Just came across this compelling interview on"Tears for Louisiana", an excellent Jungian take on the Gulf Oil Spill in an Interview with Jungian Richard Chachere on Shrink Rap Radio (with host Dr. David Van Nuys, July 9, 2010). Worth the time to listen/read!
Richard Chachere has lived in Lafayette, Louisiana for the last 32 years practicing Jungian therapy, after founding The Acadiana Friends of Jung in 1978, and after attending the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and working in analysis with Jack Sanford and getting to know the Southern California Jungian community, especailly the work of Edward Edinger and Diane Cordic. He has also worked with Dr. Theo Abt in Zurich.
Richard has written 2 books: American Beauty, A jungian Commentary; as well as Legends of the Fall;, a Jungian Commentary. His “Tears for Louisiana” is an outpouring after the Oil Spill near his home in Lafayette, and summer home, Cypremort Point, La., where he has been working on the life of Laurens Van Der Post for the past 5 years, witnessing the ravages of Hurricanes Katrina, as well as Ike and Gustav; and now BP’s massive Oil Spill! Which has also brought to life his boy’s story, The Fisher Boy, not yet printed, along with Gone With The Wind, A Jungian Commentary.
PDF TRANSCRIPT: http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/241.pdf
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Bonnie - Thank you for posting all these resources for further depth experience of the oil gash in the Gulf.
I also lived in Lafayette and used to play on the Vermillion River - both joy and real anguish were parts of my young life as occasionally there were massive fish kills from the paper mills up stream. All the dead fish washed up in the culverts were the crawfish also lived. I am not quite ready to listen to all of Richard's "Tears for Louisiana" but I am certainly interested in what a Jungian has to say from Lafayette! Just that fact, a Jungian in Lafayette, is a wonder to me...
In the spirit of honoring our oceans and the animals who call it home, here is a good resource for a depth experience of their home: an ocean monitoring tool called LIDO – “Listening to the Deep Ocean” was brought to my attention by Michael Stocker, the Director of Ocean Conservation Research. He writes:
Michel André, Director of the Laboratorio de Aplicaciones Bioacústicas (LAB) has developed a fabulous ocean monitoring tool called LIDO – “Listening to the Deep Ocean” that incorporates a number of hydrophones in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, North Sea and Pacific Ocean. You can listen to live and archived signals to hear what the noise is all about.
While marine hydrophone arrays have been operating for decades, the LIDO project is remarkable because signals from large areas of the deep ocean are easily available to the public “on demand.”
The LIDO site is definitely worth poking around and spending a bit of time on. While shipping noise dominates most channels, you can also hear seismic surveys and see (through the metrics) the acoustical presence of dolphins, sperm, and baleen whales.
More importantly for the purpose of conservation; all of this is being made available to everyone without charge.
Michael Stocker, www.OCR.org
Hi Julie! Wow! This is an amazing tool! For anyone who hasn't looked yet, when you go to this site, LIDO – “Listening to the Deep Ocean”, the first thing you get is a world map where you can click on one of the observatories and see the percentage of whales and dolphins detected there. Then--you get to listen. Amazing. Exciting use of technology; wonderful reminder of how precious our oceans and the life within them is! Thank you so much for sharing!