Gone to the Dogs in Ancient India Jamison, Stephanie W.
Journal of the American Oriental Society,
01/2007, Letnik:
127, Številka:
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A single brief paragraph, this one concerning the dog in similes (pp. 79-80), offers up citations from several Prakrit texts, a Sanskrit maxim compared to a modem English proverb, a snippet from the ...Mahabharata and one from the Atharva Veda, a quotation from Bilhana, another from a Pali text, another from HaIa, the ancient Indian dicing match, the northern European Totentier, and one of Carl Jung's dreams! (And I have left out a few.) Though it is always good simply to be reminded just how much fun our field is, this little book teaches, not so much explicitly as by example, a more serious lesson: that, though most Indologists probably think of the dog in ancient and medieval Indian culture simply as unclean and ill-omened, there was a much larger variety of responses to the animal, and it bore many different kinds of cultural freight.
Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance Mishlove, Jeffrey; Engen, Brendan C.
The Journal of humanistic psychology,
04/2007, Letnik:
47, Številka:
2
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This article proposes a new theory, archetypal synchronistic resonance (ASR), to explain ostensible paranormal experiences that can be neither accepted as literally construed nor dismissed as mere ...artifact or error. Drawing on ideas from Jung, ASR holds that ostensible paranormal experience is the result of archetypal-synchronistic functioning. To illustrate this theory, the authors analyze several mutual, emotionally potent, apparently synchronistic experiences involving the Stoic philosopher and Roman statesman Seneca and the concept of reincarnation. The authors discuss phenomenological features of the theory's resonance component and bring to light nontrivial parallels between ASR and Maslow's account of peak-experience, between ASR and Otto's description of the numinous , and between ASR and Frankl's construal of super-meaning. The authors conclude with a discussion of a competing “error-theory” of the phenomenon, which holds that putative paranormal experiences are products of apophenia, the mistaken attribution of intent or meaning to events that in fact are meaningless or purely chance occurrences.
Future perfect? Morris, Kelly
The Lancet (British edition),
2002-Apr-27, Letnik:
359, Številka:
9316
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Then inspiration dawned. Kuan Yin was advising me to seek scientific answers from science, not by divination. But a Medline search found no clinical trials of "divination" or "fortune telling", so I ...looked elsewhere for a hypothesis. How might divination work? Many readers will think "but it doesn't" and that was certainly the view held by circus man P T Barnum and psychologist B T Forer, who both asserted that people believe what they want to, and disregard the rest (the Forer or Barnum effect). Heavyweight psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was less sceptical. He believed that consulting an oracle creates a unique, key moment of interaction between client, practitioner, random number generator, and symbolic system-archetypal symbols combined with meaningful coincidences (synchronicity) can unlock the unconscious mind, which generates a response in the client that is opposed, modified, or reinforced by the practitioner's interpretation. Ultimately, the individual's emotional response gives voice to their unconscious, and to what drives them.
Visitation in a Zen Garden Ward, Karlyn M.
Jung journal,
01/2010, Letnik:
4, Številka:
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This article documents a visitation to a zen garden, witnessed by the author and her husband, who until this time had thought of the garden as all their own. It links the visit with biology, ...behavior, wonder, and depth psychology.
Bearing more directly on Western literature are Georges Polti's Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (1896), Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Russian Folk Tale (1928), Joseph Campbell's Hero With a ...Thousand Faces (1949), and more broadly, the "archetype" theories of Carl Jung (and his advocate in literary criticism, maud Bodkin). it's a tradition that has continued to straddle anthropology and literary study-through Claude lévi-strauss and the structuralists, to the present interest from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science. the most recent substantial addition to this history is Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots (2004).5 there is disappointingly little convergence, however, and the inclusiveness of such schemes varies according to the taxonomist's agenda-Propp suggests thirty-one "narratemes," Booker a mere seven.\n Although Frye's account is bound up with a view of creativity consistent with that offered by evolutionary psychology, it seems unlikely that evolutionary psychology would deliver the "order of words" he has in mind. evolutionary psychologists are interested in literature as part of their wider effort to map the similarities between human behaviors in order to produce evidence for their grand claim that human nature is always and everywhere the same-a claim which in turn rests upon the idea that all humans share a common origin. they can happily dispense with the reified sense of creativity that sees the literary author as master of his or her materials. they can dump intentionality almost entirely and still get on with the business of evolutionary psychology. if we are herd animals behaving according to stacked algorithmic codes, all the better for their claims that human nature is always and everywhere the same.
Marie Louise Von Franz reminds us that we must relate to the outer and inner world simultaneously-the world of human relationships and kinships and the inner world of the archetypes. We cannot have ...one without the other or else we risk becoming one-sided and out of balance. Translated, the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi means "life out of balance." Immoderate consumption has precipitated the earth's crisis of species extinction and global warming. On the other side of the oscillating psyche, animal rights and sensitivity emerges toward consideration for the well-being of all sentient creatures. The animal rights movement signifies the stirring of soul. The neglected animal body that resides within the psyche is alive in the instinctually deprived creature whose fur we touch and whose warm breath we feel.
A casino was being constructed in western New Mexico, home to indigenous tribes. When it was discovered that the soil brought in to help build the foundation was from a burial site, construction was halted, until the soil was removed and a reparative ceremony held. Eros extends to ancestral bonds, and this illustrates what is missing in Western culture. Psychological research shows us the frequency with which we dream of the dead, and the deep meaning and fulfillment found in these dreams. Lacking cultural context, these experiences are interior and private, and the creation of meaning is a private experience. The feeling function is experienced on an internal level where it is differentiated and relationships with ancestors deepen and evolve over time. This experience nurtures the individual but does not tap into collective healing powers to balance the lopsidedness of the civilization.
Mastery of nature was the spiritual impetus behind the historical and cultural developments that have become the technological age in which we live. What von Franz points us toward is moral courage to master ourselves by becoming fully ourselves and to heal the internal and external rifts that we so precariously endure.
Patricia Hodgins es co-directora del programa de liderazgo Proteus en la London Business School. Teatro En un amplio espacio en un edifico detras de King's Cross en Londres, Piers Ibbotson se ...encuentra trabajando con tecnicas de teatro con 30 directivos que tienen que vencer el panico escenico. Ibbotson ha sido director asistente en el Royal Shakespeare Company y actualmente dirige Directing Creativity, una consultora que aplica tecnicas teatrales con foco en las empresas y sus directivos: "Las tecnicas del teatro y dramatizacion permiten reducir la complejidad de los equipos. Para Julieta Bottino, directora de la Carrera de Arte Dramatico de la USAL con gran experiencia trabajando con ejecutivos, el teatro es una disciplina que brinda una gran cantidad de herramientas a los ejecutivos: "Lo que comprobamos trabajando con directivos es que las tecnicas que usamos en el teatro, mejoran el trabajo en equipo, permite mayor soltura, capacidad creativa y sobre todo imaginacion asi como ampliar la percepcion del entorno, conocimiento personal y percepcion del otro. El storytelling tiene una estructura mas flexible que la vieja oratoria tradicional "Hay que poder armar una nueva sintaxis para la oralidad que no derive de los textos escritos ni de otras tecnicas de informacion como el power point.
