Oct 31
“Let the waters teem with countless living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of heaven.’” E.O. Wilson is quoting from the biblical account of the fifth day of creation. “Isn’t that lovely?” he asks, his voice lilting with pleasure. “Whether you believe that there is a god who touched the universe with a magic wand or not, it’s a command—[one] I think scientists could respond to as well as religious folk.”
Oct 30
For three strange days I had no obligations. My mind was a blur, I did not know what to do. I think I lost myself when I lost my motivation. Now I’m walking ’round the city just waiting to come to. For three strange days I couldn’t put a smile on my face so they dressed me up in all of their clothes and took me somewhere else. Johnny Clueless was there with his simulated wood grain. So, I pulled up a chair and started drinking by myself. For three strange… I’ve got to make it through. No matter what it takes. Oh I’ve got to make it through these strange days.
I lay down for a while and I woke up on the ocean floating on my back and staring at the gray. It was completely still except the pounding of my heart bringing me back to life from three strange days.
© School of Fish
Oct 25
Since I was a toddler (okay, maybe not that young) I’ve always had my unique point of view on politics and social issues – I mean who doesn’t, right? I heard somewhere that people tend to become more conservative when they get older. I guess I don’t really fit into that category. I could give the same speech today against capital punishment that I gave to my 11th grade Speech class. I could write the same pro-choice paper that I wrote for college over 10 years ago (a paper which I wrote for my girlfriend that landed her an “F” from her bible-thumping teacher). Either I never grew up or I grew up too fast. I was all too aware of these social issues at an early age. I think I realized even then how insane things can get when the few dictate to the many.
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From Scientific American, “year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year’s winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds. It could leave Earth at lunchtime and get to the moon in time for dinner. There’s just one catch: the idea relies on an obscure and largely unrecognized kind of physics. Can they possibly be serious?”
Take a leap into hyperspace – fundamentals – 05 January 2006 – New Scientist
The recent rediscovery of concrete lived time from ‘clock-time’ by process theorists enables us to make important adjustments in our thinking about the true nature of temporality, movement and change. For these process theorists, change is reality itself, and ‘organizations’ are nothing more than ‘temporary arrestations in a sea of flux and transformation. From this perspective it is the phenomenon of organisation that requires analysis and explanation and not change itself. This understanding opens up new avenues of inquiry for Organization Studies as a field of study. Thus the shaping of contemporary modes of thought, codes of behaviour, social mannerisms, dress, gestures, postures, the rules of law, ethical codes, disciplines of knowledge and so on, makes for more appropriate theoretical foci for an expanded realm of Organization Studies — one which offers a deeper understanding of organisation and its consequences for the world of affairs.
Oct 19
Materia Prima (http://www.materia-prima.net) is the website of the International Workshop of Analytical Psychology for Childhood and Adolescence, which was created by Jungian analysts from Europe and North and South America. Supported and financed by the IAAP, this website offers theoretical and clinical articles about Jungian therapeutic issues with children and adolescents, book reviews, announcements about events and links. Subscribers (Jungian analysts working with children and adolescents, as well as IAAP members and candidates) can access a newsletter and space to share papers, information and ideas about the Workshop. You can visit the website at http://www.materia-prima.net (http://www.materia-prima.net/).
Original post by C.G. Jung Page
From the Journal of Analytical Psychology, “In this paper I discuss the nature and role of dream and the dreaming process in Jungian clinical practice in the light of neuroscience. Insights from contemporary neuroscience support rather than contest Jung’s view that emotional truth, not censorship or disguise, underpins the dreaming process. I use clinical material to illustrate how work with dreams within the total interactive experience of the analytic dyad enables the development of the emotional scaffolding necessary for the development of ‘mind’.”
From the Times Online, “If you think telepathy is tosh, many scientists agree with you. But they ignore the evidence. Have you ever thought about someone for no apparent reason, and then that person rang on the telephone? Have you felt you were being watched, and turned round to find someone staring at you? Recent surveys show that a majority of the population in Britain have had these experiences. If they are more than coincidences or illusions, they suggest that minds are more extensive than brains.”
There is a great interview with Rupert on the Australian television channel ABC by Robyn Williams. From the website, “He made the biggest splash at the recent British Association Festival of Science in Norwich – but perhaps for the wrong reasons. Many newspapers questioned his right to be there. Dr Rupert Sheldrake was once a respected Cambridge botanist with solid contributions to the field of plant hormones. Is he still a scientist to take seriously?”
Go to In Conversation.
Oct 16
I woke up this morning in a new place and found myself looking out the window into a new city and wondering how I arrived here. It was nine months ago that I died and it is somehow appropriate that it is now, nine months later, that I am born again. All of those past impossibilities that seemed so distant have found their way back into my life. The scale is much smaller, more manageable, and I wonder whether any sort of greatness lay ahead. I would not want to use my past as an excuse for my future. Read more
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