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Symbols - Who Needs Them?

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Newport Masonic Hall (Directions here)

Instructor: Eric W. Kuntz, M. D.
Type of Course: Lecture / Seminar
Course Level: Fundamentals
Length of Course: 9am to 3pm.

(Lunch provided: 12noon-1pm. A $5 donation for lunch is requested and will be collected at the meeting.)

This course is open to Master Masons only.
Proof of membership will be required.

Please be sure to register HERE.

Course Description:

This course will help establish a foundation of understanding for the several Maine Masonic College courses dealing with Masonic and other forms of symbolism, allegory, myth and philosophical expression of belief. It was developed from a psychological and practical perspective which examines the use and dynamic roles of symbols as instruments of understanding and vehicles of exploration both in our personal lives and in our mutual and significant inter-relationships with others.

The lecture portion of this course explores the use of symbols of the Masonic degree experience. Participants will be divided into groups and given practical exercises in which to explore the significance and efficacy of symbols in the process of developing individual and group insights in their encounter with the human situation and in their search for greater understanding and significance. In other words, how to use symbols to obtain "more light in Masonry". This is a practical applications course.

The degree of success engendered by this process is manifest in the insights generated and in the general value and success of group activity as perceived by the instructor and by the participants.

Course Instructor:

Bro. Eric W. Kuntz, MD is a member of Lygonia Lodge in Ellsworth, Maine and Past District Deputy Grand Master of the 21st Masonic District of Maine. He is a Diplomate in Child, Adolescent, and General Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He has taught the importance of symbols and the psychological significance of ritual in everyday life. He is presently on several committees of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is the current chair of the Ethics Committee of the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians.