Psyberspace

1. Find the RSS feed http://www.democracynow.org/democracynow.rss
2. Subscribe in Google Reader. http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page
3. Have a filter in Google Reader to get all the podcasts subscriptions into a Podcast folder, easy to review!
4. Slide *episodes* over into the Firefox download box if I think I’ll like them, or will have time to listen.
5. From the Download Folder slide all those mp3s into iTunes as music. Give them the Podcast Genre. That means they go into a smart playlist, and onto the iPhone.
6. Walk! Listen. Rate. Once they are rated they leave the Podcast playlist. Soft reboot to clear the list.

I call that my Tuned In Podcast System TIPS. Cumbersome? Tell me a better way.

I get exactly what I want. They stay in the Playlist till I’m done & then they go.

I can’t get that control with the built in Podcast folder, or the iTunes subscription system.

I made a post about this system before, has some more details.

I listen to Democracy Now more than any other news or current affair program. I find it gives me a better picture of the world than I can get from any NZ source. Left, not liberal, not sectarian. Amy Goodman – a hero!

I wish more people would listen to it. I found myself chatting casually about the plight of Haiti over the years because US interference and people though I was espousing conspiracy theory. Ordinary left thinking New Zealanders!

I’ll post up how I listen to Podcasts. The great thing is I walk & listen, good for my body. Good for the dog. Multitasking.

Brothers Karamazov is now in an audiobook! This mammoth task has been completed, thanks many readers and Rainer.

I read this book in 1967, at the Cragieburn ski-field where I was a custodian. I was upstairs in the sleeping loft of the ski hut, and often there would be a loud party downstairs. I’d read it by candle light or with a torch. I made notes! I may still have them. It was part of a few years of delightful self education, prior to going to the University of Canterbury, which by comparison was like a padded cell of the mind, though I have no regrets. I am looking forward to hearing the book read to me.

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I have converted the mp3 for the first book into iPod Audiobook format (keeps track of where you are up to). Book 1 m4b Audiobook format

Links follow to the download page, Librivox, notes on a stage production where I found the image, and Wikipedia – where there is an excellent summary of the characters & their various names!

I like listening to this guy talk about the good old days & about the future! Great if you love movies.

First story on

Fresh Air 7 January 2010

What Makes A Blockbuster: George Lucas Weighs In

This is the third post while doing a close reading of Moreno’s lecture on Tele, “given by the author during his European journey, May- June, 1954.”

Note: I continue to edit these posts, they are a work in progress for now, not really be good blogging practice. If anyone comments or there are track backs, I will not change what I wrote so conversations make sense.

First Post – Intro
Second Post – Transference
Transference and Tele (tag).

Quotes from the lecture, some research on Google and my detailed comments follow.

In what some might call synchronicity I came across Mesmer’s (W) animal magnetism in two separate contexts today.

Firstly, in “Transference, Countertransference And Tele: Their Relation To Group Research And Group Psychotherapy [Word Doc] in Psychodrama Vol II by J.L. Moreno and then again in:

A podcasted radio program from WNYC on the Placebo effect.

Both these sources tie in with much of what I am writing about in this blog on the science of relationships, and specifically a current project on “parallel process” in supervision. It got me interested again in what Moreno calls tele. It is a word that will be with me, like it or not while I am involved with psychodrama (like the word psychodrama itself). I don’t like the word “tele” much, it seems to confuse everyone including me. The aim of this post(s) is to investigate tele, especially in relationship to, as in the title of Moreno’s lecture, to group research and group psychotherapy. I thought I’d make a summary of Moreno’s 1957 lecture chapter, and make responses.

Note: I continue to edit these posts, they are a work in progress for now, not really be good blogging practice. If anyone comments or there are track backs, I will not change what I wrote so conversations make sense.

I’ll start with quoting the Intro in full, make some comments and do more posts later, a series: Transference and Tele (tag).

Red Book Dialogues. Filmmaker John Boorman known for films such as Excalibur, Deliverance and Point Blank talks with Jungian analyst Christopher Hauke. I enjoyed listening today. Its long & slow but I like the form, and also learning about the movie Excalibur.

Boorman – Hauke Dialogue

Image, link to website and quote follow.

Another item from the Red Book Dialogues.

Talk to Me: Robert Thurman | WNYC Culture:

Talk to Me: Robert Thurman By WNYC Culture | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 Lecture Podcast Folio163Thurman300×393 In this dialogue Tibetan scholar, Robert Thurman was paired with the psychoanalyst Jane Selinske. Professor Thurman turned out to be more interested in analyzing Jung than in analyzing himself, but Selinske was able to ferret a few confessions out of the sly and playful professor.

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Previous posts link to Alice Walker and Charlie Kaufman in this series. I have yet to listen, but it sounds good!  I’d love for our local NZAP group do make some of these types of audio! The images a cool too.  Sample above.

Rubin Museum of Art:The Red Book of C. G. Jung Programs

Quote follows.

Charile Kaufman Bares His Unconscious – WNYC Culture

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I’ve listened to it now, and thoroughly enjoyed this.

Charile Kaufman Bares His Unconscious Monday, November 30, 2009 * Email * Share * Print * Like This Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman and Jungian analyst John Beebe plumbed the depths of the writer’s famously complex mind during a Jungian chat last month at the Rubin Museum. [From The Red Book by C.G. Jung] From The Red Book by C.G. Jung (Rubin Museum)

 Kaufman and Beebe’s conversation was part of the museum’s Red Book Dialogues, which pairs analysts and artists in conversation about the godfather of the unconscious, Carl Jung. Kaufman interpreted an image of a person-shaped figure (pictured to the left), arched in pain or ecstasy, and outlined by a sea of blue wavy figures. Kaufman spent a lot of time arguing against imposing borders on life in general. The “notion of being protected from the outside world,” Kaufman said, is “false and ego driven.” They also explored Kaufman’s fear of running over someone while driving. “If I killed a bug, I could go on. If I [accidentally] killed a person, I don’t know how I could go on,” Kaufman said.

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