- a recent article of mine at Huffington Post:
For more than a century now, depth psychology -- the research and practice built on the work of Pierre Janet, William James, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, C.G. Jung, and other explorers of the unconscious -- has invited us to interpret "outer" events much like we'd interpret dreams: by finding their symbolic import.
What, then, might be underneath the recent public fascination with a zombie apocalypse?
This new myth has ancient roots. Many cultures tell tales of dangerous beings not alive and yet not quite dead. For example, ancient Jewish stories describe the Golem, an automaton created to carry out command.... Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-chalquist-phd/the-real-zombies-outworn-_b_5480415.html
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That was an interesting claim, since the "author" is behind this: http://www.depthinsights.com/DepthPsychologyAlliance/events/archive... thing and similar works. He was communicating with anyone interested to read that article and some people from his audience perhaps left when Freud and Jung were mentioned.
Anyway, I've added on my profile that I'm interested in transpersonal psychology even though I'm not quite sure what would be the theory behind it. I kind of do, but it would be very difficult to explain it in a few words that would cover everything relevant. I am very interested in Jungian approach to consciousness but remain a little bit skeptical about the "depth" part. What if it could as well be called "sideways psychology"? We still have to figure out whether or not this approach can go deep enough to deal with the mess on the collective level, including management, economics, policy, and similar. Respect to Craig Chalquist and Willi Paul (new mythologist) for scratching their heads around these extremely complex and important issues.
It's much more complicated then for instance replace old institutions with new. These two texts are in my opinion very important: http://www.duversity.org/emilios.htm (Nature, Civilization and Consciousness by Emilios Bouratinos) and http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/IllichTools.html (Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich - sustainability is a much more complex issue than we usually think). The second text is much longer and I've already mentioned it a few times. Neither provides recipes and complete solutions.
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www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Bouratinos.pdf
A Pre-Epistemology of Consciousness by Emilios Bouratinos
It's a good read, but how much of it can actually be applied?