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BiographyJerry M. Ruhl, Ph.D. | Robert A. Johnson
Dr. Ruhl earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he developed a new holistic model for coping with life changing accidents and illness. During a visit to San Diego, Jerry suggested that Robert’s remarkable life would make a fascinating book. They inquired of the I Ching if this would be a fortuitous venture, and an affirmative response led to a series of conversations stretching out for nearly a year. Jerry and Robert discussed life, death, reincarnation, loneliness, and many other topics. They shared dreams, practiced active imagination together, and worked through a life review that culminated in the book Balancing Heaven and Earth. They have sustained a collaborative writing partnership since that time, culminating in their most recent book: Living Your Unlived Life. In addition to his analytical work with Robert, Jerry trained with Jean Carlson in Denver and Roland Evans in Boulder, Colorado. While living in Denver, Jerry served as a trustee of the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado. He moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1999, in search of small town America. Recently he accepted a position as the executive director of the Houston Jung Center in Texas, and he will also see patients in private practice in the Houston area. Jerry also facilitates ongoing dream groups, and presents seminars around the nation. Visit the News page for more information about upcoming events. Recent presentation topics include:
Robert has been pursuing inner work since a near-death experience at the age of eleven. The tragic loss of a leg after being hit by an automobile provided his first glimpse of the Golden World, a realm that exists just beyond ordinary consciousness. Like Parsifal in the legendary myth of the Holy Grail, a spiritual quest in his early decades led Robert to improbable encounters with a variety of sages, saints and sinners, culminating in a meeting with the famed Swiss psychiatrist Jung. He attended the first classes offered at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied and worked with the pioneers of analytical psychology, including Carl Jung, Emma Jung, and Jolande Jacobi. He completed analytical training with Dr. Fritz Kunkel in Los Angeles and Dr. Toni Sussman in London. Robert also studied with J. Krishnamurti, with Soto Zen priest Maezumi Roshi, and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Robert received an honorary doctorate in humanities and lifetime achievement award from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2002. For nineteen years Robert divided his time between Southern California and India. He now resides in San Diego, California, where he enjoys the company of many friends, cultivates water lilies in his living room, and occasionally plays his rare Clavichord D’amour, an instrument dating from the eighteenth century. M. Ruhl
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Jerry M. Ruhl is a therapist, national speaker, and internationally known author living in Houston, Texas. In the first half of life Jerry was a journalist, and he managed communications for two major corporations. At mid-life he realized he had climbed up the corporate ladder but it was leaning against the wrong wall. He began studying the works of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung and observed first hand spiritual practices in Japan, Bali, Thailand, Nepal, and India. Jerry and Robert met at a Jungian conference in 1987, and a lasting friendship and professional collaboration began.
Only a handful of true spiritual elders come along in each generation. With more than two million books in print in thirty countries on five continents, honored and respected Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson has been one of the most influential interpreters of Jungian psychology in our time, presenting Carl Jung’s rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace. His term “inner work” has become part of the vocabulary with which serious seekers understand themselves and their life’s journey. Robert’s books are known and loved for their beautiful retellings of timeless myths and folktales as well as for their deep wisdom and profound insight. 