Posted in A, tagged abyss, Beowulf, Borg, Christian, Civilization, devil, druids, dungeon, Eliade, freud, Greece, greek, hell, hindu, janeway, jesus christ, jewish, jung, magic, myth, pit, psychology, Satan, serling, shades, star trek, star wars, sword, symbol, twilight zone, underwater, water on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Abyss
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Abyss (Greek, abyssos, Latin abyssus). Myths about an abyss or bottomless pit are found in most cultures.
In Judaism the abyss lies deep within the earth, a place where evil spirits of the dead are banished (Job 32:22, Psalm 6:5, 143:7).
In ancient Greece the majority of the dead retire to a gloomy [...]
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Posted in A, tagged active imagination, collective unconscious, creative visualization, daydream, dream, dreams, fantasy, ghost, guru, hesse, jung, jungian, matter, mind, new age, psychology, remote influence, soul, spirit, unconscious, william james on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud
Disagree on How to Treat
the Patient’s Stormtrooper Delusion
Originally uploaded by ShellyS
Active Imagination An apparently therapeutic technique developed by C. G. Jung that uses some form of self-expression, such as a fantasy-image, to represent and analyze the contents of the hypothesized collective unconscious.
Active imagination may involve artistic representation but this is secondary [...]
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Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) An important Austrian psychiatrist who graduated from medicine in 1895 and was attracted to Sigmund Freud’s work when he read the latter’s Interpretation of Dreams.
Shortly afterward, Adler was asked to join Freud’s inner circle within the emerging school of psychoanalysis.
His Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen (Study of Organ Inferiority and its Psychical Compensation, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ads, advertising, art, artists, barthes, baudrillard, bisexual, business, buying, buzzwords, Connotation, consumer, desire, economics, economy, Foucault, freud, freudian, gay, government, graphic artists, graphic arts, homosexual, homosexuality, hooks, hypocrisy, jung, jungian, lesbian, life, marx, marxism, money, neomarxism, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructural, poststructuralism, profit, psychoanalysis, psychology, same-sex, sell, selling, slogans, society, sociology, spiritual, supply and demand, synchronicity, wants on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Advertising Although the primary objective of commercial advertising is to sell goods and services, this is accomplished in a complex manner.
Social theorists directly or indirectly influenced by Karl Marx usually say that advertising creates a false or illusory relationship between the consumer and the producer.
Freudian-based sociological analyses suggest that when buying, the consumer enters into [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Anthroposophy, belief, blind faith, buddhist, cayce, ESP, faith, graff, hindu, insight, intuition, jung, myth, new age, prediction, psi, psychic, religion, remote viewing, science, scientism, spirit, Steiner, targ, theosophy on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
£20 Holograms
Originally uploaded by austinevan
Akashic Records Derived from the Hindu (Sanskrit) and Buddhist (Pali) understanding of akasha (= ether, subtle space, the forms of space), the Akashic Records is a term used by Theosophy and Anthroposophy to denote a cosmic memory bank of all that ever was.
The term is often used uncritically by believers, not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged alchemy, aquinas, astrology, Bible, depression, development, dynamic, egypt, Eliade, enlightenment, esoteric, esoterica, gold, happiness, hucksters, jewel, joy, jung, jungian, life, magic, medieval, mystic, mysticism, myth, newton, occult, osiris, pain, phenomenology, philosophers stone, Philosophy, psychology, religion, science, self, self actualization, soul, spirit, spiritual, sublime, subtle, suffering, synchronicity, theology, transformation, zodiac on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alchemy (2)
Originally uploaded by tholmb
Alchemy In everyday usage the word alchemy describes a psychological interplay among people.
Its etymology points to the actual practice of alchemy–derived via Arabic from the Greek chemeia.
Historically, alchemy involved the heating and mixing of chemicals and mineral substances with a view toward artificially transforming base metals into gold.
The ancient Greeks in [...]
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
This popular novel by Lewis Carol is often seen as a sociological lampooning of the British aristocracy. But it has also been interpreted in psychological and mythological terms.
From a Jungian perspective, Alice’s falling into the rabbit hole seems to transport her from the conventional into the mysterious world of the collective [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Adler, alien, Aliens, belief, channeling, childhood, Clairvoyance, delusions, demons, ESP, et, evil, fantasies, freud, genetics, jung, madness, medium, mental illness, mysteries, neurosis, nutrition, paranormal, parapsychology, Philosophy, possession, precognition, prophecy, psi, psychiatry, psychic, psychology, science, sociology, space, star trek, strange, stress, synchronicity, trance, trauma, ufo, unexplained, urban legend on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien Trio 2
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Alien Possession Theory (APT)
A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit (Luke 6:43)
APT considers the possibility, commonly found within science fiction, that hostile extraterrestrials (ETs) from another world or realm may have a negative effect on psychologically vulnerable human individuals through the use of psi.
This alien invasion motif does not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged anima, female, feminine, gender, jung, male, man, masuline, psychology, soul, spirit, woman on April 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
La_vera_anima_del_genio_crudele
(The_soul_of_the_Djinn)
Originally uploaded by Shock2006
Anima In C. G. Jung’s psychological theory the anima is the ‘unconscious’ contrasexual component of the male Self—i.e. the man’s supposed ‘inner woman.’
The anima presents itself to consciousness in a series of archetypal images. Usually a primitive sexual figure emerges first.
As psychological development progresses, the initial symbol is followed by increasingly refined, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged analysis, anima, animus, exemplars, female, feminism, jung, jungian, male, men, mind, psyche, psychiatry, psychology, women on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
animusOriginally uploaded by blimpa
Animus In C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, the animus is the unconscious contrasexual component of the female self–i.e. the woman’s supposed ‘inner male.’
The animus reveals itself to consciousness by virtue of a series of archetypal images. Usually a primitive, sexual figure first emerges.
As psychological development progresses, the initial symbol is followed by [...]
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