Nautis Project

In Jung’s autobiography, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, he describes his encounter with the Native American chief, Mountain Lake, of the Taos pueblos in New Mexico in 1932:

Something has always troubled me about Darwin’s theory and even modern revisions of his work - there is still no explanation for instinct. Ethologists call instincts innate releasing mechanisms or IRM, which in layman’s terms means “we’ll use big fancy words because we just don’t know.” The most common definition is, “The mechanism by which [...]

Jung mentions suicide in his letters, often in response to specific questions regarding suicide from correspondents. It is here that we find Jung had quite specific notions of suicide and viewed the act as wasteful. Yet, the connection between his own clients and suicide goes unmentioned. Jung’s strongest statement is made to a “Mrs. N.”, [...]

Future Psychological Evolution, by John Stewart
Evolutions Arrow, by John Stewart
Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective Within The Science And Practice Of Psychology, by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
Online Papers on Consciousness, compiled by David Chalmers
Studying the Evolutionary Development of Species, NPR
Recent Evolution, NPR
Science and the Search for [...]