WORKSHOP: The Interpretation of Fairytales & The Mystery of Death: Constructing the Diamond Body

SATURDAY AM : The Interpretation of Fairytales

Von Franz’s expertise in fairytales is unmatched in the Jungian world. She spent much of her

lifetime exploring thousands of fairytales, myths and legends. Over her illustrious career, she

was able to concretize a set of steps of how to approach and interpret these tales. Join us as

we look at her 8 steps in interpreting fairytales as well as her concepts of integrating typology,

the lazy hero, finding a personal myth, and the circumambulation of the Self.

SATURDAY PM The Mystery of Death: Constructing the

Diamond Body to Withstand Eternity.

Without question, von Franz had a strong belief in the afterlife. She worked with hundreds of

dreams of those in the process of dying and used them as glimpses into death and what

happens to the soul after death. She discovered clear patterns and concluded that one brings

into the afterlife only those elements they were able to make conscious over their lifetime. She

saw one’s diamond body or subtle body as an indestructible soul-body that survives the fire of

death. She even describes the “physics of death” in her work on supra-luminal frequencies and

how we pass through these initially at birth, and again at death. Join us as we explore the

profound mysteries of death and the afterlife.

Steven Buser, MD trained in medicine at Duke University and served 12 years as a physician in the

U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of the two-year Clinical Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of

Chicago and is the co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He has worked for over 30 years in

psychiatry with a focus on Jungian oriented psychotherapy. Dr. Buser currently works in the field of

addiction medicine and serves as Publisher of Chiron Publications. He along with fellow publisher

Leonard Cruz are the General Editors of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, a 28 volume

series.

Marie-Louise von Franz

At the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bolingen

Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him

months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon

after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her

analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers.

She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly

sought-after teacher. Listening to von Franz lecture was a numinous experience. I thought God was

speaking. She seemed to know everything. In an amazing fashion and without a text, she ranged over

history West and East, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and a host of other specialized areas. Never

in my training had I heard such far-reaching and profound reflections. (Murray Stein, PhD)