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Hermes: Guide of Souls — Karl Kerényi

Walter — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:55 +0000

Hermes: Guide of Souls — Karl Kerényi

This is, short, dense, with epiphanies built in. I have just stumbled on it in this better edition than I’ve had, as I’m editing my essay Archetypes of Cyberspace for Kindle!!

Publishing on the Net

Walter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:42:35 +0000

It’s hit a new high. I see & hear & about 100 times the talk of self publishing books, and books on demand than even 6 months ago. (Later: checked out my hunch) And I buy self published books! Got the sample of this one, will buy it if I like it.

Kim Hill has a discussion with Kate De Goldie & Laura Kroetch on ebooks, (not much on self publishing though).

Kim Hill – Saturday

Amazon

Tech Crunch on self publishing

How to publish on Kindle:

KDP Kindle Direct publishing

Or read their ebook

The new Apple book Authoring initiative on iPad ( beautiful but locked down and sinister) Apple iBook Author

The rather wonderful LuLu. Heres one where I bought both the book AND the digital edition: Sociodrama

I’ve just bought a swag of Moreno books that have been republished from through Lulu as well: The First psychodramatic Family

Jason Silva

Walter — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:37:47 +0000

This guy is a hyper techno utopian (misses some subtly in the process). I admire his ability to grasp and express ideas!

How Drugs Helped Invent The Internet: REASON TV interviews Jason Silva on Vimeo on Vimeo

via How Drugs Helped Invent The Internet: REASON TV interviews Jason Silva on Vimeo.

The Soft Edge

Walter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:31:10 +0000

I find it very hard to live on the soft edge. I crave order, but can’t really find it of course. I like the hard edge, everything in neat little boxes, with an index and rules for access et. etc. But it is no way to live… perhaps why computers are forcing us too much in that direction. Developing more tolerance for the mess is important. Perhaps it is not a mess, it is all birth, becoming!

This outline meditation helps – it is in itself a hard edge form, to find the soft edge. This is so relevant to me right now as Kate seems to manage that soft space, and I freak out!

http://new-paradigm.co.uk/softedge.htm

From Richard Seel

1) The Soft Edge

1.1) Some people are comfortable in the soft centre.

1.2) Some people enjoy operating at the hard edge.

1.3) The soft edge is where lasting transformation can take place.

1.4) The soft edge is where people and processes interact.

1.5) The soft edge is always shifting.

1.51) Why "in" the soft edge? Because there is the experience of immersion and uncertaintyâ€”the soft edge as the edge of chaos, perhaps.

1.52) We know that we are near the edge, but cannot see where it is.

1.53) When we recognise that we are in the soft edge we can also recognise the need for new ways of seeing to help us gain perspective and clarity.

via The Soft Edge.

Professionalism & the Psychological Internet

Walter — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:14:53 +0000

Just came across an old post to psyber-L 1997

Still this was a time I orientated to the online world, and it still seems relevant in many ways.

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Subject: Professionalism & the Psychological Internet
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“Internet is a form of social and psychological therapy”

If this link is still live it will take you to an article by
Douglas Rushkoff

http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/169_061897_164207_24078.html

Where he says this:

> Sites like “Cyber Counseling Interactive Network” offer the
> services of licensed therapists for about the same rate as live
> striptease sites – about $2 or $3 per minute. I doubt that they
> are any more curative.
>
> These therapists claim they can tell almost as much about a
> patient from his words as they could from being with him in
> person.
>
> Frankly, I think that claim is hard to back up.
>
> The Internet itself is a form of social and psychological
> therapy. Unless you live in the Antarctic, to seek professional
> counseling online is both avoidant and redundant.
>
> (See more Douglas Rushkoff columns at
>
> http://nytsyn.com/Rushkoff

At a point where I am more actively involved in this type of
work, his comments offer a good starting point to put forward my
ethos:

“The Internet itself is a form of social and psychological
therapy.” This is a useful insight, and makes DK’s article worth
responding to. I fully agree with him on this. It is a social
and psychological milieu such as we have never known. How is
this? See my notes on Psyberspace at
http://www.psybernet.co.nz/ps.htm and on Intimacy on the internet
at http://www.psybernet.co.nz/WRITING/ps12.htm

Douglas Rushkoff sense of the “inherent” psychological value of
people gathering and writing in virtual communities allows him
the insight that the medium is not a good place to which to
transpose the “fix it” style of therapy from the consulting room.

Quietly over these years, I think Psybernet and others like us in
many ways have moved away from the “curative” — the Internet
has the power to take the psychological out of the realm of
medicine. We do soul or work with the psyche that rarely
mentions any form of illness or cure — or even problem solving.

Nor is this work “hard to back up” — this sort of appeal to
research does not work well in any form of therapy, but least of
all when we go beyond medicine, into the realm of the psyche,
into the realm of art, poetry. Psybernet work itself is
research, experimental, explorative, with the results known
experientially and uniquely, psybernet work could not be tested
in the way he thinks.

Douglas Rushkoff in a later article, on `Societal Anxiety’ and
the Internet :

http://nytsyn.com/live/Week/177_062697_162213_12407.html

Sees and applauds the social and global psychological aspects of
the net, going as far as

> Psychologists will be called upon to address these reactions to
> impending world culture.

> Sometimes this will mean teaching people how to create intentional
> barriers to unwanted social intimacy, such as rituals and techniques
> for achieving privacy. People should be given the tools they need to
> maintain their sense of safety without falling into cultish behavior
> or self-imposed exile.

…

> Psychologists will need to develop an entirely new set of cognitive
> tools.

> In what we might call the meta-psychology of society, dream analysis
> of individuals will become media analysis of the collective. TV, films
> and online games will be understood as a group dreamspace, worthy of
> our attention.

For all our difficulties here (in Psybernet) we are deeply
immersed in this work. We know a lot about it!

~~~

Is “professional counseling online is both avoidant and
redundant.”?

Not because the group & global work is so enthralling. In its
own way the one-on-one work in cyberspace will forge new paths.
I think it is important that we acknowledge & understand and use
the inherent psychological power of the net. It requires people
who have an online life, and who do mot simply type out the
counselling they use f2f. This is a different *space* with a
different *time*. Projection, transference counter transference,
and the use of language are altered. The temenos is altered.
More than altered. A white water river is not a water coming out
of a tap, *altered*.

I think there is value to be had in this work, that is not
avoidant — the opposite is true, and not redundant hence I am
still pleased to offer “Personal Explorations”
http://www.psybernet.co.nz/p_e.htm as a form of professional one
-to-one work. I have copied and slightly altered the files from
the old site to the new. I have done this for several years,
however I think its time has come, I think that as a result of
experience with this sort of work, and also as a result of
peoples experience on the net, we can expect a more development
in this field.

Walter

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www.psybernet.co.nz ICQ: 196356

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Anthropology of YouTube

Walter — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:52:12 +0000

55 minutes worth watching

Context collapse

participant observation

An amazing social network

Walter — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:38:42 +0000

Facebook vs forums?

Walter — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:05:17 +0000

http://andrewdouch.wordpress.com

When students (or I) find a youtube video that we want to share with the group, this can be simply done directly from Youtube by clicking the â€œshareâ€ button underÂ the video as it plays.
The group can be accessed easily using a mobile deviceâ€¦ for example from the iPhone FacebookÂ app (picture right). Â On the other hand checking my discussion forum in Safari on an iPhone is nowhere near as elegant.
Videos and Podcasts on the Facebook group wall play right there in the wallâ€¦ rather than simply being a link that leads you to another page. Â Itâ€™s a better user experience.
When someone posts on the Facebook group wall, all the members of the group get a notification, and since many of them are in Facebook at the time anyway, they get it immediately! Â (In contrast, my discussion forumÂ can be set up to sendÂ emailÂ notificationsâ€¦ but many students donâ€™t checkÂ their email very often.)

Howard Rheingold Â posted this comment on the article in Facebook:

I require students to post in forums. Twice, when students have created Facebook groups for my social media class, the action there outstripped the action in the forums. The forum discussions were deeper, and older conversations did not disappear when they had not been updated for a few days, and it was easier to index a growing list of threads — students acknowledged that the forums had these superior affordances — but Facebook is where students live. I’m working with a developer to add Facebook features, most notably the badge that
indicates new activity, into the forum software. But I’m also going to create a parallel Facebook group and bounce between the group and the
forums and ask students to compare and contrast. In other words, I’m inclined to agree with this link:Â http://wp.me/pic58-ls

I am thinking we can’t avoid Facebook – and it is a way of paving the cow paths (desire paths) – the trouble is that the desire paths are a toll road. Sad.

Creepy Tree House Effect

Walter — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:03:56 +0000

http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/

Online counselling and therapy practice

Walter — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:34:29 +0000

http://gradworks.umi.com/3324818.pdf

Dr. Kristie Holmes – Online Therapy research based on surveys about therapist liability in the usa.

Tips about privacy on Facebook here.