Jung Face-to-Face interview

This is a lovely little exchange from a BBC Interview between Face-To-Face hose John Freeman and Carl Jung in March 1959.

BBC: And this leads me to the last question that I want to ask you. As the world becomes more technically efficient it seems increasingly necessary for people to behave communally and collectively. Now do you think it possible that the highest development of man may be to submerge his own individuality in a kind of collective consciousness?

Jung: That's hardly possible. I think there will be a reaction. A reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand for ever his nullification. Once there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in. You know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness, or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

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Daniel Brown on the 'The Great Way' (Mahamudra)

"We stay completely. Completely at any given point in time, and continuously over a given period of time. That is what concentration trianing does. It makes the mind stay more completely and continuously".

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Rochester Longitudinal

Just posting these from my uni notes.

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Successful ageing findings from the Seattle Longitudinal Study

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Binet-Simon

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Integral Psychotherapy and Spirituality - Mark Forman

This is 1 of 6 videos.

See the rest at this link: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL54E9A6DC73081E4C

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Hermann Hesse on Wandering with Trees

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life".

- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

Lovely quote from Yeats

"We can make our minds so like clear water that beings gather around us, that they might see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet".

- William Butler Yeats

Walking - Henry David Thoreau

"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering; which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the middle ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going ‡ la sainte terre" ó to the holy land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a sainte-terrer", a saunterer ó a holy-lander. They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all, but the Saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea."

Walking by Henry David Thoreau - 1862

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Longing for Recognition: Commentary on the Work of Jessica Benjamin by Judith Butler

"One of the distinctive contributions of her theory is to insist that intersubjectivity is not the same as object relations, and that 'intersubjectivity' adds to object relations the notion of an external Other, one who exceeds the psychic construction of the object in complementary terms. What this means is that whatever the psychic and fantasmatic relation to the object may be, it ought to be understood in terms of the larger dynamic of recognition. the relation to the object is not the same as the relation to the Other, but the relation to the Other provides a framework for understanding the relation to the object. The subject not only forms certain psychic relations to objects, but the subject is formed by and through those psychic relations. Moreover, these various forms are implicitly structured by a struggle for recognition in which the Other does and does not become dissociable from the object which is psychically represented. This struggle is represented by a desire to enter into a communicative practice with the Other in which recognition takes place neither as an event nor a set of events, but as an onging process, one that also poses the psychic risk of destruction. Whereas Hegel refers to a 'negation' as the risk that recognition always runs, Benjamin retains this term to describe the differentiated aspect of rationality: the other is not me, and from this distinction, certain psychic consequences follow....For Benjamin, humans form psychic relations with Others on the basis of a necessary negation, but not all of those relations must be destructive. Whereas the psychic response that seeks to master and dispel that negation is destructive, that destruction is precisely what needs to be worked through in the process of recognition".

Longing for Recognition: Commentary on the Work of Jessica Benjamin by Judith Butler

Reference:
Judith Butler (2010). Longing for Recognition. In Kimberly Hutchings & Tuija Pulkkinen (eds.), Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone? Palgrave Macmillan.

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Nice Quote in Contemporary Definitional Approaches to Intelligence


Sternberg
 et 
al.
(2008)
 have 
recently 
described
 intelligence
 as:

"…
encompassing 
many
 diverse 
concepts, 
including 
critical 
thinking,
 being
 able
 to 
know
 how
 much 
you 
know 
(metacognition),
 common
sense,
 practical 
intelligence, 
creativity,
 and
logic.
We 
believe
 that 
an 
intelligent 
person 
is 
someone 
who 
can 
tell 
(or 
knows 
how
 to 
check)
 if 
a 
forwarded 
email 
is 
truth 
or 
an 
urban 
legend; 
someone 
who 
can 
recognise
 propaganda
versus
 more 
convincing 
arguments; 
someone 
who 
usually 
has 
a 
good
 idea
 of 
how
 much 
he 
or 
she 
knows 
about 
something;
 someone 
who 
can 
adapt 
to 
new
 situations; 
and 
someone who 
can
 learn 
new 
things".