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Archive for May, 2006

The Evolutionary Mind

In June of 1998 Rupert invited me to the University of California, Santa Cruz to attend The Evolutionary Mind Trialogue with Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham. It was a fascinating discussion. There is a video of the 1st session (1hr 03mins) available here.

Jung on the Pedagogy of Myth

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The Canonization of the New Testament

I few weeks ago I discussed my views on the Gospel of Judas and how the final cannon was decided. I found an excellent audio clip from a lecture on the Canonization of the New Testament by Bart Ehrman (a New Testament scholar) that may help clear up exactly how this happened. You can also read a great article on this here. You can hear the lecture below:

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Freud: So wrong and yet so right

USA Today: “As the 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s birth approaches on Saturday, mental-health experts consider his legacy mixed: A seminal thinker, Freud was far ahead of his time with some ideas but dead wrong on others. ” (more…)

Disorientation and Demoralization

“A collapse of the conscious attitude is no small matter. It always feels like the end of the world, as though everything had tumbled back into original chaos. One feels delivered up, disoriented, like a rudderless ship that is abandoned to the moods of the elements. So at least it seems. In reality, however, one has fallen back upon the collective unconscious, which now takes over the leadership. We could multiply examples of cases where, at the critical moments, a “saving” thought, a vision, an “inner voice,” came with an irresistible power of conviction and gave life a new direction. Probably we could mention just as many cases where the collapse meant a catastrophe that destroyed life, for at such moments morbid ideas are also liable to take root, or ideals will wither away, which is no less disastrous. In the one case some psychic oddity develops, or a psychosis; in the other, a state of disorientation and demoralization.” – C.G. Jung

Pakistan Catches Up to Freud and Jung

The view on Jung’s concept of animus and anima from Pakistan. (more…)