Wednesday, May 22, 2002

The Evil Philsophy Behind Political Correctness
Philosophy, psychology, politics all embroiled in an Evil conspiracy.. Immensly entertaining!
(Don't forget your grains of salt... you'll need 'em)
"That psychoanalysis even had a history in the Soviet Union comes as something of a revelation. Freud's ideas suffered much the same fate under Stalinism as virtually every other progressive trend in science and art—indeed much the same fate as Marxism itself: it was outlawed and every effort was made to erase any trace of its existence in Soviet life." —Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
"'if a person can hold the tension between the conflicting opposites, then eventually something will happen in the psyche to resolve the conflict. The outer circumstances may in fact remain the same, but a change takes place in the individual. This change, essentially irrational and unforeseeable, appears as a new attitude to both oneself and others; energy previously locked up in a state of indecision is released and movement becomes possible. Jung calls this the transcendent function, because what happens transcends the conflicting opposites...' Beware: this method is not for the lighthearted"
"Much of Fromm's work had to do with how a person tries to escape from having to choose. We try to get the other person, or the institution, to take action for us. But this alienates us from our own power and responsiveness."
What really happened in Blackhawk Down?
(Thanks to Jennifer)

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

"I get ideas for my paintings from lucid dreams. About once a month when I'm dreaming, I will realize I'm dreaming, and when I do, I then walk around in the dream looking at art on the walls. I usually find many paintings on every wall. By the time one of these lucid dreams ends, I usually have one or two good paintings memorized. I always recreate them in pastel on 12 by 18 inch paper. I've been doing this as a hobby since 1986." --Interview with Epic Dewfall in ElectricDreams
Take a nap to induce a lucid dream.

What is Active Imagination?

Dreams of Children
Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun: corruption in academic psychology
Nonlocality, morphic resonance and synchronicity.
The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences
Sony foiled by marker.
(Thanks to Joel.)

Monday, May 20, 2002

Reflections on the Dream Traditions of Islam
Smoke
Pepper With Stiches
Liquid Body
In anthropology focus has shifted away from interviewing "non-Western" dreamers to the anthropologist’s own recent dreams. --The New Anthropology of Dreaming
What is Focusing?
"The Shoah Dream Project exists to document a unique aspect of the Holocaust--how [it] affects our dreams."
"The Third Reich of Dreams, by Charlotte Beradt is a collection of dreams that occurred during the rise of Nazism and were smuggled out of Germany. They reveal dramatically how fear and paranoia take root and become internal agents of self-control. The victims further victimize themselves and become unwitting pawns in the consolidation of dictatorial power." --Dreams and the Politics of Connectedness
Bush administration maintains that covering their asses is more important than figuring out what went wrong on Sept. 11th.