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"As the statues come down or are being debated; as the flags are being removed or changed. What kinds of responses have you observed in your areas? What arguments are being presented for the removal or retention of these symbols? What function does a…"
"So...after a LONG time away, I resurface and wonder who is still out there, esp. in the Carolinas and Virginia? Frankly, I took too great a chunk of real estate in my exuberance with the beginning of the DPA. Now hoping there are some still…"
"The actual phrase "depth psychology" about three times. The concepts and perceptions related to and introduced by depth psychology, most likely, 10+ times a week. Normally with people interested in dreams, synchronicity, religion, and philosophy.…"
"After a hiatus that included taking a new job, moving to a new state, and having, on the way, heart surgery, I am back and needing some mental stimulation! I'm in North Carolina now (New Bern) and looking for any groups that may be in the area,…"
"I am told that the shuttle information is coming out in the new E-News from the Journey Conferences. We'll both check when it arrives."
Oct 30, 2014 at 9:00am to Nov 2, 2014 at 6:00am
St. Francis Springs Prayer Center
"I'll be happy to check. Thanks for the positive review! :)"
"Fun. As I understand it, the collect unconscious of humanity is drawn from the combined unconscious dynamics of humanity passed down from the earliest times. If experience is the key, then the alien experience would be alien (couldn't resist) to our…"
"Absolutely. Even Jung postulated that archetypal images could change and new images added after long periods of acceptance by humanity."
"Just occurred to me that false memory creation has been going on for generations, just not along neuroscientific lines. How many times has history been rewritten and taught in our schools to generations not old enough to have their own memories of…"
"First, going back to the original question, in the context of the collective unconscious, is there such a thing as a false memory? Within the collective unconscious, no, for all human events are physical manifestations of the human condition. Within…"
"Glad to be back. Hope to be a steady presence from now on."
"Wonderful. Thanks for finding this."
"The collective unconscious - so far as we can say anything about it at all - appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be…"
"There have been Western thinkers who have posed similar perspectives although less "spiritual" and more social constructivist. They do agree, however, that there is a message for society within mental illness and the prevailing society doesn't want…"
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Thank you for the link Ed I will go check it out. I would be interested to see if and how he deals with pathology in corporate and group structures in an archetypal way. It seems that this is an area not many are willing to go and who can blame them.
C
Thanks for the welcome Ed; Yes the weather is not good, so I would definitly wait until the summer to visit your sister ( in the cider season). Thank you I would appreciate directions to the book you mention.
Looking forward to finding my way around your home here in cyberspace, and a warm welcome always helps.
Warm regards
C
Ed, how fortunate I am! I just found the collected papers by Wolfgang Koehler in our own public library, which I promptly have reserved for myself. Thanks again! I'm on my way!
Thanks, Ed, for your info on Gestalt. As for the snow: don't risk anything beyond the limits of your back. We (my family) have lived in the midwest of Canada for around 20 yrs! Warm greetings and best wishes of the season.
Hi Ed, thanks so much for your welcoming words in this beautiful and interesting website! I'm going to add something, little by little and my english is not so fluently .... Greetings from Italy Antonella
Hello, Ed. I am going to read a 46 pages article by Barry Smith
Gestalt Theory: An Essay in Philosophy
and so, if you don't find time for looking for that book you mentioned I would say: please don't spend your valuable time any further ! I am a natural autodidacticus anyway. Google convinces me Barry Smith is very relevant. Most likely yo know him.
Sorry Ed, I had to break up my comment because it was over 2000 words. I did this by copieing and pasting and the resulting sequence is: 10:42 pm and 10:42 pm. Is there a word counter I am not aware of which could make me stop in time?
This I have from the original use of the word in german as well as dutch as "total form" or "attitude". Here I will work with the meaning for Gestalt as "one meaningful form or image".The question would now become: "Is the soul a meaningful form or image of life" Well, it would not be for me. First I personally stay away from the word "soul" because it has so many religious connotations. I prefer: personality. Why? When I think of Mary or John as personality it strikes me that they have much in common with a melody: both personality and melody can only reveal themselves through time. Space is not important here. I 'see' John and Mary smile or walk or turn their head in a characteristic way. If I would omit e few seconds from these events they would be distorted in the same way a melody is by skipping some notes. Now what personalities do have in common with life is that both unfold in time. However for me the personality would not be a Gestalt for life in general. The unfoldings would be dissimilar. I would rather say that personality is a manifestation of life. Remains the question: do I 'see' life as a Gestalt. And if so what is this Gestalt? This Gestalt must contain: emerging, movement, growth. Not necessarily consciousness, I think. Will? Schopenhauer would say yes to that as he assigns that to living beings as well as to material natural events. I would venture the idea that to us observing beings that all life we experienc for the first time, inner and outer life, happens to us as a revelation of life forms. I don't know enough about the usual meaning of Gestalt in depth psychology but if it is within the acceptable terminology I would say that emergence is the Gestalt of life.
Hello Ed, You wrote: "How about the idea that the soul is the gestalt of life? Just trying it out." Wow! And here I am, joining wih the aim to learn more about depth psychology and particularly to learn what Gestalt is. I must confess I said I had a vague idea of Gestalt.
Ed, I am delighted with your fast response. Re your remark: ".... happy to mail you one text that was foundational in my studies of Gestalt. " that's wonderful! If you can give me author and title I can take it from there, be it to the excellent Public Library of Vancouver or to Amazon. As for your question: " How about the idea that the soul is the gestalt of life? Just trying it out" that is a tough one for me I wil need time for. I may end up explaining why I can't say anything sensible. But that's allright! In this Alliance I'm in the hands of psychologists who have no shame in trying to get you to talk. OK, I will, I will !
Seriously though, I see in this alliance a lot of people who are professional in therapy. Ik makes me wonder what I am doing here because I am afraid I am just asking and profiting. So would a topic for me be: given that depth psychology is for therapists, is it also a philosophy to live by? There I go again: a question!
Have a great weekend!
Bill
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