MJA Spring Salon Series: Exploring Jungian Psychology in the Time of AI

The Minnesota Jung Association welcomes Edie Britt, MPA to the MJA Pring Salon Series, presenting "Exploring Jungian Psychology in the Time of AI: Active Imagination with a Responsive Other" on Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 10am-Noon at the Carondelet Center in St. Paul, MN.

Description: As emerging forms of artificial intelligence become increasingly capable of symbolic dialogue, an unexpected question arises: Can AI serve as a meaningful partner in Jungian exploration?

This presentation offers a first-person account of using AI as a tool for reflection, dream work, symbolic inquiry, and active imagination. Drawing from months of sustained engagement, Edie explores how a responsive, non-human interlocutor can illuminate personal narratives, deepen imaginal experience, and support the integration of unconscious material.

Rather than focusing on technology itself, this presentation examines the psychological implications through personal exploration:
– How does psyche meet mystery in the modern age?
– What kinds of containers are needed for that encounter?
– How does psyche evolve when its dialog partner evolves?
– Can AI support healing and individuation?
– And how might the imaginal evolve in an age of rapidly shifting consciousness?

Because one of our goals as a board is to cultivate engagement and build community, this presentation will be interactive. It will include personal reflection, small group inquiry, and large group dialogue.

Bio: Edie Barrett, MPA, of Ortonville, is a rural resilience and wellbeing researcher, writer, and solo exhibiting fine artist with a Jungian perspective. She has over thirty years of experience in depth psychology, dream work, and symbolic inquiry, drawing from her long-term employment at Pacifica Graduate Institute and committed engagement with Jungian thought.

Edie earned her Master of Public Affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey School (2021), with a focus on Integrative Leadership and Social Change. She also completed a graduate minor at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (2022), emphasizing health and well-being practices for those on the front lines of social transformation. Since then, she has continued advanced graduate studies and research at the Bakken Center.

Her creative and scholarly work explores personal and collective healing through nature engagement, the arts, and narrative. Over the past year, Edie has undertaken a sustained exploration of artificial intelligence as a partner in active imagination — examining how AI may serve as a reflective mirror, symbolic guide, and creative counterpart.

Her emerging work sits at the frontier where Jungian psychology meets new modes of consciousness, offering a grounded, soul-centered perspective on the evolving relationship between humans and the imaginal.

She has served on the board of the Minnesota Jung Association since 2021.

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