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We created this website to capture memories of Tom. So many of you have already sent us personal notes. We would like to share them so that all of you can see them. 

Thank you for the outpouring of love and affection for Tom. 

With love, 
Jean, David and Susannah

October 26, 2017
October 26, 2017
It was always inspiring and enlivening to meet Tom as a man who gave so much and who knew himself so well. My life was made merry and bright by meeting him and his remarkable family. I only hope the pain of losing him is mitigated by the love that surrounded him.
October 25, 2017
October 25, 2017
Tom Kirsch was considered the patron of AJB-Associação Junguiana do Brazil. During his reign as President of IAAP he and his wife Jean came to Brazil to meet with us..a group requesting entrance into the IAAP. We had great meetings with much warmth and rich exchanges. I for one learned that his wife Jean was from my little home town of Ashtabula, Ohio and the same high school!!...and here we were meeting for the first time in São Paulo...where I have resided for the last 47 years. This little fact added a touch of intimacy and awe which marked our relationship. He went on to be very supportive of the entrance of AJB into IAAP and of Analytical Psychology in Brazil..as a whole. We owe much to this great person. He is dearly missed in Brazil.

David Butler
AJB/IAAP-São Paulo
October 24, 2017
October 24, 2017
I’m felling a deep sorrow with the Tom’ death. He was a very important researcher and the very important historyan of the spread of the jungian moviment on the world. He helped us to developed the Jungian Brazilian Association (AJB) at its beginnings.
My sincere condolences. Rubens Bragarnich, AJB/IAAP
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Tom had a generous soul and a fine mind. He was a friend and mentor for me. I will always treasure my memories of our breakfasts and other times spent together. I miss him.
June 15, 2023
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It's the time to remember of our master, Thomas. God bless you. That your soul always be enlightened!. 
June 14, 2023
June 14, 2023
Tom. Your memory is still treasured. You were a generous friend and mentor.
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Our mentor...

October 22, 2020
Tom was the President of IAAP when we hear at AJB...in São Paulo were requesting entrance into the IAAP. He and Jean(also from my hometown, Ashtabula, Oh.) came to São Paulo to visit us and meet and evaluate our group. That memory and our subsequent acceptance at the next IAAP Congress signified the second official society in Latin America....and an exponential explosion of Jungian studies and popularity on the continent. He is part of our history here....

Innovation and creativity

December 27, 2018

Dear Jean and Susannah, 

We still miss Tom so much.Here was a story about Tom.

Cheng Wen-Yu and Tom at China Town in San Francisco 2014.

I remember that itwas the first time Wen-Yu had a speech as a Jungian at China town, he told about Zen and Jungian. 
I asked Tom that Zen and Jung had different traditions why you can accept the idea that compare them together? 
Tom answer me with smile, the tradition of Jungian institute of San Francisco is Innovation (creativity ).This is important to me and all of us. 

Edward Po-Yuan Huang...

The Indispensable Man

November 4, 2017

Dear Tom:

Christine graciously loaned me the DVD of your interview with Murray Stein and it was wonderful! I can't tell you how much Emily and I got out of it!  

I noted your mentioning to Murray Stein that you were not a "intellectual" as others were. It brought to mind the term applied to Washington - The Indispensable Man.  Washington was also feeling inferior to some of the other revolutionaries around him, e.g. Jefferson and Madison, who were intellectiuals and writers. But the Revolution would never have been successful without his leadership.   Perhaps a similar thing could be said about you. It seems to me that you were indispensable to the Jungian movement. 

I will forever remember your role in my life.  I shan't try to describe that here! I remember the first thing I said to you, and your response, and the dream with the little man in blue that I had that night.

You were my therapist and second parent for 34 years. Goodbye whereever you are! 

Warmly,  

Bill

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