Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. Editor and contributor to Living with Fire: The Alchemical Imagination of Nathan Schwartz Salant and his contributions to Depth Psychology, Chiron Publications, 2026. She has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to numerous publications including a chapter in The Dream and Its Amplification, edited by Erel Shalit and Nancy Furlotti. A graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center on “Dreams of the Dying.” She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.com, The Center for Alchemical Studies. Publications by and Podcasts with Monika on various topics can be found here.
Presentation Topics
• Psyche’s Living Strata reveal The Indigenous Soul alive and well in Dream and Waking Life
• Psyche and Illness: Dreams and Healing
• The Veil Between the Worlds: Jung’s experience (and our own) of Near Death Phenomenon
• Courting Experiences of the Subtle Body
• Soul lessons with the Persona: Creation of the World — Coyote in the Hole with Mistake
• Jung and Synchronicity: Playing with our Experiences of the Temporal and Eternal
• Dreams of the Dying
• Women Dreaming, Women Painting
• Alchemical Mysteries: The Divine Transforming in the Human Soul
• Alchemy and Creativity: The Path of Refining the Religious Function
• Jung, Sufi Cosmology and the Subtle Body
• The Archetypes of Astrology: Meditations on the Mandala of One’s Starmap
• Chiron and your Starchart: the Vale of Soulmaking
• Refining the Inner Bullshit Detector: Humor, Hermes and the Human Shadow
• The Alchemy of War and the Honeybee in the Works of W.B.Yeats
• Archeoastronomy and Mayan Cosmology
• The Body of the Horse and the Chiron Myth: Reflections for Wounded Healers
• The Life and Work of Emily Carr
• Alchemical Hunt for the Green Lion
• Prayer for the World Soul: Experiences of Ash and its Alchemical Mysteries
• Living with Dying
• Archetypal Phenomenon Surrounding Death
• Death, Dreams and The Wedding Veil between Worlds
• Orienting in the Dark: Dream Wisdom addressing our Collective Times
• Saint Margaret and the Dragon: Wisdom and the Chthonic Spirit
Monika Wikman + The Center for Alchemical Studies - Santa Fe, New Mexico