scholarly journals Intimations of a Spiritual New Age. IV. Carl Jung’s Archetypal Imagination as Futural Planetary Shamanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
New Age ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
I Ching ◽  
Contemporary View ◽  
Formal Operations

This series of papers on early anticipations of a spiritual New Age ends with Carl Jung’s version of a futural planetary-wide unus mundus rejoining person and cosmos, based on his psychoid linkage of quantum physics and consciousness, and especially on the neo-shamanic worldview emerging out of his spirit guided initiation in the more recently published Red Book. A cognitive-psychological re-evaluation of Jung’s archetypal imagination, the metaphoricity of his alchemical writings, and a comparison of Jung and Levi-Strauss on mythological thinking all support a contemporary view of Jung’s active imagination and mythic amplification as a spiritual intelligence based on a formal operations in affect, as also reflected in his use of the multi-perspectival synchronicities of the I-Ching. A reconsideration of Bourguignon on the larger relations between trance and social structure further supports the neo-shamanic nature of Jung’s Aquarian Age expectations.

Figuring Matter: Quantum Physics as a New Age Rhetoric

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Burwell
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
New Age

scholarly journals Behavioral absorption of Black Swans: simulation with an artificial neural network

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Waśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Real Sequence ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
Black Swans ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Socio Economic Variables

Abstract This article attempts to formalize the Black Swan theory as a phenomenon of collective Behavioral change. A mathematical model of collectively intelligent social structure, which absorbs random external disturbances, has been built, with a component borrowed from quantum physics, i.e. that of transitory, impossible states, represented by negative probabilities. The model served as basis for building an artificial neural network, to simulate the behaviour of a collectively intelligent social structure optimizing a real sequence of observations in selected variables of Penn Tables 9.1. The simulation led to defining three different paths of collective learning: cyclical adjustment of structural proportions, long-term optimization of size, and long-term destabilization in markets. Capital markets seem to be the most likely to develop adverse long-term volatility in response to Black Swan events, as compared to other socio-economic variables. JEL: E01, E17, J01, J11

A Cultural Semiotics of Jingshen: A Manifesto

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-534
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Hongbing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
New Age ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
I Ching ◽  
Cognitive Space ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Sign Relations ◽  
Eastern Philosophies

AbstractIn the face of myriad crises in modern societies, semiotic inquiry has many valuable contributions to make. However, the long-standing dominant analytical paradigms in the field have made it exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, to tackle the countless unanalyzable aspects of semiosis in the human condition. What needs to be done in semiotics is to highlight another mode of knowing, synthetic thinking, without excluding the analytical mode. Drawing inspiration and strength from classical Eastern philosophies and aesthetics, notably I Ching and Laozi, as well as classics and advances in global semiotics, the present paper proposes a cultural semiotics of jingshen, understood here as the holistic flux of mind, vitality, and creativity. This route of inquiry seeks cogent coalescence of the two foregoing modes of knowing so as to better inform semiotics in a new age. At the same time, it creates a unique methodology: the fusion of revelatory “embodied cognition” and “cognition via knowledge/ abstraction.” Viewed in this light, the purpose or function of semiotics is not limited to understanding signs and sign relations or uncovering laws governing the evolution of semiosis, but more importantly it embraces the improvement of mental capacity, the expansion of cognitive space, and the liberation of human thinking.

scholarly journals dialogue with the unconscious in working with anxiety

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
John Beebe
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
I Ching ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Therapeutic Dyad

A defining tenet of Jung’s approach to psychotherapy is that the therapy is more than a dialogue between the psyche of the patient and that of the therapist. There is an invisible but active third perspective in the room: that of the unconscious, representing a viewpoint that, though shared by the therapeutic dyad, has its own autonomy and objectivity. Following Bion, psychoanalyst James Grotstein has said that in each session the analyst must freshly specify the anxiety that is present. Expressions of the unconscious, as in dreams, active imagination, and artistic products, tend to be very helpful in this task, sometimes calling attention to what is at the heart of the anxiety and sometimes reframing the situation to show that there is a limit to how much a particular anxiety has to teach us. Drawing on dreams reported in his own practice, as well as by seminal Jungian teacher Marie-Louise von Franz and a friend in analysis with another colleague, the author demonstrates how such expressions from the unconscious have illuminated and contextualized the nature of anxiety in therapy and life situations. Offering a fourth example of the unconscious bringing objective insight, the author describes his own consulting of the I Ching about a political development that was making him and many of his patients anxious. This divinatory method, introduced to analytical psychology by Jung, seems particularly well designed to help understanding that is unconscious become conscious and explicit. 

Sacred Sound: Tuning the Cosmic Strings of the Subtle Dancing Body

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Andrea Mantell Seidel
Keyword(s):  
Dance Therapy ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Cosmic Strings ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Separate Category

A. K. Coomaraswamy writes in The Dance of Shiva that Nataraja, the Hindu dancing figure, is the “clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of.” Nataraja's dance activates dormant vital energy (kundalini) and resonates with the primordial sacred seed sounds (bijas) of the cosmos. Sanskrit seed sounds such as Aum are described in the Katha Upanishads as “consciousness or God (Brahman) itself.” In his book, Healing Mantras, Ashley-Farrand writes that the practice of mantra brings about positive changes in matter and consciousness by the agency of a subtle vibration. Cyndi Dale in The Subtle Body correlates each note of the ancient Solfeggio scale used in Gregorian chants to the energy centers (chakras) in the body. Sacred sounds are recited in Buddhist chants, Jewish hymns (Zemirot), and the dances of Sufi whirling dervishes, among other traditions. The dancer, through mastery of breath, form, and heightened awareness of sound, possesses the potential to “ride” on the crests of musical waves of sacred sound and harmoniously vibrate with wavelike patterns of energy or “cosmic strings,” identified in quantum physics as the essence of matter, and thereby facilitate healing and self-integration. However, in mainstream dance practice and research, sound/movement spiritual practices are largely relegated to the separate category of “new age,” dance therapy, or yoga. This performative paper discusses how the integration of the mindful use of sacred sound in contemporary dance training has profound implications for expanding consciousness, heightening creativity, and enhancing physical capabilities.

scholarly journals Historical Examination of Agent Concept

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5188-5191
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Examination

Throughout the development of thought from the classical forms of philosophizing to the present, the understanding of the subject also changes. The transition from the Hegelian substance subject to the individual transcending subject is carried out, and then the “death of the subject” in all its forms (God, social, author, etc.). Such a fundamentally new understanding, the interpretation of human consciousness and being, is primarily associated with the emergence of a fundamentally new way of this consciousness functioning. This work is devoted to the consideration of this determining connection between the forms of theoretical problematization of a subject in philosophical thought and changes in social structure. They may consider the allocation of three main historical stages of the subject problematization and the corresponding forms of social as the main results. In the era of the New Age, there is understanding of a subject as a participant in history, who is the product of history and the creator. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this understanding is being transformed and refined. Now they deny subject rootedness in the transcendental field on the one hand, and this rootedness should seek and achieve on the other hand. The motive for a breakthrough towards the absolute and overcoming one's own “queerness” becomes the main one. In the second half of XXth century, they form a special view of the subject - he is now problematized as absent.

Quantum Physics

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair I. M. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics
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