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A Search for Racial Identity
No full textAuthor and activist Sil Lai Abrams reads from her new memoir, Black Lotus, and is joined in conversation by CIIS’s Laura Reddick.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1010/thumbnail.jp
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2016 / Winter 2017 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1035/thumbnail.jp
Gnawing at the Roots: Toward a Transpersonal Poetics of Guilt and Death
Get PDFAs an imaginal approach, archetypal psychology focuses its attention on the diverse and polysemous expressions of imagination as the ground from which all psychological expressions emerge, replacing the dried up concept of a singular ego with the notion that consciousness takes up a multitude of styles concordant with the mercurial flow of images that concentrically influence, grip down, and take over consciousness like a band of pirates commandeering a ship. Archetypal psychology situates itself as a transpersonal psychology by qualifying the image as inextricably archetypal, denoting a valence of meaning that extends beyond the merely personal, beyond the particular cultural-historical situation, pointing toward a pattern that has persisted in the cultural and personal heritage of humanity since time immemorial. After a brief introduction to some of the primary ideas of archetypal psychology, this paper explores the Criminal as an archetypal image, complex, and shadow projection that has been culturally disavowed and expressed through the brutality of systemic racism. The paper concludes with an example of the transformation of this image through the psychological functions of guilt and death
Why Consciousness Matters: Insights from a New Generation
Get PDFThe University of Washington-Bothell is home to a transdisciplinary and integral minor in consciousness that is the first and only such program at a public research university. This study reports a content analysis of reflection essays submitted by 122 students who completed at least four of the five courses that comprise the minor between 2012 and 2016. Results indicate that students derived significant benefits from this approach to the study of consciousness, including a deep appreciation for the depth and breadth of the mind and the need to release their understanding of consciousness from the constraints of scientific materialism. They also gained specific tools that greatly improved their sense of optimism and agency and reduced feelings of depression, anxiety, and nihilism. Challenges included the complexity of the concepts and the inadequacy of language to adequately describe and decipher the phenomena under investigation. Implications of this approach for finding effective and creative solutions to the unprecedented challenges currently confronting humankind and the biosphere are also addressed
Consciousness: Where We Are At
Get PDFIt is useful every couple of years to take a bird’s eye view of consciousness studies and reflect on what we see. When I look, I still see two streams, one of which is the social and political framework for the study of consciousness, and the other of which is the substance of what we know about consciousness. The former is still largely defined by the extent to which the scientific study of consciousness has been freed from a materialist agenda. The latter includes recent research into the clarity of cognitive functioning in the absence of sufficient neurological support for it, after-death communication, experimenter effects in anomalies research, and the psychodynamics of entering transcendent states of consciousness. Taken together, these two streams appear to converge on the discovery of the depth and meaning of existence that is being revealed through consciousness research
COMMENTARIES ON DEEPAK CHOPRA AND MENAS KAFATOS’ BOOK, “YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE”; 2017, HARMONY BOOKS.
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Get PDFParticipatory Transpersonalism: Transformative Relational Process, Not the Structure of Ultimate Reality
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CIIS Alumni Association Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2016 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletter.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/alumninewsletter/1014/thumbnail.jp
Artificial Intelligence and Art
No full textJerry Kaplan, a computer scientist and AI expert talks with Kal Spelletich, an artist who works with robotics about how humans might leverage this emerging technology creatively. This conversation is part of our Technology and Consciousness Series.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1020/thumbnail.jp