technology - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T19:33:26Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/technologyEvent Summary: Vulnerable Humanity, Predictable Machines Philosophy Symposiumhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/event-summary-vulnerable-humanity-predictable-machines-philosophy2016-11-21T21:30:00.000Z2016-11-21T21:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><strong>Thanks to Alliance member Tim Holmes, co-host of the symposium, for providing this summary.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Co-directed by Merlin CCC</strong> (<em>in conjunction with Dr. Barry Ferst, Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College, and Tim Holmes, internationally-renowned artist</em>) <strong>and hosted by Carroll College</strong><b>, </b> <b>“<a href="https://merlinccc.org/category/merlin-forums-roundtables-archive/" target="_blank">Vulnerable Humanity, Predictable Machines</a>”</b> was <strong>the first of three community events geared to initiate a public discussion about the human-technology relationship</strong> and the promises and perils of artificial intelligence (AI). The free symposium took place in the Sage Room of the Corette Library at Carroll College in Helena, MT on Thursday, Nov. 17th 2016. It was also live-streamed on the Depth Psychology Alliance network.</p><p>The interactive Q & A-style symposium was a rousing success, with the auditorium at full seating capacity (50 people) and overflow & standing room only (approx. 15 people). It featured a distinguished panel of invited guest speakers from a variety of disciplines, including: Edward Gray, MA, LCPC (Depth Psychotherapist), <a href="https://www.carroll.edu/person/glowienka-edward">Dr. Edward Glowienka, Ph.D.</a> (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, <em>Carroll College</em>), <a href="https://www.carroll.edu/person/cline-kelly">Dr. Kelly Cline, Ph.D.</a> (Astrophysicist & Associate Professor of Mathematics, <em>Carroll College</em>), and Pastor Russ Danaher (Pastor & ADA Coordinator, <i>Montana Department of Corrections</i>)</p><p>Following short presentations by each of the panelists, the floor was opened to the audience for response and questions, the majority of which concerned the positive and negative qualities of unpredictability, human vulnerability, and the programmable nature of such qualities into AI systems. After the formal discussion about a dozen participants and two panelists carried on the conversation late into the night at a nearby pub.</p><p>The next symposium, intended for Spring 2017, will focus in greater depth on the human qualities we would like to preserve that technology may not recognize or honor, such as human need, feeling needed and reciprocity. Can elements critical to human fulfillment such as mystery be programed into AI? (Certainly engineers could program random mutation or "creative" recombination to generate new directions. But is it possible to program other elements of the unconscious, such as intuition or dream imagery?)</p><p><br /> The Nov. 17 symposium is available for <strong><a href="https://merlinccc.org/category/merlin-forums-roundtables-archive/" target="_blank">audio streaming</a></strong> <a href="https://merlinccc.org/category/merlin-forums-roundtables-archive/">https://merlinccc.org/category/merlin-forums-roundtables-archive/</a> and on the <strong><a href="https://merlinccc.org/category/lecture-library/" target="_blank">Merlin resources forum & lecture library page</a> </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://merlinccc.org/event/philosophy-symposium-vulnerable-humanity-predictable-machines/" target="_blank"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142461858,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="9142461858?profile=original" /></a></strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://merlinccc.org/event/philosophy-symposium-vulnerable-humanity-predictable-machines/" target="_blank"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142461900,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="9142461900?profile=original" /></a></p><p></p><p></p></div>Depth Psychology and the Digital Age:https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/depth-psychology-and-the-digital-age2016-11-11T00:30:00.000Z2016-11-11T00:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/books/Depth-Psychology-and-the-Digital-Age.html" target="_blank"><img width="250" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142459701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" height="332" alt="9142459701?profile=original" /></a></div><div class="_1mf _1mj"></div><div class="_1mf _1mj">For one of the founders of modern depth psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, who was born in 1875 and died in 1961, the “digital age” was not conceivable, but even more than half a century ago, Jung had significant concerns about the challenges of a growing mind/matter split and the excessive focus of western cultures in particular on science, technology, and rational thinking.</div></div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span> </span></div></div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>Jung believed this trend toward “modernity” emerged at the expense of more soulful, reflective, poetic ways of being and issued a strong caution against our increasing reliance on machines and technology. He warned of severe consequences that might ultimately propel our civilization toward collapse, unless modernity could be adequately acknowledged and dealt with from a psychological view.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><p>If you Google “the digital age,” you’ll discover it is rather broadly defined as “the present time”—when most information is available in digital form, as compared to the era before the rise of computers in the 1970s. </p><p>Depth psychology is the study of the soul, first and foremost associated with uncovering and exploring the unconscious. The Greek word <span><i>psyche</i></span> means “butterfly,” as one of the key founders of depth psychology, C. G. Jung, pointed out in <span><i>Modern Man in Search of Soul</i></span>. The word is also linked to the Greek <span><i>aiolos</i></span>, meaning “mobile, colored, or iridescent,” and to the Greek <span><i>anemos</i></span>, meaning “wind” or “breath,” as well as “soul” and “spirit”—all concepts that appear distinctly unrelated to technology.</p><p>Your Google search for “the digital age” will return a multitude of opinions on the pros and cons, with some contending the digital age is “good” because browsing the Internet stimulates our minds, and video games are teaching us new skills. However, if you entertain the notion that there are a multitude of detrimental side effects and disorders initiated by the digital age—illustrated by creative new terms such as “cyberchondriacs” (those who self-diagnose medical symptoms online), and “Facebook Addiction Disorder,” —and if you experience moderate concern, as many of us do, that as a digital culture we are becoming hooked on the web; that we are ruder, less empathetic and we procrastinate more; that our memory is deteriorating; and that we are developing increased anxiety about “missing out” because of the rash of information on social media—you might quickly see the benefit of looking at the digital age from a depth psychological perspective to begin to understand the archetypal aspects at work in our individual and collective lives.</p><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142460076,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="9142460076?profile=original" /><br /><p>In his seminal work, <span><i>The Discovery of the Unconscious</i></span>, Swiss medical historian, Henri Ellenberger (1905-1993), suggested that an exploration of the unconscious might offer a “renewed knowledge of the conscious mind, with a wider application to the understanding of literature, art, religion and culture.” Ellenberger didn’t make mention of the study of the unconscious to better understand technology specifically, but it is clear from his writings that even C. G. Jung himself believed depth psychology might shed light on a multitude of topics, including modernity and all its challenges.</p><p>The debate about the digital age is every bit as alive in depth psychological discussions as it is in the collective forum today. Technology is the magic of the modern world and plays a key role in our relationship to earth, writes depth psychologist Robert Romanyshyn in his timeless book, <span><i>Technology as Symptom and Dream</i></span>. Romanyshyn refers to technology in conjunction with the <span><i>imagination</i></span> of earth. In a still, quiet place like an African Sahara, he asserts, one “can still imagine technology as a vocation as the earth’s call to become its agent and instrument of awakening.” But technology can be both a danger and an opportunity, becoming a threat when it is too literal—when imagination falters.</p></div></div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>The authors in the new anthology, <em>Depth Psychology and the Digital Age</em>, proffer a chance to redeem ourselves, to re-invent our relationship to the digital age and re-infuse these sacred tools with meaning and soul.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj"></div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span> </span></div></div></div></div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><strong><span><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/books/Depth-Psychology-and-the-Digital-Age.html" target="_blank">Learn more/Download the Editor's Introduction to "Depth Psychology and the Digital Age</a> free.</span></strong></div></div></div>The Internet and the Second Personahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/the-internet-and-the-second-persona2013-03-25T16:20:04.000Z2013-03-25T16:20:04.000ZJohn Knighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/JohnKnight<div><p>Before I continue, I should note that this is a re-posting of a guest blog I wrote for a friend's site, fellow writer, Keira Wong (of whom there are references strewn about the place!). It's written for the general public, and I thought others on this site may enjoy it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Social networking is evolving at an incredible rate, however it appears to be evolving faster than we’re able to adapt to it. Like Europe before the introduction of manners and chivalry, we’re at an undeveloped stage: all stuck interacting with lots of different people, but metaphorically puking in the streets and headbutting strangers.</p><p>Facebook and Twitter are now part of everyday vernacular, every bit as much as something like telephone, radio, or television. Love it or hate it, social networking has become <em>very</em> firmly established – but are the general population ready for it?</p><p>Just within the last week or so, there’s been a military scandal on Facebook, involving all sorts of xenophobia, racism, homophobia, and sexism. On the other hand, social networking is largely credited as being a major contributor to ‘The Arab Spring’. Simultaneously, we have families re-connecting with people long-lost, while we also have cyber-bullying, driving some users to suicide.</p><p>Clearly social networking is much like the telephone or television, or even the internet itself: a neutral or perhaps dualistic technology, capable of good and bad. But the former listed technologies, despite being culturally transformative, have been around long enough for us to adapt our behaviour around them, developing our own etiquette and behaviours in their presence.</p><p>So what about social networking? Is it something that we’ll just get used to, like any other technology? Or will it behaviourally require something extra of us – something for which not everyone has given thought?</p><h4>Long psychology bit</h4><p>Before we continue, allow me to introduce you to some basic structural information about the psyche from a Jungian perspective, or otherwise the following will just be a load of psycho-babble, of which no one else will understand.</p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>The Human Psyche:</em></p><p style="padding-left:30px;">PERSONA CONSCIOUS</p><p style="padding-left:30px;">EGO</p><p style="padding-left:30px;">—————————————————————————————————</p><p style="padding-left:30px;">SHADOW UNCONSCIOUS</p><p style="padding-left:30px;">ANIMA/ANIMUS</p><p style="padding-left:30px;">SELF</p><p>If we start with the conscious mind, second down is the <em>Ego</em>. Now, this doesn’t mean how full of yourself you are, the ego refers to your main conscious mind, responsible for functioning in everyday life, rational thought, and so on. You wake up, blow away the mental cobwebs, and you’re in a basic ego-state. So far, so good?</p><p>Now, the top layer is the <em>Persona</em>. The persona is the mask we wear; the image we present to the outside world. It acts as a protection to the ego, as well as shadow contents (shadow contents in particular are what we want to hide from others). You’re at a party and you apply manners, rather than blurting out every thought that comes to mind, and this is persona. Or perhaps you’re acting on stage, then this is persona in a very literal sense. <em>Persona</em> – your image to the outside world.</p><p>And lastly for now, the <em>Shadow</em>. The shadow is the first layer of the unconscious (note that you have an <em>Unconscious</em> by the way, not a ‘Subconscious’; psychology has tried to do away with this term for a century due to it being incredibly misleading and inaccurate, portraying a picture very nearly in reverse to the psyche’s true form). The shadow contains everything that is evil and what we hate about ourselves, and wish to hide from others – the contents of which some are conscious, and some are unconscious.</p><p>There is also the Anima/Animus and the Self, but they’re not really relevant for this topic.</p><p>So to re-cap: the persona is the mask, the shadow is our dark side, and sitting in between the two is our conscious ego, often acting as mediator between the two. And it is this persona that I really want to highlight.</p><h4>Real Life and Net Life</h4><p>In real life, we generally take our persona for granted, and understand its role intuitively. Without the persona, marriages would break down, friendships would end, and wars would blaze on an unimaginable scale.</p><p>However, on the internet, the persona has always been a much different affair. Especially when chat rooms were popular, the internet was seen as a place where the persona could be explored in many different ways – perhaps the most common being spotty nerds attempting to talk to women for the first time, without fear of obvious personality traits getting in the way! Indeed, the trend continues in online role-playing games (another rather literal instance of persona), where people often meet daily in their own communities, with their own online identities.</p><p>Part of the appeal of an internet persona is that various personality traits can be explored, and if someone plays their cards right, this can all be done without affecting real, waking, everyday life. Social networking on the other hand does the exact opposite: real life feeds into and shapes social networking – and what crucially must be understood – social networking often feeds into and shapes real life.</p><p>The difficult part of being either a politician or celebrity has always been the public persona – keeping strict watch of what one does in the public arena. But now with services like Facebook and Twitter, what has traditionally been the burden of politicians and celebrities has now passed on to the general public. Things that are said and done online can now have serious consequences offline, and people at large are really just starting to wake up to this fairly recently.</p><p>All of this I feel is leading up to a new stage in social development; adding another conscious layer on top of the pre-existing structure. Guarding what we do and say in a whole new sphere of life is leading people to adopt what is essentially a second persona.</p><p>Now I <em>could</em> try to coin a term for this new layer (although “The Second Persona” does have a certain ring to it), but I dare say that we’ve collectively produced our own name for it: the <em>Avatar</em>.</p><p>So if you’ll allow me to continue with the term, what has your avatar been getting up to, how is it affecting your real life, and what are the psychological implications of all this?</p><h4>Controlling the Avatar</h4><p>Well, in terms of Facebook, what happened with your last party among friends? Were you invited, and how? Was it a mass invitation, or was it sent to you specifically? If you were invited, how did invitation through social networking affect the social dynamic of the party in real life? And if you weren’t invited, what happened when you saw the photos of your friends partying without you? Perhaps resentment and jealousy… and how did it affect your relationship with the party’s host?</p><p>Indeed, the ramifications of what you do and don’t share online require a great deal of forethought, with a medium that can make or break relationships. And even if you’re smart with your social network usage, you may even have difficulty via a third-party.</p><p>For instance, what if you were skipping out on work and went to a party, or dirt biking, etc? Hopefully you’ll be smart enough not to share said event on Facebook, and hopefully your boss isn’t on your friends list; but what if one of your mates puts up photos with you in them? And what if your boss sees you in the photos – does this mean you’ll have to get a guarantee from all of your mates not to share the event online before heading out?</p><p>Or perhaps more innocently, what if you skip out on an event to which you didn’t really want to go, but try to spare the other person’s feelings by offering an excuse? (Hey, we’ve all done it.) If you went somewhere else and the event was put on Facebook, then chances are that they’ll find out, and the publicity of our everyday lives will introduce an element of brutal honesty that we’ve so far grown up without, and may be crippling on those who aren’t socially adept.</p><p>Leaving behind the topic of parties and returning to the avatar, one has to consider not only the effect on the personal life, but also the professional. How many times have we seen someone become ruined professionally when they post something inappropriate in the public sphere? It seems everyday there is a footballer who makes racist remarks and gets sacked, and of course there’s the aforementioned Facebook military scandal, for which the reprimand is something I cannot begin to guess.</p><p>Indeed, it seems very unwise to think that one can share their life online without caution, and not expect to run into some kind of professional strife because of it.</p><p>I think our own Keira (an author of children’s books) has grasped this concept intuitively, with the Facebook account ‘Keira Wong’ only being used to disseminate certain information, while an alternative account (which I will not name, but close friends will know) under a different name is used for everyday postings – some of which shouldn’t be shared by nine year olds! <img src="http://keirawong.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> Public image is also a reason why my avatar isn’t online, and I for one don’t want my Linux Journal readers tracking me down (nerds can be scary)!</p><p>On a more serious note, you should be very aware of governmental snooping, as privacy is waning and government surveillance is increasing (and becoming dangerously pervasive). Something Julian Assange noted eventually led to me deleting my former Facebook account: it’s noted in modern revolutionary manuals that if you belong to any organisation which governments don’t like (my people are often hated by governments), <em>do not</em> use Facebook or Twitter. With an increasing wave of McCarthyism coming from our current governments, stitching up a case against anyone on a social network is extremely easy – pretty much handing over all they need on a platter.</p><blockquote><p>(Note that my IT reporting has necessitated that I now have a second account, but it’s under an alias with no personal info or pictures, living in another town at a made up address. Keira is my only friend there and I genuinely don’t want people adding me. This way I can still keep track of Facebook’s development without getting involved. Although hypocritically, I do have a Twitter account after a celebrity wanted to add me, and I <em>do</em> regret some of my tweets, which may be of concern later in life if this McCarthyism continues.)</p></blockquote><p>All records on Facebook are stored permanently, and with Facebook selling on user information to private corporations, the idea of actual privacy is an illusion. And only recently, the US Government has demanded the details of any user who has used the #occupy hashtag on Twitter. How does this sit with you?</p><h4>The Avatar and the Psyche</h4><p>Returning to – and finishing with – all things psychological, what impact will this have on our behaviour, and our psyche in general?</p><p>The psychological rule has always been, “the taller the persona, the deeper the shadow”. In other words, the more we identify with our persona – rather than our true selves – the more the shadow builds up, making people neurotic or even psychotic. I’m sure we can all think of someone we know, like for instance a real estate agent who’s obsessed with giving off a veneer of professionalism to the outside world, but underneath is completely restless, often being one of those smokers with the shaky fingers and a desperate, maniacal laugh!</p><p>But that’s just the offline real world, in which all of us adults grew up. What will be the effect of the avatar on the psyche moving into the future? Well, time will only tell, but already, some strange and twisted behaviours are emerging.</p><p>Both Keira and I came across an article on <em>trolling</em> addicts: people who have become obsessed with stirring up trouble online. Often seeking crueller forms of trolling for a greater high, a particularly dark form has emerged, where the troll will try to stir up trouble on the Facebook page of someone recently deceased. Which leads to the question: what is happening inside the person to lead them to such a path? And what will these people be like in real life, away from the computer? Do they have any real social skills?</p><p>Moving away from such dark developments, I’m finding it increasingly common that people I know are becoming addicted to social networking, to the detriment of their real life. You will be talking to them, and mid-sentence, they will get out their phone and check Facebook or Twitter, forgetting all social niceties, channelling most of their emotional investment into the online world, with their physical self perhaps being little more than a slave to the avatar.</p><p>But let’s finish up, and finish up with the future at large.</p><p>Up until now, imperfect humans have grown up with privacy as an essential part of societal function. Even in highly populated and more collective cultures like India, it’s taken for granted that a certain amount of privacy is essential for an imperfect person to maintain some kind of psychic equilibrium. But social networking is imposing an entirely different structure upon us.</p><p>In a world that has traditionally relied on privacy, for better or worse, social networking is imposing a world of transparency – bringing with it a brutal honesty. I’d say that despite all odds, social networking is here to stay, and maintaining one’s avatar will be a necessity.</p><p>Are you ready for it? Are <em>we</em> ready for it?</p></div>This Week “In-Depth” - Depth Psychology-related stories for the week ending 12-26-10https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/this-week-indepth-depth2010-12-27T00:34:46.000Z2010-12-27T00:34:46.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><br /><br /><span class="font-size-3"><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams,Archetypes, Symbols</span></b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Individuation: The Process of a Lifetime: J</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">ung defined it as "the process by which a person becomes an "in-dividual…” <a href="http://www.jungiananalyticpraxis.com/individuation_lecture.htm" target="_blank">http://www.jungiananalyticpraxis.com/individuation_lecture.htm</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Book review: What Story Are You Living? By Carol Pearson and Hugh Marr> Are all stories are derived from archetypes? <a href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2010/what-story-are-you-living-2/">http://psychcentral.com/lib/2010/what-story-are-you-living-2/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Depth Psychology and Myths Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">: The mystery that surrounds us feeds the myths we make… <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">The Differences Between the Wounded Healer Archetype and the Healer Archetype: <a href="http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/differences-between-wounded-healer-archetypes-and-healer-archetype" target="_blank">http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/differences-between-wounded-healer-archetypes-and-healer-archetype</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Archetypes of the Feminine from Robert Johnson: Which one is at play in your life or<br />relationship?</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=7" target="_blank">http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=7</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Inner Imaginal Conversations: Indigenous peoples for thousands of years have considered dreams to be guides to their lives helping them in decision-making…</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/inner-imaginal-conversations-jungian-dream-analysis/" target="_blank">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/inner-imaginal-conversations-jungian-dream-analysis/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">That little psychological menace called <i>projection</i>: “As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”~Carl Jung. One response:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://bit.ly/gF16KI" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gF16KI</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Depth Psychology and Myths Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">: The mystery that surrounds us feeds the myths we make… <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195</a><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Listen online: “In Touch with Carl Jung”> The archetype of Regret with Bradie Hansen: <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142439064,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank">{{#staticFileLink}}9142439064,original{{/staticFileLink}} class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Listen online: Deena Chappell &"The Voices of Archetypes" on "InTouch with Carl Jung": </span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</span></b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Children born to mothers living within 309 meters of a freeway appeared to be twice as likely to have autism: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091208.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091208.htm</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Recovering from Trauma: The enduring effect of war & terrorism in PTSD in soldiers and civilians of combat zones:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://bit.ly/i14tHw" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i14tHw</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Writing heals: Brain research confirms relationship between words & neurological underpinnings of emotional trauma: <a href="http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/73/upside-of-writing/" target="_blank">http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/73/upside-of-writing/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Sleep plays a crucial role in the development of memories, so could</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">sleep deprivation eliminate fear & aid those suffering from PTSD?</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112446.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112446.htm</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Technology, Culture, & Entertainment</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">An astute archetypal assessment: “WikiLeaks and the Death of the Event”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">: An<br />Essay by John David Ebert</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/" target="_blank">http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Contagious Emotion: How social media can create big change: <a href="http://bit.ly/hv08cU" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/hv08cU</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Symptoms as signals of things unlearned:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;">A depth-psychological look at</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;">8 Lessons We<br />Can Learn from the Transnationals:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.chalquist.com/transnationals.html" target="_blank">http://www.chalquist.com/transnationals.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Sacred Brands: Consumerism as Modern Religion</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">: As far back as 2001, ad firm Young & Rubicam declared "Brands are the new religion. People turn to them for meaning…"<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-j-rossano/sacred-brands-consumerism_b_789303.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-j-rossano/sacred-brands-consumerism_b_789303.html</a></span></span></p><h2 style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Your call, but calls for contemplation: Cultural Symptoms: Cable News and the Moment to Moment Mindset: <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=3987" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=3987</a></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">What do these contemporary films say about the mind today? <a href="http://brainworldmagazine.com/?p=699" target="_blank">http://brainworldmagazine.com/?p=699</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">The film “Inception” from the perspective of a Shaman: <a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/inception-from-the-view-of-a-shaman-a317296" target="_blank">http://www.suite101.com/content/inception-from-the-view-of-a-shaman-a317296</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">For the first time in history it is possible to bump into an electric image of oneself on a fairly regular basis… "One Thousand Malkoviches: Reflections On the Cultural Phenomenology of Celebrity, An Essay by John David Ebert" <a href="http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/?p=270" target="_blank">http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/?p=270</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Visionary movies privilege the archetypal point of view (also a great site for a multitude of reviews):</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-visionary-movie-a-manifesto/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-visionary-movie-a-manifesto</a></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff00ff;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Forget IQ: The Emerging Science of Collective Intelligence:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/29/forget-iq-the-emerging-science-of-collective-intelligence-2/" target="_blank">http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/29/forget-iq-the-emerging-science-of-collective-intelligence-2/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">New lab study: Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/22/lab-study-suggests-stress-can-enhance-memories/22061.html?utm_source=PsychCentral&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/22/lab-study-suggests-stress-can-enhance-memories/22061.html?utm_source=PsychCentral&utm_medium=twitter</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Jung’s “2000-year-old-man” still lives in our primal brain: Fear is a fundamental part of making good decisions <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-willpower/201012/why-we-need-little-fear" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-willpower/201012/why-we-need-little-fear</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its Own Electric Field> The brain generates an electric field that influences its own activity:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neural-feedback" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neural-feedback</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">The famous 'aha' effect is a peculiar phenomenal experience that people have when they solve a problem, yields pleasure:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102440.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102440.htm</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Naps boost memory, but only if you dream:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/" target="_blank">http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Wholeness Regained - Revisiting David Bohm's Dialogue: <a href="http://ow.ly/3upTc" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/3upTc</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">How does science fit in America’s growing interest in psychic and paranormal events? (Carl Jung also tried to explain it) <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199609/do-the-spirits-move-you" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199609/do-the-spirits-move-you</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="color:#ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Climate change could kill up to 5 million people in the next 10 years—and most of them<br />are <a href="http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/in-numbers/"><span style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">children under the age of 5</span></a>: <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+%7C+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter" target="_blank">http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+|+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">We need an energy sixth sense to fight global warming: ROUGHLY 30 to 40 per cent of global energy use occurs in buildings <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.400-we-need-an-energy-sixth-sense-to-fight-global-warming.html" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.400-we-need-an-energy-sixth-sense-to-fight-global-warming.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Earlier this year: Scientists say Dolphins Should be Treated as Non-Human Persons: Dolphins have distinct personalities and self-awareness & can think about the future <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html" target="_blank">http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Ecopsychology:</span> <u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Solving Climate Change Is a Psychological Challenge -- Some Solutions -</span></u> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ecopsychology" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ecopsychology</a></span></span></p></div>“In-Depth” - This week’s Depth-Psychology-related News & Stories of Note for the week ending December 19, 2010https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/indepth-this-weeks2010-12-22T09:30:02.000Z2010-12-22T09:30:02.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p style="text-align:left;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams, Archetypes, and Symbols</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Dreamwork as a rewarding</strong> spiritual practice by Jean Raffa: <a href="http://bit.ly/gPWY9r">http://bit.ly/gPWY9r</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Before the Meyers-Brigg</strong> (MBTI) Jung developed personality typologies. What’s yours? Free online test: <a href="http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp">http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Vampires embody</strong> all aspects of the darker side of human nature. It’s what Freud called the Id and Carl Jung called the Shadow: <a href="http://www.chateaugrrr.com/featured-guests/martin-v-riccardo">http://www.chateaugrrr.com/featured-guests/martin-v-riccardo</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Carl Jung’s ideas on</strong> the form & definition of archetypes took 27 yrs to evolve. What is this powerful concept, anyway? <a href="http://bit.ly/flIgOZ">http://bit.ly/flIgOZ</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Psychological Types ></strong> Carl Jung describes 4 basic psychic functions: intuition, sensation, feeling, & thinking: <a href="http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.chapter1.html">http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.chapter1.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>On Alchemy, C.G. Jung, and Ecological Intelligence:</strong> Alchemy describes a pattern of transformation… <a href="http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/on-alchemy-c-g-jung-and-ecological-intelligence/">http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/on-alchemy-c-g-jung-and-ecological-intelligence/</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Creating a Narrative for Trauma</strong> Seems to Help Victims of PTSD: How children in Haiti are creating a narrative through special workbooks…</span> <span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><a href="../../forum/topics/creating-a-narrative-for">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/creating-a-narrative-for</a></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html"></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>How to Live an "Inside-Out Life"</strong>: Find pathways for maintaining psychological health & resilience during the rising "social psychosis" in our culture <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Excellent read: "Conscious Femininity"</strong> by Marion Woodman <a href="http://bit.ly/i6yWkh">http://bit.ly/i6yWkh</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;">Getting to Know Me: What's Behind Psychoanalysis? Psychodynamic therapy has been caricatured as navel-gazing, but studies show powerful benefits: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-to-know-me">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-to-know-me</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Healing the Somatizations of Trauma:</strong> “The body remembers…Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves.” <a href="http://www.art-2-heart.com/articles.htm">http://www.art-2-heart.com/articles.htm</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Technology, Culture, & Religion</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Virtual reality</strong> to help returning war vets and kids to re-imagine new futures? What happens at the intersection of technology and transformation? Inner Space: Technology’s New Frontier <a href="http://www.noetic.org/blog/inner-space-technologys-new-frontier/">http://www.noetic.org/blog/inner-space-technologys-new-frontier/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>When ideas have sex:</strong> throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. TED video: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Powerful perspective:</strong> Waking Up: Terrorism and Depth Psychology <b>by Dr.</b> Mary Watkins, coauthor of Psychologies of Liberation: <a href="http://www.opusarchives.org/watkins_waking_up_article.pdf">http://www.opusarchives.org/watkins_waking_up_article.pdf</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Compulsive Buying:</strong> An Impulse-Control Disorder> There's some uncertainty among the mental health profession about whether to see overshopping as a genuine disorder or merely a bad habit <a href="http://bit.ly/ib4lku">http://bit.ly/ib4lku</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Americans Turning Over Electronics</strong> 400 Million Times per Year: Our consumption of high-tech electronics has far outstripped our ability to handle all the waste we're leaving behind with each new upgrade <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/americans-electronics-400-million-tackling-hi-tech-trash.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Twitter">http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/americans-electronics-400-million-tackling-hi-tech-trash.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Twitter</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><a>"Sacred" Abuses in the Name of God, Self, & Other: A Call for Clarity in Addressing Archetypal Truths</a>: <a href="http://www.michaelconfortiblog.com/?p=85">http://www.michaelconfortiblog.com/?p=85</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Scientists Prove Astrology,</strong> Call it "Seasonal Biology": Functional changes in brain based on birth month <a href="http://bit.ly/ignP9w">http://bit.ly/ignP9w</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Bees help to explain</strong> the link between intelligence and long life: <a href="http://bit.ly/fAawhU">http://bit.ly/fAawhU</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Sudden Understanding</strong>: Aha! insights favor the prepared mind: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060405234439.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060405234439.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Thought Leaders</strong> Now Being Replaced By Feeling Leaders <a href="http://ow.ly/3rI6K">http://ow.ly/3rI6K</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;">Indigenous, Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Thought-provoking</strong> and more than a little alarming! Is Wi-Fi killing trees? <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332310/Is-Wi-Fi-killing-trees-Dutch-study-shows-leaves-dying-exposure-Wi-Fi-radiation.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332310/Is-Wi-Fi-killing-trees-Dutch-study-shows-leaves-dying-exposure-Wi-Fi-radiation.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Regarding climate change:</strong> How obliged are we to consider the situation of the “<em>other</em><em>”</em>: other species, the poor, or unborn generations NYT: <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/climate-responses-primal-easy-ethical-hard/">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/climate-responses-primal-easy-ethical-hard/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>The environmental and climate</strong> justice movement isn't just about saving polar bears from melting ice, argues Bill McKibben. It's about rebuilding connection and community, changing the way human beings live <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibben-growing-global-movements65800">http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibben-growing-global-movements65800</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>The Medicine Wheel</strong> as a Symbol of Native American Psychology: The wheel represents the cycle of life…<a href="http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=1">http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Free audio from Jungian events</strong>, includes “Don't Mess with Mother Nature: The Ecopsychology of Energy” <a href="http://www.junghouston.org/audio/default.htm">http://www.junghouston.org/audio/default.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>There won't be a bailout for the earth</strong>: Global warming is yesterday’s apocalypse…. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-wont-be-a-bailout-for-the-earth-2143876.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-wont-be-a-bailout-for-the-earth-2143876.html</a></span></p><p> </p></div>Best of the Best this Week in “Depth” December 12, 2010https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/best-of-the-best-this-week-in2010-12-12T09:30:00.000Z2010-12-12T09:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Depth Psychology</span></strong> is the study of the Unconscious, an inquiry into what we <em>don’t</em> know by looking at how psyche emerges in symbols, mythology, art, & dreams and how we live out the repressed, the silenced, & the marginalized in our personal lives and in the culture at hand. It explores our relationship to soul, and includes ideas from anthropology, cross-cultural studies, ecology, philosophy, theology, indigenous cultures, the arts, and more. Early pioneers of the field are Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. Contemporary Depth Psychologists include James Hillman, James Hollis, Marion Woodman, Christine Downing, Micheael Meade, along with many others. One particular emerging aspect is how technology, neuroscience, and innovations in modern culture affect the psyche of humanity and individuals alike.</p><p></p><p><strong>Here is a look back at some of the week’s top Tweeted “soul bytes”</strong> (along with the intrepid @Tweeters who are responsible if you’re looking for great minds to “follow”)</p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams, Archetypes</strong></span></p><p>Forging meaning: In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, #Jung relayed his encounter with Native Americans in Taos in 1925... <a href="http://bit.ly/glbYOF">http://bit.ly/glbYOF</a></p><p>Enter the World of Soul and You are Like a Madman: Learnings from Carl Jung's Red Book: <a href="../blogs/enter-the-world-of-soul-and">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/enter-the-world-of-soul-and</a> #depthpsychology</p><p>Living Mythically: Many people live their entire lives w/o any awareness of the #archetypes living through them. <a href="http://bit.ly/g3DGhj">http://bit.ly/g3DGhj</a></p><p>Compelling: Ariadne and the Minotaur: Love, Trauma & Abandonment - A Jungian Perspective: <a href="http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/ariadne-and-the-minotaur-lovetrauma-abandonment-a-jungian-perspective/">http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/ariadne-and-the-minotaur-lovetrauma-abandonment-a-jungian-perspective/</a> via @heidiko44 @AshevilleJungCt</p><p>Jung's Underworld journey: Not for the timid. Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination by Robert Moss: <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/dreamgates/2010/10/jungs-underworld-journey-not-for-the-timid.html#ixzz17PrwAm00">http://blog.beliefnet.com/dreamgates/2010/10/jungs-underworld-journey-not-for-the-timid.html#ixzz17PrwAm00</a></p><p>Carl #Jung believed the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning: Swamplands of the Soul by James Hollis: <a href="http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=26">http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=26</a></p><p>Why we should record our dreams: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Dream-Journals---Why-We-Should-Record-Our-Dreams&id=4987910">http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Dream-Journals---Why-We-Should-Record-Our-Dreams&id=4987910</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</strong></span></p><p>The Myth Of Therapy: An Interview With James Hillman (1991)- <em>A brilliant & provocative thinker, reading Hillman is like stepping off a bus into the clamorous, exotic, slightly menacing streets of a foreign city:</em> <a href="http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1032">http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1032</a></p><p>Personality Disorders Shakeup in DSM-5: What are the replacements and what does it mean to you? <a href="http://bit.ly/fd6Yd3">http://bit.ly/fd6Yd3</a></p><p>Ethical? Worth considering? Mind-altering substances may induce profound psychological realignments that take decades in therapy: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hallucinogens-as-medicine&sc=emailfriend">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hallucinogens-as-medicine&sc=emailfriend</a></p><p>What will it really do? Method to erase traumatic memories may be on the horizon - <a href="http://bit.ly/cDZNyy">http://bit.ly/cDZNyy</a></p><p>Recovering from #Trauma: The enduring effect of #war & terrorism in #PTSD in soldiers and civilians of #combat zones: <a href="http://bit.ly/i14tHw">http://bit.ly/i14tHw</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Technology & Culture</strong></span></p><p>It was bound to happen sooner or later: NYU Professor Gets Camera Implanted In Head For “Art “(Video available): <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/nyu-professor-gets-camera_n_792079.html?ref=tw">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/nyu-professor-gets-camera_n_792079.html?ref=tw</a></p><p>Amazon Conservation Team: Preserving Indigenous Cultures and Lands With GPS and Google Maps. <a href="http://www.greenmarketing.tv/2010/12/01/amazon-conservation-team/">http://www.greenmarketing.tv/2010/12/01/amazon-conservation-team/</a> via @WiserEarth @AmazonCT</p><p>UFOs, psychic phenomena, ghosts, Bigfoot? Increased interest in the paranormal has gone hand in hand with greater media attention and the rapid diffusion of the Internet: <a href="http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-five-december/paranormal-america-ghost-encounters-ufo-sightings/">http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-five-december/paranormal-america-ghost-encounters-ufo-sightings/</a></p><p><a href="http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/">American Psychosis: What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?…</a><a href="http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/">http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/</a> via @PeterBrownPsy</p><p>AS A CULTURE, WE FEEL DEEPLY ambiguous about genius. Are we failing our gifted children?<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</strong></span></p><p>Your #brain lights up when #giving: The science behind creating a chain reaction of goodness: <a href="http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/spirit/archives/indulging-totally-selfish-joys-selfless-giving">http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/spirit/archives/indulging-totally-selfish-joys-selfless-giving</a></p><p>Synaesthesia: Asperger’s man sees emotions as #auras of color around other people: <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/auras.html?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0ab5dd44ff-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email">http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/auras.html?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0ab5dd44ff-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email</a></p><p>Naps boost memory, but only if you dream: <a href="http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/">http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/</a> RT @sunfellow</p><p>Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost? (2006) The ability to multitask & pay <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23attention">#attention</a> to two things at once… <a href="http://bit.ly/biKL9">http://bit.ly/biKL9</a></p><p>Does Insomnia Shrink Your Brain? Bad sleep is not just a nuisance; it’s bad for the brain at a neurological level. <a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/insomnia-brain-sleep.html">http://news.discovery.com/human/insomnia-brain-sleep.html</a></p><p>Neuroscience and dreaming: Some biologically minded researchers would argue that both Freud and Jung are wrong about dreams' real purpose: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/edgeofdreaming/background.php#neuroscience">http://www.pbs.org/pov/edgeofdreaming/background.php#neuroscience</a></p><p>How to be a brilliant thinker: Developing Our Skills at Divergent and Convergent Thinking <a href="http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/11/different-thinking-is-needed/">http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/11/different-thinking-is-needed/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</strong></span></p><p>The much anticipated <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23terrapsych">Terrapsych</a> anthology, Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled just released on Amazon! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rebearths-Conversations-Ensouled-Craig-Chalquist/dp/0982627912/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1291506676&sr=8-4">http://www.amazon.com/Rebearths-Conversations-Ensouled-Craig-Chalquist/dp/0982627912/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1291506676&sr=8-4</a></p><p>Perfect Symmetry Between Humans and Nature: Is not everything in #nature a reflection of a feeling etched deep within the #consciousness of all human beings? <a href="http://resurgencetrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/perfect-symmetry-between-humans-and.html">http://resurgencetrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/perfect-symmetry-between-humans-and.html</a></p><p>Tips for giving Mother Earth a greener Christmas” <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/12/green-christmas-tips-save-mother-earth/1">http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/12/green-christmas-tips-save-mother-earth/1</a> via @catalogchoice</p><p>Climate change could kill up to 5 million people in the next 10 years—and most of them are <a href="http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/in-numbers/">children under the age of 5</a>: <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+%7C+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter">http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+|+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter</a> via @heidiko44 @MotherJones</p><p>Peru’s long-term survival depends on water from the glaciers of the high Andes. The problem is that all that ice will soon be gone. <a href="http://www.onearth.org/article/life-and-death-in-a-dry-land">http://www.onearth.org/article/life-and-death-in-a-dry-land</a></p><p>Save trees! US consumers get 19 billion catalogs yearly: app 3.6 M tons paper, 8.3 M tons wood, 53 M trees. Opt out at <a href="http://www.catalogchoice.org/">http://www.catalogchoice.org/</a></p></div>