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Philip Zabriskie ended his professional life as a Founding Member of the Jung-ian Psychoanalytic Association, what he liked to call a ‘rebel group of 13 Jung-ians’, a characterization in which he took both a serious purpose and a gleeful delight. He was a graduate of Groton School, Princeton University (salutar-ian), Virginia Theological Seminary, the Jung Institute, Zürich, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. He held offices in the National Episcopal Church and World Student Christian Federation, and received a Doctorate in Divinity, honoris causa, from Kenyon College.
In 1973, Philip settled in New York with his wife Beverley Zabriskie, and began a long, active, and moving life as an analyst and contributor to the Jungian community of scholars and educators. Over the years, Philip served as the first President of the C.G. Jung Foundation, President of the C.G. Jung Training Institute, New York, member of the Executive Committee of the IAAP, and President of the Board of the Archive for Research for Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS). He was an indefatigable and successful fundraiser; many ongoing educational projects would never have seen the light of day, nor survived, without Philip's stewardship. In 1982 he launched the ‘Capital Funds Campaign’ in New York and was instrumental in establishing separate endowments for the C.G. Jung Institute, and ARAS, allowing these entities to grow and flourish. All of us in the Jungian community have reaped the benefits of his powerful, steady and fair-minded determination to move the Jungian opus forward.
In this period he lived an active life ‘of the world’. However, at age 65, intending to turn inward again and devote himself to writing a commentary on his beloved Odyssey, he suffered a debilitating stroke, then cancer intervened and an unexpected path appeared. Philip took that path and embraced it with characteristic devotion, vitality and determination, such that, in the end, his inner life shone through most bri