Your Instructor
Patricia Anne Elwood

I am a Jungian analyst, with 30 years of research into the realms of the personal and collective unconscious, author, lecturer, seminar leader, and adventurer; post-graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, in analytical psychology for children, adolescents, and adults, living and practicing in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Passionate about peoples and belief systems, I have traveled the globe, especially beyond the beaten tracks, to discover many indigenous peoples and be witness to that place and space of deeper reverence where we are all universally connected.

Without any particular design, the common thread I discovered was in shamanism. I subsequently met many shamans in their various environments from the Arctic Circle to the backwaters of the Lao mountains, in the Americas, the Altai region of Russia, and in many places across the world. The fact that their rituals, ceremonies, and precepts were common to all, even those who had never met peoples beyond their own tribe, was living proof for me of the collective unconscious.

When one delves into the spheres of the collective unconscious one may well receive visions, symbols, and messages. Putting this into a scientific frame was also an aim. This led me to collaborating with various scientists in Italy, Germany, and Russia, exploring the spheres beyond time and space. The scientists I met were especially interested in Jung, his recognition of the unconscious, and the function of intuition. My last conference on the subject was in the Cosmonaut’s Museum in Moscow, where I lectured on The cosmos within meets the cosmos without, a comparative study of Jungian principles and cosmological findings.

I continued my research on the subject in the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge University where I compared my findings with other scientific theses.

Spontaneous drawing, as prescribed by Jung himself, has been a means of contact with the peoples I met of different races over and beyond cultural differences, language barriers, and religious beliefs. It has been a precious and limitless tool for contacting others at a deep and intimate level.