Psychology

Carl Jung In a Box

March 18, 2009
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Like you, my life is very busy and I don’t always have the time I need to address my acute schizophrenia personal issues, so I often just talk to my personal therapist, Carl Jung. Sure, he may have died 40 years ago, but that doesn’t mean you can’t commune with him directly through the new Carl Jung Action Figure. If you ask Dr. Jung a question and focus very, very hard, he will actually give you a response. Sometimes you don’t even have to concentrate – he will just start speaking. Often I have to put him in a drawer or something because he’s always saying (insert Swiss accent), “For God’s sake doctor, help me get rid of this woman.” It doesn’t warn you on the package, but as we all know, “Invoked or not invoked, Jung is always present.”

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Underdog Psychology

October 17, 2008
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David Brooks as psychologist? He wrote a great opinion piece for the New York Times today ((Source: Thinking About Obama)) on the psychology of Barack Obama. Brooks is certainly conservative but he is always level-headed and critical – that’s why I like his editorials. I suppose in his logical, dispassionate analytics he finds Obama a kindred spirit. Of course, by the end of the article he raises his elephant flag but up to that point he gives a fair and cogent psychological analysis.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

July 22, 2008

It’s hard to believe that it has taken modern science 200 years to catch up to Lamarck. One of the common threads on Nautis Project has always been the incompleteness of a biological theory of evolution, morphology, and memory. It is these gaps in our knowledge that people like Lamarck, Darwin, Bergson, and Goethe tried to address in biology and Campbell and Jung drew attention in psychology and mythology. I’ve written about this before here:

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Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

April 12, 2008

The next issue of What Is Enlightenment? is going to an interesting one. Here is the excerpt: “In one of WIE’s most eclectic issues yet, we trace the profound influence that the 20th-century luminaries Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have had on the way we see ourselves and our world, and how their perspectives are shaping our collective destiny today. Plus, we take a closer look at the idea of the “divine feminine,” critique the artwork of Adi Da Samraj, explore the relationship between time and eternity, and speak with a bodybuilding legend on his pursuit of self mastery. Featuring Ken Wilber, Frank Zane, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Andrew Cohen, and more.”

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By What Myth Am I Living?

February 17, 2008

I haven’t really written much in the past few months – other than posting stuff on politics from other sites. I’ve been reflecting on the past. I remember someone once telling me that as you get older you get the most vivid flashback memories of your life. That is what’s been happening to me. Every moment I spend unglued from the internet or work, I am forced to confront those memories. For the most part, my memories of the past are quite good.

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New Jung and Sheldrake Videos

September 17, 2007

I’ve posted a few new videos on blip.tv (blip is like youtube but much better). Here is a list of the clips:

A Glorious Accident: Sheldrake Interview

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What Is Serendipity?

July 25, 2007

If you’ve read even a little bit of Jung, you are familiar with the term, “synchronicity“. Wikipedia defines this as, “the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them.” Serendipity refers to finding something unexpected where you were not even looking.

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An Interview with June Singer

April 3, 2007

Back in 1998 I interviewed one of my favorite Jungian authors, June Singer, for the old Jung Index web site. The interview is no longer available on the internet and it would be a shame to lose it. The format of the interview was collaborative – over email – so many people participated and were able to ask questions. So, here is the original interview from November 1998 – a tribute a great woman, who brought Jung’s psychology within my reach.

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