conforti - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T18:33:17Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/book-club/forum/topics/feed/tag/conforti3-MARCH: Field, Form, and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche with Dr Michael Confortihttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/book-club/forum/topics/march-field-form-and-fate-patterns-in-mind-nature-and-psyche-with2012-03-03T01:49:02.000Z2012-03-03T01:49:02.000ZDr. Michael Confortihttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DrMichaelConforti<div><p>Hi everyone. I want to thank Bonnie Bright for the invitation to participate in this online book Club, and hope that I can follow in the footsteps of last months author, Dr. Eril Shallit, to provide what I hope is a meaningful discussion about the underpinnings of my book, <i>Field, Form and Fate</i> and to continue the explorations into the domain of psyche and spirit.</p>
<p> The idea for this book began back in 1996 when my interests into the confluence of matter and psyche began to take shape- In addition to C.G. Jung’s ongoing work into the workings of psyche and Self, it was the world of the New Sciences of Emergence, which provided the necessary next step in this work. Ervin Lazlo, considered by many as the worlds foremost systems theorist was presenting in our annual conference in Assisi, Italy when he made the following comment in response to questions about archetype and form, when he said, “Field precedes Form”. As discussed in the <a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/radio.htm#conforti-field" target="_blank">radio interview with Bonnie Bright</a>, I suddenly had the theoretical, archetypal and mystical backdrop I had been missing. Be it the emergence of symbols in dreams, or the espression of behavior in life and relationship, each appears as an expression of the field from which it was generated. It was, as Lazlo said, the archetypal field that is omnipresent, and from this matter and experiences emerge. Then when looking further into the workings of fields, I found not only biological but archetypal validation for the reality of innate, pre-formed, and it was the constellation of these which generated the form and dynamics which filled individual and collective expression.</p>
<p>This book represents my research and discoveries into the nature of fields and a discussion of how it is that these non-material fields, express their dynamics within the material domain- Such are the ways of psyche and the ways of the psychoidal.</p>
<p>Now more than thirteen years after the publication of that book, I remain deeply interested in the workings of these fields, and how it is that an understanding of the patterns established from these can move the individual into a meaningful relationship with life and the archetype and so too into a relationship with those non generative archetypal dynamics.</p>
<p>I hope that you find this work of interest and that you will take time to read the first 70 or so pages in this book within the next two weeks, and I will respond to the general themes emerging from these. Please feel free to post any questions or comments you may have in the meantime.</p>
<p>Very much looking forward to meeting each and every one of you through this on line forum.</p>
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<p> Sincerely,</p>
<p> Michael Conforti </p></div>