Monika Wikman, Ph.D.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer, teacher/group facilitator with a deep emphasis on alchemy and the incarnation of the subtle body mysteries. (She also worked in the past as a cranial-sacral practitioner with the dying.) She is the author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness (Nicolas-Hays, 2004), and is executive editor and a contributor to Living with Fire: The Alchemical Imagination of Nathan Schwartz-Salant and its Impact on Depth Psychology (Chiron, 2026). She has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to numerous publications. A graduate of the Jung-Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate program at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at University of California, San Diego Medical Center on dreams of the dying. She recently saw her mate, Tom Elsner, through his intimate death process, and now focuses primarily on living in nature, writing, and meditation. And meanwhile she also enjoys podcasting, giving lectures and leading retreats and workshops through the Center for Alchemical Studies. Her interests in projects as a member on the Earthways.org board focus on supporting indigenous peoples with care for their cultures and wild lands.
Presentation Topics
• Meditations, Dreams and Images exploring the Divine Anthropos
• 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
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