Posted in A, tagged afterlife, à Kempis, Bible, books, Christian, german, gutenberg, heaven, hell, medieval, monastic, monk, press, psychology, self, self-realization, soul, spirit, technology, Thomas on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
à Kempis, Thomas (1379-1471) Also known as Thomas Hemerken, à Kempis was a German who entered an Augustinian convent in 1400.
In 1413 he was ordained. He spent the rest of his life as a religious, becoming superior of the convent.
He wrote several spiritual works but the most popular is the devotional classic Imitatio Christi (The Imitation [...]
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Conversación / Conversation
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Abreaction A psychoanalytic term which refers to a discharge of emotion attached to a repressed experience.
In contemporary psychoanalysis the analysand tries to not only feel but also intellectually understand the emotion, that is, the why and how of its repression.
According to the theory, emotional experience and intellectual [...]
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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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Achilles Slays Hector
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Achilles The ancient Greek warrior and hero who, in Homer’s Iliad, fought in the Trojan wars.
The son of Peleus and Thetis, at birth Achilles’ mother held him by the heel and dipped him in the fiery river Styx to obtain [...]
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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
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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 ahriman, Anthroposophy, dark, darkness, darwin, death, ego, evil, fear, holy, life, mind, money, myth, persia, persian, psychology, religion, soul, spirit, Steiner, Zoroastrianism on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Ahriman Also known as Angra Mainyu in Zoroastrianism, Ahriman is the Persian principle of eternal evil and counterpart to the all-wise creator God, Ahura Mazda.
Not created by Ahura Mazda but existing independently, the two are in constant battle.
Today Ahriman is recognized by Parsees as an evil force of darkness and death.
Parsees often fear and associate [...]
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Alchemy (2)
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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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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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