Symbols - Who Needs Them?
Instructor: Eric
W. Kuntz, M. D.
Type of Course: Lecture / Seminar
Course Level: Fundamentals
Length of Course: 9-12am and 1-3pm Lunch
12-1
Course Description:
This course will help establish a foundation of understanding for the several Maine Masonic College courses that deal with Masonic symbolism, allegory, myth and philosophical expression of belief. It was developed from a psychological perspective and examines the use and dynamic poser 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.
It uses the four quadrants model as a frame of instruction. The lecture
portion of this course explores this model and suggests its use
in understanding the symbols of our degree experience. Participants will be divided into
groups and given assignments in which they use this model 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.
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.
Prerequisite Reading:
- The Craft & Its Symbols - Allen E. Roberts
Course Instructor:
Bro. Eric W. Kuntz, MD is a member of Lygonia Lodge in Ellsworth, Maine and District Deputy Grand Master of the 21st Masonic District. 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.
Some candid photos of the February, 2006 class:
All photos Copyright ©2006 Grand Lodge, AF&AM, Maine
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