April 25, 2025, Jungian Lecture: Toko-pa Turner

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About the Event

Metaphor: Language of Kinship with Toko-pa Turner

About the Speaker

Toko-pa Turner is a Canadian author and internationally celebrated dreamworker. Her first book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, has been translated into ten languages and won the 2018 Gold Nautilus Award and the 2018 Gold Readers’ Favorite Award. Her new book The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams has been called “remarkable” by the mythologist Michael Meade, and “exquisitely written” by Jungian analyst Anne Baring. Toko-pa joins us via Zoom from the Ottawa Valley. https://toko-pa.com/

Details about the Event

In this talk, Toko-pa will offer a deep dive into the magical workings of metaphor. Although we think of metaphor as a literary embellishment, it is actually our mother tongue. It is the body’s own language, and precedes the spoken word. Metaphor works by bringing two truths together so they can exchange ideas - the result of which is wisdom. In revealing a meaningful connection between contexts, metaphor liberates us from the isolation of prosaic thinking, catalyzing psychic movement. Harvesting fresh metaphors not only changes how we experience the world but how we, in turn, shape our future.

“Metaphor is the vocabulary of the body, a language of symbols that serves to restore connectedness to the world.” ~ Toko-pa Turner

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