challenging for me to read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
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It’s no small matter to stay aware and open, to work toward owning our shadow, discovering and getting free from our complexes, integrating and individuating. It’s such a challenging time! There are so many ways that our world has changed and is changing, and these churn up our outer lives and our inner lives. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.
She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. It won the 2022 Gold Nautilus award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. Don’t forget to login via support the Kansas City Friends of Jung!Ĭonnie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. You can purchase the book on Amazon from the link. The program is based on Connie’s latest book. You can view the event details here and register here. We will be hosting Connie Zweig via Zoom for our next program: Aging as Spiritual Practice: The Hidden Promise of Shifting from Role to Soul.
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