Jung lecture series begins Oct. 30

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The Port Townsend Friends of Jung present "An Evening with Laura Lewis Thayer," Jungian analyst and practitioner of Chinese medicine, from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30 at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend. Admission is $8.

Thayer's lecture, “The Archetype of Number: Rhythms of the Eternal,” is the first in an occasional "evening with" series sponsored by the Friends of Jung to introduce regional Jungian analysts and depth psychologists to the community.

Contact with the eternal feeds spirit and soul, something Carl Jung considered essential to human well-being. Daily life demands engagement with the temporal and mundane. How can these two worlds be functionally brought together?

Looking to the most fundamental of archetypes, the archetype of number, provides a natural model for the understanding and experience of the interpenetration of these two seemingly disparate realms. As the most basic language describing the material and psychic realms, the archetype of number provides a template that can be used pragmatically to develop a working model that accommodates two poles of a fundamental split in consciousness.

Thayer holds master's degrees from the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine and Pacifica Graduate Institute, and diploma from the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAPZurich). She has been a mental health practitioner since 1990 and a practitioner of East Asian medicine since 2001, and is board certified in acupuncture and Chinese herbology. She practices privately in Port Townsend and lectures internationally.