Imaginal Seeing and Knowing:
The Prayer of the Heart
An In-Person Retreat with
The Rev. John Michael Hayes, PhD, ABPP,
Priest-Psychologist-Psychoanalyst
Friday, November 20 – Sunday, November 22
Retreat Theme Mostly, we make idols, projection screens of our complexes, conflicts, and desires. And our ordinary experience of reality is narrow and cramped. But when we can know the world rather as icon, we see beyond the surface, beyond our projections, and through that open window glimpse the really real reality, intimating its dense complexity, fathomless depths, and the terrible beauty of the sacred.
All the world is potentially icon. This seeing can bring seer and seen to a truer sense of being and identity; this knowing can open the mind and the heart to a deeper prayerful experience of the mystery of God.
Presenter Bio The Reverend John Michael Hayes, Ph.D., is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He has had a long career as a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst in the Baltimore-Washington area. He serves on the faculties of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association.
