C.G. Jung wrote that we have a 'Two thousand year old man in each of us.' In today's high tech world, that ancient wisdom has been forgotten by much of collective consciousness - its importance having all but disappeared from the mainstream. In light of this 'forgetting,' our planet Earth, our inner nature, and our outer Nature have suffered unfathomable destruction.

In the evening lecture, we look to Psyche or Soul for healing the collective and individual core splits between humankind and Nature. We do this through the telling of a young man's difficult journey into lived experience as depicted in the (2007) film, 'Into the Wild.'

Because we are in a mythological time where the old stories and myths do not hold us together, we are challenged to integrate the internal Self, wilderness within, with external Nature, wilderness without. This quest is the Hero's or Heroine's Journey of the late 20th and 21st Centuries, in which we live.

Speaker biography:
Jane Kepner, PhD, Jungian Analyst, Clinical Psychologist, has studied theater, film, religion, and psychology. She completed an M.Div. at Harvard Divinity School, did anti-poverty work as a ministry, and earned a doctorate at Pacifica Graduate Institute before training in Zurich to become an analyst. She is in private practice in White Salmon, WA, and has lived close to the wilderness for the past 8 years.