Walter Logeman: Journal
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION
Revised and Enlarged
PAUL E. JOHNSON
Found this while looking for the original Theatre of Spontaneity. The whole book is online. Looks like the author was strongly influenced by Moreno. Link and quote follow.
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This is the second 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
Transference and Tele (tag).
Quotes from the lecture, some research on Google and my detailed comments follow.
Continue reading “Transference and Tele: Section I, Transference”
I’ve enjoyed a meander into Tim Boucher’s website this evening. He has a good sense of coex systems and patterns of the psyche.
CIRCUS CHARACTERS, History, Archetypes & Symbolism by Tim Boucher (Dead link)
Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20100317104050/http://circuscharacters.org
The circus is a place where dreams and reality intersect, where the limits of human ability and perception are tested and surpassed. It is a place of escape from the everyday (to “run away and join the circus”), a place of spectacle & entertainment, and a proving ground for the human imagination. In this article, we’ll explore some of the primordial archetypal characters from the circus and carnival tradition, and connect them with pastiche of historical context and symbolic meaning.
I have just read this lecture, and it is really nice.
The Conclusion to Abraham Maslow’s 1957 Alfred Korzybski Lecture follows:
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Excellent, especially the last of the three stories on depression & the brain.
However…
I read this and think it is philosophy, not science. It boils down to getting the meaning clear. Does falsifiability matter here? It all links to Korzybski too, this sort of radical phenomenology involves learning to speak in a new way.
A previous reviewer draws a distinction between Robert Lanza’s biocentrism and Stephen Hawking’s sense of the “RWOT (Real World Out There).” However, from a recent article on Dr. Hawking’s latest thinking, it appears that Lanza and Hawking may actually be converging on the same point. Hawking is quoted in the July/August 2009 issue of Discover magazine as follows (“Return of the Invisible Man,” pp. 50-51):
“Hawking’s most recent work explores the implications of the notion that the universe is a giant quantum phenomenon. The problem with conventional attempts to understand the cosmos, he now believes, is that researchers have failed to appreciate the full, bizarre implications of quantum physics. These efforts to create a unique theory that would explain all the properties of the universe are therefore doomed to fail. Hawking refers to such attempts as `bottom-up’ theories because they assume the universe had a unique beginning and that its subsequent history was the only possible one.
“Hawking is now pushing a different strategy, which he calls top-down cosmology. It is not the case, he says, that the past uniquely determines the present. Because the universe has many possible histories and just as many possible beginnings, the present state of the universe selects the past. `This means that the histories of the Universe depend on what is being measured,’ Hawking wrote in a recent paper, `contrary to the usual idea that the Universe has an objective, observer-independent history.'”
Dr. Lanza insists that future theories of the universe will be biocentric in nature. That Dr. Hawking might agree, in a complete reversal from his past writing about this, certainly raises the most intriguing of possibilities, does it not?
A list of philosophers. Links to info and bits about them all. The Frankfurt School is listed in one clump.
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
I was pleased to see Ivan Illich, Walter Benjamin on the list among dozens whose names are familiar.
In this two minute snippet I think I managed to get enough of the idea down, so I can elaborate.
Isomorphism – an insight -wl -mp3
I had a moment of seeing clearly how different phenomena can all be related under one heading:
Isomorphism in human relations.
I am writing this after making the audio, expanding on it:
This book, Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950, from 1990 is only available second-hand – too expensive. I then found the Google edition below.
Later:
This book and all of Korzybski’s books are for sale cheaply at General Semantics Institute online
Later
I a Bought Science & Sanity from GSI – arrived in days! It is also online here.
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950 follows (embedded)
Continue reading “Alfred Korzybski: Writing”
GENERAL SEMANTICS: An Outline Survey
by Kenneth G. Johnson 3rd Edition Revised
A very interesting Outline! This is by the same guy who I quoted earlier.
11.4 “ ‘You’d be interested to know,’ he (the psychiatrist) said, ‘how many people come to me with troubles that are largely a matter of nomenclature. They suffer the tortures of the damned at the idea that a particular label may fit them or may not fit them. ‘Am I a man? Am I a coward? Am I a failure? Am I an invert? Sometimes, simply, am I a lunatic?’ If you could only get it through your head that it’s you, only you, who’s pinning the label on or taking it off, you’d have your problem half licked.’ ”
– Louis Auchincloss [14]