Friday, May 15, 7:30-9:30PM, First Unitarian Church, 4700 Grover Ave, Room 15

Priscilla Murr, PhD., LPC

Cost: $12 Jung Society members; $15 non-members

A small cave on the Pedernales River is the location of thousand year-old paintings. This space was most certainly sacred to the artist and the community she/he created it for. The cave with the paintings provided a place apart from the daily life where psychic transformations, initiations and contact with the transcendent could occur. Priscilla took a group from the Jung Society to visit the cave several years ago. As a result, the Jung Society financed the carbon dating of the site, proving the site to be older than 750 years. Not only is the site interesting because there is so little rock art in Central Texas, but also because the Jung Society has been so involved with the recent archaeology of the site.

Priscilla Murr, PhD., LPC has been in private practice in Austin for nearly 25 years. She came to Austin from Zurich where she studied at the Jung Institute, the University of Zurich and analyzed with one of Jung’s closest students. A graduate from the Jung Institute with a degree in the ethnology of religion, Dr. Murr is a long time student of rock art: seeing in it a clear expression of humanity’s experience with the unconscious and the transcendental world.